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prefontaine's Twournal
2008
Fri Mar 14 8:31am Figuring out twitter 8:37am Christine is twittering from her phone. 9:33am skyping with Daniela 11:14am strategizing
Sat Mar 15 10:38am eating pao de queijo and drinking espresso with Dani at a gas station in the mountains outside Rio
Sun Mar 16 1:31pm drinking espresso in Rio
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Mon Mar 17 8:02am in Atlanta 12:18pm in Washington DC visiting Liam
Mon Mar 24 11:29pm flying to Peru
Thu Mar 27 1:59pm in a meeting at the Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales in Lima
Sat Mar 29 7:54am in Cusco 1:06pm on the train to Maccu Piccu 7:30pm in Aguascalientes; tomorrow morning finally visiting Maccu Piccu
Sun Mar 30 7:21am Maccupiccu! 5:06pm with Eiko after long day of climbing mountains. Tired. Happy.
Wed Apr 2 10:20pm finally back home in Montreal for two days
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Sun Apr 6 3:44am in the Frankfurt airport on the way to Riga 5:41am in Riga. Very jetlagged.
Wed Apr 16 8:12am at Fundacion Esplai in Barcelona. Awed, inspired.
Tue Apr 22 11:53am in Montreal. Making strategy.
Sat May 3 11:19pm creating!
Fri May 9 11:49am working on all things telecentre from Station C, in Montreal. And so happy.
Thu May 15 10:53am feeling fuzzyheaded today.
Wed May 28 1:10am Christine is in Ottawa.
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Fri May 30 1:36am Getting ready for OpenEverything Toronto: http:// openeverything.wik.is/Toronto
Mon Jun 9 9:26am Thinking about ways to use long-tail ideas to improve rural livelihoods. 10:29pm Trying to think
Thu Jun 12 11:07am Christine is proud of Liam's photos: www.flickr.com/photos/ christineprefontaine/
Fri Jun 13 11:52am Loving the great service and free Internet access at the Burlington airport (and $400 less than flying to DC from Montreal!) 1:53pm In Washington, DC, with cutie Liam.
Wed Jun 18 7:23pm In Montreal, getting ready for my whirlwind tour of Africa.
Thu Jun 19 4:22pm Enthralled with Botanicalls Twitter. Now my plants have hope. God I love the Internet.
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Sat Jun 21 10:39am Simultaneously sad, grateful, and resolved. For the moment. 7:50pm Enjoying an endless summer day in Montreal. What a glorious city.
Sun Jun 22 11:50am At Grandma's 91st birthday brunch. 2:51pm One more day in Montreal before leaving for Uganda. Getting ready.
Tue Jun 24 12:58am Layover in Amsterdam. Soon on to Entebbe 2:20pm Driving from Entebbe to Kampala. 2:24pm Driving from Entebbe to Kampala.
Wed Jun 25 2:13am First day in Uganda.
Sat Jun 28 3:03am Flying to Egypt via Nairobi and Khartoum. 5:04pm Cairo!
Wed Jul 2 6:24am In Paris on the way to Benin 2:24pm In Benin, last leg of my trip
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Sun Jul 6 5:43am Ouidah, Benin: where slaves were shipped to the Americas 10:12am Flying home: Cotonou, Paris, Montreal.
Mon Jul 7 4:33pm Finally home! Hot in Montreal. Yummy.
Sat Jul 12 11:05pm Watching Fight Club. What else is a girl to do on a Saturday night?
Sun Jul 13 9:55pm In email hell. Digging my way out slowly.
Mon Jul 14 7:33pm Eating supper with Nigella Lawson. She is some kinda woman.
Tue Jul 15 11:42am In Ottawa for the day. 10:10pm Walking. Thinking.
Wed Jul 16 7:48pm Eating out.
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Thu Jul 17 10:42pm Enjoying a warm Montreal evening. Walking aimlessly.
Sat Jul 19 3:24pm Settling in to life in Montreal. Feeling lucky about all the wonderful new people coming into my life.
Sun Jul 20 1:19pm Radiohead: Reckoner 2:10pm Listening to a girl play her guitar and sing outside Olimpico. She's brilliant.
Mon Jul 21 3:40pm Feeling ridiculously happy.
Wed Jul 23 6:12pm Email slayer extraordinaire!
Sat Jul 26 2:49pm Roadtripping south.
Mon Jul 28 1:40am In Washington, DC. With Liam and Sofi and friends.
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Sun Aug 3 2:30pm With Liam, Sofi, and Pati in Vermont. Beautiful.
Sun Aug 10 9:33am with Liam and Sofi in Montreal
Wed Sep 3 9:22pm Users into producers, consumers into designers.
Mon Sep 8 6:13pm Thinking about ditching twitter. Too much pressure!
Thu Oct 2 1:03am Blogging incessantly. Give me a little good feedback and seems I just go crazy!
Fri Oct 3 9:36pm feeling exhausted, but pleased that the telecentre.org website is live and better than ever
Sun Oct 5 1:09pm Visiting my grandmother at a long-term care facility. Why do we create such ugly institutions for the most fragile among us?
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Tue Oct 7 5:05pm in Ottawa getting on the train home to Montreal 5:51pm Oooof! Almost missed my train! Traffic. Yuck.
Thu Oct 9 2:30am Should be sleeping! Eeeep. Vero has an awesome clip on her blog: http://tinyurl.com/3newaj
Fri Oct 10 11:28am Getting ready to drive to Vermont to go pick up Liam. Yippeeeee! 3:14pm Ugh. Quebec-Vermont border is a mess. 5:00pm With Liam! 6:53pm Liam: Mommy, did you know that Mark Twain was born and died the same year as Halley's comet?
Mon Oct 13 2:57pm finished with facebook, what a f#$%-ing pain deleting everything. creeepy! 9:26pm Liam: Mommy, what is the point of my nipple?
Tue Oct 14 12:07pm Voting! 10:02pm @inevernu what?
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10:08pm @inevernu i was closing my eyes real tight and hoping for the best
Wed Oct 15 2:48pm @hughmcguire Congratulations!
Fri Oct 17 2:39pm Driving back from the Station-C offcamp with Dan, Patrick, and Antoine 5:31pm @hughmcguire I am going to film, thanks to Patrick who will be there too
Sun Oct 19 4:49pm Drained
Mon Oct 20 9:00am Had a good sleep, woke up and did some good thinking. Feeling optimistic and grateful. Ready to start a new day. 9:05am @oceanpark tell me more. Googled but only found some dude saying good way to make sure his neighbors don't steal his parking space. 9:50pm Sushi with mom.
Tue Oct 21 11:47am Cleaning out my grandma's room. Learning about her by what she decided to keep around.
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5:45pm @hughmcguire. Exciting! Can't wait to explore how it works. 8:40pm Feeling really sick. Dammit.
Fri Oct 24 12:38pm More Palin (via @dmireault). Move over, Conchords! http:// tinyurl.com/3rrjfq
Tue Oct 28 2:49pm Wishing I had more time to write
Thu Oct 30 8:41pm Fairmount bagels and Liberty cream cheese. Heaven in Montreal :) 8:53pm Testing out my identi.ca account 8:54pm Oooooh. Cool. I can microblog here and automatically shows up on Twitter. Yeah, I know y'all already knew that but I'm excited about it :) 9:23pm @pistachio Been thinking about microblogging for knowledge sharing (http://tinyurl.com/5gvsdw). Your site very helpful. Thanks! 10:23pm Thinking... Forget tragedy. Now is age of "the creativity of the commons"!
Fri Oct 31 12:18am Blippr Micro-Reviews: http://tinyurl.com/5wpkvp 12:27am Re-reading Sara Lloyd's Book Publisher's Manifesto (via @hughmcguire). Love it: http://thedigitalist.net/?p=155
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12:55am @z_everson #ping.fm looks good. But somehow scary. So many services, networks. WHAT have I gotten myself into? 12:09pm @evan FYI none of the ur1.ca links working for me last night or today 4:37pm @hugh http://ur1.ca/csi mushroom recipe, i add sliced tempeh to the bottom and fry onions first. soooo yummy! 4:39pm @hugh and buy this book: http://ur1.ca/csk
Sun Nov 2 7:43pm Jealous about @inevernu and @dmireault NYC twitters... but clearly am a glutton for punishment because added @mcdoyon to my list :)
Mon Nov 3 9:19pm @JohnBaku Congrats! 9:20pm In Ottawa at fancy boutique hotel http://www.arcthehotel.com/ 9:56pm @inevernu Easy to keep things under the table if all is cash. Just ask your cousin Vito.
Tue Nov 4 12:03pm Karl Rove predicts Obama landslide: http://ur1.ca/f0n 1:06pm Running out for sushi! 1:08pm @millette You mean better to have it just attribution sharealike? And let everyone use? That's my favorite. 1:09pm Super super excited to see outcome of US election. Wowoowow. Big day! Feeling so hopeful.
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Wed Nov 5 9:03pm Still experiencing full-on Obamania. 10:12pm Food, service, and ambiance and Arc hotel in Ottawa is amazing. Lucky me ;)
Thu Nov 6 12:42pm @evan @majnoona Wow! So exciting. Best wishes. 9:24pm @evan Yaaaaay! Big congratulations to you and your family. I am so happy for you :) 9:31pm Sleepy. Big day tomorrow. Great trip to Ottawa but looking forward to returning home to Montreal.
Fri Nov 7 12:15pm Would you allow your mobile phone to be used for the common good" http://traffic.berkeley.edu/ 12:18pm @majnoona @evan Beautiful photos thanks for sharing :) 4:37pm In taxi heading to train station.
Sun Nov 9 3:29am out dancing! 12:38pm Shower. Olimpico. Organizing to set myself up for a great week.
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Tue Nov 11 1:10am Loving Vero's video. Beautiful: http://ur1.ca/jbk 1:16am @evan GYWA video cracking me up 1:19am @JohnBaku re inbox: now i see why takes you so long to respond. and i thought you had abandoned me ;) 1:20am @peterdeitz logoconflict? that whole contest thing not so sure about it... hope does not have to do with that. 1:27am I am sooooooo off task. 2:03am @Pistachio Review could have included more thinking on how can be used productively. Performance evaluation post is better. 2:06pm @evan thanks -- too many complaints on the old one 2:07pm @millette yes laconica interesting; i'm in 2:08pm focusing, focusing... 2:08pm @mcdoyon I will join you! yummmmmmy. 2:13pm @inevernu @mcdoyon No use fighting it. It's bigger than you. 2:41pm @christopheradams freesouls looks awesome! love it. 2:42pm oooof. off task again. can't i just blog and share for a living? pleeeaaaseee? 4:27pm @Pistachio Welcome to Montreal! Hope you have a great time. Drop by Station C if you have time :)
Wed Nov 12 12:19am @mikelbyl yay. see you at webcamp. 12:20am @peterdeitz ugh, that sucks 9:42am Off to webcamp! 10:27am discussing online and offline communities 12:05pm @hughmcguire we are missing you at webcamp
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1:27pm webcamp: what's the best process for creating a digital plan for quebec? 1:29pm @hughmcguire chicken soup! 2:19pm webcamp: we've descended into a bitchfest about why we're behind instead of together dreaming about what we want to accomplish. aaaargh! 2:22pm webcamp: yay! 2:25pm webcamp: i want to collaborate, connect with others, access government services, work, create, more more more! 2:27pm webcamp: share your vision and tag it. then we can aggregate. great idea. 2:32pm @Z_Everson so true. but i am the eternal optimist. 2:34pm another great idea. use cases. social and economic development. 2:41pm webcamp: vulgarizer pourquoi c'est important la technologie. donner des exemples. montrer comment. faciliter l'appropriation. 2:55pm wepcamp: we have a tag! use it when blogging about quebec's digital plan #planqc 2:57pm webcamp: we have a tag! use it when blogging about quebec's digital plan #planqc
Fri Nov 14 11:29am @hugh yuck 11:31am @msurman Reposting for my peeps: http://ur1.ca/lid Almost makes me want to move back to DC! 5:45pm J'essaie d'ecrire. Blocked. Small breakthroughs but mostly feeling stupid. Minor hangover not helping. Ugh. C'est quoi mon problme?!
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6:20pm I give up. Going home. Gonna hide and hopefully catch up on some sleep.
Sat Nov 15 6:29pm Writing, thinking, creating at Station C on a rainy night. The water sounds nice. 6:29pm @evan Bon appetit! :)
Sun Nov 16 9:28pm Bitchy mood for some reason. Going to go for a walk before bed.
Mon Nov 17 12:06am My brother just showed me squarespace. Holy shit. Looks like Wordpress on steroids. Checking it out. Sleep? http://ur1.ca/nbl 12:07am @Z_Everson I hope you put lots of those nice Styrofoam peanuts around her. Want her to arrive unbroken! ;) 12:07am @dmireault oooooooh. a twitter! niiiice ;) 12:09am @mitchjoel Hooooow can I possibly keep up? You're so prolific! I still have as a todo to respond to your post from three posts ago. Yeesh! 2:19am Squarespace. Hmmmm. Good idea but maybe better to leave CSS to the professionals... 10:37am Working at Station C 4:40pm Fading. Ugh.
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4:49pm @majnoona Was just telling @evan so nice to read your mommy comings and goings. Makes me remember when Liam was small: nursing, slings :)
Tue Nov 18 12:45am @majnoona He turns 12 on Saturday! I'm going to DC Friday to see him for week. He'll be here for x-mas & maybe then #Station_C family day :) 10:10am @hugh slinky! OMG ridiculous 10:11am Working at Station C 10:12am @msurman hybrid between what & what? business & social? 10:13am @JohnBaku What's wrong with your wordmark? I think it's cool already. Simple, etc. 9:42pm @tyler_thompson yes but more commenting on my skills rather than what squarespace can do. control one thing knowing what to do is another. 9:44pm @JohnBaku tempted to make bad ooze joke but restraining myself. trust me, it's fine as is. maybe your efforts best put to other things ;) 9:45pm home in bed slightly tipsy 9:50pm @Z_Everson nice. congrats. you sure held out long enough. hope wife arrived in one piece :)
Wed Nov 19 1:29pm @msurman the serial comma. aaaah. the one thing we will never agree on :) 5:07pm @mikelbyl yeah! i want same for my blackberry :)
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5:36pm testing twhirl 6:57pm Looking for submissions and designer for cool new book about our community: http://bit.ly/memorialofweeds
Thu Nov 20 12:38am @csarven hope you're feeling better 12:47am Fun supper with friends and family. Ready for zzzzzzzzzzzs. Liam countdown: 3 days! 12:52pm @hughmcguire letmegooglethat perfect. i've had to do that for folks so many times! 12:52pm @JohnBaku Serves you right for going to Starbucks when we have so many great local places in MTL. Starbucks for emergencies only. 3:50pm nikolai35 stop microblogging? are you kidding? :) 3:52pm Reposting via @csarven. Awesome neck poem: http://ur1.ca/q7k 6:25pm Writing in outline mode. Will try it more often to help organize my ideas.
Fri Nov 21 12:43am evan @evan. Wow, I would love to go to that conference. Great topic, great location: Future of Social Networking. http://ur1.ca/qmf 12:44am Not enough time in a day. Want to write more but fatigue overtaking me and wet laundry screaming to be let out of washing machine. Ugh. 12:45am @inevernu cool! 12:55pm Why am I always so anxious before traveling? You think I'd be used to it now. Leaving tonight for DC to be with Liam for a week. Yay Liam!
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7:13pm Security guard at in DC waiting lounge has orange camo pants. WTF! 7:13pm I wonder if he is expecting to have to blend into a pile of leaves? 9:32pm In Washington DC
Sat Nov 22 12:59am @jenergy Congrats! 1:00am Happy to be close to Liam but hate hate hate leaving Montreal. Although I will likely be screaming for sun come February. 12:22pm Explaining microblogging, Twitter vs Laconica, to Clare 1:02pm Picking up Liam! 3:52pm Liam is digging the new girl talk album! 5:10pm Hanging with Liam at Politics & Prose. He's reading Guiness Book and I'm working. Really. http://ur1.ca/ro1 9:02pm Having supper with my peeps at a tapas bar
Sun Nov 23 1:21am @Z_Everson I broke it to him tonight that you moved. He made me a very sad face. 1:22am Back from vampire movie. Kid chose, I followed. Main actor hot. Good thing I'm no longer forced to watch The Lion King ;) 11:02am Just finished brunch. Liam off to play tennis. Then a day of visiting and eating with friends. 12:22pm Via @dmireault Van Jones on Poptech: http://ur1.ca/rzo 12:58pm Aaaaah, bagels. Scroll to the end for the Montreal piece: http:// ur1.ca/s0d
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Mon Nov 24 4:24pm Working at Politics & Prose. Missing Montreal. Pick up Liam in two hours. 5:23pm uuughhh... need... more... latte... 5:25pm @millette Noooooo. You're speedgeeking on tech and democracy while I'm out of town? Aarrgh. 5:30pm @evan Microsummaries looks cool for real. Nice. 5:32pm @inevernu Love new portfolio so far. No bugs to report. Nice and clean. 5:45pm @nikolai35 LOL. Just re-read your intern post. I misunderstood your reason for liking them first time. Wonder why ;) 5:48pm Off to pick up Liam.
Tue Nov 25 10:34am Creating impromptu co-working in the DC home of a lingerie maven http://bit.ly/heidi and tattoo anthropologist http://bit.ly/lars 4:59pm I really, really, really hate suburban Virginia. McMansions, cars, franchises. Save me!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 5:09pm @mcdoyon Why temporary? It's nice. I did not realise you did the Vinismo logo. Love it! 5:32pm @majnoona @hugh sent this a while back and i have not tried for #dinner but looks sooooo good: http://ur1.ca/tml 9:51pm uh-oh @csarven, be careful: http://ur1.ca/trc
Wed Nov 26 1:24pm Happy today. More Politics & Prose. More latte.
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1:51pm Retweeting from @DiamonDie Twitter novels: Social network used to post late wifes book http://tinyurl.com/5nz6qd 1:57pm @inevernu http://www.politicalcompass.org/ 3:55pm Great post by @mitchjoel on marketing 2.0: http://ur1.ca/uds 10:08pm @nikolai35 Does this mean we get you back at Station C? Yippeee! Oooops, I'm supposed to be sad with you here. Their loss, our gain ;)
Thu Nov 27 10:04am @stevenmansour Yeah thx for that gaming post. Liam and I up all night playing World of Goo. Fisty sucks. 12:18pm @JohnBaku Didn't you chastise me for twittering under the influence (#TUI). How's your brain getting along with that comma? Outputs? 4:11pm Thinking that may be able to automate newsletter by tagging, using RSS, and sending via Nourish. 6:44pm In the full thanksgiving buzz and swing. Ready for food coma.
Fri Nov 28 8:04am Sofi, my ex-punk pseudo-Jewish Latin intellectual hipster chick, turns 20 today. Yay! Happy Birthday! http://ur1.ca/vi5 11:11am @DiamonDie That's quite a video ;) 12:01pm @hughmcguire yeah, ditto here. tried espresso. warning: may also make you more jumpy :) 7:08pm Audio slideshow: Yiddish & early jazz http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/ hi/7739968.stm
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9:56pm My child rocks. Budding physicist/artist. Check out what he created: http://ur1.ca/vy2
Sat Nov 29 1:03pm Last day with Liam. Back to Montreal tomorrow. 1:07pm @hugh Wow, love that video. Tell me more.
Sun Nov 30 11:20pm Back home. Tummy full of good Indian food. Without Liam :(
Mon Dec 1 10:43am Those naughty Brits: http://ur1.ca/wlb 10:44am Working at Station C 4:10pm in. Liam. withdrawal. 11:46pm Tired. Long day. Just posted new guide: communication for networks. Going home. http://ur1.ca/xtm
Tue Dec 2 12:12pm Working at Station C. Pumped up on caffeine. Psyched that Liam will be here for two weeks starting December 21. 12:16pm reposting from @christopheradams via @Lessig http:// is.gd/9TaZ also good for Quebec's Digital plan #planqc 12:28pm Giggling over the @8ball 1:51pm pudding chomeur 2:19pm @evan. Yep. Sooooo good. Not bad at Pied de Cochon either. 2:36pm @evan Cool. Will check it out.
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4:19pm The Humanitarian Assistance Training Simulator http://ur1.ca/ yfa 4:22pm @majnoona Liam will be here on 21st. Then we can do Station C family day. People can bring kids. Or pets :)
Wed Dec 3 12:16am Going to sleep. Feeling sick and achey joints. Ugh. 12:40am @mikelbyl congrats! 3:02pm Sick. Annoyed at being sick when have so much to get done. 3:59pm @verob je veux aller mais j'ai attrap qqch. malade :( 5:52pm @peterdeitz wow you switched to ning? 5:53pm @peterdeitz you can incorporate your about into the ning platform. see http://www.telecentre.org 8:59pm @hugh @evan i've been pitching same idea to my friends + clients (identica as internal comms tool) would love to hear more 9:02pm @peterdeitz i can help you. let's meet up next week.
Thu Dec 4 12:59am @enkerli hahaha. sofi and i were just talking about you :) 1:25am @enkerli funny all this talk about butterflies because i just updated my website tonight and added one. weird coincidence. 2:52am Showing Sofi how Dents can feed into Twits. Hahahaha. 12:06pm Back at work. Feeling sooooo much better. Yipeeee! 12:35pm @thetoine Ugh. Were you headed here? 12:47pm @dmireault of course! aaagh i need an elevator pitch... 12:49pm @enkerli Too long to answer here -- sent you a mail. Will read you post. Thanks :)
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12:58pm @dmireault LOL, thought you were sending me to some great article by clever expert. Not my own writing! Think this is part of my issue? ;) 12:59pm @sofile Enough philosphizing. Get that cute self of yours in to Station C. 1:03pm @sofile But great point. BTW. Philosophachica! 1:09pm @dmireault (blush) hard to feel that way when mostimes feel confused and overwhelmed. will take your advice (and keep going to therapy LOL) 1:15pm @sofile I am hungry. When are you getting here so we can get lunch? 1:54pm @evan @sofile can help you figure out the Spanish for dent :)
Sun Dec 7 11:05am Fuzzyheaded Sunday. 12:54pm Fuck intellectual rigor and consistency. Just give me some good ideas that I can put into practice: http://ur1.ca/01yt
Mon Dec 8 1:30am aaargh going to sleep 1:37pm focusing focusing 1:38pm @nikolai35 your #loldents crack me up 4:27pm Quebec Solidaire... wonder how they'll do 5:42pm Gil Courtemanche rocks: http://ur1.ca/02zh #voteqs 5:56pm @inevernu That's because you rock too. But if I tell you too much it might get to your head or something.
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5:57pm Looking forward to the day when I don't need to go back and forth between dents and twits. And who wants to be a twit? Really now. 10:02pm Yay! Amir Khadir! #voteqs
Tue Dec 9 7:45am On the train to Ottawa 8:53am At train station in ottawa. No taxis. Grr! 10:45am Working at IDRC 12:06pm My mom is now on Identica! Does this mean I have to behave? Not likely :) @moo 3:32pm Lovely new telecentre.org admin just came in and offered to do all my expense reports. Yay! 5:44pm Annoyed 5:47pm Hmmm. Something satisfying about broadcast venting. Ugh... not looking forward to Ottawa hotel room. I wanna go home :( 9:12pm People next to me in the tapas bar speaking french with European accent.Quebecois so much more beautiful. 9:36pm Liam text:good night i luv u sincerely liam. lol. God I love this child. 10:33pm Just got back 'home' from most fun supper out alone ever :) 10:38pm @hughmcguire OMG laughing so hard am crying. @inevernu @dmireault you will appreciate too: http://ur1.ca/04b1 10:58pm http://ur1.ca/04bz a claque in english should be illegal. 11:48pm @8ball should i sleep immediately or iron my shirts? 11:49pm @8ball you gotta do better than that 11:50pm @evan i think @8ball needs some talking to
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Wed Dec 10 11:49am More IDRC today 2:54pm Latest fantasy: My Ning network profile has a status update that I can feed using Identica (or any private Laconica install) 2:55pm @inevernu i like your new profile pic :) 10:53pm ugh still at office. skipped supper. but email all cleaned up in preparation for freelance life. exciting and scary. 10:55pm back to hotel now to watch videos http://bit.ly/euXC and http:// bit.ly/GkMl (via @dmireault) 10:57pm @lauraoatning Hey reply from you nice surprise. You #Ning folks are on the ball! I will check it out. #laconica
Thu Dec 11 12:56am @christopheradams it's so beautiful and i love your essay. have been working on similar idea. @hugh see http://ur1.ca/05bq 12:58am i want to make plain black t-shirts. and instead of #geek in small white simple letters in the front they say #amateur :) 2:15am okay no more keeping this hidden. say hello to artefatica! http:// ur1.ca/05dj 9:03am @verob thanks! it's me + co-conspirators :) will keep posting updates 5:52pm Yay! I made my train! Two hours in taxi and forty dollars poorer. Nasty transit strike. 11:04pm Chez moi. Finalement.
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Fri Dec 12 1:17pm Thanks @bookoven :) Yay! 1:26pm Snow in Montreal. So magical and beautiful.
Sat Dec 13 9:48pm Fiona, couscous, wine, videogames
Mon Dec 15 1:45am typesetting. reading richard hendel's on book design. 10:43am @StationC ...working 3:22pm @Z_Everson will you be my friend? http://www.last.fm/user/ cprefontaine 8:51pm @patrick the yulblog page looks really nice. i know it is temporary, but i like its simplicity. 9:03pm @zeverson check out patrick's latest blog: http://i.never.nu/ bushs-final-fu/
Tue Dec 16 1:01am Mad late-night blogging run at artefati.ca 10:51am Thinking about passing of Pushpa Rekha, Sri Lankan telecentre operator http://nanasala.org/pushpa.htm 1:13pm Head down, working @StationC 3:13pm Reindeer break 3:42pm @dmireault @mdufort @thetoine Now we just need to capture @inevernu 5:04pm @Z_Everson Yes!
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5:09pm @Z_Everson Check out http://www.ctcnet.org/ 5:19pm @s_wolfie Great. Mom (I think) will be OK. See http:// tellingmystory.org/ I can connect you to Pati if you like. 8:35pm Coworking and telecentres are connected! Need to think about this more... 8:37pm @JohnBaku See http://delicious.com/cprefontaine/email We can discuss. 9:22pm Making late-night coconutmilk curry. 9:38pm @mdufort it is on my desk. i found it on the floor outside the door this AM 9:44pm @mdufort i hope you mean that you owe me. Reminds me of a comment I left on @msurman's blog a while ago: http://bit.ly/ embarassing 9:45pm @MichelleBlanc Is any woman ever ordinaire? Not me :) 10:29pm @MichelleBlanc Yeah. I say we go for inspiring and fabulous! :)
Wed Dec 17 1:27am Liam countdown: 5 days. His latest: http://tinyurl.com/64tye9 1:29am Facebook group saves all. Via @zeverson. Ha! http://ping.fm/ tuZip
Mon Dec 29 2:52pm @evan @majnoona Glad you're coming home. We're chilling until the 3rd if you want to hang out. 3:22pm Just donated to Wikipedia. Hoping you'll do the same.
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7:56pm Running off to supper at O Noir with Liam + family. Spent large part of day organizing my computer. What a mess. Overwhelmed and grumpy. 7:59pm @dmireault Yay! Take lots of photos for us :)
Tue Dec 30 5:59pm Just got best Christmas gift ever. 5:59pm Off to artefati.ca meeting with Emily, with Liam in tow. 10:33pm Finishing up book meeting. Moving ahead. Lots to think about. Sooo tired. 11:37pm Waiting for Liam to fall asleep so I can watch a few episodes of Californication. Motherhood at its best ;)
Wed Dec 31 4:42pm WTF! Lineup at saq on parc. Only accepting cash. 11:25pm Celebrated New Years in the Azores. Now on to Montreal. Happy new year everyone!
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Thu Jan 1 2:51pm Working at #StationC. Happy to be here on first day of the year.
Fri Jan 2 12:01am Going to bed. But first Liam and I gonna watch some Lost. Just two shows though. Promise. 12:02am @Z_Everson Happy New Year to you too! 1:41am Okay just two more episodes. And then sleep. Really. 12:19pm Going out to eat then walk with Liam. 10:41pm Post-tennis poutine at la banquise. Courtesy of Liam.
Sat Jan 3 9:23pm Moosewood lentil soup, wine, bok choy salad with maple-soy dressing. Lemon trifle with almonds for desert.
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9:26pm @jenergy fry bacon and onions. add perogies. add sour cream. yum. 11:38pm Liam's last night in Montreal for a while. I am in a bad bad mood :(
Sun Jan 4 3:14pm Catherine Millet: dsir exauc http://tinyurl.com/a7dvsn 3:57pm Happy song for the new year: http://tinyurl.com/559p27 6:42pm Organizing. Why so tired? 6:43pm @hughmcguire what? no mustache photo for us? 7:02pm Hanging out with Sofi and Jess.
Mon Jan 5 12:21am Ugh. Missing Liam something terrible. 9:59am Slow start. Readjusting from nocturnal holiday schedule. Dropping off Grandma's hearing aid for repair then on to #StationC. Yay! 12:23pm Working at #StationC 7:59pm http://twitpic.com/101cx - Ohhhh. Turns out I'm a @cloudworker. Who knew? ;) Check it out: http://cloudworker.org/ 8:25pm On-demand volunteer opportunities delivered to your cell phone. Turns standing in line into a social good: http://ur1.ca/0odr 8:27pm USAID crowdsources mobile apps for development. The winners: http://www.netsquared.org/usaid/top15 9:23pm Reading the cloudworker's creed http://tinyurl.com/6yjorw
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Tue Jan 6 1:20am Liam beatboxing: http://tinyurl.com/7mrac2 2:43am Almost 3am. Leaving #StationC. Have a 10AM appointment. Ugh... 6:00pm Where did the day go? Accountant this AM for artefati.ca and consulting stuff, visit to grandma, meeting with Patrick. Now book meeting.
Wed Jan 7 6:30pm New artefati.ca website up. Now it just needs some images and content. Little steps.
Thu Jan 8 12:21am Walking home at night in Montreal in deep fresh snow is one of the best things in the whole world. Everything is beautiful and magic. 2:41am muusttsleep. obsessing over website. #duh had forgot to add creative commons license (attribution share-alike, yeah!). fixed glitches too. 9:10am Making fruit salad. Need to be at #StationC by 10am. 10:25am Amazon's bestselling album of 2008 was available as a free download (via @creativecommons) http://bit.ly/freeculturepays 2:12pm Answering the call of the mighty pudding chomeur 10:04pm @duncanmoore Thanks. It's scary to figure it out in the open. But each step is coming along really nicely. Next gotta write some copy! 10:18pm @peterdeitz Congrats! How cool!
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10:54pm @JohnBaku oooh the place with the mason jars. last time i went there i drank waaaaay too much. 11:23pm @millette @afroginthevalley Flaw in http://ur1.ca/0qqq text: @ also used to acknowledge source (via...). Not just direct messaging.
Fri Jan 9 3:21am I am an insomniac. Why does working for myself mean I suddenly have the energy and will to work late into the night? 2:46pm At #StationC. We are so quiet today. All you can hear is typing. 4:53pm @cgtheoret Maybe water use, toxic tailings ponds, COs emissions is the problem. Social media strategy will help?? http:// tinyurl.com/a3ar7n 5:04pm @hugh Where's your blogpost on words never to use? Can't find it. I think one of them tried to creep into my CV :) 6:12pm @hugh yep. there it is. leverage. dammit. thx. 6:12pm What's the best online survey tool? I know about SurveyMonkey. Is it good? Other suggestions?
Sat Jan 10 5:39pm Finished work for the day. Next up: going with @sofile to @stevenmansour birthday party.
Mon Jan 12 12:04am Hypertext2009 conference makes it easy for participants to take advantage of social media: http://www.ht2009.org/social.php (No #Identica?)
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2:10am Contemplating Borges and free culture. Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote: http://bit.ly/pierremenard 11:08am @evan Aha! Now who's going crazy with @8ball? :) 11:52am In Gmail/AppleMail/IMAP hell. Oooof. Onto some other task for now. 11:34pm Working alone sucks. #StationC in the news again: http:// tinyurl.com/87glkx
Tue Jan 13 12:04am @Z_Everson on your turkey twit. you are funny funny man, mr everson. 12:46am @Z_Everson Awesome :) 2:04am Write or die: http://lab.drwicked.com/writeordie.html. Now, for me, more like sleep or die. 10:48am Hey peeps. Check out the video Ben did for the SAT: http:// tinyurl.com/8vb3kv Love it. 10:43pm I just had one of the best days ever. Wow. 10:44pm @inevernu ohhhh yeah. very important. Lost, BG.
Wed Jan 14 1:35am Must stop researching contributors agreements for http:// www.artefati.ca and go to sleep #creativecommons #openpublishing 1:57pm Pulling together #open and #creativecommons "must-reads" for a documentary film team. Suggestions? Will post all on http:// www.artefati.ca 4:09pm @zeverson another coworking resource for you: http:// jellynyc.pbwiki.com/ (via http://coworkspace.blogspot.com/)
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5:12pm Or maybe: Build a community that people need, not a community that needs people (thought while reading http://bit.ly/ enablingconversations) 10:46pm @evan Yay to Identi.ca for getting funding! (http://ur1.ca/0vz5, via @millette) 10:50pm @inevernu i wanna go to SXSW too! 10:55pm @inevernu Ooooooh SXSW featuring RIP: Remix Manifesto. Very happy about that. http://opensourcecinema.org/ 10:59pm @inevernu Looks like cheapest $550 return. Ugh. 11:32pm @inevernu I've done it and it's easy. Ticket from March 12-18 is $330 on United. More promising.
Thu Jan 15 1:24am The Art of Community (http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/) by @jonobacon, the Ubuntu Community Manager (via @sfllaw). Wow! Thanks Simon. 2:29am Open Sleep 7:21pm Vin rouge, baguette, olives, fromage riopelle, soupe. 7:22pm @Z_Everson Are you gay? 9:49pm @majnoona Glad class went well. Sorry to hear about Star Trek : ( 9:50pm @8ball Are you behaving? 10:24pm Art as Firefox extension. Thanks to @Hugh @bookoven http:// blog.bookoven.com/2009/01/12/tumbarumba/
Sun Jan 18 12:00pm Reading about social media, microblogging, aggregators

