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Reviewed a album
Chicken Fried Snake
Rattlesnake Milk
Perfect music for driving in the desert - On The Road, Come on Home, and Midnight Train are my fave tracks
Reviewed a book
The Bell in the Lake
Lars Mytting
Good story, transports you to a time and place
Over the next couple of months, I'll share more about how things are going and what we're learning — both about the product itself, and our programs to support the local stewards who are at the heart of each space. For something like this to work, the human side is just as important as the tech!
More about the context and vision here, including info about the first cohort of communities and stewards, and how you can get involved in bringing this to your local area next newpublic.substack.com/p/introducin...
Our team at @newpublic.org has spent the last couple of months co-designing & building Roundabout — a new platform to help local communities share information & support, without the chaos and toxicity common elsewhere. This week, we’re moving into a closed beta in 5 towns/cities across the US 👀
@rabble.nz s podcast Revolution.Social has a bunch of great conversations with people who've been deep and early in some of the most impactful online social products of the last decade www.youtube.com/@rabble
Elise Granata's Group Hug — a super down-to-earth exploration of the craft of community building, or what she describes as "the mysterious, magical, unpredictable human funk that makes being in community with other people a wonderful or awful thing!" grouphug.substack.com
Sam Pressler's Connective Tissue explores what it will take "to seed and cultivate our generational project of civic and communal renewal" Always well researched & well written, focused on real potential solutions, not just theoretical stuff. connectivetissue.substack.com
@laurenshof.online is consistently putting out some of the best research and sensemaking around the ATmosphere, both on here and in the connectedplaces.online newsletters
Idk if follow friday is still a thing, but felt like doing a little thread to shoutout some of the people whose thinking & work around community and online spaces I've been appreciating recently...
We're also now actively looking for a small number of people & local communities who might be interested in experimenting with us. If you think where you live might be a good fit and want to learn more about bringing something like this to your area, get in touch here...
As our team at @newpublic.org explores the idea of building a new, sustainable social product for local communities (think: a healthier alternative to Nextdoor or town-wide FB groups), I wrote up some of our initial thinking about how it all might work...
