Read Excerpts From “13 Bankers”

I’m reading Simon Johnson and James Kwak’s new book — “13 Bankers, the Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown” – and posting a summary and excerpts of each chapter. Here is my progress so far:

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Social media changing urban resource use? The Usemore concept

Microsoft sponsored a contest to use their technologies for good- with a “brief” called “phizzpop.” As part of the SXSW conference in Austin, the challenge was how to make Austin more “green.” Given that Austin TX is already well on the way and very “green” already, this wasn’t an easy task.

A friend of mine was involved in the following presentation- which won the contest. If you know much about zipcars, this is zip cars on steroids, with a bit of Craigslist, freecycle and twitter all rolled into one site. I think the 6 minute video is well worth watching as a creative spark for how to rethink and remake Dayton.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Congratulations to Adrian Ho, Zeus Jones and Sierra/Bravo for thinking big- and coming up with a winner.

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