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12:08pm reading http://ping.fm/bNmj6 (via @martinlessard) and checking out Forresters's social technographics http://ping.fm/gIJ52 11:49pm What to do with rogue community members (via @inevernu) http://tinyurl.com/8yo86p
Mon Jan 19 12:23am Trying to write. But tired. 12:52pm @surman Yay! Nice to see you on Identica :) 11:26pm Aggregate your social self #lifestream http:// www.sweetcron.com/ 11:29pm Cool way to aggregate your social self #lifestream http:// www.sweetcron.com/
Tue Jan 20 1:39am @evan Yeah and google it you'll see there are even themes for it. 4:46pm @evan Where do I put feature requests? @surman and I want to be able to read and respond to Twitter feed via #Identica 8:32pm testing firefox plug in 8:33pm Oooooh. #Laconicabar is cool. 11:14pm finishing up a few things before i go to sleep
Wed Jan 21 12:03am twitter RSS authentication is f-ing annoying. easy as pie on identica. hmmmm. 12:06am thank you http://freemyfeed.com/ you rock
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1:03am may have come up with a temporary solution to my identica/ twitter problem. testing it now. 1:13am going to sleep now for real. not enough time in the day! 9:10am At #StationC. Gonna get lots done today! 9:24am Looking at whitehouse.gov. We live in good good times. 12:35pm Meeting with @brunoboutot about the http:// www.challengeyourworld.com/ community #challengeyourworld 4:35pm Finishing up with @brunoboutot and @martinlessard on #challengeyourworld 4:38pm Demonstrating how cool is this #laconica toolbar. Yay! 9:42pm @inevernu @hughmcguire Yeah, I second that :) 9:43pm @hugh I need cards too! please send printer info my way -- for books AND cards :) 9:48pm Went to the Y, now back a work to get few more things done before I drop. 9:59pm @surman Clumsy solution: Create two RSS feeds with Pipes combining Twitter + Identica (all posts, replies). Use web reader + Laconicabar.
Thu Jan 22 2:55am Almost 3AM about to leave #StationC. Oooof #longday #crazy. 3:02am I do want to emphasize that I did go to the gym today. Finally! 2:01pm Just found out that my friend Omar Azfar died yesterday. Shocked and sad. http://tinyurl.com/bglotj 2:22pm Update on development plans for St-Viateur east, in the Mile End http://tinyurl.com/aaejq9
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2:39pm Worst picture of me ever in my article in Telecentre Magazine. Ouch :) http://ur1.ca/12r3 2:52pm Harvard Political Networks call for proposals http://tinyurl.com/ cbcnak 3:32pm @stevenmansour Are you getting an extra helmet for me? ;) 3:34pm @msurman Thanks. Maybe I just need you as my photographer. Your make those Barcelonians look so hot :) 4:02pm Supporting Asynchronous Collaborative Information Visualization http://ur1.ca/12sy via Jennifer Bell from http:// visiblegovernment.ca/ 7:10pm My memories of Omar http://tinyurl.com/d26ut8 9:54pm The #StationC Community Manifesto: http://bit.ly/ communitymanifesto Feedback please! New idea: Sponsor an #innovationdesk
Fri Jan 23 12:22am I want to make newspapers from local blogs: http://tinyurl.com/ ckrvge 9:56am Added photos of Omar to my post. They make me smile. They do him justice. Dedicated to the public domain. http://bit.ly/omar 9:57am Holy shit. New interface on Identi.ca. Thought I was on the wrong site for a moment :) 10:43am Geoff DiMasi on coworking, Jane Jacobs, incubators, Spontaneous inventiveness http://tinyurl.com/2hvfnm 10:43am @yanikproulx I go back and forth 10:46am #Identica Hmmm delete not working for me. Not sure about design of this new user interface.
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9:21pm @mdufort I thought you geeks were tougher than that. Or at least more motivated by pizza :) 9:29pm I love the way @afroginthevalley presents with a beer in his hand. Nice. #iphonedevcamp 9:34pm @hughmcguire Whoah megamega @zeverson You will appreciate this http://tinyurl.com/axbcmy
Sun Jan 25 5:13pm @dmireault's blog is live. Here's to the triumph of creativity, risk-taking, enthusiasm over perfectionism and fear http://bit.ly/dactivate
Mon Jan 26 12:38am Having fun working on #challengeyourworld outreach campaign. Great docs on basecamp account. Am inspired by this team. #awesomegig 1:28am Liam's artwork @StationC featured in @scottannan video of #Stationc http://mercurygrove.com/blog/251 #mykidrocks :) 5:36pm @mdufort You and me both. Aaaargh. 5:43pm @stevesong has great blogpost on Annotate-ipedia: http:// tinyurl.com/d42fg6 (@inevernu this is for you)
Tue Jan 27 2:11pm @DiscoveryChPR Shame on you for beating up on @smashLAB. Now is your chance to make it right: http:// www.smashlabsucks.com/
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3:53pm @stevesong Watch Free The Facts! Awesome Open Access presentation http://bit.ly/freethefacts 7:03pm @cgtheoret The Enron dataset ( @valdiskrebs) http:// tinyurl.com/ap8bnb 7:23pm @Z_Everson Thanks for your edits to @StationC Community Manifesto. Check out http://groups.google.com/group/coworking #coworking 7:25pm @Z_Everson Another idea (not mine): Start with stickers that you put on laptops so kindred spirits can recogize each other in cafes
Wed Jan 28 11:19am Head down, working working 11:32am @chriscoward Wow. Time to think and write? Jealous. 4:46pm 3-espresso day. Ugh. Advantage number 987688 of #coworking: You can take a nap on the office couch and no one minds. 7:04pm Dear friend's b-day tonight. Gonna go but tempted to go the gym, make soup, and curl up with Coase's Penguin. Aaaah, single life ;) 7:06pm Mir rocks: http://www.mirverburg.net/node/598 See original: http://tinyurl.com/bp5gnk
Thu Jan 29 12:37am The Open Technology Institute's M-Lab. Test your broadband connection. Keep the net neutral. http://measurementlab.net/ ( @stevenmansour) 12:57am shoveled the stairs. shoveled the neighbor's walkway. got hot. cooled down on stairs and enjoyed the outside. all perfect. snow makes magic.
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2:35am Bookkake update: http://tinyurl.com/ddg37g (thanks @hughmcguire) Yay open publishing!
Fri Jan 30 11:27am Maguire Meadow / Sprout Out Loud is one of the CCA's Tools for Actions http://bit.ly/sproutactions 2:08pm Delusional Institution #2: Intellectual property http://bit.ly/ IPdelusions #open #creativecommons 2:14pm @stevesong The Yin and Yang of Open http://bit.ly/w0Et #open 4:27pm Petition for guaranteed public access to publicly funded research results http://www.ec-petition.eu/ 4:38pm @evan I finally figured out what the ! was for. Silly me. 5:20pm Ohhhhh. #socialreporting. I love it when I find names for what I do! http://srtoolbox.wikispaces.com/ 5:37pm Hotchip: One Pure Thought 7:15pm @hughmcguire Good interview with Hugh about publishing, new media, librivox, BookOven: http://is.gd/hRos 8:33pm Doing tedious work on a Friday night. Not fun. 8:43pm @duncano Coincidence. Just posted on making newspapers from blogs last week: http://tinyurl.com/ckrvge 8:44pm @hughmcguire mouse = LOL 9:52pm Have not listened to Peter Gabriel in a long long time. With Kate Bush. Nice. 9:53pm Breaking out of work. Going drinking. (Likely should go do something more healthy; but there you go.)
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Sun Feb 1 3:22pm Introspecting 11:32pm I am so disconnected with history: family, community, country. This is a bad thing.
Mon Feb 2 12:05am Wonder how much porn is licensed using #creativecommons ... 12:50am Ushahidi: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information http://tinyurl.com/ dgs2ds 8:39am @evan McNealy-Obama Open Source report. Cool! http:// ur1.ca/11ku 8:49am Not sure how going to get everything done this week 8:50am Csikszentmihalyi: creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives. http://tinyurl.com/5cbgzf 3:41pm @nivuniconnu <blush> check flickr ;) </blush> 4:26pm @stationc Yeah I want a sticker too! ;) 4:34pm @laurentlasalle Oui mais la mienne est un leftover. J'veux une qui dit "Station C" plus clair. 4:37pm Feb 24 is drop-in day at #StationC. Especically for the girls. Come represent, ladies. http://tinyurl.com/bv58yc 4:38pm @mdufort Matte Kudasai. Word. Where were you when i was 15 and all my friends laughed and me and my King Crimson!? 4:40pm @nivuniconnu Well some people may not like it (no names, ahem... @dmireault). But I love it. So liberating. 4:50pm @nivuniconnu Leftover caveman thing. No use fighting it. All that works is ignoring it and move forward. 4:57pm zz top. la grange. sooooo goooood.
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7:53pm Invoicing 10:38pm @duncano Snazzy new profile pic. Nice.
Wed Feb 4 10:46pm Best part of today's #TED : Having so many people I like and respect @StationC. Too bad about conflict with Urler.tv :( 10:52pm @nate Thanks for the scotch. Good stuff.
Thu Feb 5 12:08am @csarven I feel your pain. Even worse because I caved and joined again. Peer pressure :) 8:42am The magnificent colors and people in Thailand's food markets: http://bit.ly/flavors_colors #urlertv #stationc 5:01pm Trying to understand how an enterprise-level website works making my head spin. Getting there. But slowly.
Fri Feb 6 4:36pm @afroginthevalley Want to organize a "Montreal Ouvert" event with me @StationC ? March 28? Local version of http:// openeverything.net 4:39pm @afrognthevalley Feel free to suggest a better date. I'll get in line behind your other events :)
Fri Feb 13 8:30pm I crack myself up: http://tinyurl.com/cs2l67 8:44pm @appropedia Pupusas are the best!
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9:24pm Dammit. Think I'm coming down with a cold.
Sun Feb 15 4:54pm Try to get into US again. Tell them same thing and get through no problem. WTF?! http://bit.ly/WTFisyourpolicy 11:13pm @nivuniconnu Oooooh, more BSG back on air? I know what i'm doing tonight.
Mon Feb 16 7:37am On plane to Seattle. Headache, runny nose, sad heart. Missing Liam already.
Tue Feb 17 3:53pm In Seattle. Nasty cold kicking my ass. Just want to sleep. Dammit.
Wed Feb 18 2:29pm In fascinating discussion at the University of Washington on emerging trends in libraries. 2:39pm "Libraries are in the business of technology" @hughmcguire wish you were here to tell Atwater story 2:55pm @hughmcguire http://cis.washington.edu/
Thu Feb 19 10:37am Yay! Finally starting to feel better!
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Fri Feb 20 3:15am @mdufort Yeah, I'm in Seattle until Monday. 3:15am Missing Liam and my Montreal peeps. 3:48am @mariaigarrido wow you found @zizekspeaks on twitter. who woulda thought. 9:40am Getting ready for another full day of meetings with the awesome folks at http://cis.washington.edu/
Mon Feb 23 6:05pm Home. Waiting to go through customs. 11:58pm Joe was accepted into UW's Human Centered Design and Engineering PhD program. Congrats! Yay! 11:59pm @mariaigarrido Oooooh. Wish I could have attended your lecture :( I think y'all should move to McGill!
Tue Feb 24 12:00am The customs guard at YUL tonight had BLACK latex gloves. Very kinky.
Wed Feb 25 3:19am @hughmcguire tim o'reilly answers, on vid, why publishing should be open: http://www.vimeo.com/3341489. Yay! 3:39am @christopheradams Visiting a co-working space, Taipei-style: http://www.hues.com.tw/space.asp #Stationc #coworking
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4:50pm @inevernu Darin Barney piece on social media. Publicity rather than deeper change? http://tinyurl.com/bn3kv4
Thu Feb 26 4:58pm Annoyed. Trying to register for GST/PST and cannot even enter data in form! http://bit.ly/revenuequebecformfail
Fri Feb 27 9:08pm Emerging patterns of collective action. Forms of participation. Wish this was better documented http://bit.ly/ecpr2007 9:41pm La Ville en Reseaux. The Networked City. Looks like gonna go to this on April 2 on behalf of @StationC http:// www.lavilleenreseaux.com/ 10:31pm @worldchallenger Generation G: The leading societal and business mindset http://bit.ly/generationg 10:34pm @christopheradam: FREESOULS by JOI ITO has entered the collection of the Asia Art Archive http://ping.fm/1btOU 10:41pm @christopheradam Just ordered my copy of FREESOULS. Yay to open publishing! http://freesouls.cc/
Sat Feb 28 12:43am Amazing photots of San Fran modern military ruins: http:// www.flickr.com/photos/telstar/sets/56935/
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Mon Mar 2 1:35am Economist triples circulation while others go bust, Chinese fans translate http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/03/01/2775/ 2:35pm 11 Non-Traditional Uses of WordPress. Awesome! http:// tinyurl.com/bmlafj
Wed Mar 4 3:04pm Facebooks In-House Sociologist Shares Stats on Users Social Behavior http://is.gd/l5xw via @valdiskrebs
Thu Mar 5 1:32am Web metrics: Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue http://bit.ly/webmetrics
Wed Mar 11 4:07pm There may be a financial crisis and massive job losses for some, but freelance web folks I know in Montreal are all overbooked. Go figure. 4:21pm @msurman Creative Commons lanched CCZero at #etech today. Now you can make your content really really really free. http:// ur1.ca/2bey 4:21pm @girl_tm Don't leave us! We love you. 4:52pm @majnoona Hey you've been on my mind lately. Let's hang out soon :)
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Thu Mar 12 5:36pm Open Montreal Ouvert -- Seance de planification http://bit.ly/ montrealouvert
Fri Mar 13 12:51pm #montrealouvert #openmontreal now set up thanks to @afrognthevalley. http://www.openmontreal.ca or http:// www.montrealouvert.ca
Sat Mar 14 1:44am looking for an easy !mediawiki installation guide. any way i can do this easy?
Sun Mar 15 10:10pm Gonna have 10 days with Liam in Montreal! April 4-13. Booking BWI to Burlington $800 cheaper than flying DCA to YUL. Go figure. 10:14pm @jeffmcneill Thanks, Jeff. Will take a look :)
Mon Mar 16 3:14pm Logging bugs
Tue Mar 17 8:39pm Independent data. You must control your data. Cool to share but if you don't control tool/format you can lose everything. #net2mtl
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9:02pm Why computer games matter. Non-Instrumental Engagement with ICTs http://tinyurl.com/czgjgr
Thu Mar 19 10:41am Working from #StationC today and tomorrow. Focusing on the @worldchallenger community. 10:46am @evan the "sent a notice to your attention" email notifications rock. love this feature. 3:11pm Miriam: If Browsers were WIMMINZ + THROWDOWN. Feminist = boring? Puh-leeese! http://www.mirverburg.net/AARGHH 10:35pm Three million dollars for research on generosity http:// bit.ly/3milliongenerosityresearch. Deadline April 1. 11:23pm @whiteafrican Ushahidi is now running on Windows Mobile devices, thanks to @dalezak !!! - http://is.gd/o7zK 11:23pm @msurman sucks to be you ;)
Fri Mar 20 1:04am Do blogs matter? Contribute to the Emergent Democracy Wikipedia article http://bit.ly/emergent-democracy @Joi
Sat Mar 21 12:16pm Tonight at 10:30 Honeysuckle Strip Spelling Bee at the Mainline Theatre (3997 St-Laurent Blvd). I am soooo in... to watching, that is ;) 2:42pm Working at #StationC 5:50pm @mdufort neale was here but he had the good sense to leave
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6:32pm In 1997 Brooksley Born warned Greenspan about over-thecounter derivatives http://bit.ly/bornderivativeswarning 8:38pm Dictionary ready. Off I go! http://bit.ly/strip-spelling-bee
Sun Mar 22 7:15pm i suck at setting priorities and sticking to them. gotta get better at this.
Mon Mar 23 2:10am Finally. An annual report that doesn't suck http://bit.ly/comicbook-report 2:17am Oooof. 2AM and now leaving Station C. Where did the time go?! I still have stuff I want to work on. Dammit.
Tue Mar 24 4:49pm Vote for Identica! http://march.shoeboxed.com/
Wed Mar 25 1:22pm Listening to Guy Kawasaki and drinking wine. For work. Life is good. 7:38pm Montreal Citizen's Summit, June 5-7 http:// www.5sc.ecologieurbaine.net/en/node/132 7:45pm Can collaboration be bad? Maybe. http://bit.ly/too-muchcollaboration 10:23pm @chriscoward a library that served tequila shots and ICT buses serve remote communities with custom training http://bit.ly/2Ede1
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10:24pm @mariaigarrido Pew Internet research on how WIFI draws new users to digital use + a typology of users http://tinyurl.com/cn8cvx 10:32pm Joe's thoughts on managing info for his team http:// www.floatingeyeball.com/?p=28 10:49pm @JohnBaku evil man. i'm not gonna tell you if i participated or not! ;) 10:51pm @mdufort what have you done? 10:56pm Jane's walk planning meeting Centre d'cologie urbaine de Montral, 3516 avenue du Parc 30 mars de 19h 20h30
Thu Mar 26 5:21am @dmireault favorite all time story. an in and out of weeks and over a day. until he came to the place where the wild things are... 12:32pm @majnoona binerie! 10:38pm Good day today: Accountant, @majnoona and her class, work, spring clothes shopping, bagels. Now a tiny bit of wine before bed.
Fri Mar 27 12:33am @Z_Everson easy on the wine, made roasted spicy cauliflower and asparagus, a yummy eggplant dish, and a tarragon feta lentil salad. i rock. 12:34am @girl_tm yeah @majnoona is gonna organize a 5-7 for us. i'm psyched :) 12:09pm Hackers are heroes. Power comes from sharing information. Gerry McKiernan on Facebook Generation vs. Fortune 500 http://bit.ly/ McKiernan-wsj 12:11pm @majnoona that last dent likely of interest to your students
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1:35pm @cameronstiff Whoah. Can't believe I am missing that. Dammit. Gonna see you tomorrow. Yay! 2:08pm Bailouts for CTV and CanWest, but cutbacks for the CBC? Save the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation http://bit.ly/save-the-cbc 5:49pm @evan talk was great. i was a bit nervous but @majnooona calmed me down :)
Sat Mar 28 3:18pm Improving OurParliament.ca.
Sun Mar 29 7:47pm @Z_Everson Eggplant recipe? 8:17pm @Z_Everson okay so made it up as i went along - will send via email
Mon Mar 30 12:07am 2009 Feminist Porn Award Nominees http:// www.goodforher.com/2009_nominees 12:27am @chebuctonian ouch. brokerage fees suck. 9:57am Happy because had the best 40th birthday party ever. My friends rock.
Wed Apr 1 3:08pm Take clean waste from industry and factories and get it into the hands of artists and creators. Cool! http://www.mamontreal.qc.ca/
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3:12pm @evan Will you hate me if I like the April Fool's theme (layout -- not the background)? BTW the Brintey really got me. Such a sucker I am! 3:16pm @inevernu Glad to see you already there safe and complaining ;)
Thu Apr 2 11:52am CRTC Internet Traffic Management in Canada eConsultation. Guidance? Help me! http://isppractices.econsultation.ca/ 12:47pm http://twitpic.com/2q2ub - @martinlessard Just showed me this. Awesome, engaging idea. Can't wait to show Liam! 12:48pm duh.... website is http://llcdn.geready.com/smartgrid/#/ augmented_reality 12:49pm @girl_tm Nice! Should have bought it when you tipped me off ;)
Fri Apr 3 2:31pm #OpenMontreal planning meeting tonight. Putting beer in the fridge now. Nervous about film crew. Details: http:// www.MontrealOuvert.ca
Sat Apr 4 11:53pm With Liam... He says "just one" Lost and then we can read ;)
Mon Apr 6 11:31pm @millette Robin thanks for creating this list. Yay!
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11:58pm @Z_Everson Liam claiming not to know what you're talking about re 2Amy's. Confirm smart kid.
Wed Apr 8 2:55pm Social Computing with Mobile Phones: Modeling, Sensing and Sharing http://tinyurl.com/cy3pck
Tue Apr 14 2:44pm @Moscovici Natalia Morari, Moldovan protest organizer, charged by government http://bit.ly/Morari #pman 2:56pm @EthanZ 1, NYT 0, re protests in Moldova (thanks to @chebuctonian for setting me straight). And people wonder why I read blogs not news. 3:02pm Unpacking The Twitter Revolution in Moldova @EthanZ http://bit.ly/CUEW #pman 5:28pm Save the CBC petition has over 125 thousand signatories. Next step: Write to your MP http://www.friends.ca/yourMP
Wed Apr 15 12:10am Preparing for next year. Facebook Haggadah (thanks to @EthanZ) http://9a4440c5.fb.joyent.us/haggadah/ultraModern2.php 1:03am @inevernu presents !StationC at #OpenEverything Berlin. Of course, he's just practicing for !MontrealOuvert ;) http://bit.ly/ stationcberlin 1:06am @hughmcguire troublemaker
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Thu Apr 16 10:59am Off to see Jeffrey Sachs http://tinyurl.com/c9sqy9
Fri Apr 24 11:34am SUNY call for proposals on conference about class http://lists.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa? A2=ind0904&L=SOCNET&T=0&F=&S=&P=56793
Mon Apr 27 10:23am Harvard Political Networks Conference. June 11-13. Wish I could go. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/netgov/html/ colloquia_HPNC2009.htm 5:09pm @evan How many users are there on Identica?
Tue Apr 28 12:25pm Thinking about Dr Wicked. Write or Die! http:// lab.drwicked.com/writeordie.html
Wed Apr 29 5:40pm Livable, walkable neighborhoods. Jane's walk this weekend. Join in! http://tinyurl.com/defbwg 9:39pm radio canada, organic sicilian wine, stinky soeur angele cheese, finncrisps 11:52pm word of the day: procrasturbate http://tinyurl.com/d5cfus
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Thu Apr 30 12:12am @Z_Everson Thanks. I was taking some heat for that. Was told not so classy. Ha. 12:17am sofi and mike are harassing me for twittering 12:28am twitterbation 10:03am Writing. Business planning. 4:24pm Liam plays this racist iPhone game. I freaked and explained that victims would never be white. Good to see in news: http://bit.ly/ racistgame
Fri May 1 11:18pm Reading about cybercartography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Cybercartography
Wed May 6 6:03pm How we create by building on each other's ideas. Mike Love's beautiful Genealogy of Influence dataset http://mike-love.net/
Thu May 7 2:57pm Hypertext 2009 conference to use RFID chips to track and visualize real-time physical proximity between participants http:// www.ht2009.org/
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Mon May 11 2:01pm Cornell University Library Removes All Restrictions on Use of Public Domain Reproductions http://bit.ly/cornellopenaccess
Tue May 12 10:08am Who knew? There's a government-run "Banque de dpannage linguistique" http://www.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/ressources/bdl.html 5:56pm @peterdeitz SocialActions is #1! Congrats. http://bit.ly/odT8a
Wed May 13 10:04am Trying to attend Montreal #webcamp and #webcom at the same time. 10:08am Attending Jessica Lipnack's talk on Leading Innovation when People Are Far Apart #webcom 11:25am Dropped in on #webcamp for a few minutes. Great discussion happening. Ugggh why can't I be in two places at once :( 3:43pm Can you move your preferences to a new system? Are you in control of your data? @afroginthevalley #webcom 4:17pm Human evolution is a process of rupture? Divergent ideas, technologies. Not adaptation. Herv Fischer. #webcom 4:18pm Example: Ethics does not exist in nature. Humans created it. Ethics is the opposite of natural selection. 4:25pm Herv Fischer: now in an era of fragmentation reunited by association, links, hyperlinks. 5:00pm Gabe McIntyre: After you die, do you want to be kept alive on the Internet? Virtual wills? OMG.
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Tue May 19 3:15pm @nikolai35 interviewed me this morning about the Dell/ a marketing fail. So tired of vacuous "communities" http://bit.ly/ nicomarketingmag
Wed May 20 11:25am Microsoft apps from China mine the web... and maybe soon Twitter http://bit.ly/BN5lf 11:33am Research shows friends have bigger impact on health & happiness than family despite low contact & proximity http://bit.ly/ friendsrock
Fri May 22 9:38pm Porn for new moms. (More like erotica... and even that is generous.) So lightweight yet so disturbing. http://bit.ly/pornfornewmoms 9:40pm @chebuctonian Chocolate! More! 10:05pm @chebuctonian Aaaaah. Very good. Feel much better now. Thanks ;) 10:18pm @christopheradams @hughmcguire @stml Who's on your list of top five publishers? 10:49pm @christopheradams Thanks! Lovely. So little time, so many books :) 11:25pm @hughmcguire Eeeep. Good question. Let's say best mix of curating, content, design/typography/packaging, engaging readers, marketing
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Mon May 25 2:00pm @hughmcguire Thanks for your top five. Looking them up now :) 4:51pm Producing Youth, Producing Media. Miriam's thesis online. Great participatory media resource http://thesis.mirverburg.net/ 6:43pm @SilviaCai Do you really want to know the answer to that question? :)
Tue May 26 1:54pm @olivierthereaux were you at @net2mtl meetup "Online Collaboration for Distributed Teams"? Writing up notes and want to ensure proper credit 2:13pm @olivierthereaux Great! Happy it was helpful. I've been obsessing over the topic, will send you link to what i've learned since. #net2mtl 6:42pm The future of print in the age of the net & mobility? Discussion June 29 http://bit.ly/internet-media-imprime (via @sylvaincarle) 6:51pm Walkie Bits apparent craze in Japan. Sure wish my poop did this http://bit.ly/floweringpoop. Hmmm.... #compostingtoilet ? (via @LivelyIvy). 8:00pm Tweaking @artefatica guide on how to make content open ! openpublishing http://www.artefati.ca/contribute/ 8:05pm @seanpower Cute picture. Truly worksafe and nice twist. 8:17pm Is resilience the next big thing? No more sustainability? Hmmmm... http://bit.ly/EMON8 (via @juneholley)
