16 May 2007

The geography of passion

The internet is a different kind of social space in which our common interests are the things that connect us rather than physical proximity. Online it’s less important where we are or where we come from but what we care about. We might call this the ‘geography of passion’.

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04 May 2007

links for 2007-05-04

  • An interesting example of the internet’s geography of passion. A hybrid physical/virtual community where people track down likeminded individuals across the world, creating greater common understanding through cultural exchange in the process.

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30 April 2007

Built to shrink

Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and a number of other firms are currently fighting it out to buy Dutch banking group ABN Amro for around £45 billion.

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