Daily Diigo Public Link 03/02/2008

March 1, 2008

City, developer race to approve Portrait Gallery project Annotated tags: art_museum, arts_funding, development, ottawa, portrait_gallery This is an example of what should have happened in Victoria in regard to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria’s plans to move into a purpose-built gallery (designed by James Cheng), which would have been part of a single-tower residential […]

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A DemoCamp for Victoria?

March 1, 2008

Mark Lise wants Victoria to have its own DemoCamp, and he has been busy trying to find a downtown locale that can accommodate it. See his blog entry from Feb.26/08, DemoCampVictoria Chapter for more details. From my urbanist perspective, it’s really important that this event is held downtown, in the city, instead of moving into […]

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Well, that was fun!

February 27, 2008

Northern Voice 2008 was amazing. First off, Matt Mullenweg‘s keynote was amazing. Just for a taste, take a look (er, I mean listen) at this site and look at these photos posted to Flickr or this reverse liveblogging transcript from Stewart Mader. Some key points that stuck in my mind: Exhortation #1, remove the FRICTION […]

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February 26, 2008

Here’s one reason students Barack the vote: respect – Crosscut Annotated tags: blogging, citizen_journalism, clinton, obama, politics, presidency, respect, seattle Wow, and wow again! U-Dub communications prof David Domke describes how his citizen-journalist blogger students were treated by the politicians campaigning for president, and the differences between Hillary & Barack are astounding. One of Domke’s […]

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Is “balance” enough?

February 26, 2008

Just a quick post, as I’m still in catch-up mode. This morning I read an article in the local paper about a man who has 250 charges against him for public drunkenness, causing disturbances, aggressive panhandling, harassing people, and so on. “Red,” as he’s called in the article, is not homeless, according to police, and […]

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February 25, 2008

» Entwurf für das Stadtcasino in Basel – Zaha Hadid Architects – architekturvideo.de – Das Video-Blog für Architektur, Stadtplanung und Immobilien tags: architecture, architekturvideo.de, basel, casino, video, zaha_hadid This is a really useful video from Zaha Hadid Architects, which models the effect and appearance of a new casino & concert hall in the middle of […]

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Northern Voice 2008 — what a blast!

February 24, 2008

This afternoon I returned home from Northern Voice 2008, the 4th annual incarnation of this event. It was the first time I attended, and I had a great time. Learned a lot, met some terrific people, and experienced a really positive geek vibe — if that makes sense. I’ll post more later — probably tomorrow? […]

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February 23, 2008

Capital Regional District’s Annual Reports Garner Top Honours for Fourth Year Running – CivicInfo BC – News tags: bc_civicinfo, crd, victoria Surface/Subsurface – Cool Hunting: tags: cities

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February 22, 2008

Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain – New York Times Annotated tags: blogging, cyber_culture, gender_studies, girls, socialcomputing, socialtheory “Research shows that among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content (blogs, graphics, photographs, Web sites) are (…) digitally effusive teenage girls.” This article profiles a couple of amazingly self-possessed young women. › Ma […]

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February 21, 2008

Ground-up City by Liane LeFaivre and Doll Annotated tags: cities, liane_lefaivre, playgrounds, urbanism 010 (publisher) description of Ground-up City: Play as a Design Tool, by LeFaivre and the architecture firm Döll – Atelier voor Bouwkunst. › Notes from the ‘Global Place’ conference Annotated tags: conference, ecology, liane_lefaivre, place_making, playgrounds, reference, urbanism Still to read through […]

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