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Wed May 27 1:19am @nealemvf @chebuctonian @cascio @juneholley I had to let Sustainability know. I hope she'll still love me: http://bit.ly/meetresilience 9:51am Gift-giving, storytelling, visiting. From the !Kung to Facebook we share survival strategies http://bit.ly/giftstoryvisit (via @valdiskrebs) 4:04pm Listening to @evan 's Adultnapper via iTunes. Wireless access to other people's music libraries rocks :) 8:32pm Wyclef Jean: Stripper Song 9:16pm @JohnBaku Your updates are not worksafe
Thu May 28 3:46pm @hughmcguire I don't think it will stop anytime soon (@librivox) 3:48pm @stevesong Open Source and the new pragmatism Economist article - http://is.gd/Impf 4:15pm Updated the Station C Community Manifesto: http://bit.ly/ station-c-manifesto 4:47pm KinkCamp. How's that for a compelling un-conference theme? http://bit.ly/kinkcamp (via @JohnBaku) 7:24pm @artefatica Open Video Conference in NYC. More transparency, interoperability, decentralization http://bit.ly/openvideonewyork 8:44pm New research in the UK shows that users who are allowed by law to access and copy content are stymied by DRM. http://bit.ly/DRMpirates
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Fri May 29 1:07am Talking with @girl_tm 11:40am Google Wave: Next big collaboration, communication & networking tool? With a business model. http://bit.ly/waveblog, http:// bit.ly/wavevideo 3:48pm ProPublica: Investigative journalists that want you to steal their stories (via @sfllaw) http://bit.ly/TSQpl 4:19pm @nikolai35 What? You can't read their About section? "the Sandler Foundation has made a major, multi-year commitment to fund ProPublica" 5:46pm @artefatica ISBN numbers. Anyone know of a good (read: cheap) barcode generator? What I've collected so far: http://bit.ly/isbnbarcode 7:27pm @brunoboutot Twitter Art! Love it :) Bon WE
Sat May 30 1:00am @hughmcguire wow. spread the love and logic surrounding true conservatism. MLK though? Really. 5:24pm Convinced more than ever. Coworking spaces are nextgeneration telecentres. I think that puts us at telecentre 3.0 :)
Sun May 31 5:34pm @hughmcguire Just watched the first 30mins of the video. I'm impressed so far. From user/collaboration POV. 5:50pm Shavuot was this weekend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavuot
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Mon Jun 1 1:42pm Samin Heater. Great writing music. (via @sofile) http:// bit.ly/3OKX1 5:06pm #bing Why would I switch? Be cool if I could search for CC-licensed content like here: http://search.creativecommons.org/ @creativecommons
Tue Jun 2 6:08pm My new favorite restaurant: http://depanneurlepickup.com/ 6:31pm #W3C exists because of crisis (via @karlpro) http://bit.ly/cAh3u
Wed Jun 3 5:17pm US Homeland Security instructional video 1. Do they think we're stupid? 2. Should we stay home if not white? #fail http://bit.ly/ whitey-only 5:18pm BTW that was via @zeverson
Tue Jun 9 7:21pm @JohnBaku Please define "affiliate" in this context ;)
Wed Jun 10 1:45am Internet use = more real friends. Why? Increasing social media, diversity, mobile connections. http://bit.ly/morefriends (via @barrywellman)
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10:00pm @whiteafrican Censorship by Flickr. This is disturbing: http://bit.ly/Mm1oc
Thu Jun 11 5:33pm Wow. Wish I had gone to this. Beyond Broadcast 2009 #bb2009 http://bb2009.uscannenberg.org/ 7:21pm Creative Commons? How about the "Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License" http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ (via @hughmcguire via @bopuc) 7:27pm MobileVoices = Immigrant workers in control of their stories, publishing online http://bit.ly/mobilevoices (via @jizobizo + kudos to @fbar) 8:54pm @mariaigarrido Social movements use of networking sites. I'd ask on two great lists: http://www.aoir.org/ & http://www.insna.org 9:39pm I have a love-hate relationship with my email.
Fri Jun 12 11:06am @juneholley Yay co-working! Check out @StationC's community manifesto http://bit.ly/station-c-manifesto. Links to your Appalachian work. 11:06am @chebuctonian I feel for you.
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11:13am What @girl_tm is wearing today to work. This is why @StationC & coworking rocks (via @thetoine). http://twitpic.com/771an 2:12pm Grand Text Auto: Blog-based peer review. http://bit.ly/ grandtextauto 4:14pm @mdufort Twitpocalypse? I am not sure whether to congratulate you or to cry. 4:15pm @mdufort Does the Twitpocalypse mean we should all switch to #Identica? 4:22pm Noticing that Identica's search tool works, and Twitter's is not even for stuff I remember posting. 4:44pm French court strikes down Sarkozy internet law, boosts defenders of #freeculture on the web http://bit.ly/french-frees
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Sat Jun 13 12:09pm Photos & stories of children of Rwanda genocide rapists. Names changed to "protect" them. Not enough... http://bit.ly/rwandarape-children 5:21pm At Foulab. Finished basic electronics workshop and now ready to learn Arduino. http://bit.ly/foulab
Sun Jun 14 9:54pm Following #iranelection. Wow. http://twitter.com/#search?q= %23iranelection 9:55pm Wonder how many folks in Iran have access to read or post tweets #iranelection 10:13pm Reading up on Mousavi. Ordered 1988 execution of 30,000 political prisoners? #iranelection http://bit.ly/kUDiN 10:20pm @Cowboyisanut According to Wikipedia Mousavi was made "head of the Council of Cultural Revolution" in 1981 #iranelection 10:29pm People tweeting direct from Iran http://bit.ly/irandirect (via @PhilippeMartin) #iranelection 10:35pm Germany summons Iranian ambassador over election #iranelection http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/ idUSTRE55D1Z820090615 10:41pm @karlpro Mindmaps orgy http://www.topicscape.com/ mindmaps/
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Mon Jun 15 1:52am Mousavi & 1988 executions "fact" removed from Wikipedia. Editor claims only Khomeni had such power #iranelection http://bit.ly/ what-is-true 2:50pm Politics closer to home. Participating in the development of the Mile End. #opencity http://bit.ly/ForumCitoyenMileEnd2009 3:45pm @hrheingold "Obama campaign=existence proof" Hmmm. Not sure about this because the political context is so different. 4:15pm @hrheingold agreed. and yes: event vs movement. so many #iranelection tweets but little understanding of history, context, real engagement 4:16pm @hrheingold And I include myself among those who lack understanding #frustrating 4:18pm @hrheingold Participation Camp looks like v interesting upcoming event. Nomic for community-building. http://mudball.net/ pcamp09/ #PCamp09 4:35pm Financial services for the poor. Mobile Money Summit in Barcelona http://mobilemoneysummit.com/ 4:43pm Cisco Disco. Clever collaboration tech video. Why not embeddable to help it go viral? #marketingfail http://bit.ly/ ciscocollaboration
Thu Jun 18 1:57am Liam with me. Sleeping now. He's getting bigger. Growing up away from me as he should. Hard saying goodbye to each stage: baby, toddler, boy
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5:10pm Going to Foulab with Liam for the PicoCricket Jam http://bit.ly/ picocricket 6:08pm Liam is digging Shannon's raptor rap http://bit.ly/raptor-rap 6:12pm @amyoilman We miss you too! Let's have a skype date so the boys (and mommies) can talk! 7:16pm @tweletype Liam is at picojam at foulab. 10:44pm Map of the Iranian blogosphere, with possibility to show censored blogs http://bit.ly/persian-blogosphere #iranelection (via Carl Nordlund)
Fri Jun 19 12:22am #goodpussy has overtaken #iranelection as top trending twitter topic. wisdom of the crowd? 11:30am Contemplating Riefenstahl. Right & wrong, responsibility, great talent, redemption, evil. So many questions. http://bit.ly/ Leni_Riefenstahl
Sat Jun 20 1:20am Newsweeklies dying as The Economist thrives. It's the content, stupid... and because it's like a good blog?! http://bit.ly/news-magazines 9:51pm Gaurav Mishra's 4Cs Social Media Framework http:// bit.ly/131pcB
Sun Jun 21 11:11pm Liam goes back to DC tomorrow. Sad.
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Tue Jun 23 4:03pm Create a persona for your online brand http://bit.ly/new-mediapersona & http://bit.ly/Colonel-Tribune 4:06pm Boring labor is a threat to your humanity. http://bit.ly/workmatters
Wed Jun 24 5:53pm Blurb now does PDF to book http://bit.ly/jwVEI
Thu Jun 25 2:12pm Data mining & SNA for integrating Semantic Web & Web 2.0. Journal of Web Semantics call for papers. http://bit.ly/SemanticWebWeb20 2:25pm Fenton Communications guide to Web2.0 and social media. Great for nonprofits. http://bit.ly/fenton-socialmedia 3:04pm Unmanaging knowledge. How to tell the boss to back off. http:// bit.ly/unmanaging-knowledge 3:19pm XC3N's electronic music inspired by old-skool videogames. Awesome! @foulab @tweletype http://bit.ly/XC3N 5:00pm My thoughts on Unmanaging Knowledge http://bit.ly/12rT9R 8:44pm How Twitter has become central to @jmaxsfu's intellectual and professional existence. Great post. http://bit.ly/MessageOrientedLife 10:07pm Digital revolutionaries: What's your Plan B? http://bit.ly/digitalrevolutionaries (based on article tweeted by @hrheingold)
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Fri Jun 26 3:55pm I think Patrick Watson may be practicing in the home accross the alley from me. Does he live on l'Esplanade? Whoever it is is loud but good. 5:14pm @jschouinard No playing in the house. But all windows open so loud. Would really like to know who it is for sure... 5:16pm @girl_tm oooooooh. no. you are perfect as is. good thing Chinese Boy knows this ;) 6:41pm @chebuctonian what's that in the bottom-right of this image? http://store.makerbot.com/catalog/product/gallery/image/98/id/47/
Sat Jun 27 10:29am Requesting an invite for Tweetboard Alpha (http://tweetboard.com) by @140ware, for my site: http:// www.facilitatingchange.org 10:30am Citizen participation in government. ParticipationCamp on now in NYC. Great live feed. Twitter #PCamp09 http://mudball.net/pcamp09/ 10:44am Roundup of ParticipationCamp's use of social media. Easy to embed their video right into my blog! http://bit.ly/participation-camp #PCamp09 10:49am Mary Joyce & Gaurav Mishra present on digital activism. Facebook. SMS. Blogs. Online-Offline Campaigns. #Pcamp09 10:52am @sdohrn This is cool being able to attend virtually and then seeing your tweets (live from the room?). Works well! #PCamp09 10:54am Online activism is a misnomer. All change happens offline. Effective actions connect to direct and local action. #PCamp09
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11:05am @Gauravonomics Reviews digital activism in India. Lots of examples and ideas. Download PDF of his talk http://bit.ly/V6tl #pcamp09 11:09am Realizing that @Gauravonomics wrote post on 4Cs social media framework. Components of good campaign. http://bit.ly/4cs-socialmedia #pcamp09 11:12am @sdohrn re Good vs Evil uses. I wrote about that the other day: http://bit.ly/digital-revolutionaries 11:14am Dammit my #PCamp09 feed just cut off #endoftheworld 11:15am RT @sdohrn Gaurav: Vote Report India based on Ushahidi. http://swiftapp.org (@whiteafrican) 11:16am Mining social data so you can make sense of it. Google page rank. Amazon reccomendations. How to use for digital activism? #PCamp09 11:21am @Gauravonomics The Internet is value agnostic. Everyone can use these tools to advance their agenda. No distributed benign value. #PCamp09 11:23am @sdohrn Someone should ask about who controls the network. What happens when they shut it down? #PCamp09 11:28am Is reporting enough? Gurav: Sometimes transparency & information enough. Harder is to use that info to change institutions. #PCamp09 11:29am Gurav: Changing institutions is a slow, long-term process. #PCamp09 11:30am Gurav: Those who control or access the network get their voices and reality amplified. Not the whole picture. #PCamp09 11:30am Mary: Shutting off the network politicizes the situation. Cute cat theory. #PCamp09
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11:31am Gruav: Allow mainstream networks to remain up and ban key words. So cute cats stay up and no one notices. #PCamp09 11:38am Wow quite an experience attending virtually. Really satisfying. And @sdohrn even asked my question for me :) Congrats to #PCamp09 team! 11:41am @katykat Oh wow. Nice list. We're singing the same song. Libraries rock :) 11:45am @katykat Absolutely. Well if you sleep at least whole thing is archived... jut matter of finding time to go back over it later. 11:47am @prepostra I meant the local or national network. See first chapter of Darin Barney book. The Networked Society.
Sun Jun 28 10:26am Getting ready to run workshop for the TellingMyStory.org team. Reviewing audiences, updating web, social media http://bit.ly/ tellingmystory 3:12pm Explaining Twitter to the TellingMyStory.org team. 5:18pm Disappointed that not able to attend Participation Camp today. Good thing it's so well documented... so I can still learn and think #PCamp09 5:28pm @Gauravonomics The Curious Case of NightJack Richard Horton: What Does It Mean For Blogger Anonymity? http://bit.ly/Cp4k2
Mon Jun 29 2:10am BUG is a modular, open source system for building devices. Looks like PicoCricket for grownups http://www.buglabs.net/ (via @karlpro)
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11:16am @whiteafrican Great list of Twitter tools: http://bit.ly/6Mo13 (by @orangejack) 11:30am In a confusing, chaotic, and sad place. So much loss lately. Reassessing. Staying close to home. Regrouping. 11:38am Map of connectedness. Apparently Canada a good place to get away from it all (via @stevesong) http://tinyurl.com/dl2hhn 12:19pm Personal Democracy Forum on now in NYC. Everyone there. Too bad don't have #PCamp09 setup so I can "attend". http://bit.ly/PDFconference 12:22pm @cshirky I read lots about our relationship to failure. How important it is to innovation. But it's still culturally difficult taboo even. 12:56pm Culture Machine review of Brett Gaylor's RIP Manifesto. Current issue on Pirate Philosophy. http://bit.ly/RIP-review (via @jmaxsfu) 6:12pm Social tools for social change. Socialbrite. Looks like a starfish organisation. http://www.socialbrite.org/ 9:18pm Design by committee is always bad. From logos to HCI. Some thoughts on why http://bit.ly/design-envy and http://bit.ly/foss-usabilitysucks 9:38pm Tim O'Reilly: Twitter as publishing, amplifying the community. http://bit.ly/twitter-as-publishing (but where is room for deep thinking?)
Tue Jun 30 1:19pm Mozilla Japan + Shiretoko Nature Foundation campaign uses canvas element to grow "trees" all over the web http://bit.ly/ discovershiretoko
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1:50pm Coworking space, Sao Paolo. House of Digital Culture. Focus on open & digital innovation. http://bit.ly/houseofdigitalculture (via @msurman) 2:06pm Call for papers. Using SNA to study the management of social groups: eugenics, race, reproductive health... http://bit.ly/sna-eugenicsrace 2:37pm Looking for freelancers with experience writing about international development and social change projects. Especially EG, D&G, Health, ICTD 3:49pm Like hairstyle, your brand should evolve with time http://bit.ly/ brand-evolution 4:01pm Nice @MindComet blogs. Different but feel like part of same team. Too bad no RSS from the aggregator. http://ow.ly/gcoX (via @whiteafrican) 4:09pm Ridiculous funny videos as website. Love it! Boone Oakley ad agency tells its story. http://bit.ly/boone-oakley (via @digidestruct) 5:22pm @stevesong @timoreilly: Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted? http://bit.ly/18p5kf <- powerful article 5:23pm @whiteafrican @emergingfutures The biggest opportunity for BoP is post-consumption: http://bit.ly/yNeza 5:30pm Peer-to-peer lending. Think eBay Meets Match.com. Does it work? http://bit.ly/p2p-banking #financialservices (via @openp2pdesign) 5:31pm Cities, architecture as the organization of energy. http://bit.ly/ architecture-of-energy (via @openp2pdesign) 5:35pm @mindcomet Thanks. Subscribed. For some reason was not appearing in Firefox bar (the only place I look, apparently!)
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Wed Jul 1 4:12pm Interesting use of video on a home page. Had to listen to the whole thing. Integrates with navigation. http://www.vistage.com/
Thu Jul 2 1:39pm Interesting tattoo artist: http://www.yourmeatismine.com/ 1:44pm And another. Beautiful. http://www.eroby.net/tattoos-scars/ 1:52pm This http://www.flickr.com/photos/sylviels/3142600800/ looked better as graffiti in Valparaiso, Chile http://bit.ly/butterfly-death 2:49pm Testing to see if my laconica bar is still feeding to Identica > Twitter > Facebook 2:51pm @evan Thanks for nudge. My Identica seems to be fighting with my Twitter. They're not on speaking terms. Laconicabar still working. 2:52pm Ahhhh. Now it is working. Weird. 3:02pm #BareConductive Digital tattoos connect electronics & body. Scary, fascinating. http://ow.ly/gmPE (via @hrheingold, interesting to @foulab?) 4:41pm Viral loops, perpetual growth machines. Is Ning a model? http:// bit.ly/viral-loops 5:28pm Joyojeet in 2004. Berkeley students doing research in Rio favelas. Collective travel blog link at bottom. http://bit.ly/Joyojeet-2004 #ictd 6:22pm Why does Captcha never think I am human? Should I be worried?
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Fri Jul 3 12:39am @whiteafrican Obama's new media strategy for Africa. First to Ghana. http://bit.ly/1DETb #obamaghana 1:38am Visual search engines http://spezify.com/ & http:// www.viewzi.com/ 1:48am WordPress as a flexible relational database? Looking into Pods http://pods.uproot.us/ 12:57pm The algae-on-a-ping-pong-ball model for developing the best solutions to critical social issues http://bit.ly/michael-thompson 1:04pm @evan Congrats to you and Twyka team! New Kenyan microblogging service based on #laconica. http://twyka.com (via @kevinouma @whiteafrican) 8:45pm Spent the afternoon day helping/learning @kimberlymok build a balcony garden. Fun! But the weather sucked :( 9:33pm Ironing & listening to EarIdeas favorites. http://bit.ly/bPb52 10:09pm Liam in Eilat: Today we went snorkeling & saw many amazing things below the water, like needle fish, puffers, rainbow fish, and a lot more. 10:41pm Listening to Yihong Ding discuss his research and the potential of the semantic web. http://bit.ly/semantic-web-ding #learning 11:09pm Really nice edition of Spark. Go Nora! http://bit.ly/ethan-openmapping (@ethanz has nice bit on it)
Sat Jul 4 12:01am Adaptive Technology Resource Centre hacks Wii controller to create a hands-free control: http://bit.ly/17Yhf5
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9:57am @karlpro. You get the prize for best tweets ever. So much great stuff, resources, lots of learning and new thinking. Thanks! 10:53am More from Liam in Eilat: From our room high up you can see the red sea and the big red mountains (I sleep in a little loft). #mykidisthebest 6:15pm Liam in Eilat: I also went snorkeling today again, I got a ride from a big black and blue fish, bigger than me. 6:23pm Just got back from having coffee with Luc Lvesque http://bit.ly/ Luc-Levesque. Discussing issues around http://roerichproject.artefati.ca/. 9:59pm Love > A great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. http://bit.ly/ zizek-love 10:15pm Home online on a Saturday night #getalife
Sun Jul 5 12:38am Jonathan Maltus, one of the first garigistes of Bordeaux. Long, fascinating interview. Talks dirty. http://bit.ly/jonathan-maltus 1:22am Bedtime story by Darin http://bit.ly/barney-google Insomnia? Great lecture = sleep because gets you out of your head (+healthier than pills) 9:46am Marching band just went by my house. This is the type of wacky stuff I missed so much when living in DC. 10:18pm Wow. Very loud salsa at St-Viateur & Waverly. 11:42pm iek is a trashy guy. Love this excerpt from Astra Taylors The Examined Life. Forgive the digression. http://bit.ly/zizek-trashy-guy 11:44pm @inevernu Happy to take your 'old' computer should you decide to purchase ;)
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Tue Jul 7 12:58am @oceanpark Nice to know I'm not alone in my love for smelling books :) 3:46am Liam now in Nahalal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahalal
Wed Jul 8 6:16pm Off to Alpha Blondy tonight. Hope this stupid summer cold doesn't keep me down. http://bit.ly/3KeYaX
Thu Jul 9 11:27pm Harvard/Berkman Free Culture Research Workshop Call For Participation http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5486 11:42pm openp2pdesign Facilitating Collaboration through Design Games [paper] http://bit.ly/17z5Fj 11:44pm @openp2pdesign Website aggregates communication tools used in design processes for complex systems http:// www.servicedesigntools.org/ 11:49pm Social Media 4 Development Workshop (via @sdohrn) http:// bit.ly/HJT4c
Fri Jul 10 12:09am What if Generalist vs Expert was a Mistake? http://bit.ly/jVGBa (via @sniffles) 12:37am A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government, and the internet http://www.usnowfilm.com/
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Sat Jul 11 8:33pm Hanging out with my girls from Brazil & DC. Impromptu party. Visitors welcome :)
Mon Jul 13 9:05am Awesome new #creativecommons music. Hello new week! http://bit.ly/61-CC (via @joi) 9:48am HiFi Hustlers #creativecommons #music http://bit.ly/yTwOV 10:14am Bankai tracks AND source files free #creativecommons http:// www.bankai.fm/qsp/ 1:02pm Not impressed with constant cold and rainy weather in Montreal. Where the f@#$ is summer?! 1:22pm @jeremyclarke Incredibly well-designed & hilarious sign vandalism outside Ottawa: http://is.gd/1xlBc "One square was left blank. Bad move" 1:57pm @LivelyIvy Whoah. Two times sexy? 6:42pm Iran's freaky Facebook police. Be careful when you travel. #iranelection http://bit.ly/facebook-police-iran 6:54pm @LivelyIvy Puzzle Bots trailer! http://bit.ly/L3pxr Robots! Sexual tension! A soon-ish release date! 9:03pm @msurman Bedtime story: Culture Machine review of RIP Manifesto. Current issue on Pirate Philosophy. http://bit.ly/RIP-review (via @jmaxsfu) 10:57pm Writing about hot lingerie for http://belabumbum.com/. So fun and love the triple-bottom-line approach: http://bit.ly/belabumbum-jobs
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11:10pm And @zizekspeaks wrote copy for @AbercrombieNY. Apparently better than kissing ass for tenure. Just sayin' http://bit.ly/ zizek-chinos 11:12pm @msurman The food is hot :)
Tue Jul 14 12:52am An anthropological introduction to YouTube http://bit.ly/lpe9p 10:06am Mozilla chats with Daily Kos founder gathering learning as it builds its Creative Collective http://bit.ly/mozilla-creative-community 10:20am @evan Another African microblogging site built on #laconica. Yay! This time in Nigeria http://www.naijapulse.com/ (via @ethanz) 10:23am Hmmm. Will #identica/#laconica support social change if it ends up being platform of choice for grassroots organizers? Stay tuned. 10:24am My #laconicabar is making Firefox blow up. Ugh. 10:30am @postdocal Porto! I see Patricia Aufderheide will be there. She's great. Hope y'all are doing social reporting http://bit.ly/ socialreporting 10:45am @participatory Official guidelines for the use of social media at Intel. http://bit.ly/Yvjgm 10:51am Congrelate: Aggregates & crunches data from Congress, Census, OpenSecrets, GovTrack, etc. http://bit.ly/congrelate (via @participatory) 10:58am Israeli cellcom ad. Light and fun view of the wall. I'm at once sickened and laughing. Thoughts? http://bit.ly/10NvN9 (via @zizekspeaks) 11:50am US State Dept. workers beg for Firefox + Reviewing visa applicants Facebook accounts? (via @marshallk) http://smub.it/laq
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11:52am @postdocal Well even just a twitter and flickr hashtag is a good start :) 1:24pm @porteparole Infrastructure standards: From concrete to data (via Tracey Lauriault) http://bit.ly/zGohg 4:50pm @inevernu tweet sums up all that is wrong with word telecentre. See http://bit.ly/telecentrefail VS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecentre 9:09pm Killer Puttanesca! http://www.facilitatingchange.org/2009/07/ puttanesca/
Wed Jul 15 1:06am @tweletype Oh tweletype. No worries. We love you. Keep writing!
Fri Jul 17 10:34pm Lentil sprouts, radishes, cucumber, fresh basil, chopped tomato & garlic, salt, enough plain yogurt to make it wet. !shortrecipes 10:37pm puttanesca: anchovies, capers, olives, tomato, parsley, jalapeno, pepper, olive oil, spaghetti http://bit.ly/whorepasta !shortrecipes 10:39pm Nice: @Joi Caught myself talking to my tomatoes in the green house. Ate cucumber off of the vine and felt kind of like an insect. 11:22pm Very happy about !shortrecipes. One more reason why #Identica rocks. Others? Open, hackable. Add yours! http://bit.ly/ microrecipes
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Sat Jul 18 1:35pm Gadget Teardowns: Disassembly photos, hardware analysis, commentary. #hardwarehacks (via @bruces) http://bit.ly/Teardown 4:27pm Amazon deletes books from Kindle readers without permission. The irony? Titles by Orwell... http://bit.ly/big-brother-amazon (via @jmaxsfu) 4:51pm Eric Amber to Quebec group requesting French emails: "bigots" & "go fuck yourself" @fagstein great post http://bit.ly/mYr6D (via @inevernu) 9:42pm At my mom's 65th birthday party. Surprise showed up: mariachi band!
Mon Jul 20 12:32am Les Vins de Vienne: Crozes-Hermitage, 2000 http://bit.ly/ crozes-hermitage-2000 11:01am When you institutionalize a problem the first goal of the institution immediately shifts to self preservation. (paraphrasing Clay Shirkey) 2:27pm @chebuctonian It was from my mom's friend's private cellar. He bought it at the SAQ... seven years ago. Later years hopefully also good ;) 2:37pm @zeverson's take on gazpacho. His contribution? Absolut Peppar! Figures :) http://bit.ly/2bPTV
