It’s Friday and time to prepare for the weekend. In that spirit the perfect opportunity has arisen to both notify Vancouverites of a great cultural opportunity and give a shout out to my friend Misha Glouberman who is bringing his famous Trampoline Hall event to Vancouver! What is Trampoline Hall you ask? Look no further [...]
Entries from January 2009
Must see show this Sunday in Vancouver
To the victor go the spoils…
A while back some of you may remember that I wrote a blog post called “The Coalition that Never Was” in which I predicted: a) the coalition would not bring down the government over the next budget b) Layton, Dion and Harper will likely be gone within 12 months. There were a few commentators who [...]
Lessons from the Globe and Mail’s Policy Wiki
I’ve been observing the Globe Policy Wiki with enormous interest. I’m broadly supportive of all of Mathew Ingram’s experiments and efforts to modernize the Globe. That said, my sense is that this project project faces a number of significant challenges. Some from the technology, others around how it is managed. Understanding and cataloging the ups [...]
Which University will be smart enough to make Masoda Younasy an offer?
Yesterday, Michael Adams pointed me to this great story in the Globe and Mail about the Masoda Younasy – the granddaughter of Afghanistan’s former king, Mohammad Zahir Shah – who, because she created and ran her own construction business, advocated for reform and mused about entering politics has had death threats hurled against her. In [...]
ChangeCamp: Pulling people and creativity out of the public policy long tail
ChangeCamp is a free participatory web-enabled face-to-face event that brings together citizens, technologists, designers, academics, policy wonks, political players, change-makers and government employees to answer one question: How do we re-imagine government and governance in the age of participation? What is ChangeCamp? It is the application of “the long tail” to public policy. It is [...]
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