The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

February 22, 2009

“Environmental Heresies; The founder of The Whole Earth Catalog believes the environmental movement will soon reverse its position on four core issues,” by Stewart Brand Great article from May 2005, by Stewart Brand, on scientific thinking v romanticist thinking, applied to environmentalism and predictions for the future. Great stuff. It starts like this (and doesn’t […]

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Northern Voice 09 in Vancouver

February 20, 2009

Really hate to do this, but here’s a plain-and-simple place-holder blog post: hey folks, I’m at Northern Voice 09 in Vancouver, and having a great time. Inundated with people and information, too, which is why I’m not blogging. But – overall – having a great time. Vancouver is marvelous – obviously a beneficiary of population […]

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Quick note on Victoria politics and level playing fields

February 18, 2009

If I were perfect – and perfectly unencumbered by domestic and other obligations – I would write at length about two city of Victoria-related political events I attended in the last 24 hours. Since I’m not perfectly unencumbered, however, that’ll have to wait. But here’s foretaste (which serves also as a reminder to myself, in […]

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Notes: spatial arrangements for cars and kids

February 17, 2009

Bear with me, gentle reader, as I try to describe in words a spatial relationship. Something about how the combination of roads and a school near my house affects pedestrian movement has been bugging me. Around the corner from where I live are two east-west running arterials, Yates (one-way west-bound) and Fort (one-way east-bound), that […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

February 15, 2009

“BREAKING NEWS”: Why the New York Times and Harvard Should Merge « What’s the Big Idea? “The business model – which is another way of saying the underlying purpose – of just about everything is changing right now, and that includes the university and the newspaper.” tags: bob_massie, newspapers, ideas, harvard, business_model Flong – Interactive […]

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Blogging in 4 places…

February 14, 2009

Just a note to let everyone know that in addition to this blog and the blog for MetroCascade, I also occasionally blog for the MetroCascade events blog, and I recently – since 2/11, making good on a long-standing promise – started blogging at Vibrant Victoria’s blog. Someone has to do it. There are so many […]

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Victoria BC on Vimeo Videos

February 13, 2009

While searching for Victoria, BC-based tweeples a little while ago (wondering if MetroCascade should eventually integrate Twitter streams and/or other media) I saw a pointer on Will Wilkinson’s stream to his ~3min. Night Drive video, which he posted to Vimeo. (In a very Victoria “two degrees of separation” scenario, it turns out that Will is […]

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Blogging in 2 places…

February 9, 2009

What was going to be a brief blog post on our “company blog” in praise of our first signed-up user ended up speculating on new media, local politics, broadcasting, and people-to-people interaction (mediated by …well, new media, in particular social media). So go read it, if so inclined. It’s called Thereness is a people thing.

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

February 8, 2009

Everyblock’s Dilemma: How Do You Open Source Your Entire Site and Survive? – O’Reilly Radar Brady Forrest (O’Reilly Radar) ponders Adrian Holovaty’s announcement that Everyblock will be opensource/ available. Some interesting comment responses. tags: everyblock, local_news, business_model, open_source, adrian_holovaty Ned Kahn: Ned Kahn Studios Great website showcasing Ned Kahn’s (typically public) art projects. tags: ned_kahn, […]

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MetroCascade Victoria: see, read, do

February 6, 2009

Whoa, it’s up…! Announcing the soft launch of my baby, what I and my partners have been working on: MetroCascade, the local news aggregator for Victoria, BC. The site was up a while ago, but now it has a great new look, much of the behind-the-scenes work is done, and the upfront work can begin […]

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