Victoria, the ecosystem

November 10, 2010

When people say that Victoria British Columbia is “a small town,” I think they’re dead wrong. I understand what those people are getting at, but I think they’re completely missing the mark: because, with a Capital Regional District (CRD) population of over 350,000 people, it’s not a small town by Canadian standards. We punch above […]

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Victoria BC’s Johnson Street Bridge sings

November 9, 2010

Really, she does. I love this video – political activism at its most poetic and poignant.

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Green Design as Art

November 8, 2010

Last Friday, I stopped in at Exploring the Aesthetics of Sustainability | Green Design as Art, a small (but interesting!) weekend exhibit at the newly-completed Atrium Building in downtown Victoria. The developer (Victoria-based Jawl Properties) made an unfinished/ raw ground-floor retail space available to the the organizers – props to the Jawls for their civic-minded […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

November 7, 2010

Homes of Titans Who Rule the Tech World | Zillow Blog – Real Estate Market Stats, Celebrity Real Estate, and Zillow News Call it real estate p0rn, call it social envy, but Zillow.com put together some interesting eye candy here… QUOTE After learning of Steve Jobs’ soon-to-be demolished historic home, and Mark Zuckerberg’s life as […]

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Everything’s a conversation, except when it’s not

November 4, 2010

Social media has penetrated even the most conservative institutions (such as real estate, property development, and municipal politics), and from where I’m sitting right now, it looks as if it’s driving a coffin nail of sorts into what was The Cluetrain‘s seminal insight, markets are conversations. That insight, incidentally, was from 1999. And now those […]

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Power/ Influence

November 3, 2010

A few days ago the Vancouver Sun published BC’s top 100 influential women – it’s entirely possible that I would have missed the Sun‘s report if not for Alexandra Samuel‘s extensive blog post, Vancouver Sun list of 100 influential women in BC shows influence beyond Twitter. This evening I came across Are you an influencer? […]

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Getting kicked out

November 2, 2010

I’m spending way too much time today trying to convince my browser that I’m not really supposed to be kicked out of various sites I’m logging (or already logged) into. It happened again and again on various sites today. [Is there a disturbance in the force field, Luke?] Tonight’s clincher: I had carefully planned my […]

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Time for myself

November 1, 2010

Keeping up with my self-imposed goal of blogging daily got a little harder in recent weeks. If I’m brutally honest about it, I have to agree with organizing-and-time-management expert Julie Morgenstern‘s recent tweet, When you view time as slippery and elusive, you have problems managing your time. (I’ve relied on Morgenstern in the past, using […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

October 31, 2010

Flickriver: Johnson Street Bridge pool Self-explanatory. Brilliant photos. tags: victoria johnson_street_bridge photography flickr flickriver Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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Send me to Web 2.0 Summit in November?

October 27, 2010

I spent half an hour this afternoon ogling the speaker line-up for the upcoming Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco – the Education “point of control” holds enough of interest to make me want to be there – but then I looked at the price of admission and needed to sit down: $4195 (and it’s […]

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