Tue Jul 21 2:20am Tim Hwang at Participation Camp: Gaming Open Government Data http://bit.ly/gaming-open-govt-data #pcamp09
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1:19pm Podcasting question. What are the best kind of lapel mics and cables? They will plug into a Zomm H4. 5:49pm A tool that crowd-sources copy editing for WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, and HTML pages. Wow! http://www.goosegrade.com/
Wed Jul 22 1:33pm "show donors the specific impact of their contributions" provides gps coordinates. great article via @zeverson http://bit.ly/charity-water 2:59pm I hate hate hate it when people send me docx files. Ugh :( 5:07pm @sebpaquet if they are they're now warned! 6:34pm Hey jew! Gotta tattoo? Relax. You can still be buried next to your mother. Even Chabad says so. http://bit.ly/chabad-tattoo 9:43pm Le Festival du DocuMenteur. Fun! http:// www.documenteur.com/ 9:58pm @futuremajnoona Hope to see you soon. Hmmm. Wondering if that is possible if you're always in the future! :) 10:00pm Congrats! Yaaaaay Identica! @evan Just won the open source award for best social networking hacker. Woohoo! http://short.to/kb2q 10:24pm FAST @inevernu http://bit.ly/3ct5e5 & SLOW @sdohrn http:// bit.ly/1ElzuJ 10:25pm @thetoine dude. we don't want to see your monitor! we want BABY photos. jeeez :) 11:12pm @chebuctonian tease 11:34pm Udell on civic data: "lots of geek navel-gazing in this space but darned few tangible outcomes" http://bit.ly/civic-navel (via @karlpro)
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11:42pm Liam will be with me (for a whole month!) in less than 10 days. #happymommy Almost 13 now... these days are over: http://bit.ly/ babyliam
Thu Jul 23 10:06am @evan Has the connect>twitter feature been removed? Now I only see connect>facebook. Funny as still seems to work. Explaining to a friend...
Fri Jul 24 1:36am (1) it's all about content. get blogging + creating! (2) community? great facilitation + mailing list comes first, fancy platform can wait 1:36am Those were today's two learnings :) 1:41am @futureprefontaine Sorry I stayed up so late. Again. I really am trying to get to bed earlier! 9:57am Montreal #iranelection protest Saturday, July 25, at 1:30PM at St-Catherine & Atwater. Tomorrow! http://bit.ly/nobel-laureates-protest 11:27am Off to Seattle tomorrow... Sunny and hot all week. Buh-bye rainy Montreal! http://www.komonews.com/weather/planner 2:52pm Twitter posts 101 guide for businesses. http:// business.twitter.com/twitter101
Sat Jul 25 6:00pm On the new Seattle light rail from airport to downtown. Nice! #publictransportation
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8:25pm @LivelyIvy @oceanpark Girls, girls, girls. I can hear you talking! No, I have no fondue set. Looking so forward to seeing the both of you :)
Sun Jul 26 10:51pm Still raining in Montreal? Gorgeous sunny day here in Seattle. Went canoeing. Nanananananana.
Wed Jul 29 11:05am Enterprise social networking (formerly known as the intranet). Opinions on best platform/combo? BlueKiwi? OpenAtrium? GoogleWave?
Thu Jul 30 12:51am tired yet inspired 12:54am 100 Twitter Tips for Academics http://bit.ly/academic-twits (via @martinlessard) 8:06pm Do you dig libraries? Check out WalkingPaper... http://bit.ly/ walkingpaper 11:39pm When novelists sober up. http://bit.ly/9x0aW
Fri Jul 31 6:58pm Information in networks: distribution, diffusion, value, influence on social & economic outcomes. Call 4 papers: http:// www.winworkshop.net/ 7:04pm Patterns in complex systems. All networks converge into similar architectures, allowing for predictions http://bit.ly/scalefreenetworks
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Sat Aug 1 11:35pm Stuck in Burlington because Liam missed his flight. All hotels booked. If you know someone here who I can crash with let me know. 11:40pm @mongkolroek Glad you like the blog. Yay! :) 11:48pm Gonna twitter from the business centre at the Burlington Hilton until they kick me out! Wonder how long I can stay in here?
Sun Aug 2 5:28pm Burlington adventure over. Found some cool couchsurfing folks. Home now with Liam & @oceanpark. Nap then supper.
Mon Aug 3 9:31am Developing a new model for communications in social change projects. Would love your input on first part http://bit.ly/ communications20 9:46am @hughmcguire On Gawker, Washington Post & the value of (fluffy) content: http://bit.ly/8Tvo5 9:47am @mongkolroek @ethnosproject The Info Lady: A rural troubleshooter. http://tinyurl.com/n6pxcb #ict4d 2:08pm Summer office: Monkland Tennis club. Working from lawn chair by the pool. Tough to be a tennis mom. Sun glare on my computer is killing me. 6:47pm Review of Manuel Castell's new book "Communication Power" web2.0, user content, social movements, network society http://bit.ly/castells
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6:48pm @evan or hack ikea for the tables, spend on chairs :) 9:18pm @EthanZ Happy month off. Hope healing process goes super well and we have you back in Sept :) 10:14pm Unraveled sweaters show links between members of the Asian American arts community. Beautiful network visualization. http://bit.ly/ yarn 11:37pm I encouraged my friend to go water boarding instead of paddle boarding. Scary: Took me a while to understand her response. #terminologyfail
Tue Aug 4 12:10am Climate change is the ultimate collective action problem. Why have sociologists been so slow to study it? http://bit.ly/soclimate 11:31am Open government and crowdsourcing (by @michaelgeist, via @sfllaw) http://bit.ly/I1FIq 11:33am @mcdoyon Amen. 6:04pm Registration open for 2009 Association of Internet Researchers conference. http://ir10.aoir.org/?page_id=6
Thu Aug 6 11:35pm MC posts brilliant video on the client-vendor relationship. Pay me next time. http://ur1.ca/8m90 11:36pm James Bridle, of http://bookkake.com/ awesomeness, now into newspaper. Hot. http://blog.newspaperclub.co.uk/2009/08/05/ bookclubboutique/
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Sun Aug 9 8:25pm Going on vacation and so is my Inbox. All email for next week goes to the trash. No computer, blackberry, phone. Total disconnect. Later! 8:25pm @EthanZ I thought you were going to stay off for a month. Step.. back... from... the... computer...
Thu Aug 20 11:43am @evan @millette I asked in the !oe google group about the date. I'd also prefer it at another time. We'll see what folks say.
Fri Aug 21 1:29pm @evan @millette How would you feel about !oe on November 1? It's a Sunday. 2:35pm @millette Done! 2:48pm The 3 key parts of news stories you usually dont get http://bit.ly/ gNeOz 6:10pm 14-year old @IzzyZilla's most-hated teen trends. Facebook, pot peccadilloes, and leggings as pants. http://bit.ly/badteentrends
Mon Aug 24 2:37pm Muriel Duckworth dies at 100. Amazing Canadian pacifist, feminist, social & community activist. We will miss you. http://bit.ly/byemuriel
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Tue Sep 1 12:43am Hey! Designers! Help me create a new logo for awesome prison theatre project. Our website needs you badly... http:// www.tellingmystory.org/ 12:50am Gotta sleep! Leading a discussion tomorrow at http:// www.yulcamp.org on better communications and knowledge sharing models for nonprofits.
Wed Sep 2 1:54am New Zealand government considers !CreativeCommons Attribution license over crown copyright http://bit.ly/nz-cc-by 7:57pm Cut your emissions by 10% in 2010. (Beautiful campaign website for all you comms folks!) http://www.1010uk.org/ 11:28pm Social Networking on Intranets. Results of findings on Enterprise 2.0 by Jakob Nielsen. http://bit.ly/social-intranet
Thu Sep 3 1:07pm Arlington Virginia Rap. A small hint as to why I'm so happy to be back in Montreal. Buh-bye bland franchises! http://bit.ly/arlington-rap
Sat Sep 5 10:28pm Tagaroo plugin for Wordpress & Drupal. Hello there, Semantic Web http://tagaroo.opencalais.com/
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Sun Sep 6 9:33pm Needed for digital cameras: less pixels and more contextual features (geolocation, temperature, spatial orientation, etc.) (via @karlpro)
Mon Sep 7 12:19am First Battlestar Gallactica, then Lost, now Buffy. Will I ever learn? TV via computer waaaayyy too addictive. Just... one... more... 12:28am Packing for Seattle and DC (okay, procrastinating packing, more like). Missing Montreal during my favorite month :( 1:09pm The light and sound show in the tunnel between concourses at Detroit airport feels like could trigger an epileptic attack. Trippy! 3:13pm Just saw someone swipe their iPhone instead of paper boarding card. Scared and impressed all at once.
Wed Sep 9 2:43pm Why IDRC is the coolest development agency ever. They post the Impact Blues song on their website: http://bit.ly/impact-blues 4:21pm Artefatica and open publishing featured in Maisonneuve magazine. Fun! http://bit.ly/artefatica-press 6:19pm @VincentOlivier Thinking about you. Grrrrr...
Tue Sep 15 5:51pm Maker Faire Africa, killer photo set by @whiteafrican http:// bit.ly/makerfaireafrica
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Thu Sep 17 12:39am The Best Tools for Visualization http://bit.ly/eKNTX 1:13am 1924 map of international cables http://bit.ly/1bw818 1:49am PDF map of the internet (c2006) http://bit.ly/2vuixy
Sat Sep 19 2:43am Leading research universities start doing their own PR: http:// futurity.org/ 1:45pm On ferry going though the San Juan islands. Beautiful!
Mon Sep 21 12:35am Steely Dan: Pag. Forgot how good that song was. #drinkinginseattlebar 4:03pm Don't ask, don't tell, and don't analyze my social network. MIT's "gaydar" http://bit.ly/mit-gaydar
Wed Sep 30 1:07am Browsing enRoute in plane on the way back to Montreal today found articles by @z_everson & @mitchjoel. Fun! Stole some souvenir copies :)
Thu Oct 1 2:24pm Economist: Send in your essay and boxtops and you too can be a Post Op-Ed journalist (via @z_everson) http://bit.ly/economist-oped
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6:45pm Thinking about going to the Hot Club Cabaret tonight. Anyone in for burlesque tonight? 9pm http://bit.ly/hot-club-cabaret
Fri Oct 2 12:07pm Database of social media policies http:// socialmediagovernance.com/policies.php 12:15pm Smithsonian New Media Strategy. Interesting... http:// bit.ly/19veO5 3:24pm Wanted: (1) Copyeditors familiar with academia. (2) Designers to typeset long reports & create Tufte-like wonders. Ping me for more info. 3:48pm Knowledge-sharing toolkit for research teams http:// www.kstoolkit.org/
Sat Oct 3 7:45pm @sdohrn collaboration platforms... been looking at Open Atrium
Mon Oct 5 9:31am Call for papers. World Congress of Sociology. http://bit.ly/B1IIu 9:34am Oooops. This link better for sessions related to technology & society: http://bit.ly/23ppxR
Tue Oct 6 2:47am I would be lost at night without Miette http:// www.miettecast.com/
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Fri Oct 9 3:32am Regretsy: Etsy gone bad. Best stuff inspired by us girls (uhh... not worksafe) http://bit.ly/meeeow (via @missrogue, via @misshoax)
Sun Oct 11 11:15pm Guys, it's been nice. But I'd be prepared to give you up for Sarah Silverman: http://www.floatingeyeball.com/?p=83
Mon Oct 12 12:01am Foreign Policy Camp. Vancouver. November 30. http://bit.ly/ foreignpolicycamp
Tue Oct 13 4:00pm Stiglitz, Sen & Fitoussi prepare EU report on indicators of social and economic progress http://bit.ly/indicators 4:17pm More libraries providing access to technology & Internet, help with homework, e-books & digital resources. http://bit.ly/librariesrock
Wed Oct 14 1:36am Want to save the world? Invest in girls. http://www.girleffect.org/ video
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Thu Oct 15 1:05am Magnificent dinner party done. Leaving little bit of cleanup for tomorrow AM. 12:43pm Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology & Communication. Call for papers, UBC, next summer. http://www.catacconference.org/ 1:54pm Benkler & friends want feedback on global review for FCC as it develops National Broadband Plan http://bit.ly/FCCrev & http://bit.ly/ FCCnews 11:23pm Sometimes I miss Liam so much that I can hardly stand it. #mommyfail
Fri Oct 16 11:55am Librarian? Information Specialist? Nonononono! Make way for the METADOR... http://bit.ly/metador
Sat Oct 17 11:23pm And you thought that bartender was just being nice. http:// bit.ly/gimme-bigger-tip
Sun Oct 18 6:03pm Digging up old Bellanet resources. Using Email Lists to Work Together lots of relevant learning. http://www.idrc.ca/ openebooks/848-1/ 7:06pm Another IDRC oldie but goodie. From 1997. Ohhhh. Reinventing the wheel. http://archive.idrc.ca/library/document/109246/
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7:21pm @marcopolis @AvrilBenoit Been looking & found http:// socialmediagovernance.com/policies.php. Am customizing for researchers. 7:25pm Refuting Inertness or My Response to Where Are the Others? http://j.mp/IpQ7y (via @marcopolis) 7:29pm @seanpower Yeah. Good luck with that. We have a new yoga studio. I'm *enlightened*. #thankgod 7:36pm @marcopolis Likewise. I'll update you when we get ours done for http://tascha.washington.edu
Mon Oct 19 1:38pm NPR's social media guidelines prohibit employees from joining/ advocating for political causes via FB or blogs. http://bit.ly/3xerDq #harsh
Tue Oct 20 6:22pm Meaghan O'Connor's brilliant post on why librarians should be incorporated into development. Yeah! http://bit.ly/49603w #ictd #libraries 6:25pm Congrats @LivelyIvy! Good thing you keep focused on your real work! You rock. BoingBoing! http://ping.fm/VmCzI (via @sfllaw)
Wed Oct 21 10:07pm Mark Rowlands & Brenin, the wolf. A beautiful love story. http://bit.ly/jHSei #cbc
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Thu Oct 22 4:24pm @evan @mariaigarrido Microblogging: What and How Can We Learn From It? Session at CHI conference, April 2010 http://bit.ly/ microchi 4:30pm @mikelbyl Because unrealistic. Better: participate politically, state bias, then do best to listen to & report on both sides of the story. 5:35pm SNOWING in Montreal. In October! Grrrrr. I was looking forward to global warming and instead I get climate change. Dammit. 8:00pm @StationC watching my younger brother in a meeting. Remembering him as a little kid. Far away in time&space from our ranch in Saskatchewan. 8:28pm @chebuctonian Whatever it is I demand a recall. 8:29pm @evan BTW fully agree on the Pullman + Nota Bene combo. You may be in danger, but I'm still a bit jealous. 8:31pm @pixelspoutine Dude! Your website is down. Grrrrr. Who was hosting that for you? Sketchy. 8:32pm @evan Yes. He works at Gameloft and has a gaming podcast: http://www.pixelsandpoutine.com/. He's adorable, uh, I mean, very cool :)
Fri Oct 23 4:35pm Amazing chapel in Chile. http://bit.ly/GeP3F (via @inevernu) 4:39pm Can mobile phone games improve English literacy in India? Carnegie Mellon asking... http://www.millee.org/ & http://bit.ly/millee #ICTD 8:16pm The @StationC Community Manifesto's world tour! http:// bit.ly/1qvNYq Thanks to @LockSchuppen @alexknowshtml
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Thu Oct 29 1:52pm Using Android #opendatakit to turn mobiles into tools to save rainforests, improve health, fight for human rights. http://bit.ly/3sL5UL 5:25pm Technorati's State of the Blogosphere Report http://bit.ly/ blogosphere2009 (via @GMcKBlogs Gerry McKiernan: Librarian Extraordinaire!) 5:29pm @tonyasurman Hey Hottie. Love your new Twitter pic! ;)
Fri Oct 30 1:27pm Check out http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/ (thanks to @sfllaw )
Tue Nov 3 11:50am Claude Levi Strauss dies at 100 http://bit.ly/1MXkzv
Wed Nov 4 10:39am Controversial Harvard Networked Governance study shows that online town halls matter http://bit.ly/2qldXB (via @davidlazer @barrywellman) 12:31pm Your new cyber-Companion will speak, learn & never forget. Video: http://www.everybodyhasdialogue.com/ & http:// www.companions-project.org/ 2:31pm Christine likes @zizekspeaks updates. But wonders if it's really him... Will contemplate as I'm reading Giorgio Agemben.
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Sun Nov 8 3:37pm My http://www.euoko.com/ Y-30 cream sample claims to be "based on the science of the venom of the temple viper" 30ml = $525 #stupidcosmetics
Mon Nov 9 9:08am Recyclable paper laptop http://bit.ly/2aRX9R (via @karlpro) 9:09am @oceanpark Exactly. Charlatans. (Worst part is I'm using the stupid sample and examining wrinkle progress each day.) #sucker
Wed Nov 11 9:19pm The history of the internet. With open PICOL icons. Nice. http:// bit.ly/7gzAQ 10:21pm Raymond Carver carved up by his editor, Gordon Lish. Walking the line between editing and co-authorship. http://bit.ly/3A3xLc
Sun Nov 15 8:47pm http://www.webecologyproject.org/ is building social network analysis tools to mine microblogs. Already archived: 120 million tweets. 9:03pm @oceanpark Privacy? I wonder if folks who participate online have any of that. 9:09pm Is "cloud" just another word for "sucker"? I might be one... http:// ur1.ca/fsk2 (via @karlpro @laura_carlson) 9:59pm Reimagining Internet Studies: A Web Ecology Perspective http://bit.ly/p49j3 #webecology
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10:05pm @rysiek OpenNet Initiative stand censored by... the UN! http://bit.ly/3nF2AG & video: http://bit.ly/MnjQQ !cc !linux
Mon Nov 16 12:01am @msurman's post on telling the Mozilla story. Practical for those who do communications for distributed teams http://bit.ly/tellingmozilla 1:30am Libraries, coworkings & telecentres as hacker spaces. Connected by the possibility to be accompanied. http://bit.ly/its-the-people-stupid
Wed Nov 18 12:50am oh hello there late-night tunafish 11:25am Porte Parole presents at Pecha Kucha tonight. If you're in Montreal hope to see you there. http://bit.ly/parole-kucha
Thu Nov 19 2:03am @bopuc For what it's worth content-wise I don't think was best yet. But, yeah, very full.
Fri Nov 20 10:20am For my son as he turns 13: A new rite of passage into #adolescence befitting a bookish hybrid. http://bit.ly/rite-of-passage 10:23am @hughmcguire Ohhhhh. Pls send me the link to that. I'm already rooting for Buffy. 4:48pm New Media, Technology & Internet Use in Indian Country. Data to serve Native American communities. Go Sascha! http://bit.ly/5vTm2N
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Sun Nov 22 10:06pm Reading Wael Hallaq #islamiclaw
Tue Nov 24 3:25pm Reading Wael Hallaq #islamiclaw 5:10pm New Media, Technology & Internet Use in Indian Country. Data to serve Native American communities. Go Sascha! http://bit.ly/5vTm2N
Thu Nov 26 10:00pm @Smart_People My free post (http://bit.ly/Z0QJg) becomes your 'Reader review' available only to subscribers? Flattered but confused. #SPmag
Wed Dec 2 9:31pm @borisj Thanks Boris. No more confusion :) #SPmag 9:42pm @inevernu Know any awesome #drupal developers in France? Help needed to localize @vozmob http://vozmob.net/en/about (via @fbar)
Thu Dec 3 1:49pm Thanks @nathatweet et @inevernu will pass on your references!
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Fri Dec 4 9:11pm Girls just wanna have fangs. http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles? article=girls_just_wanna_have_fangs
Mon Dec 7 1:43pm First big Seattle purchase: Awesome bike from Recycled Cycles http://www.recycledcycles.com/
Thu Dec 10 4:02pm Research Briefs: Simple tools to link research to practice. A nice practical template for y'all. http://bit.ly/research-to-practice
Mon Dec 14 1:03am Four hours at Banya 5... Seattle's most awesome Russian spa = new Christine. Wow. http://www.banya5.com/
Tue Dec 29 5:16pm Song of the day: TV on the Radio, "Staring at the Sun" http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHrTOQ18yzU 7:49pm And I can vouch for @afrognthevalley. I spotted him with only paper today! For real.
Wed Dec 30 11:37pm Song of the day tossup: Asian Dub Foundation & Joi. Qawwali on uppers. Enjoy. http://bit.ly/sweetpain & http://bit.ly/tadeem
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Thu Dec 31 12:38am The best of Craigslist has restored my faith in humanity http:// www.craigslist.org/about/best/all/ 2:49pm If the camel once gets his nose in the tent, his body will soon follow. 5:23pm christine's new year will be full of such music-making in the kitchen. oh yeahhhhh. http://bit.ly/christine2010 #songoftheday #2010
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Fri Jan 8
1:33pm @Z_Everson http://twitpic.com/x7i84 - Beautiful. Congrats to both of you!
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Mon Jan 11 7:35pm Discourse DB: User-powered semantic mediawiki to collect political articles & commentary http://discoursedb.org/ (thanks to @nostriluu)
Fri Jan 15 2:47am Montreal-DC train amazingly beautiful through the Adirondacks. Got lots of work done & even squeezed in walk to Times Square! All for $73!
Wed Jan 20 4:04pm @chebuctonian I like CorporationCentre.ca. Used them twice & happy with service. 4:07pm Tomorrow leaving for five weeks in Rio. Stressed and excited all at once.
Sat Jan 23 6:08pm @hughmcguire Nice :) 8:36pm A weekend in Rio is a whole different thing. Day at beach. Waves were huge. Good start on my tan. A little tipsy from the caipirinhas.
Tue Jan 26 9:43pm First two days working from Brazil have been super productive. Apparently my ADD took a holiday and left the rest of me behind.
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Wed Jan 27 8:07am Zero-denomination currency. A clever way to fight bribery? The #WorldBank things so: http://bit.ly/paying-zero #governance 9:57am Montreal to invest $1M to put free public wifi into its city parks http://j.mp/9nUdIq (via @ZeLaurent @sylvaincarle) #publicaccess #ictd 3:44pm Holy crow. Another great work day in Brazil. @dmireault presented rocking designs (by Skype from Thailand!) and everyone happy. 9:48pm Stanford launches its Program on Liberation Technology http:// fsi.stanford.edu/research/program_on_liberation_technology/ 10:33pm Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=jTkaqHhmpws&feature=player_embedded
Fri Jan 29 10:05am Libraries & the Semantic Web. Call for papers due February 28. http://www.ifla.org/en/calls-for-papers/2159 4:08pm @mcdoyon I LOVE Campaign Monitor. But I learned about it from @inevernu ;)
Mon Feb 1 6:55am @evan open = 1. universal vs restricted access, 2. universal vs restricted participation, 3. collaborative vs. centralized production 6:56am @evan From an #IDRC paper on open #ICT4D http:// www.idrc.ca/en/ev-133699-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
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8:40am @mcdoyon oops. just saw this. email me. depends how you have your list set up. skype me and i can talk you through it. 8:42am @sdohrn Bon Voyage! 12:26pm Nature (the big-deal scientific journal) launches iPhone app http://www.nature.com/mobileapps/ (via @GMcKBlogs) 12:30pm @julien The profile photo? Nice but I like the B&W one best.
Tue Feb 2 9:39am How to extend the capabilities of cheap cell phones mostly used in developing countries. http://bit.ly/cB4lBp #ictd 9:58am Cyberspace. Places. Users. SMUSH! Wow! http://www.floatingsheep.org/2009/12/factsheet-faq-forfloatingsheeporg_07.html 10:55am Google to award $5.7m for research mobiles for health & environment, machine learning, energy efficiency, privacy (!) http:// is.gd/7yd3Y 9:58pm Canada now largest exporter of oil to the US (http://bit.ly/doetop15) at what cost? http://h2oildoc.com/
Wed Feb 3 12:09pm Massive cockroach just fell on me from the ceiling. Ouache! He's on his way out the door now but scared me. #tropicalhazards 1:32pm Swearing and social networks (samples from Enron) http:// languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=927 9:34pm @girl_tm Great! Hot hot last few days. Working & helping take care of dog. He's big & growls if men approach too quickly fierce protector!
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Thu Feb 4 9:25am the world bank is hiring a senior ict specialist in ehealth. deadline february 11th. http://is.gd/7Gy3J (via @yanokwa) 9:30am NYT Op-Ed on impact of Microsoft corporate culture http:// nyti.ms/cHfQNb (via @rezendi) 10:17am Make it easy and folks will think it's true. Make it complicated and you may get them to THINK! #cognitivefluency http://bit.ly/ easyistrue
Mon Feb 8 7:38am Why some smart people are reluctant to share? http://bit.ly/ bE9Zvi (via @stevesong @glynmoody) #sharing #learning 12:48pm Looking to connect with #socialchange #open #coworking #technology folks in #Rio. Send me ideas! (Especially you, @msurman :) )
Tue Feb 9 10:04pm Amazing steampunk computers & peripherals (via @msurman) http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/39-amazingsteampunk-computer-mods-200834
Mon Feb 15 5:35pm New Institutional Economics... applied on a city scale http:// www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/01/for-richer-for-poorer/
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6:50pm The New Dating Game: Back to the New Paleolithic Age. http:// weeklystandard.com/print/articles/new-dating-game?page=12
Thu Feb 18 5:40pm Back "home" in Rio from the most delicious vacation ever. 6:06pm Alternate reality game from World Bank & Jane McGonigal (I Love Bees) teaches about social entrepreneurship! http:// vimeo.com/9094186
Sun Feb 21 2:00pm John Maynard Keynes & F. A. Hayek gangsta rap on their competing economic theories http://bit.ly/economics-rap 2:18pm consuming over creating, holistic vs prescriptive technologies @stevenmansour on the iPad http://bit.ly/digital-serfdom #ursulafranklin 2:34pm RioFloresta Tree-planting as a way for favela dwellers to take action & ladapt to climate change. http://www.catcomm.org/en/?p=2202 7:53pm Who knew they produced such good sake in Brazil? Hmmmmm. #sashimiinrio
