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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
Out of context
2008-04-21 14:38:00 One thing that defines the genericism of the word freecycle is its use wholly outside TFN groups. That could be people who wish to spread the good word, or it could mean people who wish to reuse it in their own context. Take some atari stuff which is on offer. Is this anything to do ... More About: Context
You cannot be serious!
2008-03-30 13:18:00 Rule no one, if you are going to try to fool people with money come up with a project title with words that mean nothing and a project that requires no work, oh and then put a big pricetag on it. Take for instance (you knew this was coming) Freecycle Cellular Osmosis on NetSquared. In a ...
Goodbyee, goodbyee, wipe a tear from your eye, dont you cryee
2008-03-22 08:25:00 It is with great pleasure I have the most important announcement to make to this freecycling globe. Following this post on fcnext, a certain company, hmm let’s see what was there name again… Oh yes that’s right. Yahoo. Oh, and what is that that is worth knowing… Oh, yes, that’s right. YAHOO ... More About: Tear , Wipe
Yahoo Group Recommendations
2008-03-17 05:56:00 I have to empathize with Kathleen Gayton, a TFN moderator who is concerned about the new Yahoo Group cross-promotion feature where groups with similar memberships are listed in emails so that people can join related groups easily. You can read all about the feature on the official Yahoo Groups blog. Kathleen’s comment is ... More About: Yahoo!
When is a trademark not a trademark
2008-03-14 16:45:00 When DB says it is. TFN has lost its trademark infringement claim against FreecycleSunnyvale. This news is hot off the press. See this post on fcnext for more info. Get this Deron Beal, your trademark claims were bad for this freecycling industry. They were divisive and control freakery of the worst dimensions. And you have spent ... More About: Trademark
Top Posts 19: Why, the $64,000 question
2008-03-10 15:03:00 Every now and again I come across a real gem. Something posted by someone who has experienced deep hurt at the hands of Deron Beal. Read the freecycle controversy written by someone who so obviously knows from the inside exactly how things happened. Thank you. More About: Question , Posts
3 more groups leave
2008-03-07 07:51:00 I know I have been largely silent, but other projects have distracted me. Or perhaps I have just broadened my outlook. Anyway the head honchos at TFN who send out C&D emails have been fired and new ones put in their place. The new ones are getting busy now checking on groups and playing the ... More About: Leave , Groups
Half a sixpence
2008-02-14 08:15:00 A few TFN groups are banning people who use Grouply. This could be considered an opportunity for organisations such as Reuseit to capitalise and create new groups for these people. If TFN does not want these members then perhaps they can freecycle elsewhere. What a different place the world would be if TFN membership halved? ... More About: Half , Sixpence
TFN goes prospecting
2008-02-06 20:16:00 Very recently the Des Moines group decided that its disillusionment with The Freecycle Network had gone a step too far, and so they have broken away. It hasn’t take long for TFN to create an AstroTurf group. As I look the new group has just 94 members. A long way to go ... More About: Prospecting
The origins of RealCycle
2008-02-03 16:01:00 There is a nice synopsis of the RealCycle Network on WikiBin. What it shows is a network that is not going to sit on its laurels but is trying to reach out to try different and related forms of freecycle styled groups. Most interesting is their work to reach out to school children, ...
No Shows unravelled
2008-02-03 11:38:00 One issue that plagues many groups that freecycle is the issue of No Shows. A No Show occurs when one person offers an item, and accepts that another person can have it, only to find that the other person never shows up to collect the item. I have looked at what is available ...
Grouply launches freecycling features
2008-02-01 17:45:00 The grouply website which provides an alternative “social networking” front end to your Yahoo Groups has launched a set of features aimed at freecycle and reuseit network groups and communities. To help explore these I have launched a Yahoo Group aimed purely at gaining a better understanding of these. Also I am hoping to attract ... More About: Features
It?s the wrong trousers, dammit!
2008-01-22 18:48:00 Creating and running a freecycling group is a piece of cake. When I say this I am definitely NOT trying to trivialise the amount of effort involved by determined and conscientious owners and moderators. What I am trying to say is that any owner or moderator can do what they do from the ... More About: Trousers , Wrong
The Untouchables
2008-01-21 16:25:00 TFN have a new contender to fight - the Australian Recyclers Community. This is interesting in that normally TFN hides behind Yahoo’s paranoia over a legal debacle and abuses that fear to ensure Yahoo deletes groups, which Yahoo has the authority to do. But by contrast this Australian community seems little or nothing ...
