Archive | May, 2009
Social Reporting
I've been thinking about how to better document events for a while now. This came up again today during the OpenEverything organizing call. Documentation falls into a sad communication grey zone. The poor cousin of Event Design. Too many times an after-thought, with little resources or planning, left to a small group of people. The solution? Social Reporting.
Continue reading...OpenMontreal, OpenEverything
29. May 2009
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As part of my work with Station C and Artefatica, I’ve been organizing with Sylvain Carle to hold an MontrealOuvert / OpenMontreal event in the fall. We had a planning meeting last April that went really well. I envisioned this as part of the OpenEverything movement, but really hadn’t done much about it. So I [...]
Continue reading...WordPress: Blog not on home page
27. May 2009
Sharing this with you because I had a hard time figuring it out. I googled, and only lots of found out-dated information and complicated plug-ins. Finally, I just asked Patrick. He sent me a quick, elegant answer: 1. Create a page with the title the same as the address you want for the blog. Usually [...]
Continue reading...Sustainability meet Resilience, my secret love
27. May 2009
Dear Sustainability, Today June Holley posted a tweet that set off an avalanche: Sustainability v Resilience? The tweet sent me to a Foreign Policy article by Jamais Casico (you can download a PDF of article or just read a summary). Oh, Sustainability, I love you so. But you trouble me. I can never pin you [...]
Continue reading...Forming the community
26. May 2009
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Sorta connected to yesterday’s post. Here’s a Bernice Johnson Reagon quote on community. Dr Reagon is the founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock. I’m not a soloist, I’m a song leader. And a song leader starts songs but you can’t finish without help. Singing does not make sense to me without the congregation because [...]
Continue reading...Being nobody-but-yourself
25. May 2009
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In 1991, when I was 22, Peggy Antrobus gave me a mixed tape of Sweet Honey in the Rock. I was surprised and thrilled with the gift and listened to the tape over and again. Later, when I lived in Washington DC, I had the opportunity to see them live and hear them speak at [...]
Continue reading...Audio 
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Nathan Englander reads Isaac Bashevis Singer’s “Disguised” for The New Yorker’s monthly reading and conversation with Deborah Treisman. Englander’s voice couldn’t be more perfect.
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Early in his career, professor Mark Rowlands had two loves: philosophy and Brenin, a wolf he was forced to bring along to his lectures. Through their relationship, Rowlands started examining his work and life. Listen on CBC’s Ideas, via EarIdeas.
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Every month, The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, hosts a reading and conversation with a well-known writer. August 2009 featured Joshua Ferris reading George Saunders’s “Adams.” The rhythm is magnificent.
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- Innovation Grounds 1.0
- Open research, open data, open development
- One-dollar books and why reading history matters
- Collaborative consumption
- Note from Seattle
- Create an open access repository
- Make music in the kitchen, the back seat of the car, wherever
- Policy & Technology: Edward Tufte’s keynote for Tech@State's Data Visualization event
- Using mobile technology to collect data
- Robert Bonardi: Christine, I greatly enjoyed the use of the map for visualizing (sorry about the "zeds")informati...
- Christine: Thanks for your comment. One note: This was not meant as epistemological treatise on innovation or o...
- DF Bunnell: There is a tendency for every generation to not only think, but genuinely believe that we just, some...
- Chris Coward: Here's a library getting in on the action http://bit.ly/u4XDU2...
- Chris Coward: Excellent work! I like the four dimensions and the characteristics you list. One point to underscore...
- Wayan: My big takeaway was Joel's startling statistic that +90% of all stock management in healthcare is vo...
- Christine: If you want to practice ...
- Alex: so, now pleasure goeth before a fall? that's not supposed to be the way things go!...
- Dani: Oh so good to read you like this! What a life of luxury you lead!! Well deserved I say....
- Christine: Along the same lines... Julien tweeted this ...
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29. May 2009
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