Mon Feb 22 12:43pm Swap don't shop! @Swap_Team & @girl_tm get great press: http://styledevie.ca.msn.com/mode-beaute/ALMM-article.aspx?cpdocumentid=23491002 1:19pm @swap_team It's hot. Really hot. 38 or something today. Now 25 degrees seems pleasantly cool. Wonder if I'll feel cold this summer...
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Thu Feb 25 8:56am Observing mother at Philadelphia airport with the most amazing 2-year-old. So cute! Reminds me of Liam. She's still breastfeeding: #goodmom
Fri Mar 5 2:12pm @dlerda Welcome to Twitter, globe-trotting yoga girl! ;)
Mon Mar 8 5:18pm In Seattle, working with my peeps while listening to Neutral Milk Hotel.
Tue Mar 16 2:06am Off to France with the @ICTimpact crew for an impact indicators workshop. Gonna present embedded coms approach to researchers. Exciting!
Thu Mar 18 5:29pm The food in Montpellier is crazy expensive AND it sucks. WTF?!
Fri Mar 19 4:25am OH: How are you operationalizing empathy? 7:47pm Apartment booked in Paris... Gonna be a great weekend. 7:50pm @inevernu wow. nice new avatar. very classy :)
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Tue Mar 23 8:31pm @dlerda Yes. Paris Sunday and Monday. Back in Seattle. Miss you too!
Wed Mar 24 8:53am @hughmcguire's Bite-Size Edits featured in The New Yorker. Congrats! http://bit.ly/bite-size-newyorker
Thu Mar 25 11:11pm Gaming can make a better world. Jane McGonigal rocks. http:// on.ted.com/8Dfw
Tue Apr 6 5:03pm #iPad? Time to re-read @stevenmansour's post: http://bit.ly/ digital-serfdom. Same theme in Business Insider: http://bit.ly/consumecreate 6:00pm Liam left Seattle today to go back to DC. Now I'm starting to get very homesick for Montreal. Four months away very long! 6:36pm Crowd-sourced microfinancing for research projects: http:// www.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/us/02sfenterprise.html?ref=education 8:17pm #CGIAR's map of agriculture research in Africa. Great collaboration and sharing mechanism. http://bit.ly/bTOjKp
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Wed Apr 7 9:36pm The Mile End Citizen's committee has a new website: http:// citoyensmileend.com/ #montrealrocks 9:52pm Deutsche Telekom moves against Apple, Google and net neutrality http://bit.ly/Deutsche-Telekom-sucks
Thu Apr 8 4:35pm Open Data Kit, a mobile phone data-collection toolkit for everything from deforestation to human rights, wins big prize http:// bit.ly/9pWuUG
Sun Apr 11 3:16am http://anthroposts.com/ A web project featuring found Post-it notes collected from the street and read by anonymous online workers. 4:06pm Tormented by bad design? Terrible copy? Typographic nightmares? Fight back! Use this kit: http://www.design-police.org/
Mon Apr 12 12:58am Imitation trumps innovation as main source of progress and success. Harvard Business Review. http://bit.ly/imitation-innovation 4:53pm The Easter Bunny donated its body to science: http:// www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=41361445 #etsygems
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Tue Apr 13 1:43am As a child, loved Pearl S. Buck stories about China. But until now didn't know she was a Nobel prize-winner. http://bit.ly/b58Yf8 1:56am NYT on hallucinogens & depression @hughmcguire: http:// s.nyt.com/u/-pG similar to National Geographic story: http://bit.ly/ Ayahuasca-Peru 2:12am The ITU's e-Environment Readiness Index, available as Excel file. Hmmmm... http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/cyb/app/EERI.html
Wed Apr 14 10:32am Viktor Mayer-Schnberger: forgetting in a digital age http:// bit.ly/forget-it @stevenmansour: Teaching machines to forget @karlpro: Opacity 6:18pm Home.
Thu Apr 15 4:05pm Visual representations of user experiences across time and media http://wireframes.linowski.ca/2010/04/blueprint/ #ux #experiencemaps
Fri Apr 16 12:49am Liam's suggested mommy-son summer activity? #Parkour camp! #ouch
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Sat Apr 17 6:55pm First night at home alone, engaged in much-needed puttering and nesting. Weird. Almost have impulse to go out. #restless 6:59pm @LivelyIvy Wow! Congrats! Puzzle Bots rock. 9:18pm Elizabeth Pisani talks sex and drugs http://on.ted.com/8GfJ
Sun Apr 18 4:10pm All this tectonic and volcanic activity making me feel like I'm in 2012 (the film; BTW terrible film).
Mon Apr 19 4:20pm American Behavioral Scientist the Internet in rural North American Life. Isolation, cohesion, networks, diffusion http://bit.ly/ bedi4L
Tue Apr 20 11:15pm DIY Citizenship: Critical Making & Social Media. University of Toronto. Call for papers due May 20. http://diycitizenship.com/ #hacktivist
Wed Apr 21 2:12pm I wish my #hitlist played nice with my #basecamp project to-do list. Grrrrrrr.... 4:20pm Eyjafjallajokull. Wow. http://www.boston.com/ bigpicture/2010/04/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html
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Thu Apr 22 4:20pm Micro-donors want to see results just as much as the big guys. Ohhhh that elusive thing we call impact! http://seeyourimpact.org/ 7:41pm Web coupons can contain very detailed personal info in bar codes. Marketing dream, but creepy. #privacy http://nyti.ms/bEXVdx 7:43pm @Vincent_Olivier Of course. But on a large scale you can spend millions proving impact + need to balance learning vs accountability. 7:46pm @Vincent_Olivier Contribution vs Attribution. Great song by one of the creators of IDRC's Outcome Mapping methodology: http:// bit.ly/cjIw03
Fri Apr 23 6:13pm Excellent overview/resources on social bookmarking, collective intelligence & more http://bit.ly/cBKKRQ ( @hrheingold) 9:41pm ICTD 2010 call for demos: hardware, software, video, etc. that shows how tech can make a difference. http://www.ictd2010.org/? page_id=409
Sat Apr 24 10:27pm Facebook's recommendations creep me out.
Sun Apr 25 12:05am Bootstrapped startup's #1 task? Make money. Venturefunded startup's #1 task? Spend money. #incentives http://bigthink.com/ jasonfried
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Mon Apr 26 11:39am Helsinki's Library 10 combines music, IT, coworking. Motto: "When others are still planning, we have already failed!" http://bit.ly/ a7AU5M
Tue Apr 27 11:00am CGIAR & Google team up to provide full-text versions of thousands of agricultural research pubs http://books.cgiar.org/cgiar/ #openresearch 12:24pm Friday it's supposed to be back up to 19. Grrrrr. #yul #snow 1:56pm Jane's Walk. This Sunday at 13h30. Be there or be square. http:// bit.ly/jane-jacobs-rocks (More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs)
Wed Apr 28 10:44am Harvard's Berkman Center: "A Tale of Two Blogospheres: Discursive Practices on the Left and the Right" #YochaiBenkler http:// bit.ly/aj3SOA 5:42pm Parking lot or urban meadow? May 9 in the Mile End. Come have fun and tip the balance. http://bit.ly/roerich-garden-party
Thu Apr 29 10:39pm True Blood's sparse episode schedule is disappointing. Ugh.
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Fri Apr 30 11:57am APC's report on sexuality on the internet. Stories from around the world. http://www.apc.org/en/node/10265 2:31pm Stanford's SNAP project provides (mostly scraped) social network data sets http://snap.stanford.edu/ #SNA #datamining 6:55pm Gates Foundation grant opportunity to create mobile-phone apps for global health. Deadline May 19. http://bit.ly/9fm9zB #ICTD #mobiles
Tue May 4 12:48pm #bixi key arrived to day. psyched! #yul 12:51pm @inevernu Ha! Just bought ingredients to make some with the thought of having y'all over. When will you be ready for more?
Sun May 9 11:14pm Song of the day: My Sharona. Food of the day: Dandelion salad with fresh slivered ginger, sauerkraut, ground flax, toasted sunflower seeds.
Tue May 11 9:07am Any #Powerpoint gurus out there in #YUL? Have work for you... #Prezi skills a plus. 9:09am @mongkolroek ICT impact broadly? Or public access specifically? Website? 9:11am @mongkolroek See http://www.globalimpactstudy.org for the public access part...
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9:52am @Z_Everson Dunno. But he'd be happy overall with how often I invoke him. "Cognitive Style of PPT" did not come with viable alternatives. 9:53am @Z_Everson BTW if you know such a guru I'd be willing to take a look even if they're remote. 3:49pm @Z_Everson Touch. 7:38pm Allies in the Academy: Why non-profits should invest in research collaborations http://ow.ly/1HIjn (via @team_ajah) #actionresearch
Wed May 12 12:59pm Placebos work so well that doctors consider using them as part of standard treatment. http://bit.ly/effective-fakes
Thu May 13 2:42pm Every week our #Basecamp project site I change my title. This week? Communicatrix. May stick with it for a while. My colleagues know why :)
Fri May 14 12:01am @Vincent_Olivier Good luck with that :) 12:02am http://tweetphoto.com/22308864 @Vincent_Olivier hot. but where are the pants? 12:16am Two amazing wine-ing and dining evenings in a row. After superlong work day. Ooooooof. Sleep now.
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Sat May 15 12:27pm Study finds link between access to technology and feelings of well-being, especially among women. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/ hi/10108551.stm 4:42pm #Economist article on work in the digital age. Freelancing is future? No mention of #coworking http://bit.ly/aq4R6k (via @zeverson) 10:29pm Find of the day: http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/ especially the world-in-time interviews, http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/audiovideo/
Sun May 16 11:55pm @jonathanbrun I just subscribed! Sooooo looking forward :) 11:58pm I broke up with Facebook again. Couldn't deal. Hopefully you'll email or call or VISIT in person. And, who knows, I may even blog again...
Wed May 19 10:24pm Hello there, new bottle of Ardbeg. (Why is it that I'm craving a cigar to go with this?) 10:34pm @Vincent_Olivier I am. But am without cigar. Which is sad. 10:53pm @ishwhit OMG just read this. Hilarious. Miss you!
Thu May 20 3:57pm NYT: Marijuana Fuels a New Kitchen Culture. Even at Pied de Cochon... #bigsurprise #thisisnews? http://nyti.ms/9W5e1D
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11:47pm Will keep repeating until my #ICT4D/#ICTD peeps hear: Care about #publicaccesscomputing? Pay attention to #coworking http://bit.ly/cPd63u 11:49pm Thanks to @inevernu for tip on that last tweet. Truly I would be lost without you. 11:54pm Creative Commons Catalyst Grants http:// wiki.creativecommons.org/Grants (once again, via @inevernu)
Fri May 21 8:41am @hughmcguire's awesome post on creating an open, webby, book-publishing platform based on @Wordpress http://oreil.ly/aYm99C #amen 8:43am Open Society Institute's Open Data Study http://bit.ly/awaZN8 (via @TraceyLauriault) 8:49am Discourse Network Analyzer: SNA + Content Analysis. Apply categories to text & extract networks. http://bit.ly/DNA-SNA 9:01am Facebook aims for the BOP with Zero. @whiteafrican calls it paradigm shift in African mobile web & data space: http://bit.ly/d5GfSf 10:00am No really. You MUST go read it. http://xkcd.com/743 #infrastructure 5:38pm Networks & socioeconomic opportunity DIVERSITY of individuals' relationships linked to community's economic dev. http:// bit.ly/amRRXz
Sat May 22 1:17pm Public art-making now in the Mile End's Maguire Meadow. Music and merriment from 5-7PM. Come!
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Sun May 23 8:36pm UNICEF seeking developer to customize http://rapidSMS.org framework for emergency contexts. Apply by May 28. http://bit.ly/aMz1yf 10:56pm Tonight's score: Moving ahead with Artefatica = 1, Keeping up with Lost = 0. 11:26pm Photos from Saturday's amazing cleanup/art-making/party in the Mile End. #community #roerichgardenproject http://bit.ly/roerichdedication 11:53pm @evanpro Oh God. Now I gotta watch it. #somuchforsleep
Mon May 24 11:19am Get your tickets for the Swap Team's "Take Off Your Clothes" party. This weekend: Saturday, May 29. http://bit.ly/cAKPIo 12:08pm $200,000 USD grant available to set up Mobile Application Lab focusing on Africa. Deadline May 31. http://bit.ly/cBleAN 2:02pm Brown bag lunches as informal think tanks. Practical advice. http://is.gd/chtlH (via @mongkolroek @NancyWhite @ithorpe) #KM4D 6:05pm @Robin_Millette Yes I would like to know too! 6:06pm @Z_Everson Was I gone? Missing something?
Tue May 25 12:24pm @belindadarcey nice background on your profile pic ;)
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Wed May 26 12:10pm How Offline Gatherings Affect Online Communities, Journal of Information, Communication & Society http://bit.ly/bz878Z (via @participatory) 12:11pm Sorry to be missing #webcamp today :( 12:11pm @participatory Good find. Thanks! 2:35pm @mariaigarrido Wow what's going on over there? 2:46pm International Workshop on Global Internet Governance May 30&31 in Montreal. Good lineup. http://bit.ly/giga-net #infrastructure
Thu May 27 11:19pm Developing-world designers, geeks, makers! Get cash money to provide solutions to first-world problems! http:// designforthefirstworld.com/ 11:25pm #Desjardins: I love doing business with you, but seriously, 1995 just called and they want their online banking site back (via @doctorow) 11:26pm Oh that last tweet via also @Vincent_Olivier. Not enough room to credit!
Mon May 31 3:13pm @BillBrydon Thanks :) Got it. 3:16pm @michaelgeist This Thursday Canadian Gov't re-tabling new copyright reform legislation. Stay tuned! #openaccess #congress10 3:17pm DIGITAL LOCKS? DRM on RESEARCH. Jesus. #openaccess #congress10
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3:18pm @inevernu Dude. It's called social reporting. Live tweeting a conference presentation. 3:19pm @michaelgeist Researchers: Make sure your work not locked. So even if gov't gets it wrong we'll be OK. #openaccess #congress10 3:25pm @inevernu Ability to have a back-channel conversation. 3:33pm Move toward mandated e-books for students. But fair dealing rights dont translate when locks embedded into e-books. #openaccess #congress10 4:08pm Why DRM sucks for librarians and dissemination. Experiences from the UK. http://ow.ly/1Sbmv #openaccess #congress10 5:20pm Gary King at Harvard working on system where researchers get DATA citations. #openaccess more than journals http://ow.ly/1Scv5 #congress10 5:30pm The Centre for Social Innovation opens its model. Free download. Awesome. #coworking http://ow.ly/1ScEE 6:13pm Manhattans at Laika. 10:41pm @decemberistian When/where is your Weds talk? 10:54pm Funding available for research on tech tools to provide/support instruction in reading, writing, math, science. http://ow.ly/1Sh7M #ICTD 11:12pm Loving #1Password. Thanks @inevernu.
Tue Jun 1 12:02am My #anser2010 picks: A1 (my friend Leonid!) & D1 (community-university #actionresearch partnerships) http://ow.ly/1ShXA #congress10 12:04am @michaelgeist: Canadian Copyright bill placed on the Notice Paper - coming this week. http://bit.ly/aSFmOW
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5:06pm Oh, it was just a matter of time. iPad + cute cat: http:// ow.ly/1SIh6 (@nritoux pay attention) #iPad #cutecat
Wed Jun 2 1:16pm At the "Rethinking Research" session at the Canadian Communication Association Conference http://cca30.wordpress.com/ #congress10 2:09pm Ravindra Mohabeer: Media technologies as discardable envelope the medium is no longer the message #congress10 http:// ow.ly/1TbmS 2:12pm Put more simply: People seek content and the delivery system now of more limited significance. #congress10 2:58pm Advocacy, Activism, and Agendas session about to start. Hoping to get some good strategy ideas. #congress 3:08pm RT @rabbleca: We've got 10 #Congress10 podcasts up and another 10 coming...don't miss out, listen to 'em here! http://bit.ly/c7W6cI 3:09pm @decemberistian Ugh I wanted to go to that but finally went with Advocacy, Activism, and Agendas... let me know how it goes! 3:52pm Sandra Jeppesen Alternative knowledge: discourses-inaction of Montreal activist collectives and networks #cca #congress10 #actionresearch 4:00pm @michaelgeist's Analysis on Canada's new #Copyright bill. Follow/use #fixc32 to participate. http://bit.ly/aTYESy 4:08pm RT @KateMilberry: Mark Lipton = models of literacy no longer appropriate in age of social media #cca #congress10
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5:37pm RT @nenshi: Mintzberg suggests the political continuum is actually a loop - extreme left and right are next to each other. #congress10 5:40pm Mintzberg: We've scrutinized public sector for 30 years. Now let's look at the private sector & see what does not belong there #congress10 5:41pm Globalization has destroyed Anthropology. Another great Mintzberg OH from his talk at #congress10. 9:29pm @LivelyIvy Oh NO! 10:35pm @SophieGiroux I love the name of your blog! It rocks :) 11:06pm Open Access: Transforming research in the developing world. Listen: http://ow.ly/1TnAq #congress10 (via @CanuckLibrarian) #openaccess
Thu Jun 3 1:16am iHub #coworking launches in Nairobi. Open space for geeks, entrepreneurs, hackers. Congrats! http://bit.ly/9IE2pc (via @whiteafrican) #ICTD 1:33pm Testing out #Naview New app to easily/quickly design, build, and test navigation prototypes. http://www.naviewapp.com/features/ #ux 1:50pm Mobile app for citizens to document oil spill: Survey, pic/ vid upload & geoloc http://bit.ly/dDvoJ0 #ictd #oilreporter (via @mariaigarrido)
Fri Jun 4 3:07am RT @christopheradam: Please translate http://freesouls.cc into your own language! English and Chinese are done. #ccasia
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3:15am Hacking the Academy: Book crowdsourced in one week & printed by U of Michigan http://ow.ly/1TWo8 #cc !openpublishing (via @marklipton) 9:06am Online gov't consultation: Vote for improved access to publiclyfunded data! http://bit.ly/aMTRB8 #opendata #civicaccess via @caitlinkealey 9:17am Canadian Gov't Digital Economy Consultation. Read "Ways to Participate" first: http://ow.ly/1U3an #opendata #civicaccess 9:25am We want public & admin data, easily findable, accessible formats, wrapped with good metadata, with public-domain like licensing at no cost! 9:28am That last tweet was "The Ask" for the Digital Economy Consultation. Written by @TraceyLauriault. http://ow.ly/1U3yJ #civicaccess 9:46am RT @michaelgeist: Liberals say digital locks top issue in C-32 as Moore open to amendment proposals http://bit.ly/czbP9d #fixc32
Sat Jun 5 1:16am @msurman Wow. http://isparade.jp is super adorable! 10:46am RT @tscurrie: Pew Center's Amy Mitchell: The individual story is the unit of the web (not the home page) #congress10
Sun Jun 6 3:06am Song of the day: Freedy Johnston, The Mortician's Daughter. Lovely video thanks to WNRN in Charlottesville, Virginia. http:// ow.ly/1UDUo
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Mon Jun 7 2:38am @dlerda This is for you http://ow.ly/1UTOv. At once amazing and scary. A taxodermied taxonomy of tweeties :) (via @karlpro) 5:24pm In Seattle, eating yummy tacos and working on the http:// www.globalimpactstudy.org/. 6:04pm PHP/MySQL intern needed to prototype Epicenter, multilingual CMS for global health apps. #Drupal experience a plus http:// ow.ly/1Vkya #ICTD
Tue Jun 8 2:23am Defining open knowledge and open data. Useful for research teams. http://www.opendefinition.org/ #civicaccess 2:31am UK government releases COINS database massive info on UK public spending. http://ow.ly/1VsJJ #civicaccess #opendata #opengovernment 2:32am The Secret Life of Data. Presentation by @TraceyLauriault http://ow.ly/1VsLz 5:29pm RT @GutenbergNews: The Death of the Library: Read It and Weep http://bit.ly/aVY4LN be sure to read the comments (via MH) 8:04pm The Cognitive Cities Conference http://post.ly/iqB1 #CoCities #urbanplanning #opencities (via @inevernu)
Thu Jun 10 9:55pm Updated Global Impact Study research design description & graphic. http://ow.ly/1X0vl #openresearch #publicaccess #ICTD
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10:41pm Open access to Canadas public sector information & data. Take 3 seconds to vote for it on Industry Canada's website http:// ow.ly/1X18y.
Fri Jun 11 2:35am RT @karlpro: teach participants how to build an open source digital tool for humanities July 25-31, 2010 http://oneweekonetool.org/
Sun Jun 13 8:17am RT @hughmcguire: Jurgen Habermas on Germany & Euro/ sovereign debt crisis: http://ow.ly/1XNmI via @KatrinaNation
Mon Jun 14 9:24am The changing role of #libraries in support of research data activities. (Over now, but good to know.) http://ow.ly/1Y9LF #openresearch 9:43am Printable Congressional District Maps: Behind The Scenes http://ow.ly/1Ya86 (via Joshua Tauberer: http://razor.occams.info/ civictech.xpd) 10:08am Information society? More accurate to call it the interruption society. (via @aldaily) http://ow.ly/1YbMN 6:07pm Opinions on the term "community informatics"? What does it mean to you? (No looking it up on Wikipedia first. That's cheating.) 7:18pm @Pixelspoutine That reminds me. Your magnificent nephew will be in town WedMon. He'd be thrilled by your presence & interview re #Phun ;)
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7:19pm RT @karlpro: Discovering the term Commonplace book http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book 7:20pm @karlpro Once again you get the best-tweets-evah prize ;)
Wed Jun 16 9:44am Call for Participation: iConference 2011. Focus on social inclusion, personalization, memory. http://ow.ly/1Zebl #HCI #ICTD
Sun Jun 20 11:56pm Ahhh the joys of #opengovenment. British parliament discusses the mouse hotline. Better than fiction. http://ow.ly/20ZbM (via Harper's)
Wed Jun 23 10:36pm Gratis versus libre #openaccess research: http://ow.ly/22x2S #openresearch 11:19pm @floro_ceballos Pulling together my #openresearch learning. Lots on #openaccess but #opendata trickier important for dataset citations. 11:46pm Pew Internet Project #openresearch: All reports, presentations, datasets online & making themselves personally available http://ow.ly/22xUW
Thu Jun 24 11:03pm Open Data Commons releases attribution license finally a database-specific license! #openresearch http://ow.ly/231oy
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Sat Jun 26 2:18am Where should you publish your #ICTD research? @RichardHeeks's answer: http://ow.ly/23x99 Maybe better to skip the list & publish #openaccess
Mon Jun 28 9:52pm @celinecelines's anatomy of web page for non-experts. #Practical tool to explain to newbies. I will translate to English! http:// ow.ly/24uaG 10:04pm Thank you, @pastprefontaine, for backing up your files!
Tue Jun 29 12:40pm Reading Gideon Christian's #IDRC piece on open access to data. Digging into IP and databases. #openresearch 4:04pm @Robin_Millette "Building a Sustainable Framework for Open Access to Research Data through ICTs" on #IDRC website http:// ow.ly/24Ul2 6:35pm My mom + new blackberry = "Chat tome And chert os th cc a I tant tu mate rservations Ah vertige on du luth" WTF? Can anyone translate? 9:57pm Forget blood diamonds, how about conflict minerals in your computer and cellphone? Could you be helping bankroll conflict in the Congo? http 9:57pm Link! http://www.joeydevilla.com/2010/06/27/conflict-mineralsand-blood-tech/
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Sat Jul 3 12:40am Retroactive Copyright on Public Domain Works http:// ow.ly/26zrF (via @petersuber)
Sun Jul 4 1:44am Song of the day: Stevie Nicks, Landslide (via Emily).
Mon Jul 5 5:37pm Wiveliscombe. Hills, thatch, sheep. Beautiful as ever. Cream teas here I come!
Thu Jul 8 6:57am Breakfast at the golf club. 6:35pm Get your windowfarm now! http://ow.ly/28Xik #urbangardening
Fri Jul 9 12:50pm Working with Lillet at the Zetter in London.
Mon Jul 12 5:08am Reading Geoff Mulgan's new book, The Art of Public Strategy: Mobilizing Power and Knowledge for the Common Good. http:// ow.ly/2a3Mn 5:09am Off to Brighton today. #UKtour
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9:54am Arrived in Brighton. Train station is so cute. But gotta say hotels that charge 20 for 24-hours of Internet access SUCK. Grrrrrrrrrr... 1:42pm @inevernu Yay #coworking! I'll definitely check it out on Weds or Thurs after my meetings are all done. Thanks :) 3:58pm Will Canada its most accurate source of data about rate/depth of poverty? #census http://ow.ly/2ap8w (via@traceylauriault) 4:14pm "Meet your farmer" inspiring short vignettes of local farmers. http://bit.ly/cnEDEU (via @inevernu, who always finds coolest stuff) 7:53pm The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) opens up its data: http://faostat.fao.org/. Why important: http://ow.ly/2av6H #openresearch 7:57pm UN's principles of good practice governing international statistics. PDF: http://ow.ly/2av9I #openresearch
Tue Jul 13 6:32pm Artefatica's Roerich Garden Project was accepted at U of T's http://diycitizenship.com conference. Yay! http:// roerichproject.artefati.ca/ 6:34pm RT @evanpro: http://status.net/2010/07/13/what-is-thefederated-social-web What is the federated social web? 7:40pm Does your Google search return what's real? Or what's simply familiar? Democracy of the Algorithm. http://ow.ly/2b4kn
Wed Jul 14 1:18pm RT @EthanZ: #TEDGlobal Derek Sivers tells us to shut up about them if we want to achieve our goals - http://sivers.org/zipit
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2:17pm What's up with steampunk? http://moreintelligentlife.com/ content/lifestyle/gary-moskowitz/steampunk 7:27pm Finished 2 days of amazing meetings at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. Inspired. Exhausted. #openresearch
Fri Jul 16 6:19am Rural connectivity with an asynchronous twist http:// bit.ly/14ND20 #ict4d #ictd (via @e_agriculture & @phat_controller)
