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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This morning I realized I was a little unfair to Glen Pearson in my last post at BrianFrank.ca. I excerpted a bit of his blog as a jumping-off point, but the rest of my post didn’t really have much to do with what he wrote. I kind of left it hanging there as if he didn’t [...]
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“It would be great to see #ldnbeta concept (or some other iteration) picked up and used to drive the conversation — not just here, but on people’s own blogs, on Twitter, face-to-face, everywhere – exploring and advocating new opportunities for social media in London.” In hindsight I should have focused on that point a lot [...]
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Made a rare public sortie a few hours ago for a meetup of London bloggers, podcasters, and developers; a good opportunity to connect and soak up the conversation of people who are way ahead of me. It also gave me a good excuse to work a little harder on organizing and presenting my web presence. Hopefully I can keep the [...]
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This is just sort of a half-assed update. Expect changes (or maybe a slow gradual change) as my employer has seen fit to cut off almost all internet access (down to only a half-dozen sites I know of) and my information diet is affected — ie reduced to a fraction of what it was. (I [...]
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I’ll start with this really stand-out quote from James Reaney’s blog that got a lot of ideas churning for me a while ago. I’m not sure whether Reaney or LFPress approve of me clipping so many words but this whole chunk deserves to be kept intact: There are many excellent ways to recognize built heritage in [...]
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This is kind of an barely coherent omnibus post full of points I’ve been meaning to make about social media here in London Ontario. I was kicked into doing this when I noticed I missed a couple of good posts on the subject from Titus Ferguson recently (now that I’ve figured out that Titus courteously doesn’t [...]
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I’m going through some self-enforced downtime as far as blogging is concerned. Whenever I start building up momentum with longer posts I start getting too many ideas queued up and overdoing it and not getting sleep and turning into a workahol-addicted zombie. Some might say it isn’t work but I say it damn well is. [...]
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As much as I’d personally love London to be like Vancouver or Chicago — with a dense, vibrant, creative urban core — it isn’t, and we need to get over that fact. As much as I wholeheartedly agree with the spirit of James Shelley’s From My Bottom Step post about car-less living (and I’ve got some very similar [...]
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Not just “in” London, but for London — that seems to be the underlying purpose of Dan Brown’s “challenge to London bloggers“: I’m challenging London bloggers to do their own original reporting. [...] If you believe, as I do, that this city deserves excellent journalism, it’s time to lead by example. I think we’ll all be better for [...]
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Disappointed but not surprised by the report that came out yesterday (summary, via). I had a bit invested in this since I wrote about the expected proposals back in January. At first glance I would seem to be proven wrong because I suggested that London risks being marginalized if we don’t assume more responsibility for our [...]
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The Best Disinfectant
by OpenConceptual on 07-14-2009
in commentary
This morning I realized I was a little unfair to Glen Pearson in my last post at BrianFrank.ca. I excerpted a bit of his blog as a jumping-off point, but the rest of my post didn’t really have much to do with what he wrote. I kind of left it hanging there as if he didn’t [...]
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