by Karen Quinn Fung
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posted in Big Ideas, Little Moments, Scholarship
| tagged as commitments, conferences, goals, horizon, intentions, life, personal development, personal growth, personal productivity, planning, reflection, social, urban planning, work
2009 has gone and 2010 has come. Good time to collect my reflections on the high and low points, for travel, career, health, projects, skills, all setting the stage for what’s on the horizon for 2010.
by Karen Quinn Fung
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posted in Big Ideas, Little Moments, City, Soup to Nuts, Featured, Media - explicit
| tagged as adopt a stop, city of vancouver, geeking, hackathon, hacking, open data, processing, transit community, vancouver, vancouver archives
“Adopt-a-Stop” is our idea for a web and mobile-enabled application for community members to find and share information about the five-block radius around each bus stop. As the name alludes, the service will encourage and empower individual community members to garden and curate and take ownership of an individual Facebook-style page for each stop.
I was lured out of my self-imposed school bubble yesterday by the lure of Fresh Media, an incredible event organized by the Incredibles over at SaveOurNet.ca. The focus of the event was exploring personal expression — written, analog, digital, whatever — for progressive social change. Held at a hidden gem on Hastings Street across from [...]
During BarCamp, I attended Boris Mann and Mark Busse’s session on Balancing Passion and Frustration – but I stepped out to chat with someone across the room in the middle of the session, and now I’m kicking myself a bit for it. Near the start, I offered the story of how I turned one of [...]
I have a huge chip on my shoulder about thanking people. It’s been a long and arduous journey (mostly having to do with my family) that I recall every battle scar for. I’m coming to the realization that this is a big problem, for which I currently lack the resources to get proper therapy for, [...]
A few days ago, an upcoming unconference known as TransportCamp came across my radar. It’s being organized by The Car Co-op (perhaps better known as the Co-operative Auto Network), and has a number of sponsors, such as VanCity, TransLink, The Cooperators (the insurance company), and BCAA. There is a $25 admission fee, and it’s happening [...]
Autumn agrees with me. Or more accurately, I agree with autumn.
Mostly, I guess, it’s because my birthday is September 13th — timed perfectly to coincide with the start of the school year. As a kid, I’d look forward all year to being a year older, rounding up over the summer. This trait has persisted into [...]
by Karen Quinn Fung
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posted in Big Ideas, Little Moments, City, Soup to Nuts
| tagged as ddos, jaiku, laconica, mobile, mobile hacking, security, transport informatics, twitter
Twitter’s model and community are amazing resources to take advantage of, but they’re more important to me as a proof of concept of the value of mobile and ubiquitous web applications. As I implied in my follow-up to John Bollwitt’s tweet, I think we need to ask some serious questions about whether we want our transit system’s information distribution and notification service reliant on a Silicon Valley-based startup with no readily discernible business plan.
The Nature of Economies for Jane Jacobs is somewhat unusual. It brings together a number of fairly abstract ideas from development and sketches out similarities between biological and economic development. But she does so using a series of conversations and dialogues.