Sat Jul 17 7:34am On my way home!
Thu Jul 22 12:28pm New England Journal of Medicine experiments with new ways to present research data http://beta.nejm.org/ 12:38pm "The Future of Research and Scholarship Open, Social, Semantic, Mobile" @mckblogs (via @johnbreslin) http://ow.ly/2f9fZ #openresearch
Sun Jul 25 8:43am 101 personnes aiment a... graffiti http://ow.ly/2gdJ3 #crackbook
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Fri Jul 30 7:17pm Week in DC coming to a close, Liam & I back to Montreal tomorrow. Yay summer! 7:18pm RT @BillBrydon: #OpenAccess Week Oct 18-24 http://bit.ly/ dkIuC2 /via @plevy
Wed Aug 4 11:44am Love it! http://www.howtousetwitterformarketingandpr.com/ 9:50pm The song of the day is Diamonds and Rust. Sung, with guitar, to a circle of friends around a fire in the country on a warm summer night.
Thu Aug 5 4:57pm i have eaten the plums http://ow.ly/2lG1S #hotsummerday
Mon Aug 16 10:08am The Socioeconomic Effects of Public Sector Information on Digital Networks (note also pay to buy book and free PDF) http:// ow.ly/2q9ex #open
Sat Aug 21 11:34am Access to Knowledge in Africa: The Role of Copyright http:// ow.ly/2sPKV (via @culturelibre)
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Sun Aug 22 1:40am Organizing and consolidating my scattered online life. Need to edit and focus. Apparently I am a mad collector of domain names. 4:08pm It's a rainy, quiet day in Montreal. I am trying to clean the house. The song of the day is Norah Jones singing "Don't Know Why".
Mon Aug 23 12:58pm Science: Free Journals Grow Amid Ongoing Debate (#ironic that you have to subscribe to read whole article). http://ow.ly/2tvgM #openresearch
Wed Aug 25 12:15pm RT @floro_ceballos: Interesante debate sobre privacidad en la red se inauguro hoy en The Economist http://tinyurl.com/27adosz 3:13pm Working from Politics & Prose in Washington, DC. I love this place. http://www.politics-prose.com/ 3:15pm @hrheingold: Important new book by Pablo Boczkowski News at Work: Imitation in an Age of Information Abundance http:// tiny.cc/jjzqx
Mon Aug 30 12:20pm @Z_Everson Of course it would be sooooo much better if you were here! 12:21pm Is #CHI becoming irrelevant? http://ow.ly/2wOMO 12:42pm @Vincent_Olivier @inevernu Sure sure. Get together for all the fun stuff while I'm out of town why don't you. Grrrrr....
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Wed Sep 1 4:42pm Communicating research for evidence-based policymaking: A practical guide for researchers. EU publication. http://ow.ly/2y9PA
Tue Sep 7 12:49am Writing is a way of organizing thought. Publishing is a way of receiving feedback. (via @fchimero: http://ow.ly/2AkiZ)
Fri Sep 10 6:26pm #Openresearch database of places to access computers/internet in Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, Lithuania, Philippines http://ow.ly/2CzQb #ICTD
Sun Sep 12 2:12pm South Africa's Die Antwoord: "Are we awful or the best thing in the universe?" http://bit.ly/a9Gzq7 (via @stevesong, @SmithInAfrica) 2:14pm The amazing Liz paints Liam: http://ow.ly/2D1RR
Wed Sep 15 8:46pm A bird is not an ornithologist. http://ow.ly/2EWVd
Thu Sep 16 3:38pm Infographics porn: http://infosthetics.com/
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3:40pm @inevernu Are they on crack? London prices are killer for everything. 9:39pm First thoughts on #openresearch, #opendata, #opendevelopment http://ow.ly/2FyZt
Fri Sep 17 7:46pm School computers not working? There's an app for that! http:// ow.ly/2FNw4 #opendata #ictd (via @WBedutech) 8:02pm The stories of failures and lessons in ICTD and M4D. Unveiling the spectacular flops to get better. Follow @FailFaire #aideffectivness
Sun Sep 19 12:52am NYC's http://sukkahcity.com/ Radical, beautiful interpretations of talmudic guidelines. #sukkot 12:53am @tweletype Are you okay? Do we need to send reinforcements?
Mon Sep 20 10:13am Open Hardware Summit in NYC starts September 23. Wish I could go. Sigh. http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/ 11:22pm The song of the day today is Led Zeppelin's Going to California. Yeah.
Tue Sep 21 11:01pm I'm finally home. Whirlwind last month. Good to be home, despite feeling that I've left behind pieces of me in Seattle and DC.
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Thu Sep 23 12:58pm Call for proposals: Bridging the gap bw technical & social researchers to foster development thru mobile platforms http:// ow.ly/2IROc #ICTD
Fri Sep 24 4:21pm @sylvaincarle #wineoclock ;)
Tue Sep 28 12:48am Does online activism reduce motivation that participation requires? Give an outlet to those who won't make sacrifices? http:// ow.ly/2KQzA
Thu Sep 30 8:46am Canada decriminalizes prostitution? Likely y'all already knew this. But really? Wow. http://ow.ly/2MfcV
Fri Oct 8 7:24pm @celinecelines http://librivox.org/ 7:32pm Liam's amazing set of tilt-shift photos. Give a kid a camera, a computer, and photoshop and this is what you get! http://ow.ly/2QU0T
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Sat Oct 9 4:50pm @consciencestyle LOVE my new bag. Who would think you could transform throwaway materials into something so beautiful?! http://ow.ly/2R8dw 4:54pm @nanananini Here is source from NYT/Freakonomics blog. http://ow.ly/2R8fy
Thu Oct 14 4:34pm @Vincent_Olivier Hot. I am getting closer. Know any good local newspaper printers? See this in the UK: http:// www.newspaperclub.co.uk/ 4:34pm My attempt to do better kind of workshop report: http:// ow.ly/2TGiq #openresearch 5:31pm @jizobizo Well I'd love to post a longer comment but I have to be LOGGED IN to your blog to do that. WTF????!!! 5:43pm #ICTD & #evaluation. What to count? What is a technology center? @jizobizo great questions and thinking http://ow.ly/2TJeN 5:47pm @mariaigarrido I love it when you back me up ;) 6:44pm @jizobizo The Russians can't resist you...
Fri Oct 15 10:25am @BillBrydon Bill... maybe I just need a latte (or a weekend) but that post is barely readable. Sigh... 5:22pm Creating a map TASCHA's review of the public-access ICT landscape in 25 countries. Click and you get a summary: http:// ow.ly/2Uhx9
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5:23pm @Vincent_Olivier I can design, lay out, and bug folks to help gather content. But I'm not buying a web press anytime soon! 5:24pm @hughmcguire Oh nooooooo :( 5:25pm @failfaire It is impossible for me to express how much I love you, fairest Fail Faire. Where have you been for all of my professional life?! 5:31pm @BillBrydon Holy Cow! Now THAT is a good link. Great for my team! Thanks. Wowowoowww!!!!! 5:31pm I am a blogging researcher: Motivations for blogging in a scholarly context. Sara Kjellberg. http://ow.ly/2UhWF (via @BillBrydon). Wow! 6:36pm @sylvaincarle Sylvain that's a bit sad.
Mon Oct 18 12:34pm Today's thoughts on #opendevelopment http://ow.ly/2VhyP 1:10pm Marcus Boon's book In Praise of Copying available as free CC-licensed download from Harvard U Press http://bit.ly/9ikKOF (via @mgeist) 2:44pm @julien The small print at the bottom is my favorite. I got a special gift :)
Thu Oct 21 2:40pm @hughmcguire you're welcome! http://iambik.com/ rocks! #audiobooks 3:14pm Tim Wu on communication, chaos, control. #federated or #monopoly ? Great video. http://ow.ly/2Xkmw
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Tue Oct 26 12:34am @oceanpark very very cool. yay! 12:36am #Firesheep #Firefox extension to easily log in to other people's accounts! @codebutler drawing attention to #security issues. Wow. 11:49am The Institute for Development Studies Daily a Twitter newspaper built using http://paper.li/ Cool! http://bit.ly/ddTCUs (via @ids_uk) 11:51am Where do you use computers? Help us experiment with photographic evidence. http://ow.ly/2ZElG #participatory #research #ictd 1:44pm RT @developingjen: Number inhabitants per doctor, around the world in a nice graphical form: http://bit.ly/d3xUrf 3:43pm @julien NEVER. Are you on chocolate or crack? ;) 4:04pm @julien Sounds yummy. Now you have me thinking about getting some. Chocolate. 4:06pm RT @awsamuel: Addressing the digital divide WITHIN your organization, by @sradick: http://ow.ly/2ZGa1 5:21pm ConsiderIt #Open source deliberation platform. Collaboratively create pro/con lists of points around any complesx issue http://ow.ly/2ZRZh
Wed Oct 27 5:52pm The @ict4djester questions, critiques, and sometimes lampoons... Brilliant. (Thanks/Via @kentarotoyama). http:// ict4djester.org/blog/ #ictd
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6:41pm @z_everson Oh it was just a matter of time. You better charge a lot.
Thu Oct 28 12:48pm Gov't shifts costs to public libraries, while cutting their funding. Would better #broadband policy help? The Economist: http:// ow.ly/30YJ3
Fri Oct 29 12:01pm Buh-bye walled gardens! RT @evanpro: Federating the Social Web http://fsoss.senecac.on.ca/2010/node/40 #fsw go @walkah! 12:02pm @miette Only you could make something so gross sound so poetic :) RE miette: Ha! I'm still imagining TB over Bronchitis, if only to have reason to twit about Romantic Writer's Disease.
Tue Nov 16 1:31am Download the new GirlTalk album (can I still use that word?) for free: http://www.illegal-art.net/allday/ 2:44am @stevesong wow. tight indeed.
Thu Nov 18 12:50pm Song of the day: Sean Hayes When We Fall In. He was live at the Tractor last night in Seattle. Sultry. Magnificent. http://ow.ly/3c1Jr
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Sun Nov 21 8:46pm Home. Feels like I've been away forever.
Mon Nov 22 1:46am @yanokwa: - http://www.youtube.com/thekaraokechannel is freaking sweet. my neighbors are going to hate me.
Tue Nov 23 2:39am Fellowship opportunity. Communists need not apply. http:// ow.ly/3e5uR #forreal? RE jizobizo: To be fair, you can BE a communist, you just cannot ADVOCATE communism. Keep it in the closet thank you very much.:) RE oceanpark: lol i love that they had to put in 'yes this is a very true requirement.' if you have to qualify it like that, maybe it's dumb
Mon Nov 29 7:50pm @vincent_olivier me :) RE MUP4: It's true! Why?
Tue Nov 30 9:59pm CBC Ideas: Future of the Book (+ #libraries) from Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal. http:// www.cbc.ca/ideas/
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Thu Dec 2 12:23pm Wikileaks not about open or journalism rather a strategy to disrupt information flows http://ow.ly/3iVj5 by @zunguzungu via @barrywellman 1:18pm Random Hacks of Kindness http://www.rhok.org/ 1:23pm @zunguzungu Agree with @cshirky. Why is the news not framing it this way? They focus only on the content when there is bigger story. 1:35pm @zunguzungu Maybe easier to focus on the tabloid-like details than the bigger story, which is more like revolution. 4:14pm New Technology & Social Change website live! It's the beta no-designer version but still beautiful http://tascha.uw.edu/ (yay @woothemes)
Thu Dec 9 10:23pm Open data in international development. The missing debate. http://ow.ly/3mU7z 10:24pm @miette Wow. Sounds like you had a way better Wednesday night than me ;) RE miette: my Thursday was a complete wreck, though.. Maaaaybe not quite worth it.
Sat Dec 11 2:41am @oceanpark WTF? Where are you? RE oceanpark: fremantle, australia. only 4 days before i leave too. 3:21am @oceanpark goodness...
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RE oceanpark: thankfully one of my lovely thesis supervisors @helenmerrick is taking me in (thanks helen!!!)
Mon Dec 13 1:44pm How prototyping practices affect design results http:// ow.ly/3orPe & http://ow.ly/3orPS. Dec 15 in Seattle at http:// dub.washington.edu/. 6:15pm Editorial calendar plugin Yay! Thanks @ZackGrossbart & http://stresslimitdesign.com. See http://ow.ly/3oBFZ & http:// vimeo.com/13196017
Thu Dec 16 11:11am Learn LaTeX in 7 minutes... but only on a PC. Grrrrr.... http:// ow.ly/3qgvk
Sat Dec 25 3:25pm Harvard talk: Using the Internet to Save the Planet. Really really amazing. Play it while you cook supper. http://ow.ly/3umvt #economics 3:25pm Related: Small-scale energy generation in Kenya. #NewYorkTimes http://ow.ly/3umw6
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Sun Jan 2
6:50pm My new foster-puppies from the #SPCA. Keeping us busy but so so so #cute. http://twitpic.com/3mhgz6 7:13pm Liam flying back to DC tonight. Leaving airport now. #sad #verysad
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Wed Jan 5 12:18pm Codesprint January 7&8 to develop #WorldBank app that develops indicators beyond GDP http://ow.ly/3yNlf #opendevelopment
Tue Jan 11 1:03pm Designing accessible color spectrums by Joshua Tauberer http:// ow.ly/3BYwU #universaldesign
Thu Jan 13 5:50pm Today my foster puppies went to their new family. Happy and sad at same time. House feels all empty. #SPCA RE Z_Everson: "And to think that in some countries these dogs are eaten." #SPCA
Fri Jan 14 1:44pm Rising Voices Seeks Micro-Grant Proposals for Citizen Media Outreach up to $4,000 http://ow.ly/3E2BX #citizenjournalism
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Tue Jan 18
1:57pm Lately head is full of http://twitpic.com/3r8cfl and http:// twitpic.com/3r8ccq. #renovation
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3:03pm Network Evaluation: Cultivating Healthy Networks for Social Change. Congrats to Eli Malinsky & Chad Lubelsky! http://ow.ly/3G0pA #networks
Mon Jan 24 3:38pm The Apps for Development Gallery http://ow.ly/3Jn8R #opendevelopment #ictd #worldbank
Sat Feb 5 12:32pm #Egypt video from a trusted friend, posting under his own name. Hope he stays safe! http://www.youtube.com/user/KarimAKasim #nofear
Sun Feb 6 12:31pm Zizek on #Egypt via AlJazeera. Funny to watch Tariq Ramadan's face as he speaks, especially when blasts UNESCO. http:// ow.ly/3RcHx
Tue Feb 8 12:47am From papyrus to iPad: The evolution of reading. http:// bigthink.com/ideas/26566
Wed Feb 9 1:17am Interview with Google executive Wael Ghonim on #Egypt TV. Amazing. http://ow.ly/3SW8l
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3:57pm #OpenData Empowering the empowered or effective data use for everyone? Michael Gurstein http://ow.ly/3TszD #opendevelopment 4:04pm Shelter Scotland's digital inclusion pilot Housing advice for everyone report provides tools needed to use #opendata http:// ow.ly/3TsR4 4:18pm http://teacherswithoutborders.org/ Very cool! And good example of effective nonprofit website. Love the snapshots. 5:05pm Attending #iconf11 in Seattle. Expect some tweeting... you may want to mute me! http://www.ischools.org/iConference11/2011index/ 5:08pm Dusting for science: motivation and participation of digital citizen science volunteers... Oded #iconf11 5:10pm Foldit: Online game. Volunteers compete by folding proteins into chemically stable configurations #iconf11 5:11pm UC Berkeley BOINC platform for volunteer science projects, 300K participants #iconf11 5:14pm And they're even cited in Nature. Check it out: http:// www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7307/full/nature09304.html 5:16pm Motivational infrastructure, esp getting folks to stay, more challenging than technical infrastructure. #crowdsourcing science #iConf11 5:24pm Higher task granularity correlated with higher motivation level in #citizenscience study (see Benkler, 2006 more on granularity) #iConf11 5:26pm Allowing people to belong to teams in #citizenscience allows people to identify with others can can change motivation #iConf11 5:27pm Best intentions are not enough, #citizenscience also has to be fun. (like social marketing big 3: fun, popular, easy) #iConf11
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5:29pm Q: #Citizenscience motivates people to work for free. Ethical? #iConf11 #digitallabor 5:32pm Next up. Kentaro Toyama: Technology as Amplifier in International Development #iConf11 #ICTD 5:36pm Theory: Technology AMPLIFIES human intent and institutions. Could be good. Could be bad. #iConf11 5:41pm Kentaro teasing out capacities underlying differential access (digital divide): social networks, education, technical skills, etc. #iConf11 5:46pm ICT "solutions" are limited by existing substrate of human intent and capacity. #iConf11 #ICTD 5:48pm Prediction: In successful instance, technology will have been the easy part. #iConf11 #ICTD 5:49pm Sooo... look for trends or institutions that are already doing good work and help them use tech to amplify their work. #iConf11 #ICTD 5:55pm Philip Agre (2002) Real-Time Politics: The Internet and the Political Process. http://ow.ly/3TwTk #iConf11 #ICTD 6:03pm Looking at maintenance and repair issues in #ICTD. Routinely unaccounted for! #failfaire #iConf11 6:08pm Maintenance & repair as site difference, innovation, power, and sustainability. #ICTD #ethnomethodology #iConf11 6:11pm Tech/NA! put computer lab in school in Namibia... but has never been turned on because not enough power to run it. #iConf11 #failfaire 7:03pm No Sense of Distance: Improving Cross-Cultural Communication with Context-Linked Software Tools: Cecilia Aragon & Sarah Poon #iConf11
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7:15pm Using chatbot made it easier for novice scientists to ask questions, esp those who culturally used to being told rather than ask. #iConf11 7:25pm Our underlying model is growth: more, bigger. What if we took as our model that everything is falling apart? #iConf11 7:28pm Social Scientists, Documents & Cyberinfrastructure: The Cobbler's Children or Missing Masses? Kaziunas, Sawyer & Osterlund. #iConf11 7:31pm How do social scientists organize for and do distributed collaboration? Practices? Tools? #iConf11 7:35pm David Ellis: Modeling the information-seeking patterns of academic researchers: A grounded theory approach http://ow.ly/3Tzxf #iConf11 7:39pm Mapped social scientist document spaces: piles on desks, windowsills, carted around in bags, on computer, etc. Where? Why? #iConf11 7:40pm Found that email still primary way to share info, communicate & negotiate among collaborators. Some shifts to Dropbox, SharePoint. #iConf11 7:43pm Instead of creating work/collaborative system for group, used tools to connect individual researchers' personal work practices. #iConf11
Thu Feb 10 5:03pm Impact of #ICT on migration. RIse of the "networked migrant"... #iConf11
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5:13pm Migrants use ICTs to coordinate social life but mostly among themselves. Not mixing with others. #iConf11 5:16pm Social media use short, frequent monitoring. Mostly checking what friends are up to and looking at photos. #iConf11 5:18pm Community as "ambient presence" lurking, checking, monitoring, peeping via social media. #iConf11 5:43pm @marcopolis Full paper on migrants in Ireland is here: http:// www.ucd.ie/lkomito/ #iConf11 RE marcopolis: Thank you very much! Quick view of tweets seems to echo Canadian migrant experience with ICTs. 5:52pm The Internet is Here: Emergent Coordination & Innovation of Protest Forms in Digital Culture: Underwood & Welser #iConf11 5:54pm Study of reaction to that freaky Tom Cruise leaked video. Protesters used humor and Internet memes to protest taking it down. #iConf11 5:56pm 4Chan called for #DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks against Scientology websites. Not very effective. #iConf11 5:58pm Chanology protesters against Scientology control over video dissemination able to go offline to coord global protests 10K people #iConf11 5:59pm Chanology/Anonymous protesters used IRC rooms, forums to mobilize protesters. #iConf11 6:01pm @thejdt: Underwood: How does cyberactivism flourish without any established hierarchy? #iConf11 6:03pm Cyberactivism: Organizing in pods, shared identity & being "in on the joke", standing out from crowd, maintaining group boundaries. #iConf11
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6:06pm Anonymous: Frame offline action as extension of online activities. Use existing norms, memes (rickrolling, etc.), structures #iConf11 6:11pm Project Chanology online/offline cyberactivism methods PDF of Underwood & Wesler paper here http://ow.ly/3Uhcs #iConf11 6:22pm Using inside jokes & memes makes cyberactivism cool and fun. Again back to Social Marketing 101: fun, easy, popular. #strategy #iConf11 6:27pm Can you view distributed denial of service attacks as digital sitins? Blocking access to a structure? #iConf11 #DDOS
Fri Feb 11 11:39am #egypt and the arab world shows us what democracy and peaceful protest looks like. buh-bye suicide bomber stereotype. #inspired RE iMenna29: WE HAVE DONE IT! I'm so happy and proud. Wish I were there!! 11:45am @menna29 i can only imagine. i'm in seattle... starting my day believing in humanity! you lift all of us up. give us hope. #egypt RE iMenna29: Love and hugs from Dubai.. 11:50am @menna29 Same from Seattle/Montreal... see you next when you're at Harvard! Yay!
Wed Feb 16 4:52pm RT @hughmcguire: Slides from #toccon preso on "Open, Webby Book Publishing" from @jmaxsfu, @kirkbiglione, and me: http:// slidesha.re/i6Heuj
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Thu Feb 24 3:56pm Back in Montreal. Great #Drumbeat meeting today. Planning cool event for Autumn 2011. #mozilla #openweb
Fri Feb 25 1:35am Design thinking bootcamp. Thanks to Stanford. http:// dschool.typepad.com/news/2010/12/2010-bootcamp-bootleg-is-here.html
Mon Feb 28 11:34am BitTorrent for the developing world... http://www.dritte.org/ bitmate.html 1:50pm Visualize your own data in the Google Public Data Explorer http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/visualize-your-own-data-ingoogle.html
Thu Mar 3 12:28am Nice persona template: http://wireframes.linowski.ca/2011/03/ persona-template/ #UX 1:11am Drupal 7 as a service. Very cool. http://www.drupalgardens.com/ tour 3:37pm Anwiki: Manage, translate and synchronize multilingual content. Looks interesting. http://www.anwiki.com/ RE DigitalJonathan: got v. excited about Anwiki ... but then I realised the translation is manual, human. Sadly.
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11:07pm Some of the most fabulous and creative furniture design I've seen in a while. Wow. http://ow.ly/47Eii 11:08pm @digitaljonathan Yes but I was more excited about easy platform not manage multiple languages, not create them. Am not aiming so high :) RE DigitalJonathan: lol, had high expectations of auto-translate service for genuine enterprise collaboration across languages. Next time...
Mon Mar 7 11:14am How to write a pretty damn good F.A.Q. (in about 120 minutes) http://ow.ly/49mXN #mozilla #drumbeat 11:33am #Mozilla faves: Drumbeat's MoJo (http://ow.ly/49o1E ), ReMo (http://ow.ly/49o3u) & Labs #opendata viz contest (http://ow.ly/49o73)
Wed Mar 9 11:15am crowdsource your party music: http://djtxt.me/
Fri Mar 11 2:39pm RT @iambikaudio: Very happy to announce a new collection of indie crime audiobooks, priced $6.99 a pop! see: http://iambik.com 3:30pm RT @celinecelines: In the past yrs arabic content has been growing exponentially on the internet which is facilitating the movement of...
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Mon Mar 14
5:22pm @NeelieKroesEU with TASCHA's Immigrant Women report. Nice to see our work in good hands! http://bit.ly/e-skillz http:// twitpic.com/49j2xk
Tue Mar 15 1:41pm GNU Free Call creating an open-source, free alternative to Skype. Secure and decentralized communications. http://ow.ly/4f3Bp 5:27pm http://www.malcolmgladwellbookgenerator.com/ 5:57pm I forgot how much I like AC/DC ;) RE SilviaCai: What??? we need to go dancing soon
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Tue Mar 22 5:44pm RT @ethanz: Amazing timeline of Middle East uprisings from The Guardian striking visualization of their coverage: http://bit.ly/ gGXImK
Fri Apr 1 1:54pm 4 African Tech Conferences Worth Attending in 2011 http:// ow.ly/4rmQN 4:57pm RT @marcopolis: Immigrant Entrepreneurship and the Role of NGOs http://ow.ly/4ru4q #innovation #integration #entrepreneurship 6:01pm The University of Washington's Technology & Social Change Group's aggregated blog is live! http://tascha.uw.edu/category/blogs/
Sun Apr 3 2:44pm Last night I saw this ecstatic, violent, peanut dance and it was wonderful. http://vimeo.com/20287773
Thu Apr 7 9:43am On the train to DC. RE celinecelines: bon voyage :* 9:07pm Woorijip -12 West 32nd St # 4, NY, NY http://t.co/UtqIxNq
Mon Apr 11 4:30pm 28C in Washington, DC. Wow. Warm weather. #defrosting
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Tue Apr 19 10:59am @missrogue Love the new name... hated the old one :( Now I get your biz. Shoppers own your data! http://buyosphere.com/
Tue Apr 26 3:24pm Got jQuery skills? Live in YUL? Looking for a bit of work? Ping me!
Wed Apr 27 4:59pm Working on a biblio. Shocked how many local gov't reports don't list authors! Authorship = Credibility #getwithit
Thu Apr 28 5:50pm Me like cupcake! Cuppppppcake! Arrrryumyumyum! http://t.co/ Q8FzWQ5 via @pinterest
Mon May 2 4:17pm @Mailchimp's usability SUCKS. If it wasn't for integration with Highrise I would switch back to @CampaignMonitor in a second! #wastingtime RE CampaignMonitor: Our friends at @OneSaas offer Highrise integration, but it's one-way. Would love to have you back :) http://cot.ag/ j9hyXS ^RH
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8:32pm Who needs a beer can when you have a bundt? #trevino http:// t.co/bjojAsS
Tue May 3 12:40am @CampaignMonitor Yes I looked at @OneSaas but it didn't do it for me. Let me know if you make any updates. RE CampaignMonitor: Will do :) ^RH
Thu May 5 2:13pm @pinterest i love you. you combine connecting and sharing with keeping me inspired and creative! RE Pinterest: Thanks so much! Have a great day and - of course - happy pinning. :)
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Mon May 9
10:17pm Food porn #trivinorocks http://t.co/hw4WMgB
10:26pm Now duck #trivinorocks http://t.co/lOCPcyw

