Out West. Everything’s further away

May 6, 2010

Getting from Victoria to Vancouver by ferry takes 4 hours if the stars line up correctly.

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David Eaves on Open Government

May 5, 2010

David Eaves’s discussion of Open Government throws light on why we’re routing around government, and how the consultancy industry keeps the old model entrenched.

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Rooflines

May 4, 2010

Earlier today my husband pointed me to Jets Overhead‘s music video “No Nations” after reading Tim Bray’s post about the band. I really liked the song and will probably explore more of their music, which they offer via a Creative Commons license on their website. But what really struck me about the video were of […]

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Windspill

May 3, 2010

The term windspill captures the failings of our energy policy (as the Gulf of Mexico oilspill unfolds). We can now also see the shortcomings of NIMBYist and BANANAist obstructionism to alternative energy sources.

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

May 2, 2010

Bruce Katz on How to Overhaul Local Governments – WSJ.com A somewhat horrifying account by Bruce Katz on the fractured state of jurisdictional / municipal / state government in the US – and I thought the balkanized nature of our local (Victoria BC) government was bad! Katz lays out the benefits (such as they are) […]

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On synthesis, simplification, compartmentalization, comfort

May 1, 2010

Theodor Adorno strongly influenced my approach when I worked on post-World War II German art (specifically, West German abstract art). I was quite surprised recently to be reminded of him while reading Roger Martin’s business book, The Opposable Mind. I mean, Adorno and business? Really? On p.102-3 of my book, Reconstructing the Subject; Modernist Painting […]

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Criticism (File under “learn to”)

April 30, 2010

When I was little, I had a French professor (not a professor for French, but a professor from France) who was capable of driving graduate students in his seminars to tears. French, but educated in the US, he was occasionally flummoxed by Canadian students who were used to getting polite kid glove treatment and gold […]

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Some resources for Victoria’s MSM

April 29, 2010

This is a response to my Tuesday post on Victoria’s MSM and SM panel discussion, “No policy …no strategy, either,” with a list of resources that local media might want to investigate.

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My internet service = down

April 28, 2010

My internet went down around 3pm today and now, nearing on midnight, it’s still out of commission. Apologies for not commenting back to several readers who left comments, …and for not posting anything incendiary tonight. (Unlike last night…) I’m using dial-up right now to access the web, and while I can be a patient person, […]

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No policy …no strategy, either

April 27, 2010

Tonight I attended the 14th meeting of Victoria’s Social Media Club to listen to five panelists from Victoria’s mainstream media (MSM) talk about how new media (including social media) is affecting their business. Panelists included Bryan Capistrano (promotion director for radio station The Zone); Amanda Farrell-Low (arts editor for weekly paper Monday Magazine); Dana Hutchings […]

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