3 Jul 2008
2 Jul 2008
Could Twitter become the next PayPal?
— Could Twitter become the next PayPal? | The Social Web | ZDNet.com
2 Jul 2008
De Pers vroeg werklozen hoe zij het beste aan werk geholpen kunnen worden. Hun antwoord: ‘Stimuleer eigen ondernemerschap en beloon werkgevers die ouderen aannemen.’
— Werklozen hebben meer aan hulp dan aan straf - woensdag 2 juli 2008 - DePers.nl
2 Jul 2008
Natural Enterprises — non-hierarchical, joyous, customer-responsive, responsible, sustainable, community-based businesses, are similarly models of a better way to make a living, compared to the destructive, acquisitive, competitive, oligopoly-prone corporatist businesses. Natural Enterprises are a form of Intentional Community, and both are products of their partners’ shared passion and love, created by self-managed communities through conversation with the larger communities in which they operate.
2 Jul 2008
“We left Saturday morning just as the sun came up and Kampala was shaking off its Friday-night slumber to Bunabumali and the Good Samaritan Orphanage project run by Norman. and his family.”
—The orphanage is located about 30 kilometers away from Mbale, a town in Eastern Uganda straddling the border of Kenya. The journey begins, as typical in Uganda, with a taxi ride to the taxi/matatu park. We meet Norman. and J. before jumping in: Norman. dressed in a grass woven, tricolor wide brim hat with a matching grass bucket purse, leather burlap bag being carried like a backpack and J. with a small Tang zip bag.
We disembark a few minutes away from the taxi area and walk through what locals call “Downtown Kampala,” a section of town usually so packed with people that moving is impossible and unpleasant. At 7 a.m., the market place down the slippery, rounded stone steps and through the shacks and random wares is empty, sole for a few women loaded with suitcases and young men carrying burlap sacks of fake designer bags. S. buys a football for the orphanage from a vendor and we board the first bus we see to Mbale. I spend most of the bus ride asleep.
As we near Mbale, the mountain chain in the foreground become more apparent – the deep blue shadows showing sudden dark green texture and solid outlines – and the tea plantations more prominent, neat squares on long sloping hillsides. Mbale is located near Mt. Elgon, which straddles the Kenyan-Ugandan border, and surrounding the main peak are dozens of smaller mountains and hillsides.
(via bunabumalivt)
2 Jul 2008
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2 Jul 2008
Up and Then Down
The New Yorker article that’s packed full of things you don’t need to know about elevators, that I mentioned yesterday. (Thanks, Yaffa.)
Helplessness may exacerbate claustrophobia. In the old system—board elevator, press button—you have an illusion of control; elevator manufacturers have sought to trick the passengers into thinking they’re driving the conveyance. In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties, the door-close button doesn’t work. It is there mainly to make you think it works
2 Jul 2008
You might be surprised to see a blog about Antarctica written from a rowboat on the Pacific, but one of the real joys of audiobooks is the way they suck you into a different world - and today, for me, that world has been the South Pole, 1914-16.
2 Jul 2008
Uitgeven of publiceren eigen boek, schrijf je eigen boek, van harte welkom bij Free Musketeers uitgeverij en producties.
2 Jul 2008
In terms of the commerce aspect of Vois, this appears to be an extension of what the company has been working on with its Shopping section. \
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Aside from establishing a social online market where individuals can leverage such a platform to combine social and commercial aspects of the networking world, Vois is also creating a niche where these individuals can have a place to form their own career paths in a way they see fit.
2 Jul 2008
De overheid bejegent de burger hufterig, stelt de Ombudsman. Gisteravond sprak de Kamer hierover. ‘Ware woorden.’
— Kamer (min CDA) is eruit: de overheid is de hufter - Binnenland - de Volkskrant
1 Jul 2008
Great Place To Live is een netwerk dat werkt aan een betere wereld. Het toverwoord is sociale innovatie… WAT? Lees meer!
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1 Jul 2008
Werklozen krijgen voortaan nog een jaar de tijd om passend werk te vinden. Slagen ze daar niet in, dan moeten ze ook banen beneden hun niveau accepteren.
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Een academicus die bollenpeller wordt, zal er in inkomen overigens niet op achteruit gaan. Via een compensatieregeling zorgt de overheid ervoor dat werk op alle niveaus altijd meer oplevert dan WW, die gerelateerd wordt aan het laatstverdiende loon.
Trouw, hetNieuws| economie - Werklozen moeten alle banen aannemen