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RE danparsons: glad to see you tweeting :)
Wed May 11 10:39am @christopheradam presents on open fonts. Notes: http:// ow.ly/4S8S7 #openpublishing #lgm2011 12:08pm Libre Graphics Magazine. Stories from the first year of producing with an all-F/LOSS workflow. http://ow.ly/4SfJh #openpublishing #lgm2011 2:16pm Federation on the web, freedom & network services @ #lgm2011 http://ow.ly/4Smsu & http://ow.ly/4Smzc 5:03pm Create a single high-resolution Linux desktop using multiple projectors http://ow.ly/4Sv5u #lgm2011 5:45pm Creating a database for technological processes (information > knowledge > knowhow to get shit done) http://ow.ly/4Sx5U #lgm2011 11:39pm Right to Research Coalition releases new Open Access toolkit for students http://ow.ly/4SGQ2 #openresearch
Thu May 12 4:10pm http://popcornjs.org/ add dynamic, contextual information to video or audio. daffy duck sample: http://ow.ly/4Tnpi #lgm2011 #drumbeat 5:20pm DakarLUG Promoting F/LOSS in Senegal http:// blog.dakarlug.org/ ... cool SVG presentation at http://ow.ly/4TqBB #lgm2011 #ICTD 5:30pm Presentation on publishing academic texts with open source software in West Africa #scribus #lgm2011 #openpublishing
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5:39pm in Senegal low barriers to adoption for open-source graphics software. Especially with some mentorship and support. #ICTD #lgm2011 #FLOSS 5:41pm Connecting traditional and digital artists in Senegal http://kerthiossane.org/ #ICTD #lgm2011 5:46pm @ictimpact What inspired http://www.dofbi.com/ to learn about tech was playing first video game #noninstrumentaluse #ICTD #lgm2011 5:56pm OpenHatch training missions teach skills that help you successfully contribute to free/open source projects http://openhatch.org/ missions/ 11:47pm Keeping libre graphics projects vibrant and productive http:// ow.ly/4TAnk #lgm #openpublishing #community
Wed May 18 11:40pm After I'm all done please turn me into a tree: http:// www.martinazua.com/eng/design-nature/bios-urn/ #death #urn #cradleto-cradle
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Mon May 23
9:11pm Supper http://t.co/XBRiq59
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Wed May 25
8:34pm Rinconcita de la primavera. Flores, libros. http://t.co/NocLNp5
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Sun May 29
8:02pm Birdseed risotto with saffron, carrot, lemon, shittake, asparagus http://t.co/JrLeKNh RE MUP4: must have missed the invitation :D
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8:27pm Seared tuna shiso flax pepper crust salad of dandelion arugula http://t.co/Zz3AU0d
Sat Jun 4 7:11pm @founderfuel holy #gender imbalance! mentors, execs, investors only ONE woman?! whoah. really?? (check it out @mtlgirlgeeks) 7:13pm @founderfuel ah okay my bad... y'all called yourselves out. good on you ;)
Mon Jun 27 7:54pm Are you a psychopath or an empath? http://ow.ly/5ryi5 Via the NYT book review: http://ow.ly/5ryk4
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Mon Jul 25
8:13pm Essentials for my sanity in DC http://t.co/tPBxdBs
Thu Jul 28 3:48pm The two faces of hacking matrix http://ow.ly/5PQda #innovation #mischief 4:24pm Give me my data back song http://ow.ly/5PS8V (via @lostonroute66) best since the Output Outcome Downstream Impact Blues http://ow.ly/5PSgE RE lostonroute66: thanks!
Wed Aug 3 10:07pm Revolution 2.0? Social media and political changes in Egypt and beyond http://ow.ly/5UIIe Merlyna Lim rocks http://merlyna.org/
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Fri Aug 5 4:30pm Berkeley researchers expose KISSmetrics cunning online tracking service that cant be dodged (via @wired) http://ow.ly/5WqdO #privacy
Sun Aug 28 12:17pm When helping a scorpion, make sure you're a tortoise (http:// t.co/Q9gopEi) and not a frog (http://t.co/vE5KQUI) #liveandlearn
Sat Sep 24 8:07pm @jmaxsfu Ha! I've been brought through many Minecraft tour by my son... (a gift from his uncle the video game developer) 8:11pm Supper in front of Game of Thrones. Grrrrrrr.... @hughmcguire, I'm now addicted. RE iMenna29: Where are you, C? Miss u! :) RE hughmcguire: only 10 episodes! but ... 5 books (to date!).
Sun Sep 25 3:01pm I am a free agent http://t.co/HNuAAxCB #vision #collaboration
Mon Sep 26 1:39am Observations from Tufte's keynote at the #techatstate #datavisualization event http://t.co/GRFuaeP0 2:20am Using mobile technology to collect data. Random notes. #techatstate http://t.co/LJ4koBEA
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2:41am @iMenna29 I thought you were done studying and off to sleep ;) RE iMenna29: I tweet in bed sometimes lol 4:08pm @GVIrish Thanks! Glad to know I'm not the only on. 4:18pm Working with Liam from the Rockville Public Library #publicaccess #librariesrock RE Z_Everson: Skype 'round 7:15 p.m.? 4:35pm @Z_Everson Is 8ish okay? We were going to go to the climbing gym. RE Z_Everson: Probably. Depends on where we are on Viv's bedtime routine. I'll be online; if I can answer, I'll do just that. 4:40pm @Z_Everson Perfect. 9:18pm Proud to be supporting #failfaire DC 2011, at the #WorldBank on October 13th: http://t.co/NCBiQg3h #learning #innovation
Tue Sep 27 12:13am Loving @awe_screenshot (thanks @michaelemeyers) #skitch #alternative 12:16am @SophieGiroux Maybe because of those hot shoes you love so much? ;) RE SophieGiroux: I've been so good lately wearing flats! ;) Today I am cheating though. Guess I shouldn't complain about my foot cramps! xo
Wed Sep 28 12:11am Renting my lovely Montreal flat while I'm in DC for the year: by day, week, month http://t.co/x5Uh3tEp #YUL #airbnb RE iMenna29: I miss it! The kitchen area looks super nice btw! But it'd be too dull if I go without :(
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12:31am @iMenna29 We'll be back and you can come stay anytime! In the meantime DC calls ;) RE iMenna29: Let's agree on a weekend! 11:09am @woothemes new e-commerce toolkit+theme for #wordpress. Love these guys! Great tools for #socialenterprise and business http:// ow.ly/6Honj 3:25pm @jizobizo Wow. Lots of info packed into a small space. I like the comparisons and how they did the sources. #infographic #visualization 3:26pm Thanks for the RTs @hughmcguire @inevernu @NudgeDesign. Already have competing folks for first week of October! #AirBnB #myfriendsrock RE NudgeDesign: Not surprised. Your place is FANTASTIC!
Mon Oct 3 8:32am A guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching, and impact activities http://t.co/noFnC8lX via @AddToAny
Tue Oct 4 5:26pm New @firefox #brandingguide rocks. Great example for communicators. Go @mozilla! http://t.co/XQsCDbLh RE firefox: thanks! We're delighted to have a brand guide to share out with everyone. And it's getting lots of use :) ^WR /cc @mozcreative
Wed Dec 7 10:51am Thinking about Samuel Mockbee. I would really really like to have known him. http://t.co/IJNbYkMh #architectureofdecency
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Fri Dec 23 6:51pm Awesome dinner party in the works #yul http://t.co/pB6YonBd RE inevernu: is that Dexter on the right? 7:06pm Lucky limes, raspberry point, malpeque. #oysters #yul http:// t.co/tgW3xBKl 8:04pm Pork belly! #dinnerparty http://t.co/TGPtuTTs 8:06pm Skinner's bitter green salad. http://t.co/rNLu2auL 9:03pm Fish soup http://t.co/8g5sfmCC 11:18pm Aftermath #dinnerparty http://t.co/aqWTGeJL
Sun Dec 25 12:57pm Mom's huevos rancheros #food http://t.co/8MqsO9ph
Tue Dec 27 7:43pm Mom's foie grass. http://t.co/om5vwH4p 8:56pm Mom's ragout de pattes. #quebec #yumminess http://t.co/ UGwaaDk1
Wed Dec 28 9:41pm Cassoulet! #dinnerparty http://t.co/z8BhNWNf
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Sun Jan 1 7:40pm @Z_Everson What's wrong with my dinner parties? :) RE Z_Everson: Nothing! Between the food and company, we're jealous. 8:47pm @Z_Everson Understandable I've been super blessed! Hope to add you and yours to the lineup in 2012. 8:55pm @msurman OMG i love it :) le fruit ne tombe pas loin de l'arbre.
Tue Jan 3 11:50pm Wonderful interview with Gerhard Behles of Ableton Live http://t.co/4pPlotml
Wed Jan 4 12:06pm #DC folks! Come do some #coworking with me at TRYST on December 18 #jellydc #jellyweek http://t.co/PNV3692U
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Sun Jan 8 10:48pm SOPA-Supporting News Outlets Aren't Covering SOPA [STUDY] http://t.co/52iArHAV #shameonyou #framing (via @inevernu)
Tue Jan 10 2:22pm Working from Laurel MD #library. Busy: folks on email, Facebook, DMV, writing resume. #publicaccess RE Z_Everson: No pr0n? I thought easy access to smut is what drew folks to public-access computers. 3:05pm @Z_Everson More likely in #cybercafes than #libraries. That's actually what keeps some women away. #publicaccess #gender RE Z_Everson: My favorite piece of journalism ever. http://t.co/ nLtJG5jQ 3:07pm @Foster_ly Thanks! #DC folks check out the http:// t.co/85tAirnn launch event on Jan 19 http://t.co/J6ZzzRUf #coworking 3:17pm @Z_Everson OMG. I feel bad for librarians who have to deal with creeps like that. Sensational spin not cool though. RE Z_Everson: Oh, TV station ran with it: Multiple nights, follow ups, covered sentencing. @thedailyshow's Jason Jones pursued Carl Monday.
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Tue Jan 17
8:30am #JellyDC tomorrow @TRYST in Adams Morgan. Join us! We even have awesome #jellyweek stickers for your 'puter! :) http://t.co/ dy5rK953 RE jzoltner: Congrats on yr successful gathering for 2012 #JellyDC 4 #jellyweek @TRYST was packed tho hard 2 tell how much co-work was done
Wed Jan 25 8:42pm Kopimism ...kinda like #Sharism http://t.co/Kh1JixSI
Thu Jan 26 7:42am Datawind $47 tablet. Is free internet the next killer app? http:// t.co/1dMEvwgo
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7:44am Library zoning signs: business, small group, individual. #innovationgrounds http://t.co/qnK1UsPO 7:59am Jeffrey Schnapp's "library test kitchen" http://t.co/f5FRs2zk #hot #libraries #innovationgrounds 11:53am Noticing that more and more folks talking about what has to be ignored: tasks, content. #informationoverload
Fri Jan 27 11:00am @philshapiro's #library writings http://t.co/bKHuDBet #innovationgrounds
Mon Jan 30 8:31pm 3d printer at #dcfablab #awesome http://t.co/dnknlFkc
Tue Jan 31 11:35pm Kevin Byrd's Cops on Bikes. So fun. http://t.co/GiQMfHqW #music #video #atlanta #designersthatrock
Wed Feb 1 10:12pm # Korean #porkbellies http://t.co/jen4kZ91
Sun Feb 5 5:16pm Beautiful desk I made Liam from a counter top and two $10 trestles #ikeahacks http://t.co/Y3QxPsEL RE SilviaCai: Looks great... gotta love ikeahacks. xxxx
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10:11pm Jamaican Oxtail Stew. Yummy but OMG so much sugar; use less. http://t.co/rDikE6cs
Tue Feb 7 12:59pm Coworkify One app to connect all #coworking spaces (Lord of the Rings, anyone?) http://t.co/TaZU0yRd 1:07pm Brazil's TokStock tweets its manuals http://t.co/a0ubZ3Zi (via @bluesponge)
Fri Feb 10 8:34am @msurman Absolutely :)
Sun Feb 19 1:25pm The Open Data Handbook launches http://t.co/H3fy44RX #opendevelopment #opendata #opengovernment
Thu Feb 23 9:58am Afrographique awesomeness: http://t.co/OO2NuQmt #infographics #visualizations #africa 11:28am Loving http://t.co/xvt3huAt #hot #lingerie 11:35am @sebpaquet Whoah. I would think site #UX would be better. RE sebpaquet: There's talking the talk and then there's walking the walk.
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Fri Feb 24 8:39am Darknets & super-encryption. What do we risk when Internet activists go underground?http://t.co/Xp2qydJX #openweb 8:56am Development professionals don't work for the poor. They work for funders, selling them what they want, how they want it http://t.co/ IhoLgJhm
Sat Feb 25 3:51pm Global Impact Study #knowlegemobilization strategy... the "before" shot #messy #process http://t.co/sxtTMeTS 4:16pm Green-tea ramen with spinach, egg, and kimchi #fuel http://t.co/ t68Ad6Bu 9:09pm Supporting libraries, telecentres, coworking, hacker spaces, fablabs, etc. = investing in innovation & resilience #ICTD #innovationgrounds
Mon Feb 27 9:35am Map of #hackerspaces & #techhubs in Africa http://t.co/ bzwmRkxD & http://t.co/50aqj2H8 (via @lukonga @phat_controller) #innovationgrounds 12:45pm #Libraries & #telecenters have a huge role to play in #emergencymanagment new findings from 2010 Chile Earthquake http://t.co/el91UF5Z #ICTD
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Wed Feb 29 3:15pm Remote collaborative brainstorming and sketching http://t.co/ OS6dGbhf #UX #design 4:01pm Note to self: Never blog and cook something at high heat at the same time #burntfood 4:18pm Mapping internet rights and freedom of expression http://t.co/ ZqRaS2FM 5:49pm Wow I picked the wrong branch of communications... http://t.co/ hkAYmCrl RE cascadiasolid: I'm glad you didn't choose that branch of communications, at least... or the #gifiles branch, either...
Thu Mar 1 4:26pm #opengovernment & #opendata initiatives assume reliable gov't records, which often don't exist! http://t.co/LfoGBrYA #OpenDTA #ICTD 6:03pm A Wide Gulf on #OpenAccess to Federally Financed Research: http://t.co/7mXsRGZ2 #opendata #opendevelopment #OpenDTA
Fri Mar 2 12:20pm Must read: The New Ambiguity of #OpenGovernment by @harlanyu & @dgrobinson http://t.co/asl9rQfQ #opengov #opendata 12:35pm .@namecheap an alternative to #godaddy for those looking for proactive anti- #SOPA vendor http://t.co/ByQkgfCB & http://t.co/ l4fCx36l
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4:01pm Chilean government launches public consultation on #opendata standards. Deadline March 31. http://t.co/EgwCV57h #opengov 5:03pm http://t.co/NR2URRQz #opengov #interesting
Wed Mar 7 4:49pm Getting ready for Rio. Brazil visa photos: check! http://t.co/ T1IS3rHQ RE melodyrclark: Say what? When are you going to Rio?!? #jealous RE dlbrydon: #Rioplus20 I am guessing W00T
Thu Mar 8 8:12am Online #designthinking research tool http://t.co/QVvstiYe 12:58pm Spring! #dc http://t.co/DakD5Ghx
Mon Mar 12 10:09am At #ictd2012 at "How the information society recasts women's citizenship" session http://t.co/mt5sq6fy 11:04am Reality of migrant domestic workers challenges idea of the individual rights-bearing citizen. #ictd2012 3:53pm Presentation notes for our #openresearch talk at #ict2012 http://t.co/F7OBkZzv 3:54pm Data without borders #openresearch #ICTD2012 http://t.co/ lA8PnPzI 9:25pm Love this: http://t.co/yZBg8lQ0 #remix
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Wed Mar 14 12:56am Theory of Change for Research Uptake http://t.co/ciWvetzf RE catroy: Question #2 is key. So obvious and yet often so unexpected :) 3:42pm Voice Forum for Citizen Journalism in Rural India #ICTD2012 http://t.co/YdIXZCkg 4:51pm What can #opengov learn from #opensource, #opendata, open innovation and open journalism? http://t.co/Mdd74yLd (via @digiphile) 4:55pm @melodyrclark @james3neal Me too I would like to know more. Interested in #libraries and links to other #innovationgrounds #ICTD2012 RE melodyrclark: @james3neal if we don't connect here in Atlanta, we should def schedule a Skype soon. 5:36pm How is social media being used to promote and discuss the 2012 presidential election in Senegal? http://t.co/SyUgqUcz
Thu Mar 22 4:47pm Support @ParTour: Bikes, Mapping, #CitizenEngagement, Urban Renewal & Hyper-Local News http://t.co/lS05U4rr
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Tue Mar 27
12:54am Mapping internet public policy issues (download: http://t.co/ RYIoQHAg) via @APC_News http://t.co/ksLKRySj RE APC_News: thanks for the mention! 10:05am #infographic : A large image created by person with little knowledge/concern for web/accessibility #standards. http://t.co/tlteXI6u 10:27am Blogging #academics & #vulgarizing research http:// t.co/JZq2KOOr + http://t.co/xBb0m4Kj + http://t.co/KGhuAgb8 (via @cblatts @stevesong)
Fri Mar 30 2:49pm Raw vegan sushi at peace food cafe #NYC http://t.co/ CxHgSKzX
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Tue Apr 10 2:45pm World Bank puts all of its outputs under #creativecommons #attribution license #opendevelopment #opendata http://t.co/ EZHkVHd1
Sun Apr 29 3:13pm Transition Network's card game #resilience http://t.co/ aVFAwLjY
Mon May 7 8:54pm The Massive Open Online Professor #MOOC http://t.co/ zrdu5TEp 9:23pm Changing Education Paradigms, Sir Ken Robinson (via @celinecelines) http://t.co/UzBKQLIt 11:08pm Graphic record of Luke Williams Frog Design disruptive thinking talk: http://t.co/uzEhfFAb
Tue May 8 2:46am OpenSailing concept video. #fuckingawesome http://t.co/ nlgXOuCu
Wed May 9 12:50pm Why Workflows Rock: And How Content Strategists Roll http://t.co/Rucu0qM8
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Fri May 11 11:02pm Getting ready to go to Georgia #pimpmyNGO #hacktivism RE iMenna29: Georgia the state or Georgia the country? :-)
Sat May 12 5:36am @iMenna29 Country :-) RE iMenna29: Let me know she u get back, we should catch up. Miss u. X
Fri May 18 8:31am The most awesome @Kakhishvili translated @ONOrobot's #Facebook #privacy video into Georgian! http://t.co/azpmJbtq #hacktivism 9:10pm Mobile Media Toolkit #hactivism http://t.co/UhvHdNKx 9:13pm Georgian soup dumplings #delicious http://t.co/Hv2J8L0v 9:16pm People! The food in Georgia rocks! #delicious http://t.co/ TKI5ciUZ RE iMenna29: yummy! 9:17pm My morning walk #Tbilisi #Georgia http://t.co/poKt24QB 9:18pm @iMenna29 Yes! It's stuffed peppers, spinach/walnuts/herbs/ spices, similar eggplant mix, crazy good sauce, cheese swimming in delicous RE iMenna29: can't wait for the cooking weekend! RE iMenna29: u made me hungry! 9:25pm .@kanter's Social Media Tools for Trainers. Awesome! Now to figure out what to translate into Georgian... http://t.co/vKSfrS4J
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RE kanter: glad you found my training wiki useful - I have over 5o wikis! 9:37pm Shout out to @Mary_Joyce @SMEX @kanter @emediat for sharing digital media activism training materials http://t.co/SIMlKue1 9:40pm Civil Resistance 2.0 | 198 Nonviolent Methods Upgraded (http://t.co/QaspDKIZ) via @MetaActivism 9:47pm .@kanter's Facebook Engagement Questions translated into Georgian http://t.co/MnAUxvJI
Sun May 20 12:08am HomicideWatchDC: primary sources, social media + reporting = public resource http://t.co/RNv63HC7 & http://t.co/AUSXKQeF 12:10am Really sad + blown away by people's stories on http://t.co/ RNv63HC7. How can we use this for other civic issues? RE eyeseast: Something we're thinking about. Curious what other issues and applications for the platform come to mind for you. 12:13am Example of why blogging academics rock. How to get academy to reward new ways to advance knowledge? via @marcopolis http://t.co/ LbPgZLJG 1:36am @eyeseast Monitoring: Human rights, candidates, issues (see @ushahidi & http://t.co/Qq836rre). Let's brainstorm when I'm back in DC :) 5:39am Listening to Eros Ramazotti singing in Spanish in a cafe in Tbilisi. #surreal RE SilviaCai: es el dios de italian hearts. enjoy. 5:41am @wayan_vota impressive! 6:01am Old and new technology. There was also a barcode scanner and PC. #Georgia #juxtaposition http://t.co/uswHIeJ7
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Mon May 21 11:44pm Instiglio: Financial mechanisms to discover, adopt, and scale solutions to social problems http://t.co/vVtIZbQx #socialbonds 11:55pm Like @TheEconomist's Big Mac Index? Georgia's ISET Policy Institute tracks inflation with the "Khachapuri Index" http://t.co/ eO7mpGqy
Tue May 22 7:19pm #DIY antenna, Georgian style, with Caucasus mountains in distance, and Dagestan beyond... #wow http://t.co/LHXWQeOs
Thu May 24 10:39am @Ekapirtskhalava I get very animated when teaching folks about @creativecommons :) RE Ekapirtskhalava: @creativecommons You're a very good trainer:) 10:49am Data visualization in Dublin http://t.co/1uIJIEhP 11:07am @Ekapirtskhalava Thanks, Eka! You were a super bunch of participants. Awesome that your @wordpress website is up and running so quickly :) 12:55pm The pirate university #love http://t.co/BPXIxfjf 2:04pm Wikipedia = porn? Sign in an otherwise-awesome Quezon City library (@chriscoward) http://t.co/0vMlLWP1 #philippines
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Fri May 25 12:06pm What's the impact of the World Bank's #openaccess policy? http://t.co/B0hPFGJg 1:12pm Quebec's 'truncheon law' rebounds as student strike spreads | Martin Lukacs http://t.co/dkHSRGwC via @guardian 1:28pm Amazing protest website against #loi78. Not about student fees anymore. Now it's about civil rights. #GGI #manifencours 1:32pm I'm Not a Quebec Protester, But Police Assaulted Me Anyway http://t.co/7MaujbWC via @HuffPostCanada 2:51pm http://t.co/wQKglIoO 11:53pm Twitter effects & Quebec's Printemps rable http://t.co/OXU8hesP #casseroles #loi78 #manifencours #ggi (via @martinlessard) RE iMenna29: back?
Sat May 26 12:22am @iMenna29 tomorrow! RE iMenna29: great! I just got to NYC, staying at the upper west side. Can't wait to see u! Xoxo 12:47am Quebec corruption inquiry set to get underway Journal of Commerce: http://t.co/CbLOGHCl
Sun May 27 8:50pm #data #visualization does not have to be fancy... http://t.co/ mdnKFcy6
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Tue May 29 11:20am @Nexalogy's http://t.co/1nhGozgz: Free analysis of your last 800 tweets: visualize topics, links, trends, discussions (FTW @cgtheoret) RE cgtheoret: glad that you like it! We were just chatting about you this morning. :) 2:07pm @cgtheoret You were? Now I'm curious! :-) 2:08pm @nanananini Dangerou$!
Wed May 30 6:16pm Summer grilling #yummy http://t.co/E2ZGJDsw
Wed Jun 6 2:49pm Vatican apparently unaware of Barbara Streisand Effect. Banned book soars to 16th on Amazon bestseller list. http://t.co/ eOwkwsk9 2:51pm And apparently the largest group of nuns in the USA has become a hotbed of "radical feminism". Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! #haha
Thu Jun 7 11:12am Just made a book out of my tweets at http://t.co/cXaO3zxH
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Mar 2008 - Jun 2012

