Victoria’s Susan Low to host Young Business Leaders’ Summit

March 14, 2009

Normally, I would just re-tweet a local news item on my Twitter stream, but what Susan Low proposes is so important (and so in synch with my thinking) that I’m re-blogging it, the whole darn announcement, A to Z. In her own words: Young Business Leaders’ Summit Join me in this special event to explore […]

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Forward spring

March 13, 2009

A forward spring would be nice right about now, because it rather feels like I fell flat on my face this week. Being a sensitive sort, the twice-annual time change-a-palooza bullshit makes me feel like I have jet lag, albeit without the benefit of actual travel (i.e., change of location), and now that climate change […]

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What’s my domain?

March 8, 2009

I’m very fortunate. Since March/ April 2003 I’ve been able to blog for free, hosted by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. It’s an option open to anyone with a Harvard email address. While we all started with Radio Userland, Berkman switched everyone over to WordPress couple of years ago. But presumably because it’s […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

March 8, 2009

Economic Impact: The City as a Social Portfolio « The Captured Perspective Great ‘Captured Perspective’ blog post by Peter Boumgarden, who comments on Richard Florida’s Atlantic Monthly piece: QUOTE “…cities are not just portfolios that emerge segmented for risk, but also social entities that respond positively to this differentiation with increased generativity. Cities are not […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

March 1, 2009

But Who’s Counting? (MIT Technology Review) QUOTE: Konrad Feldman, a cofounder of San Francisco–based startup Quantcast, sees big business in audience measurement. UNQUOTE No one really knows how many people visit websites – the measuring tools aren’t available, but Quantcast and Google aim to change that. tags: advertising, business_model, google, page_views, quantcast Toward a New […]

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Notes on Jennifer Kostuik’s talk at VISA

March 1, 2009

Vancouver gallery owner Jennifer Kostuik gave a talk at VISA (Vancouver Island School of Art) on Thursday (2/26) evening. Despite a technical glitch beyond her control (the projector stopped working, mysteriously, about 5 minutes into her presentation), and irrespective of a really laid-back, unstructured presentation style (yours truly sometimes prefers tighter, thesis-oriented talks), Kostuik offered […]

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Tough love from Lifehacker Gina Trapani

February 25, 2009

I should get the following advice embedded as a microchip in my brain… Choose three important tasks to complete each day. Write them down on a slip of paper and keep it visible on your desk. When you have a moment, instead of checking your email, look at the slip, and work on an item. […]

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Too many choices!

February 24, 2009

For some reason, Thursday February 26 offers a plenitude of events to choose from, but no matter which I choose, I’ll be wistfully wondering if I should be elsewhere since I can’t be at all three. First, there’s VIAFest! February 26!, which includes a free museum tour of the Royal BC Museum’s Modern Galleries and […]

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March FOCUS Magazine online

February 24, 2009

The current (March 2009) issue of FOCUS Magazine is now up. Click through to find a link for the full PDF of the complete March issue (or just click here). My article, “Victoria’s Urban Forest,” is on p.32 – scroll through to find. Which reminds me that I need to put this latest article as […]

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Local emphasis

February 23, 2009

At Northern Voice 2009 (which I still have to assimilate/ digest), I attended a session on hyper-local blogging and also heard people (myself included) lauding the value of “local.” On the ferry ride home, I had a chance to look through The Wall Street Journal. Peggy Noonan’s column, Remembering the Dawn of the Age of […]

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