I'm writing articles and also blogging for Shareable.net, a "nonprofit online magazine that tells the story of sharing. We cover the people, places, and projects that are bringing a shareable world to life," as they describe it. I'm very broadly covering the technology, social media and Midwest beat for them in my weekly blog posts. It's a great site with an interesting take on community-building and affecting social change, and I'm excited to be working for them.

The latest article is about Chicago's Gabriel Levinson and his book bike. In short, Gabe rides his bike around Chicago during spring and summer weekends, stopping at public parks and distributing donated books to anyone who approaches him.

I've also got a number of blog posts up on the site:

The Unconsumption Un-Manifesto: About Rob Walker's unconsumption blog/wiki/movement, an attempt to get people to reconsider what they're consuming and what they do with unwanted products

Wisdom of the Swarm: ThinkTank collects the knowledge of your online community: covering Gina Trapani and ExpertLabs' ThinkTank app, that aggregates responses to questions posed on social networks

Video Games as a Force for Social Good: a follow-up to the DEMO Magazine article about Mindy Faber's work with Open Youth Networks to use video games as a tool for social good and community outreach