Things Are Good

Mashable has put together a short collection of five good uses of social media this summer. It’s good to see all these practical uses for social media and hopefully we’ll see some real world changers come out of these initiatives.
People are talking green online. Between the Obama administration’s unwavering focus on environmental initiatives as [...]

Listen to NPR’s report on using social networking for carpooling:
The high price of gasoline is fueling a new fleet of social network startups in ridesharing. They’re trying to leverage social networks and the ease of technology to make it easier for people to carpool. Among them is GoLoco.org, started by the woman who founded Zipcar. [...]

The internet is quite kind for the environment, which I guess is why good news appears on this website and not on paper handed out on city streets. Ecogeek has a post about a published report on how much carbon is saved by using the internet.
E-Commerce will reduce emissions by 200 M tons
-Telecommuting will prevent [...]

Boing Boing has a post on Lingro, which is a new tool that makes any word on a webpage clickable and translatable. It can also help you learn a langauge!
Find out more about Lingro.
“It works with English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Polish (with more on the way) and if you find a missing word, [...]

If you come here often, you’ll notice that the site looks different!
I just made the switch to this theme and I’m sure there are still some bugs around so if you find any, please leave a comment (after you comment you’ll see a bug…). I plan on adding some minor colour changes and add [...]

The Point is an online community that is geared to changing the world when they reach “the tipping point,” that is to say when a movement has enough people embracing its ideas then it’s time to act. The thing with this point is that participants decided when that tipping point is and act only once [...]