My Favourite Teacher
July 9, 2015
clmooc & festivals & learning & people
I’m in the middle of the connected learning that is happening as part of #clmooc this year and Joe Dillon tagged me in the Google Plus community as
Ada Lovelace Day - Inspiring Women
March 24, 2009
people
It’s Ada Lovelace Day and I’ve signed the pledge to create a blog post drawing attention to women excelling in technology following in the footsteps
Friendly Rules
January 31, 2009
people & web
At the recent and wonderful Podcamp Halifax, the first session that I attended was Joel Kelly’s “Unfriend Someone Today”, which was all about
small, specific, and real
November 22, 2008
people & web
What makes something compelling in any form, mediated or not? Popularity means an audience but in that crowd, people form the connection. Memories
Twitter is Made of People
May 13, 2008
twitter & people & technology
Some of the best things that are invented and we use were created accidentally such as the microwave or things like Blogger or Flickr. Now my latest
Community
November 5, 2004
people & web
I’ve been lucky to be part of many different communities in my life. At the time you don’t necessarily think of them as communities as they just
Filling the Void
October 20, 2004
people
Hugh MacLeod draws cartoons on the back of business cards and he’s been sharing those cards as well as his great insights into the creative process
blog1979
June 28, 2004
people
Daniel Dugas found an old journal in a box and he’s putting parts of it up. 25 years ago he took a trip around Canada and the U.S.A. starting and
Conversations
June 23, 2004
people
Doc Searls points to a great bit of writing on Britt Blaser’s blog Escapable Logic. He writes about blogs as conversations (which is not new) and
Neil Postman
March 25, 2004
people
I know of Neil Postman primarily as the author and critic of technology from his book Amusing Ourselves to Death. His theory from the 1986 book is
Small World
October 24, 2002
people & travel
Sometimes I’m amazed at how the world seems so small. I’m in Yarmouth now, which is the left side of the map of Nova Scotia. I drove 300 kms West
That’s Why It’s the Web
June 24, 2002
web & technology & people
Sometimes when you surf around you find the strangest connections and then at some point you almost wind up looking at yourself in the mirror or at
Brigitte Noel and Rodrigo Guiterrez
June 9, 2002
people
What ultimately convinced me to go to Moncton for the conference was finding out that Brigitte was the facilitator of the e-lounge. I first met
Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel Dugas
June 8, 2002
people
One of the briefest meetings that I had in Moncton was with Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel Dugas. They arrived near the end of the conference as they
Jan Marontate
June 7, 2002
people
I met Jan at conference in Moncton as she was on the panel hosted by Zenon and also featuring Valérie and myself. The embarrassing part is that she
Gair Dunlop
June 7, 2002
people
One of the last persons that I met at the Moncton conference was Gair Dunlop from Scotland (and now I’m back to where are your from, etc, etc, etc,
Arnfinnur Einarsson
June 6, 2002
people
Arnfinnur is the last of the Icelandic artists who came to the Atlantic Cultural Space conference in Moncton that I’ll talk about. We were roommates
Dawn Anderson
June 6, 2002
people
Dawn is an artist from New Brunswick who I met at the conference in Moncton. She presented and talked about an installation recently exhibited at
David “Jhave” Johnston
June 5, 2002
people
David Johnston, also known as Jhave, is a very neat guy who thinks in amazing ways. Part of the Year Zero One online artist-run centre, his
Randy Knot and Ron Gervais
June 5, 2002
people
Randy and Ron were presented some of their work at the Moncton conference. Two amazingly talented and nice guys who were based in Halifax, but were
Páll Thayer
May 31, 2002
people
One of the cool artists who came over from Iceland for the Moncton conference was Páll. He’s doing some very cool stuff with sound and images that
Valérie Lamontagne
May 30, 2002
people
I’ve known about Valérie’s work before, but I met her for the first time in person at the conference in Moncton and we were on a panel together.
Saoirse Higgins & Mathieu Léger
May 30, 2002
people
The first person that I met on my way to the ACS Conference in Moncton was Mathieu. He was driving the van to the airport in Halifax to pick up me
Andrea Cooper
May 30, 2002
people
On the first night of the Atlantic Cultural Space conference in Moncton Andrea Cooper wrapped up the “Nymphs of the Night” show with a great
Birgitta Jonsdottir
May 29, 2002
people
The second person I met on my way to the Atlantic Cultural Space Conference was Birgitta. She’s an artist from Iceland (location seems to determine
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