Gnomedex 2007 - Darren Barefoot

August 10th, 2007 | by Sean |

Good

Economy of Language
pay by the word for telegrams
twitter-sized

Currency comparisons
$ to Canadian $ to Lire, to Linden Dollars to WoW gold

Mortality
Gravestone - He Pimped Some Software

how to revise what gets written on your tombstone

How to do good - hard to quantify

Economists and social scientists… watch out :)

geek-style
http://www.nabuur.com/

icouldbe.org

geekcorps.com

Moulin Wiki - offline copy of wikipedia
all contents of wikipedia on one CD
dist to people with internet but not computer
600 CDs to west africa
translate wikipedia into local languages

Denmark - 5% volunteer but fewer donate
America is the reverse
Why?

Gross National Happiness
Can we do good by making people happy

Satisfaction with Life Index - Green is the happiest

getafirstlife.com

nothingbutnets.net
launch microfundraising operations in your community

givemeaning.com

Build something that helps other people do good
build something great

Darren announces his project - nothing but a thought experiment

1% of cred = a lot of staceys

DarrenBarefoot.com
www.capulet.com
ma.gnolia.com/people/Darren/tags/gnomedex

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