Coffee House Culture 2.0 : Ziferblat

Referring to itself as "a social network in real life" (finally!), London's Ziferblat café/social experiment sounds amazing: The city's first pay-per-minute place, you pay 3p/minute and can have as much coffee and cake as you like. Their mission statement goes: "Ziferblat is a place where everyone can feel at home. Here you are free to be yourself; you can work, make art, read a book, play the piano, get acquainted with good people, attend events, drink as much tea or coffee as you want — in other words, do whatever you like as long as you respect the space and the other people in it. Ziferblat’s doors are open to everyone. Each Ziferblat guest becomes a micro-tenant of the space, responsible for it and able to influence its life. You will be welcomed by the Ziferblat community and able to work with them to help create, support, and develop this project. Everything is free inside except the time you spend there; and by paying for the time, you’ll be making a donation towards the further development of this social experiment." Clearly no waste of time - or money! (rnk)