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Monday, February 15

The Sharing Economy is about Convenience

While the values of the sharing economy are undoubtedly admirable – community, sustainability, social equality – the one that swings it for the consumer, and moves them to act above all else, is convenience.

Unless your service is super easy to use, forget it.

Source: The Drum - Suzy Bashford: As Uber andAirbnb call on EU to support collaborative consumption, is it here to stay – orare we over sharing?

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Zinneke? Never heard of it!

By using this term to describe themselves, Brusselers celebrate their multicultural background and ethnic diversity.

In our dialect, a zinneke is a mongrel dog and by extension, a person of mixed ethnic origin, just like the Brussels dialect itself which is a mixture of French and Flemish with influences from Spanish.(From the time when the Low Countries were under Spanish rule)

Brussels build up around a river called the Senne (FR)/Zenne (NL). Some say the name "zinneke" was used to refer to the dogs that roamed around near the river, others that it refers to the fact that they deserved to be thrown into the river.

Source (checked with other sources)