Lucy
About: This summer my friend and I started a non-profit to empower consumers with holding corporations responsible for their actions. The project is called ThoughtAndMemory.org. We rely on a community of data contributors using a peer reviewed system (micro-science!) to turn observations into analysis into numerical ratings. These ratings can be placed next to web advertisements and received on cell phones at the point of sale.
Our slogan is “Buy it like you mean it.”
Our Mission is “To provide individuals with access to trusted, collaborative, and customizable tools that support research and communication about the real world impact of purchasing various goods and services.”
We're open source. If you're interested in contributing to the technology send me email: lucy att ThoughtAndMemory dott org
ps - the picture on the left is from Ignite Boston 2. You can find the full scene in one of our blog posts:
http://www.thoughtandmemory.org/blog/?p=37
Blog Posts
We’ve been hacked…
--This is a scrambled (family friendly) version of what appeared on the front page of the Browse results section of http://bilumi.org yesterday. The...
1,000 bilumi changes logged!
--Lucy Mendel has committed the landmark 1,000th change to Buy It Like You Mean It’s repository of open source technology! Click the sound fil...
AccountAbility web mashup
--Check out the new demo we built for AccountAbility, a project led by Nate Greenslit at the MIT Media Lab. AccountAbility aims to put socially respo...
How to host a bilumi workshop!
--What Is a BILUMI Workshop? A bilumi workshop is when a bunch of folks get together in the same room and add their opinions and research to the kno...
“How Firms Respond to Being Rated”
--Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel of Harvard Business School are taking a closer look at how environmental practices change when companies a...
Courtney is examining our revenue models.
--Wondering what happened with the results of the poll where you helped us think about what kinds of revenue we should pursue? The short answer is: ...
