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FreeRRRs Freecycling Freeusing FreegivingFreeRRRs Freecycling Freeusing FreegivingA critique of the freecycling industry focusing on The Freecycle Network that following phenomenal growth has turned in to an behemoth. Articles
Gross Miscalculations on the Nett
2007-11-07 09:07:00 Okay, I now have some insight into the way that TFN calculates how much is saved from landfill. If you have not read my previous blog on this 40-tonnes-per-day-only-a-slight-exaggerat ion then I recommend reading that and then coming back here. In essence I feel that the best way to calculate the amount saved from landfill is ... More About: Gross
Grist has lost the plot, literally
2007-11-06 16:20:00 This is so truly unbelievable that I am totally aghast. Until today I considered grist a bastion of clear and erudite thinking around the freecycling world. Grist has been so much at the forefront of debate showing the problems endemic in The Freecycle Network that today, to see them providing sanitised “how good they are” ... More About: Lost , Literally , Plot
Admins 1: Privacy Policy
2007-11-01 19:00:00 When you connect to the Internet you make yourself available to millions of people you have never met. While most people are like yourself, just there to make life better, it is just possible that some of these people are there to exploit you, and in some cases this might not be pleasant. ... More About: Privacy , Policy , Privacy policy
Main is plain about freecycling
2007-11-01 17:38:00 The Mountain Area Information Network serving Western North Carolina has a freecycling forum using the Yabb platform. More About: Main , Plain
Bring it on
2007-10-21 10:10:00 As implied on fcnext, whose tagline might be the home of the freecycling movement, please TFN delist and send out C&Ds to many more groups. Every time you do you are strengthening and expanding the movement. More and more group owners and moderators are finding themselves attacked with C&Ds, and more and more ... More About: Bring It On
FreeSwapper comes out
2007-10-20 12:39:00 FreeSwapper is a new freecycling service that looks promising. A cross between the website themed freecycling services and the full blown Yahoo Group services this seems, from the outside, like an honest attempt at getting the best of both. I am going to do further investigation here and will report back. More About: Rees
I?m listening
2007-10-19 11:02:00 It is really satisfying when I see TFN becoming a better organisation, albeit slightly. One way that this blog helps is by highlighting errors in their online manual. Recently I blogged on the fact the the GOA contacts page did not list the areas each GOA covered. Well now that is corrected and so you ... More About: Listening
Top Posts 17: Arise dear Tucson, oops Pheonix, oops Ohio
2007-10-19 10:29:00 We are all getting a little older each day that passes. For some sadly that means our brains are getting more fuddled. Not so for Jamey who has worked diligently to help TFN know which of the inventive stories regarding the invention of the inventable is not invented. Read her post Would ... More About: Ohio , Tucson , Posts
Start a Group
2007-10-19 09:43:00 How is a group started? The obvious starting point for any enthusiast is to look at a freecycling network’s home page and click on the “Start a Group ” link if it has one. Other than that the enthusiast could simply email the network’s organisers and ask them to kick start a group. Another way a group ... More About: T A G
Stalemates don?t help anyone
2007-10-17 18:43:00 There has been a debate for at least a couple of months in one unmoderated freecycling moderator forum regarding confidentiality, particularly of OIDG. One one side there are those who hold allegiance to TFN and do not want their positions compromised, and on the other side are those whose position has already been compromised and ...
Tip No 13: There is a use for Internet Explorer after all
2007-10-17 08:23:00 One thing that is very useful about having two browsers on a computer is you can look at the same web page twice. On the first computer you might not be logged in, whilst on the second you may well be. An example of how this may be used is to check your freecycling home page ... More About: Internet , Internet Explorer , Explorer , Xplorer
Even Deron?s home state call it freecycling, and TFN don?t mind
2007-10-16 02:29:00 It really seems two-faced to say that the world cannot use the word freecycling and yet both the TFN’s newswire and Deron Beal himself support a news article with journalists and moderators using this “forbidden” word. Here we have the TFN newswire itself http://www.freecycle.org/newswire/2007/10 /15/give-and-take-by-tracy-turner/ pointi ng to an article in Columbus, Ohio. This is the same Ohio where ... More About: Home , Mind , State , Call
Not mad, not bad
2007-10-15 22:30:00 It is often insinuated that moderators who are disaffected with TFN are bad or mad or some other negative attribute. With permission I am able to reproduce the following that shows wrong such attributions can be. I am the owner for the Campbelltown City Freecycle Group. After taking everything into account this group is moving to the ...
Tool No 2: Firefox
2007-10-15 21:02:00 Let me underpin what I said in Tool No 1 which is to avoid using Internet Explorer. If you are serious about browsing, even more so if you are serious about being a moderator use Mozilla Firefox instead. Here are 10 positive reasons to use Firefox, probably if you did your own list after a ...
