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  1. Hi everyone, I want to share a short piece and two academic articles I published based on my research on geocaching - I hope you will find them interesting, since they discuss TBs. I also want to say a big thank you to all those geocachers who contributed for this project by giving me interviews, photographs, or sharing geocaching moments and knowledge with me. The project started 9 years ago, and it has been an amazing journey. Forget cash: geocaching shows there are other ways to create value online Selling, Sharing, and Everything In Between: The Hybrid Economies of Collaborative Networks The Systemic Creation of Value Through Circulation in Collaborative Consumer Networks (the full text for this one is not available online, but I will be happy to send a copy if anyone wants it) I am looking forward at hearing your thoughts on these!
  2. I think geocaching is still very much alive - as it continues to create value for a lot of its participants. In fact, today I came back to the forums after a long while to thank all of those geocachers who supported me while I was writing a research project on the topic I also wanted to share a short piece and two academic articles I published based on my research on geocaching - I hope you will find them interesting, and I would be really interested in hearing your thoughts on these. Forget cash: geocaching shows there are other ways to create value online Selling, Sharing, and Everything In Between: The Hybrid Economies of Collaborative Networks The Systemic Creation of Value Through Circulation in Collaborative Consumer Networks We might have different motivations, goals and preferences regarding geocaching, but there is no denying that a hobby, many businesses, and countless friendships, relationships, unforgettable experiences, and lifes of joy have been built here, because people were able to look past their differences and collaborate - and that in itself is something to be amazed at!
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    Hi everyone, I am wondering if there is any international geocaching event focused on TBs? If not, would Geowoodstock be my best bet to meet and talk to geocachers who are mostly into TB moving? Thanks!
  4. WOW, more than 100,000 km travelled!
  5. I love Kyoko's goal! Too bad people don't post photos of the churches
  6. Awesome story, and a really fun video Interesting that the TB was just a laminated tag.
  7. I like reading stories of TBs that successfully achieved their goals (the only TB I've ever released got disappeared the first cache it was dropped in ). Some of you may enjoy those accounts of geocaching goodness too, so I thought of sharing this amazing story I found online: http://www.michalkupsa.cz/blog/fantastic-story-of-a-travel-bug-41.html Does anyone have another story like that to share?
  8. That makes me wonder: if better technology were available to log/register/track, would we be moving more TBs than we're currently inclined to do? It is also fun to think what would it be of TB moving if NO technology were available to track them
  9. I am still finishing the dissertation, it will be out and available next Summer. I will be happy to share it with the geocaching community and get your feedback on my work. In the meantime, you can read some conference abstracts that I published along the way, as these ones: "FROM THE WEB TO THE WOODS: CONNECTING THE ONLINE TO THE OFFLINE IN CONSUMERS’ PLAY "and Let’s listen to them: Podcasts as a source of data for consumer culture research. I also wrote a few blog posts here that you may find interesting: http://dscaraboto.blogspot.ca/search/label/geocaching
  10. These are all great suggestions I like the idea of choosing a coin that refers to a personal characteristic of each professor, I will probably end up doing that and getting 6 different coins. Thanks to all!
  11. I will soon defend my PhD dissertation, for which I did research about geocaching. I thought it would be nice to give a geocoing to each professor in my defense committee as a token of appreciation. Can you suggest some great coins available for sale that have any relation to education, research, discovery, or that are just beautiful symbols of the geocaching community? Thanks!
  12. Our luckiest moment? My husband once found a 50 dollar bill nearby a cache hidden nearby a waterfall. We had a nice free dinner after a long day of geocaching!
  13. Do you think the Splinterhead actors have become geocachers after making the movie?
  14. I have to explain geocaching all the time, because I am using it as a context to my research on collaboration between consumers and companies. Usually people get all interested on geocaching and not at all on my theories I even took a couple of colleagues out to find a cache during an academic conference. As good nerds, they were absolutely thrilled and wanted to skip the next session of talks to look for more caches in the area.
  15. Subculture, idioculture...it could be anything depending on the theory one is looking at... I prefer thinking of geocaching as a consumption tribe. It's a really convenient explanation of it for a consumer culture scholar "Active and enthusiastic in their consumption, sometimes in the extreme, tribes produce a range of identities, practices, rituals, meanings, and even material culture itself. They re-script roles, twist meanings, and shout back to producers and other groups of people while they fashion their own differentiation strategies. They both absorb and resist the pre-packaged, off-the-shelf, brand-and-product meanings of marketers. They differ from traditional tribes in an anthropological sense in one important way; we belong to many little tribes and not one tribe. From this perspective the consumption of cultural resources circulated through markets (brands, leisure experiences, and so on) are not the sine qua non of contemporary life, rather, they facilitate what are – meaningful social relationships." And here's the source: Consumer Tribes
  16. gente...esse cache eh mesmo uma lenda... quem sabe um dia eu consigo achar?!?
  17. I had somehow missed this topic when it was initiated - but I am glad it made up to the first page on the forums today. The magazine seems to be really interesting! I just subscribed Looking forward to receive my copy of the first issue!
  18. 29 and 35 here... but sometimes I feel this is not a matter of age, but of which stage in the life cycle you're at (e.g. retired, empty nested, young couple with little kids) I haven't met many geocachers like us - young couple with no kids - anyone out there?
  19. Thanks for sharing, that's a very interesting blog
  20. You mean one can share a premium account with other people/accounts? This is news to me
  21. From my perspective it's a multimedia entertainment device for people who already have everything else That said, I do understand that what they are selling is "coolness" more than anything else - and that will appeal to a large segment of bored Tablet PC users...
  22. Who's fancying the newest wonder? (I wish they had chosen a better name for it...) Introducing the i-Pad
  23. Just took a look at your website - WOW - you're a storm chaser!!!
  24. This topic is soooo fun... But, seriously, isn't the world supposed to finish in 2012?
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