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Tim Hwang at Participation Camp: Can computer games increase citizen engagement?
Tim Hwang looks like a super cool guy. And he's not just cool because Joi Ito took his portrait. Nope. Most important? He founded ROFLCon, the internet celebrity conference. Or maybe it's his work at Harvard. Or maybe this awesome talk on video games and citizen engagement. Hmmmm, hard to decide!
Continue reading...Freebase: Open code for open data
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Introducing Freebase: "the easiest way to add free, community-curated, Creative Commons licensed content to your web applications." Watch the video. Imagine the possibilities.
Continue reading...Terrain Vague, Citizen Engagement & the Open City: The Roerich Garden Project
Monday, July 13, 2009
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...Ushahidi: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information
Monday, February 2, 2009
Ushahidi (“testimony” in Swahili) is an experimental web platform that crowdsources crisis information. People can submit reports via text messaging using a mobile phone, email, or the web. Looks like it can be deployed (sorry, geek speak) for a specific crisis. It was most recently use to track events in Gaza and was also used [...]
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 C is [...]
Continue reading...Admitting confusion is not bad for business
Thursday, January 22, 2009
I have such a backlog of great posts for you — not being able to write them is killing me. The reason I have no time to write? Too much work. Plus I’m pushing Artefatica forward, which is a big job in and of itself. And to think I nearly pulled down my last post [...]
Continue reading...artefatica
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Finally went ahead and told the world about my newest project: artefatica. Yay! Feels good to get it out in the open. Can’t wait to blog more about it. Big thank you to everyone who’s helped so far. Stay tuned.
Continue reading...In the news: Station C, me & Open Salad
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Isabelle Laporte, a freelance journalist, came to interview us at Sation C. Her story, published in La Presse, focuses on the emerging co-working phenomenon. But the thing I’m most happy about is her mention of Open Salad, which I learned about from my friends at the Centre for Social Innovation and have since championed at [...]
Continue reading...Television and creativity
Sunday, May 4, 2008
In January 1999 I broke up with my television. I was a recently single mother of a two-year-old child and I knew if I had that dammed thing in the house I would succumb to the temptation to put him in front of it. So I could cook supper without him grabbing my legs and screaming for my undivided attention. So I could have a moment to myself.
Continue reading...Audio 
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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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Beth Kolko, User, Hacker, Builder, Thief: Creativity & Consumerism in a Digital Age. “If I’m a hacker, I’m thoughtful about how I negotiate the world, I think about how I can make use of objects and systems rather than allowing the object or system to make use of me by slotting me into a pre-arranged role… hacking embodies the notion of agency and resistance.” #UrsulaFranklin
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- Omar Azfar
- Consulting for US clients is illegal if a non-US citizen performs the work
- An open letter to Bluehost: Your values matter
- Consulting for US clients is illegal... Or is it? (Part 2)
- (B)log On at the Canadian Centre for Architecture
- Blogging for Good Governance
- Rite of passage for Liam as he turns 13
- For my American friends: the Elite Escape Plan
- Television and creativity
- WordPress: Blog not on home page
- Naada Yoga: Something for my nothing
- Sherman Williams paints has worst logo ever
- A comic annual report
- Designer wanted for book on urban ecology, activism, local history
- Jim Jarmush: Nothing is original
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- Asher Isbrucker: This is amazing on so many levels....
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- Christine: This turned out so lovely. Liam was thrilled. And Chris found a name for it: The Book Mitzvah. Brill...
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