February 2009
2 posts
Hot causes and cool mobilization →
The article (PDF) is a condensed version of the ideas in Hayagreeva Rao’s book, Market Rebels. I didn’t know the origins of the use of the word “cool” to mean hip/different are from the world of jazz.
Virgance - For-profit activism →
Economist writes about the interesting business model of Virgance (One of the Powerset founders’ next venture). I don’t know if pure online activism is good enough to fetch any results (but then again it’s very cheap to do it online). They seem to draw parallels from Obama’s successful online campaign efforts but they were just supplementary to more grassroots offline...