New_ Public "is creating Roundabout... help ... you start a healthy online space... in rural and suburban towns, and city neighborhoods — areas with about 10,000-50,000 people."Features include:event calendarlocal guideshelps and recommendationsinformation and updatebusiness openingseducationparentinga newcomer's guide to town.An alternative to "N…

Profile of New_Public, founded by Eli Pariser of Filter Bubble and Upworthy fame, and Deepti Doshi "from from Meta, where she’d spent much of her tenure leading the company’s Community Partnerships... supporting, Facebook group admins... as well as UT Austin professor Talia Stroud, who remains on the board, and their drive to stimulate "citizen-dr…

"A deep dive into Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone", over 20 years later, by "former New_ Public Research Fellow Serena Chao".Social capital, according to Putnam, "is the “connections among individuals — social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them”... [making] a strong case for a correlation between thriving,…