Tag Archive | "open"
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 [...]
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...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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- Omar Azfar
- An open letter to Bluehost: Your values matter
- Rite of passage for Liam as he turns 13
- (B)log On at the Canadian Centre for Architecture
- WordPress: Blog not on home page
- For my American friends: the Elite Escape Plan
- Naada Yoga: Something for my nothing
- Sherman Williams paints has worst logo ever
- Designer wanted for book on urban ecology, activism, local history
- A comic annual report
- L'accompagnement
- Jim Jarmush: Nothing is original
- I believe in open: Take a stand for government transparency
- Hugh McGuire: Books Versus Ebooks
- Montreal
- Alex: If you need any more reasons to have a cold hard look at sustainability, have a look at this: http:/...
- Alex: Maybe music IS something mostpeople do, maybe even everypeople. Maybe this is the tyranny of compar...
- Kirsten: Having troubles getting the blog posts to show on another page. Followed the steps and like Matt, I ...
- BeyondOKC: Thanks Kawika, that explained it for me!...
- Christine Prefontaine: Response to this has been super positive. Hugh is encouraging me to create an online home for the Bo...
- Stefan: Thanks, i feel really dumb now. I've tried to get the blog showing up on a different page to the def...
- Bruce: Putting a note here so I remember as I think this through some more to look at Tonya's theory of cha...
- Yannick: My favourite!...
- Christine Prefontaine: Hi Lauren — You're not the only person who's asked. I'll start compiling the list. Ohhhh... so much ...
- Lauren Thompson: Hello -- I found your blog as I was researching books to give to MY boy as part of a rite of passage...
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