Last Friday, I had the chance to address a small group of planning students, faculty and (hopefully) others interested in planning about the use of digital media. (Slides embedded below.)
Planning In The Age Of Participation
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I was delighted with the questions that my talk was able to generate. I drew [...]
Phewf! Between all the running around with the start of the second semester of school, the first month of the year is already week-old history, and I’ve just wrapped up one of the major milestones for this year: the Canadian Association of Planning Students (CAPS-ACEAU) annual conference at the University of Guelph, hosted by students of [...]
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Last Saturday, the grid at BarCamp Vancouver was too compelling and I pitched a seat-of-my-pants talk to share some upcoming research I’ve been working on, looking at the use of Twitter by transit agencies (focusing on TransLink here in Vancouver, the Toronto Transit Commission in Toronto, and the Bay Area Rapid [...]
I’m currently writing from the Vancouver open data Hackathon tonight! It was a lot more hopping a couple hours ago but me and a few other hardcores are chewing the fat at the City Archives. I’d like to take this rare blogging opportunity to bring your attention to a couple of items:
Happy news! Yesterday, the [...]
My world changed today when I saw that Google Calendar also accepted CSVs. As it turns out, you can import almost any kind of Google Calendar entry just by entering its information with commas separating the field, line by line in a text file.
I’m only now starting to remember that great ideas go to e-mail to die, so for once I’m going to blog what started off as an e-mail.
I’m in Toronto until Tuesday evening, and it only occurred to me now, after some great conversations with the ever-awesome Sacha, that there are some excellent folks in Toronto [...]
Unexpectedly but delightfully, I’ll be attending Open Web Vancouver at the brand new Vancouver Convention Centre tomorrow, Thursday and Friday. Open Web Vancouver are gracious sponsors of ChangeCamp, and though it is a big last minute, I am stoked to be able to learn more about the tech behind realizing the dream of the [...]
Yesterday, in polls all across British Columbia, roughly 45% of the population entered a voting booth and cast two ballots: one asking whether to change the political system, and the other for the choice of a candidate to represent their interests in the BC legislature.
“There were no men with machine guns, no security searches and [...]
Today is Ada Lovelace Day around the Interwebs, which aims to bring attention to the role and valuable contributions of women in technology.
A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across a book in the library, Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher. It’s been a real eye-opener to read. Despite [...]
I’ve got a little bit of Hong Kong and China on the brain right now:
I discovered skimming feeds in my reader today that Metro Babel posted a four-part series reviewing a previous SFU City lecture on heritage building preservation in that-other-city-in-my-heart, Hong Kong. (Part 1, 2, 3, 4 and a round-up of conservation practices in [...]
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