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 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,...
by mvboronowski | Dec 8, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
The other day, Potentiality correspondent Theodora Lamb shared an amazing video by Steven Johnson on Facebook. I’ve re-posted it below. The creatively whiteboardy nature of the piece is reason enough to like it – a lot. And then there’s the message,...
by mvboronowski | Dec 7, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
I attended my first TEDx event yesterday on the Future of Food. The “x” means that it was independently organized TED event and in this case it was organized by the Hart House at University of Toronto. TED is a nonprofit organization that got its start in 1984 with...
