Archive for the 'social_critique' Category
Monday, May 17th, 2010
A blog post from the Lincoln Institute, The reinvented city about its recent conference, includes several terrific links. First off: Andres Duany is on a tear against NIMBYs, and suggests making decisions via “juries.” There’s lots to like in that proposal. From the links provided by the Lincoln Institute’s article, a couple of choice extracts […]
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Tags: NIMBYism
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Thursday, April 29th, 2010
This is a response to my Tuesday post on Victoria’s MSM and SM panel discussion, “No policy …no strategy, either,” with a list of resources that local media might want to investigate.
Filed under: free_press, local_not_global, media, newspapers, social_critique, times_colonist, victoria, web. |
Tags: resources
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Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Tonight I attended the 14th meeting of Victoria’s Social Media Club to listen to five panelists from Victoria’s mainstream media (MSM) talk about how new media (including social media) is affecting their business. Panelists included Bryan Capistrano (promotion director for radio station The Zone); Amanda Farrell-Low (arts editor for weekly paper Monday Magazine); Dana Hutchings […]
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Tags: chek_news, social_media, social_media_club_victoria
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Pulchraphilia, a new word coined by Jason McLennan, makes the case for designing green and sustainable buildings with beauty in mind. This makes environmental stewardship easier, for humans are hard-wired to love beauty.
Filed under: architecture, cities, ideas, social_critique, urbanism. |
Tags: beauty, cascadia, jason_mclenna, pulchraphilia
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Monday, April 19th, 2010
Reading Roger Martin’s The Opposable Mind makes me wonder when local governments will bid conventional thinking good-bye and awaken instead to the possibilities of integrative thinking.
Filed under: ideas, innovation, johnson street bridge, leadership, social_critique, urbanism, victoria. |
Tags: integrative_thinking, opposable_mind, roger_martin
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
How do you fix the poor quality of online newspaper comments boards? Why are forum or blog post comments so much better? And does anonymity have much to do with it? (Hint: the answer is “no”!)
Filed under: media, newspapers, social_critique, times_colonist. |
Tags: anonymity, commenting, vibrant_victoria
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Monday, March 22nd, 2010
Reading Chris Brogan and Julien Smith’s book, Trust Agents, helped me put a fresh insight about Millennials in place: Make your own game, the authors write, which describes a Gen Y characteristic that’s been bugging Baby Boomers for a while now. But the kids are all right.
Filed under: ideas, social_critique, web. |
Tags: books, chris_brogan, julien_smith, millennials, trust_agents
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Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Streetfilms has produced a great ~4minute video, “Fixing the Great Mistake: Autocentric Development,” that makes the case for taking city streets back from the automobile. As it happens, I had the same idea in the early 1970s. It’s finally getting mainstream traction!
Filed under: cities, guerilla_politics, jane_jacobs, land_use, real_estate, social_critique, street_life, urbanism. |
Tags: cars, new_york_city, paris, park_avenue, traffic
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Low voter turnout, boredom around local government: officials are scratching their heads, trying to design public engagement strategies that reach the disaffected, including the Millennial generation. My take? “Go where they are, don’t expect to build a site or a ‘strategy’ that makes them come to you”
Filed under: authenticity, ideas, politics, social_critique, social_networking. |
Tags: citizen_engagement, millennials, public_engagement
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