by mvboronowski | Mar 1, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
The Clurnses just wrapped up our second annual February beercation (beer vacation). Last year we crossed the pond for British Real Ale and this year we headed to the Big Apple with our friends Val and Rod for a week of American Craft Beer. The general format of our...
by mvboronowski | Feb 28, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Vagabonds, transients, vagrants, drifters; deranged degenerates and wandering lunatics. These are your colleagues on the long, winding road as a hitchhiker. Oh, and there are wonderful thrill-seeking adventurer types…like me. The Old Crow Medicine Show knew what...
by mvboronowski | Feb 25, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Hello! It’s been a while – but thanks to a few simple tricks involving time travel, weapons of mass destruction, a wide range of none-canonical haiku-literature, black magical incantations and poutine (yes, poutine!) I am back in the ring. And since John and Kurt...
by mvboronowski | Feb 24, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
I’ve been doing a lot of work around data visualiation lately. Writing about it, sharing it, researching it. I’m even getting ready to launch an infographic series with a non-profit organization I work with (stay tuned for that.) Data visualization is...
by mvboronowski | Feb 23, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Elections constitute an essential part of democracy, however it is not limited to voting once in a while. A democratic system is based on the idea of “polis”, i.e. a community in which every citizen must participate in debates and discussions to decide the faith of...
by mvboronowski | Feb 21, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
For better or worse, most of us know little of ships. But maybe it’s not a bad idea that we try to. Fun fact: today there are 50,000 merchant ships in the world oceans – carrying 90% of international trade. Each of these ships is a a link in a global...
