MeFi Projects

Proud to announce my first collaboration with fellow Mefite glasseyes - we met in an AskMe about textiles and ethnic fashions a few years ago, and this is teh culmination of months of work. Join us in this journey through fabric shops and fashion magazines to see how brands are built through word of mouth and hard work in the informal economy.
posted by infini on Apr 14, 2017 - 5 comments

A game where you play as a bird, or possibly as a chess piece, or somehow both. You want shiny and warm things for your nest. Fly to other nests and negotiate trades for your existing shiny and warm things. Accrue wealth. Crash the economy for fun and profit. [more inside]
posted by FeatherWatt on Sep 12, 2015 - 3 comments

Been thinking a lot about how Millennials are always written about in the media, how gentrification works, and how student loans are affecting our current economy. Here is the result.
posted by whimsicalnymph on Oct 28, 2014 - 2 comments

Post whatever you need moved and get bids from drivers in your city, eliminating the need to scour craigslist or rent a U-Haul the next time you need something moved. [more inside]
posted by 913 on May 3, 2014 - 2 comments

The Prepaid Economy: African edition began as a means to track notes on the rise of Africa as an investment opportunity back in January 2010. Today it has over 28,000 readers on Tumblr, engaging an audience of young Afropolitans. We will be beginning a new series of discussion posts where engagement from our readers is encouraged. This Friday (25th January) we will be having our very first moderated conversation and the topic at hand will be “China’s presence in Africa.” If there are any particular article links or thoughts that you would like to see addressed in the discussion, feel free to share them and we’ll be sure to integrate them into the post. We look forward to hearing your input and hosting a productive conversation on the effects of China’s presence in Africa. Your moderator will be Beulah Osueke, currently Masters Degree student at LaSalle University, Philadelphia
posted by infini on Jan 24, 2013 - 0 comments

I post articles here about the deceptive and shady tactics being practiced by U.S. law schools, as well as stories about the decline in the quality of U.S. legal education.
posted by reenum on Aug 12, 2012 - 2 comments

I'm collecting charts and data that might help to explain why those Occupy Wall St. folks are so upset.
posted by gwint on Oct 12, 2011 - 3 comments

A video I took this morning of members of the Maine People's Alliance gathering at a Bank of America branch in Brunswick, Maine to protest BoA paying no taxes last year.
posted by Vectorcon Systems on Jun 24, 2011 - 1 comment

With the invaluable help of some friends, I put together this mockumentary about the economy. NSFW, if anyone still has work. [more inside]
posted by millipede on Jun 12, 2011 - 0 comments

How can we help the economy? By helping small businesses. Even Ben Bernanke admitted that community banks, not big banks, have stepped up their lending to small businesses since the financial crash. North Dakota has had a solution for this since 1919: it uses its tax reserves to extend lending to community banks. It's been working quite well. There's plenty of evidence that it would work elsewhere. Now, Oregon wants in on the action.
posted by blazingunicorn on Apr 18, 2011 - 4 comments