Reading hairyears 's post this morning got me thinking, and there's a couple of interesting possibilities that spawn out of it. (The 'publish or perish' part of me is considering expanding and writing this up for somewhere, or possibly offering a talk to Open Tech ...) Pure network-mediated barter has a number of issues, primarily that getting the numbers up to the critical mass point in a given geographical area is difficult, in large part because there's a non-trivial barrier to... read more
