To Tweet or to Blog? That is the Question
So, for those of you who haven’t clicked the link on the left yet, you don’t know that I have a very active twitter account. Because of this, I often…
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Sharing ideas about data.gc.ca
As some of you may remember, the other week I suggested that on its one year anniversary we hack data.gc.ca – specifically, that people share what data sets they find…
Like me, Canadians prefer Patriots over Giants this sunday (or so says Google data)
After a rough bought of food poisoning… I’m back. For some random reasons I got a PR notice from the people at APEX communications in Toronto who Google insights to…
When Social Media Experts Don’t Look Beyond Social Media: GoDaddy, Mashable and Kernel
This week, while enjoying a little down time, I’ve been peeking online from time to time to see what has been going on with the Go Daddy boycott. For those…
Neo-Progressive Watch: Rahm Emanuel vs. Teachers Union
Anyone who read the Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope will have been struck with the amount of time the then aspiring presidential candidate spent writing about public education policy.…
Research Request – Transit Study
After writing yesterday's post on the economics of opendata and transit I've really been reflecting on a research question that emerged in the piece: Does having transit data embedded in…
Upcoming talks, events and other activities
So despite the fact that I only left Vancouver once(!) in August, things have been quite busy. Lots of work. September and onwards is going to be a bear however.…
Oyster Burger. Enough said.
It would have been easy to blog about the Conservative British Government's appalling choice to muse openly about shutting down social media sites or deny access to certain users in…
Instead of a blog post, I opted to go for a run…
...here It's going to be that kind of week. I'm on a working vacation... Goals for my blog this week. If I'm lucky, one on the UK's open data consultation,…
Code for America – Showing how to get it done on Independence Day
My friends over at Code for America have created this awesome twitter visualization for July 4th. It's a reminder that you've got to love what you do, and probably no…
I can’t tweet or check Facebook…
... Because I'm behind the great firewall. It actually quite surreal being unable to check twitter - I didn't realize I would miss it so much. However, I can apparently…
Individualism in the networked world
Evolving thought: One of the large challenges of the 21st century is going to be reconciling our increasingly networked world with traditional notions of individualism. The more I look at…