Tag Archive | "community"
Terrain Vague, Citizen Engagement & the Open City: The Roerich Garden Project
My first Artefatica project is coming along. Sooooo slowly. A draft of the website for our first book — Terrain Vague, Citizen Engagement & the Open City: The Roerich Garden Project — is up! Check it out, send some feedback, add your story or your vision.
Continue reading...MobileVoices
Thursday, June 11, 2009
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Joe Sullivan and I were talking this week about project communications. How can research teams communicate better? More engaged, more transparent? He told me about a project François Bar is working on: MobileVoices — a platform where immigrant workers in Los Angeles can use their mobile phones to share stories about their lives and communities. [...]
Continue reading...Forming the community
Tuesday, May 26, 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
Monday, May 25, 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...The Community Manifesto
Thursday, January 22, 2009
I just posted the first draft of the Station C Community Manifesto to our blog. Would love your feedback. Here’s the meat of it: Station C is a space that fosters community, collaboration, innovation. People come here to work and connect. We are a hub for creators and innovators: entrepreneurs, geeks, artists, social activists. Station [...]
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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Monday, July 13, 2009
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