I figure summer time, when things are a bit quiet, is a good time to do behind the scenes updates. And you see, the thing is, often once I start, I find it really hard to stop.
Like, this weekend, I started cleaning. My youngest kids were away. I thought I'd do it for an hour or so. 6 hours later I was still going. Oops.
Similarly, I started making some Rosieland changes. This effort lasted a week of continuous updates. And I've ended up with a pretty big revamp of Rosieland. It's been fun. I've taken my research over the past 6 years and have started to turn it into something even more tangible.
I've even created the ability to "Ramble" to accommodate my continued detachment from social media. Go on, have a peek, you know you want to.
But the interesting thing here, for me, is not just building features for the sake of it. It's more that it has gotten me thinking, that little bit more outside the box. To the point, that I'm like, hang on, all this social media malarky can go do one. It's only made me want to go advocate more and more for independent spaces, away from the siloed social walls. If there is a time to play and experiment, it is now.
Onwards to the most recent community links, a selection are below, or visit Rosieland links for more choice.
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🌦️ This week in community
- America’s Care Economy Is Broken — MiT Press
- The courage to be disliked: what it means for community builders — TWiC
- ‘I’m giving people a happy space’: the man clearing gardens for free — The Guardian
- ‘If a space is cared for, everything improves’: Meet four gardeners transforming their urban communities — The Guardian
- Housing for an Older America: From ‘Aging in Place’ to ‘Aging in Community’ — Shelter Force
- The Enshittification of Everything (Part 3) — Robert Reich
- The Modern Library — Seth Godin
- Cultivating selves-in-relation-with-others as Community, Work and Family scholars through collective writing — Taylor & Francis
- Community Before a Home — Community Inc
- The Bechdel Test for Building a Real Developer Community — Leon Adato
- Weather ≠ Climate — The Community Nerd
- New York Post's New AI Platform Deepens Engagement, Keeping Costs in Check — A Media Operator
- Is Talking or Texting Better for Disagreements? — Greater Good
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