Very seasonable, I thought! Also, my most ‘interesting’ photo on Flickr, according to Flickreenos, with just shy of 10,000 views.
I first met Don José in 1993, which is when I took the photo on the left. And this is his chair. Not just any chair; he made this one himself.
Don José is one hundred years old, or thereabouts. Nobody knows, not even Don José. His birth certificate, along with countless other documents, was destroyed by fire during [...]
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
This neat little video is part of Colalife’s submission to Google’s Project 10 to the 100th - a call for ideas to change the world.
Kudos to Simon Berry and the distributed Colalife team, for this one, and their intelligent and relentless campaign.
Just this morning, Mark Charmer of Akvo alerted me to a United Nations University study, which [...]
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Why is there no global search engine for good news?
Imagine… a humungous aggregator of all the positive good that millions of people have done today. The tiny, but not so insignificant acts of kindness and philanthropy, which if joined together would add up to one heck of a powerful narrative for a more just [...]
