Exciting and fun news today… Google Maps blog announced that Vancouver has became the first Canadian city to add local experts to the Favorite Places on Google Maps. The site shares some of the favourite places of: Bif Naked (map) – rock singer-songwriter, breast-cancer survivor Gordon Campbell (map) – Premier of British Columbia Kit Pearson [...]
Entries from the “united states” category
On Google Maps, In Seattle, Talking up Health Canada
Rex Murphy: Sarah Palin’s Strong Bond
So up until a few weeks ago I read Rex Murphy sporadically at best. Then the other week he published this questionable piece on climate change (in short: regionalism should trump action) which was neither inspired or thoughtful. Wondering if the previous week had been an outlier I read him again this weekend and was [...]
Closed Border, closed economy, closing opportunities
The other day Tim O’Reilly tweeted about this New York Times article. Entitled – Chicago’s Loss: Is Passport Control to Blame? – the piece struck a chord with me since my last two efforts to cross into the United States from Canada have been dramatically unpleasant experiences. Turns out that others – including IOC selection [...]
How bad design led to a lost decade
First, I’m away on vacation (hence the scarce number of posts) and am consumed writing a few chapters for a couple of books that I’m contributing to – more on those in the near future I hope. In the interim, I became profoundly depressed this morning after reading the passage below. I’m certain that history [...]
Neo-Progressive update: Fighting Corruption
Those who read my blog know that I’ve always been an enormous fan of Lawrence Lessig. On numerous occasions I’ve pointed people to his most amazing talk on copyright. Indeed when Beltzner finally got me to watch Lessig’s talk a few years ago (after months of trying) it caused me to go into a 6 [...]
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