http://crookedtimber.org/2005/06/16/pledgebank/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:14:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/06/16/pledgebank/comment-page-1/#comment-86439 Crooked Timber » » Training to run a 5K Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:12:08 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/06/16/pledgebank/#comment-86439 [...] Inspired by Chris’ posts about PledgeBank, I decided to set one up myself [password: running]. The silly part about mine is that my pledge has no collective action problem since one person making a decision to take on the action would achieve its intended goal, which is to add some additional exercise to one’s life. Nonetheless, I was intrigued by the service so I gave it a try. [...] [...] Inspired by Chris’ posts about PledgeBank, I decided to set one up myself [password: running]. The silly part about mine is that my pledge has no collective action problem since one person making a decision to take on the action would achieve its intended goal, which is to add some additional exercise to one’s life. Nonetheless, I was intrigued by the service so I gave it a try. [...]

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2005/06/16/pledgebank/comment-page-1/#comment-78431 Crooked Timber » » PledgeBank (more) Sun, 10 Jul 2005 06:11:06 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/06/16/pledgebank/#comment-78431 [...] I blogged the other day about the PledgeBank project, and, specifically in favour of one particular pledge : I will give 1% of my gross annual salary to charity but only if 400 other people will too. [...] [...] I blogged the other day about the PledgeBank project, and, specifically in favour of one particular pledge : I will give 1% of my gross annual salary to charity but only if 400 other people will too. [...]

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2005/06/16/pledgebank/comment-page-1/#comment-75277 Alex Fradera Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:34:04 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/06/16/pledgebank/#comment-75277 That site seems to have evolved a bloggish quality. Check the thread here (Do CT comments take hyperlinks?) <a href="http://www.pledgebank.com/scientificreport" rel="nofollow">http://www.pledgebank.com/scientificreport</a> for a lively debate on animal testing. The Pledge is to fund some science to prove that animal testing is ineffective. The mind bloggles. And it has provked what surely must be an inspired spoof here <a href="http://www.pledgebank.com/noanimaldrugs#comments" rel="nofollow">http://www.pledgebank.com/noanimaldrugs#comments</a> Although it is playing things very straight. That site seems to have evolved a bloggish quality. Check the thread here (Do CT comments take hyperlinks?)
http://www.pledgebank.com/scientificreport
for a lively debate on animal testing. The Pledge is to fund some science to prove that animal testing is ineffective. The mind bloggles. And it has provked what surely must be an inspired spoof here
http://www.pledgebank.com/noanimaldrugs#comments
Although it is playing things very straight.

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