Airbnb used to be the affordable, easy way to travel. Now it feels like a scam. You book a place for hundreds of dollars, get hit with a $100 cleaning fee, and then they ask you to do the chores. Guests are fed up, and it’s showing—Airbnb’s income dropped 40% in Q1 2025, bookings are … Read more
A reading list on the sharing economy open Democracy News Analysis – by Adam Parsons Want more details on the sharing economy and where it might be heading in the future? Check out this comprehensive list of resources, complete with web links. Agyeman, Julian, Duncan McLaren and Adrianne Schaefer-Borrego, Sharing Cities, Friends of the Earth … Read more
Trouble in Trolltown from EFF.org Updates by parker Judges Increasingly Catching On to Copyright Trolls’ Unfair Tactics Life under the bridge is a bit less comfortable for copyright trolls these days, as a series of legal losses continues to undermine their misguided business model. Trolls make their money through variations on a simple scheme: file … Read more
How Pinterest Is Changing Website Design Forever from Mashable! by Sarah Kessler Digital Activism 101: The 5 Activist Functions of Technology from The Meta-Activism Project by Mary C Joyce Digital Activism 101 is a series of posts introducing key concepts to students and activists. ???? From the revolutionaries of the Arab Spring and Occupy Movements … Read more