Last week I was flattered by an invitation to be interviewed about my DIY approach to education. Nicole Veerman, Jim Saunders and Steve Howard from Wayne MacPhail‘s Online Journalism course at UWO went easy on me but I managed to flub most of it anyways. Between that conversation and the interview I had with Thomas Cermak from LondonFuse.ca [...]
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Few people would disagree that as more brands & memes vie for our attention, the simple act of communicating has become an accelerating arms race. We shouldn’t necessarily complain. Not more than a decade ago it would have been impossible for most of us to get any kind of public attention for our products or [...]
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Ok I just had my first hard-core experience in Wave. Things got pretty nuts when three of us found ourselves updating at the same time. It was sort of a “breaking-in” session for all three of us and it didn’t take long to accelerate… Turns out it is not easy to read what two people [...]
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Part of a new series I’m starting to explore social, creative, and economic opportunities specific to London Ontario. Recently I posted about the benefits of educating citizens to think like journalists. Since then I found a lot of great examples of a collaborative approach to journalism — not just between professionals and amateurs, but between [...]
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With so many people claiming to be social media experts we just as often hear “there are no social media experts.” There certainly are a lot of people who can generate a whole bunch of verbiage, but social media presents such an all-encompassing, massive and dynamic shift that the “social media expert” label makes about [...]
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I’m becoming more promiscuous as a content-producer. Several people have joked about how many blogs I have going. Then Bill suggested I should publish an all-in-one feed. I decided to set up a few more while I was at it. Most are now listed on a new Subscribe page. First I burned a new topic-specific feed. [...]
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At the London Free Press, Ian Gillespie warns of the hazards of the internet: Watching that 90-second video [here], it’s hard — no, make that impossible — to see or know exactly what’s going on. But that hasn’t stopped tens of thousands (by late yesterday afternoon, the video had been viewed more than 30,000 times [...]
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I had a great time at last night’s GenNext launch at Museum London (#gennextuw). GenNext is a United Way initiative to get young people (20′s & 30′s) more engaged in philanthropy & volunteering. The speaker was Marc Kielburger, co-founder of Me to We, an impressively accomplished young guy who shared some of his experience working in a [...]
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by Brian on 10-12-2009
in london
Regarding the reading group, Titus and I chatted briefly at gdldn (last week was pretty chaotic for pulling people together), just enough to touch base but there are still some specifics to figure out, starting with: when? where? what? As goes without saying, feedback and suggestions are more than welcome. I’m probably more flexible than [...]
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Brogan says it’s ok to do these so, ok, here’s the best of my posts about London Ontario so far. I noticed when I started putting them together they sort of make a case… but you’ll have to create your own adventure! First, some background criticism on our mostly unconnected city: Should London Exist? Ontario [...]
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I wasn’t planning on writing much more about London for the time-being, but it just occurred to me that I should at least recognize the economic strategy recommendations made by the LEDC. I already bloviated on their recent summit — not once but twice – and I’ve written so much on the topic my silence would [...]
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Just finished perusing Douglas Rushkoff’s Life Inc: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back. Note the villain is “corporatism,” not simply corporations. Even corporations themselves are victimized; they get tilted into self-destructive acts by decision frameworks that benefit nobody — only roughly satisfying some people’s abstract sense that “the market [...]
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