by mvboronowski | Dec 15, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
Ok. So I was going to write something pithy about he current BC Liberal leadership race. But then my lovely redheaded partner pointed me on to this amazing site called Flowing Data.com. It’s all about data visualization and there I saw an amazing example of how...
by mvboronowski | Dec 14, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
[Editor’s Note: the following article was stolen hijacked copied shared-in-complicity by the good people at ActiveHistory.ca. When it comes to creating powerfully connective communities History not only matters, but it is a channel through which neighbourhoods,...
by mvboronowski | Dec 13, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories, Aboard the Editor's Pirate Ship, Business & Entrepreneurship
Over the next two weeks, communities of working people (and many of their cajoled spouses and partners) will be participating in (hopefully) festive holiday parties. Egg nog will flow, budgets will shrink and awkward dancing will ensue. I love parties. Approximately...
by mvboronowski | Dec 12, 2010 | 100 Community Builders
Who are you? Melissa Orozco, a publicist by day, an aspiring cook by night and a New Yorker at heart. What do you do for fun? Shop for antiques, paint, dog watch, try new restaurants, look at old photographs of my parents and imagine how I’ll turn out one of these...
by mvboronowski | Dec 9, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
The Johnny Cash Project is a wonderful example of crowd sourcing to create a music video. The project is a complication of individually collect Johnny Cash portraits. The developers have asked people to contribute their own interpretation of a Johnny Cash portrait,...