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I've taken a leap into the world of crowdfunding this week as I launch   my first Indiegogo campaign . I'm aiming to  raise seed funding for a London-based School of Financial Activism . Please do click on the link to take a look at the campaign, and if you feel inspired, I'd love for you to contribute to it! As I've already mentioned in a previous post, I've got a book on the financial system coming out called The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money . I want to launch the School of Financial Activism as a way to build on themes I've developed in the book, and to help everyday people grapple with and challenge the financial sector. As a reward for contributing, I'm offering four uber-cool limited edition series of the book, as follows: The Junior Trader series : 100 softcovers, signed and delivered The Hardass Cityboys : 25 hardcovers, one for each of the 25 wards of the City of London, along with a discount voucher for the ...

USE PEARLTREES INSTEAD BRO I've been experimenting with Pearltrees as a tool for financial education. If you've never used Pearltrees before, it's a cool technology for arranging information, sites and other media into organisational trees. I used it in my last post on Goldman Sachs to show how the company is arranged, and this week I've been experimenting with it as a tool to visually represent the FTSE 100 index. The FTSE 100 is an index of the 100 largest publicly-listed companies in the UK, constituting a major chunk of the UK economy. You can explore the Pearltree in the box below, but for greater functionality, go direct to it here . FTSE 100 and Food Producers / Support Services / Mining in Mega-Indices / (suitpossum) Click on the various pearls to explore the diagram. Clicking on an individual company launches a pop-up window with information. As you can see, it's a pretty simple and intuitive way to present an otherwise abstract list of companies, allo...