Copyright Prefontaine 2012

Sun Mar 16 1:31pm drinking espresso in Rio

Mon Mar 17 8:02am in Atlanta 12:18pm in Washington DC visiting Liam

Mon Mar 24 11:29pm flying to Peru

Wed Apr 16 8:12am at Fundacion Esplai in Barcelona. Awed, inspired.

Tue Apr 22 11:53am in Montreal. Making strategy.

Sat May 3 11:19pm creating!

Thu May 15 10:53am feeling fuzzyheaded today.

Wed May 28 1:10am Christine is in Ottawa.

Thu Jun 12 11:07am Christine is proud of Liam's photos: www.flickr.com/photos/ christineprefontaine/

Wed Jun 25 2:13am First day in Uganda.

Mon Jul 7 4:33pm Finally home! Hot in Montreal. Yummy.

Sun Jul 13 9:55pm In email hell. Digging my way out slowly.

Wed Jul 16 7:48pm Eating out.

Thu Jul 17 10:42pm Enjoying a warm Montreal evening. Walking aimlessly.

Mon Jul 21 3:40pm Feeling ridiculously happy.

Wed Jul 23 6:12pm Email slayer extraordinaire!

Sat Jul 26 2:49pm Roadtripping south.

Sun Aug 10 9:33am with Liam and Sofi in Montreal

Wed Sep 3 9:22pm Users into producers, consumers into designers.

Tue Oct 14 12:07pm Voting! 10:02pm @inevernu what?

Wed Oct 15 2:48pm @hughmcguire Congratulations!

Sun Oct 19 4:49pm Drained

Tue Oct 28 2:49pm Wishing I had more time to write

Sat Dec 13 9:48pm Fiona, couscous, wine, videogames

Sun Jan 18 12:00pm Reading about social media, microblogging, aggregators

2:35am Bookkake update: http://tinyurl.com/ddg37g (thanks @hughmcguire) Yay open publishing!

7:53pm Invoicing 10:38pm @duncano Snazzy new profile pic. Nice.

9:24pm Dammit. Think I'm coming down with a cold.

Thu Feb 19 10:37am Yay! Finally starting to feel better!

Mon Mar 16 3:14pm Logging bugs

Tue Mar 24 4:49pm Vote for Identica! http://march.shoeboxed.com/

Sat Mar 28 3:18pm Improving OurParliament.ca.

Thu Apr 16 10:59am Off to see Jeffrey Sachs http://tinyurl.com/c9sqy9

Fri May 1 11:18pm Reading about cybercartography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Cybercartography

Tue Jun 9 7:21pm @JohnBaku Please define "affiliate" in this context ;)

10:00pm @whiteafrican Censorship by Flickr. This is disturbing: http://bit.ly/Mm1oc

Sun Jun 21 11:11pm Liam goes back to DC tomorrow. Sad.

Wed Jun 24 5:53pm Blurb now does PDF to book http://bit.ly/jwVEI

Fri Oct 30 1:27pm Check out http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/ (thanks to @sfllaw )

Tue Nov 3 11:50am Claude Levi Strauss dies at 100 http://bit.ly/1MXkzv

Sun Nov 22 10:06pm Reading Wael Hallaq #islamiclaw

1:33pm @Z_Everson http://twitpic.com/x7i84 - Beautiful. Congrats to both of you!

Fri Mar 5 2:12pm @dlerda Welcome to Twitter, globe-trotting yoga girl! ;)

Sat Apr 24 10:27pm Facebook's recommendations creep me out.

Tue May 25 12:24pm @belindadarcey nice background on your profile pic ;)

Fri Jul 9 12:50pm Working with Lillet at the Zetter in London.

Sat Jul 17 7:34am On my way home!

Thu Aug 5 4:57pm i have eaten the plums http://ow.ly/2lG1S #hotsummerday

Wed Sep 15 8:46pm A bird is not an ornithologist. http://ow.ly/2EWVd

Thu Sep 16 3:38pm Infographics porn: http://infosthetics.com/

Fri Sep 24 4:21pm @sylvaincarle #wineoclock ;)

Mon Nov 29 7:50pm @vincent_olivier me :) RE MUP4: It's true! Why?

1:57pm Lately head is full of http://twitpic.com/3r8cfl and http:// twitpic.com/3r8ccq. #renovation

Wed Mar 9 11:15am crowdsource your party music: http://djtxt.me/

10:17pm Food porn #trivinorocks http://t.co/hw4WMgB

10:26pm Now duck #trivinorocks http://t.co/lOCPcyw

RE danparsons: glad to see you tweeting :)

9:11pm Supper http://t.co/XBRiq59

8:34pm Rinconcita de la primavera. Flores, libros. http://t.co/NocLNp5

8:13pm Essentials for my sanity in DC http://t.co/tPBxdBs