August 28, 2008
reportonbusiness.com: Harper defends cuts to arts programs – Annotated G&M article on recent announcement of cuts in arts funding, which co-incided with the Conference Board of Canada’s report on the significance of the arts to Canada’s economy. tags: globeandmail, steven_harper, canada, cultural_support, funding, conference_board_canada, arts_funding Valuing Culture: Measuring and Understanding Canada’s Creative Economy – Annotated […]
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August 12, 2008
Voices From the Suburban Blogosphere, by Bob Tedeschi – NYTimes.com Article that chronicles the role of blogging in the creation of new hyper local / local news eco-systems. QUOTE: For readers, the blogs are providing news in ways unseen in traditional local news media. (…) Like other journalists who run news sites, Paul Bass, New […]
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Sometimes I see spots, and they’re granular…
September 7, 2008It’s a weird sensation: take a basic idea — but it has to be something big, like …oh, beauty — and then read around in various and different-from-one-another fields, and let the basic idea act like a filter, …or is it like a connector? Whichever, but you begin to notice basic transferability or kinship between […]