Slashdot: FeaturesNews for nerds, stuff that mattersBuilding the "Social Internet" From the Outside In- January 16, 2006 What initially struck me about Freecycle was that it was the first useful thing on the Internet I learned about by reading a newspaper instead of through the leading-edge online news sources I follow. The next thing I noticed about Freecycle was that, unlike Craigslist, Flickr, and other "Social Internet" phenomena, it wasn't centered on major cities but had local groups all over the place, even in towns like Apache Junction, Arizona, and Bradenton, Florida. And then, when I actually used my...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotFeatures/~3/76568140/article.pl |