Tag Archive | "Station C"
The Community Manifesto
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...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 [...]
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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
- tt: By any means. I'm american and you are not replacing our jobs. American companies are. How are they ...
- Asher Isbrucker: This is amazing on so many levels....
- 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...
- Maren: What a fantastic idea & such a loving, thoughtful gift! (And a great name.) I'd love to know wh...
- Christine: This turned out so lovely. Liam was thrilled. And Chris found a name for it: The Book Mitzvah. Brill...
- James: Russ Blanc has been comment spamming any site he can. He is a major affiliate for Blushost and make...
- Kawika: Hey, if you are still looking into how to hide the page name in your menu, check out this link: http...
- Cheryl Mansfield: I was one of the first to buy the original Kindle, and quite frankly found it to be a big nuisance. ...
- Christine: Putting a note here so I remember as I think this through some more to look at Tonya's theory of cha...
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