Gushing into the New Year
2008-01-01 05:25:00 Call me cynical. As we start the New Year with Christmas receding we all like to think of the nice things. Sadly Christmas (or Xmas) or whatever you think of this time of year is a time when people spend, spend, spend. Buy, Buy, buy. People buy presents, many of which are sadly ...
freecycle shares top of green Yahoo searches
2007-12-04 14:00:00 Somewhere deep inside the depths of a report on Yahoo about Britney Spears you can read the word freecycle is a very green word. More About: Green , Shares , Yahoo! , Ares
Grouply launches contest of Yahoo Groups users
2007-12-02 17:16:00 Grouply, the web 2.0 styled interface to Yahoo groups has launched a competition for users who bring new users. To sign up via my link click here. Although grouply is not quite there yet, it is getting pretty damned close. As well as hopefully soon aggregating both google and yahoo groups into one place they ... More About: Contest , Users , Groups , Yahoo!
Four years, and counting?
2007-12-01 09:02:00 For four years The Freecycle Network has been vaunting a new website, that Yahoo was only “temporary”, that a new website was only a year away. It looks closer today than ever, but how close is close. As the year closes to an end will the new fully functional website be up and running? I ... More About: Years , Counting
Separated by a common language
2007-11-26 13:56:00 It is a cultural thing, but no matter how you cook it the breaking away, or not, of Freecycle UK from TFN is as important an event in the history of freecycling movement as you can imagine. Looking back to that fabled starting point, supposedly in Tucson, Arizona (though even that is debated by ... More About: Language , Common , Separated
Climb every mountain
2007-11-26 12:10:00 Whilst it is true that in general the number of posts of a given group increase with the number of members, it is also true that that is a gross generalisation. To help you get a better feel for this I have captured the number of posts in 2006 for a range of over ... More About: Climb , Mountain , Limb
TFN is not grassroots
2007-11-20 21:07:00 According to recent debate The Freecycle Network is definitely not a grassroots organisation. That is the official word from its Executive Director, Deron Beal. Yes, it has the “grassroots” epithet on all its marketing. Yes, group owners keep on saying it is “grassroots”. Yes blog and news articles keep on perpetuating ... More About: Grassroots
Privacy, please consider your privacy
2007-11-20 18:42:00 Today the UK government has announced an extremely serious breach of privacy for twenty-five million UK citizens. Keep abreast of the story as it unfolds, here is a link to the BBC news article. In brief a CD with personal data has been “lost” whilst in transit between government departments. What makes this even more ... More About: Privacy , Consider
Will freecycling be allowed in this anti-consumerism reality TV show?
2007-11-20 17:19:00 On MoneySavingExpert there is a report that a new reality TV show is being planned with a request for people to refrain from buying anything for six or twelve months. Now one has to ask what the goal of this programme is. Is it to see how well one can live without buying, or is ... More About: Reality , Show , Anti , Consumerism , Ality
For beta or worse
2007-11-15 19:57:00 Yahoo groups is rolling out more and more of its beta product. To help people experience this I have initiated a yahoo group to help everyone explore what freecycling within the beta product means. Click here to join freecycling-beta. Please note since this is based on Y!G beta this group is not necessarily stable, depending on ... More About: Beta
Outside the envelope
2007-11-15 19:50:00 When considering freecycling there are a lot of services out there that are not strict in their focus on freecycling. For example some add in the concept of swapping and indeed payment. Amongst these one might consider Cheap Cycle and Gift Of Giving. From my perspective there is absolutely nothing wrong with the formula these networks ... More About: Envelope
Top Posts 18: Unpopular, or what
2007-11-11 00:57:00 Throughout all the debacle of what TFN has or has not done it is often difficult to see what is going on. One gets so involved in the detail, and certainly as new events unfold (such as the recent 9th circuit decision in favour of Tim Oey and against TFN) it is good to ... More About: Posts , Pula
How some people get here?
2007-11-09 19:09:00 For your edification I thought I would share with you some of the search queries that bring visitors to this blog… freecycle slough free cease and desist letter form trademarks cease and desist canada rules of running a non profit cease desist letter yahoo foxclocks -”[DIR]” -”index of” yahoo groups adult directory north port fl free freecycling freecycle resignation Freecycle Newton Massachusetts tfn corrupt More About: People , Some
Am I blind or am I thick?
2007-11-09 09:42:00 TFN now has a Terms of Service page. The Internet Archive’s Wayback machine puts this page as starting in August 2007, so it seems to be a pretty new page. It is very well worth anyone’s while reading, and re-reading this page. Let me give a flavour of what you might find. On ... More About: Blind
It?s free, its phenomenal, so it must be right
2007-11-08 16:15:00 The excitement around TFN is quite astounding, of that there is no doubt. Whilst one can very seriously challenge the amount of debris removed from landfill also while one can very robustly challenge that actual number of members, whilst one can also robustly challenge a whole number of aspects there is one thing you ... More About: Free
You will NOT use the word freecycle, really!
More articles from this author:2007-11-08 09:15:00 It is official, TFN do not want, nay will not allow anyone to use the word freecycle, whether it is capitalised or not. This is at least the case reported by The Guardian, UK. I mean are TFN stupid or are they stupid? What happened was that a moderator member [ed correction, see comment] ... More About: Word 1, 2, 3 |
