I’ve written quite a few blog posts in the last months. Unfortunately, the ones destined for this blog all stayed in my head. How local politics has chipped away at my confidence in assessing any kind of global perspective (including my own “place”) could itself be the topic of a blog post, however.
The conversation on Vibrant Victoria’s forum about the Johnson Street Bridge continues, brilliantly. See pages 22 and 23. This morning, forumer DesignStyles wrote the following: After reading the outrageous comments on here, I thought I would put my two cents in. I really don’t understand why some of you latch on to saving this beast. […]
Reading and watching the Vibrant Victoria forum thread on Victoria’s famous Johnson Street Bridge – also known as The Blue Bridge – is keeping me up at night. It wrenches my heart (and my head) to know that our city leaders, “incentivized” by engineers and the possibility of getting some Federal infrastructure grants, are benighted […]
I got to meet blogger Victoria Klassen through Twitter at several local tweetups, but I feel I really get to know her through her writing. Today she published a wonderful post, A Forrest Gump kinda interview…, based on customized interview questions sent to her by Raul Pacheco (aka Hummingbird604). I was really impressed by the […]
On Monday March 30, the Downtown Residents Association (DRA) hosted a public meeting, On The Front Lines: Community Solutions for Homelessness and Social Issues, at City Hall. Moderated by DRA chair Rob Randall, we heard from Victoria City Councilor Charlayne Thornton-Joe, the Coalition to End Homelessness‘s Jill Clements, the Downtown Victoria Business Association’s Ken Kelley, […]
Oh my. I got my hair cut at a new place today, and it turned out the two stylists working there knew all my old places (and faces): more or less my age, they had attended the same schools and we knew all the same fools. Good fools, fun fools: places to hang out, to […]
At Northern Voice 2009 (which I still have to assimilate/ digest), I attended a session on hyper-local blogging and also heard people (myself included) lauding the value of “local.” On the ferry ride home, I had a chance to look through The Wall Street Journal. Peggy Noonan’s column, Remembering the Dawn of the Age of […]
What was going to be a brief blog post on our “company blog” in praise of our first signed-up user ended up speculating on new media, local politics, broadcasting, and people-to-people interaction (mediated by …well, new media, in particular social media). So go read it, if so inclined. It’s called Thereness is a people thing.
Whoa, it’s up…! Announcing the soft launch of my baby, what I and my partners have been working on: MetroCascade, the local news aggregator for Victoria, BC. The site was up a while ago, but now it has a great new look, much of the behind-the-scenes work is done, and the upfront work can begin […]
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