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- BBC News profiles 23-year-old Sarah, an assistant at a major magazine who is a bike-sharing, room-renting member of a generation of “cash-strapped ‘millennials’” who have “very different expectations about jobs, credit and money.” Gasp.
- Should Sarah ever move to Portland, Ore. and find herself in need of a stand mixer, she might want to check out the newly opened Kitchen Share NE.
- Fast Company CoEXIST’s Ariel Schwartz profiles Peers, the new membership group organized around sharing.
- And a commenter introduces the term “share-washing,” as in using the glow of peer-to-peer engagement to draw attention away from business as usual.
- Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings steps in to slow down a proposal said to affect Uber.
- It’s too hot for food trucks in Minneapolis.
- Quartz’s Christopher Mims argues that Mark Zuckerberg’s Internet.org plan for global connectivity should emulate Mumbai’s diversified mobile market.
- With musings from the head of its city council’s tech and innovation committee, Los Angeles tiptoes back into the free public WiFi debate.
- Developers in Worcester, Mass. are planning for micro-lofts that go right up against the city’s 300-square-foot limit. Boston, for its part, has rolled back its minimum to a yawning 450 square feet.
- Portland-based Umpqu Bank doubles down on the idea of financial institutions as community hubs.
- And one Portland software developer doubts that D.C. can be the center of any Internet revolution: “You’d lose 90% of the entrepreneurs. They’re allergic to the political sickness.”
Nancy Scola is a Washington, DC-based journalist whose work tends to focus on the intersections of technology, politics, and public policy. Shortly after returning from Havana she started as a tech reporter at POLITICO.