My “fast” appearance on Vibrant Victoria

August 13, 2007

I’m pleased to be able to point readers to a short article of mine available on Vibrant Victoria‘s front page. It’s called The Race That Should be On: Victoria as “Fast City?” and you can read it by clicking through on the link.

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Silly Dick!

August 11, 2007

It’s a weekend, and …well, there’s always “just a little lovin’ early in the [Sunday] morning” to look forward to, but before we get to Sunday morning, we have …Saturday night. So here’s A Dick in A Box (via YouTube)… Warning: dangerously funny.

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Extended surreality…

August 10, 2007

I had a very strange experience today, lasting over the course of about an hour or two. I don’t normally ride the buses here — either I walk, or I walk, or sometimes I walk. When that doesn’t work, I will drive. Today I had to ride the bus to pick up the car from […]

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Red Fish Blue Fish

August 6, 2007

It’s a holiday today in British Columbia, and I managed to take full advantage of the fact (well, aside from doing the usual Monday laundry-loads , food-preps, dog-walks, and other normal family life stuff…). But around mid-day all five of us (that’s counting the dog) walked over to Red Fish Blue Fish to have lunch. […]

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Testing outside.in…?

August 4, 2007

For months now, I’ve had an account with outside.in, and for months I’ve wondered whether they’d ever include Canadian sites & blogs in the network. A couple of days ago, outside.in’s Crysanthe Tenentes sent around an email to let members know that it’s easier than ever to get your blog posts about your neighbourhood, your […]

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On the road to Vancouver’s 2010 Olympic Madness, one sleeping bag at a time…

August 1, 2007

Marianne Lepa, publisher of Arts News Canada (see my blog post from July 21), wrote in today’s by-subscription newsletter about Kimberly Baker, an artist who recently graduated from Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design in Vancouver. It’s a story of the ham-fisted 2010 Olympics/ Vancouver Organizing Committee’s approach to “copyright” and marketing rights, and […]

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Social networking, version 2.0?

July 31, 2007

Something to explore in greater depth over the coming days: via Cool Hunting, a post by Tim Yu about Social Networking for a Cause. Yu writes: From corporate-sponsored “Cool Apps” to niche spin-offs like Bakespace, Virb and I’m In Like With You, online communities are still largely about socializing and/or wasting time. Their potential as […]

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“Where are you?”

July 29, 2007

I just came across an article by Kate Greene in the MIT Technology Review, Marking Your Territory, about web-based services that let you keep your friends up-to-date on where you currently are. In particular, the article describes Plazes, a Swiss start-up, which Greene says “lets you leave electronic bread crumbs for friends.” It sounds interesting. […]

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Benchmarks

July 29, 2007

After I learned that FastCompany had accepted my reader-submitted nomination of Victoria as a “fast city,” I tried to let as many people as possible know about this so that they could go and rank the city. I poked friends on Facebook, I scribbled on their walls, I sent emails to people at the Chamber […]

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Victoria on “fast cities 2007,” with comments

July 29, 2007

  Victoria, British Columbia The City of Victoria, designated a Canadian Cultural Capital in 2005, is the core municipality of a metro region known as the Capital Regional District (pop. ~350,000 and growing). It is home to several universities (University of Victoria; Royal Roads; and the recently-founded private University Canada West, which plans to have […]

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