Tool No 1: FoxClocks
2007-10-15 15:09:00 In a new series we are going to start pulling together the tools that turn a normal moderator into a super moderator. To be a super moderator you need to take not only your group seriously, you also need to take your email experience seriously, your whole computer environment seriously and pivotal to that is ... More About: Tool
Blog Action Day
2007-10-15 15:01:00 Since every day here is pushing the envelope for environment then as our contribution to Blog Action Day - we are talking a holiday - honest.
What the freecycling movement needs from TFN
2007-10-15 05:38:00 First Person: Freecycle(TM) is brilliant. Deron Beal is brilliant. Second Person: Actually the concept of freecycling is brilliant. Third Person: Freecycle(TM) is brilliant. Deron Beal is brilliant. Fourth Person: Actually there is really strong evidence that Deron Beal is not quite so brilliant, including him “giving” freecycling to the world and then taking it back. Fifth Person: Freecycle(TM) is ... More About: Needs
40 tonnes per day, only a slight exaggeration?
2007-10-15 01:46:00 On CBC Marketplace and elsewhere it is reported that 40 tonnes per day is saved from landfill by freecycling for all TFN groups together. This particular article adds another titbit to the assumptions made - that each item transferred weighs one pound. With this additional information we have sufficient information to work out whether this ... More About: Gera
THE danger in trademarking
2007-10-14 08:33:00 Almost from the get-go it seems that Deron was keen on trademarking the word “freecycle”, which it is stated time and time again is for the greater good. Now why is it that Deron is holding onto total control of TFN? There is a very significant danger to the freecycling world that “should” the trademark ... More About: Danger
A freecycling strategy
2007-10-13 21:45:00 If freecycle networks promote Y!G as their main platform isn’t that capitulation? That is, if we continue to use Yahoo Groups isn’t that giving too much power to Yahoo. Well certainly apart from niggles, it hasn’t served that badly in the past. Has it. However to answer the question directly the answer is no, absolutely no. ... More About: Strategy
Where is Yahoo Groups going?
2007-10-13 19:31:00 My previous post commented about how the Internet is moving forward. It may not have been obvious to those inside TFN thinking about website developments that eventually Yahoo would do something about their Groups functionality, but right now there is increasing evidence that Yahoo Groups as a platform for freecycling is going to be vastly ... More About: Yahoo! , Going , Goin
Freecyclers are VERY patient people
2007-10-13 08:45:00 They must be because the new website has been promised for soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo long. Yes we now have a new website, but does it deliver anything of real value so far? Well, does it? The only time this website will deliver value is when TFN is able to support their own mailing lists ... More About: People , Patient
The Good, the Bad and the downright Ugly of Finder
2007-10-13 07:56:00 Let us revisit finder. What was finder and what were the issues with it, and what was its history. Well, finder was a function created by TFN with visibility on their website and what it would do is allow someone to look for items across groups. Unfortunately, as has been blogged here, the whole ... More About: Finder , Good , Ugly , The Good , The Go
Just added Mm to the menu bar
2007-10-13 07:07:00 Mm in this case stands for multimedia. Each of the posts has some video or audio footage. More About: Menu
Tip No 12: A great way to find freecycling groups
2007-10-12 23:19:00 If you want another way into browsing Yahoo Groups there is an independent website that offers a very useful perspective. BestDiscussionGroups offers a website that lists all the top “active and moderated” groups, and that includes all the freecycle groups. The website lists groups in descending ranking order within category. Importantly small ... More About: London , Great , Find
Deron Speaks on Public radio
2007-10-11 21:24:00 I have just come across this New Hampshire Public Radio broadcast from 2004 in which Deron Beal admits there is no scientific formula used to calculating how much a freecycling group saves from landfill. The whole thing has a transcript so there is little risk of missing the thread. More About: Adio
How to complain
2007-10-11 16:59:00 TFN is not the only organisation in the world with a bad or even non-existent record on complaint handling. I just read a great post at KarmaVille on how to complain successfully when there is no official or worthwhile complaints process. The context was in terms of electrical devices such as iPods and mobile phones. I ...
To Me this is everything
2007-10-11 04:42:00 I have added Tomes on the menu bar as a reference to my best posts, at least if length is any measure.
Yahoo Group Categories
2007-10-11 00:47:00 When a group is created on Yahoo the creator has to select a category in which to place the group. For freecycling groups this is a mess. There is no standard, no obvious category that makes sense. The kind of categories that are used include: recycling cultures and community environment a geographic place such as a town or city and ... More About: Categories , Group , Yahoo! , Tego
I practice what I preach
More articles from this author:2007-10-10 22:22:00 I have, for this blog and elsewhere a complaints process. Anyone who wishes to take up debate intelligently can do so by freely posting comments on this blog. To date I have blocked I think just one comment, where the tone was just a load of flame with no meat on it to ... More About: Practice 1, 2, 3 |
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