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Online Social Networking, Travel Behaviours and Choice of Urban Transportation Mode

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Ideas, Scholarship, Technology | tagged as , , ,

Friend Rob Cottingham drew an interesting webcomic recently. His witty and observant comic is syndicated on ReadWriteWeb, a techhnology-focused blog. The comic touches on a phenomenon I’ve observed in my own life that I’ve had a chance to do a little bit of scholarly work on; namely, how well mobile technologies go with transit. I […]

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Planning in the Age of Participation — presentation at SCARP 2010 Student Symposium on Resilience

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in City, Soup to Nuts, Featured, Scholarship, Technology | tagged as , , , , , , ,

Some reflections and thoughts on my presentation on “Planning in the Age of Participation,” my presentation at the 2010 SCARP Symposium on Resilience.

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Social media – how important is it for job searching?

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Ideas, Technology | tagged as , , , ,

I recently became friends with a late adopter / conscientious abstainer – he checks his e-mail as many times a day as there are fingers on one of your hands; he’s not in Facebook or LinkedIn; and, most painful for me to deal with, he uses Yahoo Mail. You know, that one (alongside Hotmail) that […]

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BarCamp for Non-Techies, aka. The Discussion I Wished We’d Had

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Unconferences | tagged as , , , , , ,

So yesterday was BarCamp Vancouver 2008. In typical BarCamp fashion, I proposed a session on the wiki called BarCamp for Non-Techies on the Monday about 5 days before BarCamp, and did not prepare anything whatsoever. Then, racing in on Saturday morning, I proposed it at the Scheduling Jam, and Boris slotted it in at the […]

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Web Wednesday canoodling

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Four dimensions | tagged as , , , , ,

Napoleon Biggs and Chris Justice during the sofa interview portion of the evening. I decided to take a “work” (if you can call it work) day in the dwindling days of my time here in Hong Kong by attending the monthly Web Wednesday social-mixer-type last night. Thanks to Napoleon Biggs, the organizer, and everyone I […]

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