Facebook’s Caitlin O’Farrell gets the ball rolling at FacebookCamp Toronto.
Accordion City loves Facebook — we’ve got 725,000 Facebook users (out of a population of around 3 million), and until recently, we were the number 1 city in the world as far as Facebook users go.
It’s not just ordinary Toronto Facebook users [...]
Category Archives: Citizen Journalist
Notes from FacebookCamp, Part 1
August 8, 2007 – 1:17 pm
Richard M. Stallman: Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks
July 6, 2007 – 11:30 am
That’s a mighty fine Unix beard, sir. Not a bad Unix gut either.
Last night, I attended a presentation by Mr. Free Software himself — Richard M. Stallman — titled Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks. I took photos and notes, and you can check them out at Global Nerdy.
danah boyd’s “MyFriends, MySpace” Presentation
June 25, 2007 – 3:32 pm
danah boyd making her “MyFriends, MySpace” presentation at the Berkman Center at Harvard, Tuesday, June 19th, 2007.
One of the things I got to do during last week’s vacation was go visit the place where the Ginger Ninja worked for four years (and where I met her!) — the Berkman Center for Internet and [...]
Interview: David Cronenberg on Andy Warhol
July 10, 2006 – 3:15 pm
A “Warholized” still from the video I shot of Cronenberg’s interview.
On Saturday, Wendy and I had the privilege of being invited to a special bloggers-only interview session with David Cronenberg, who is the guest curator for a new exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario titled Andy Warhol - Supernova: Stars, Deaths and Disasters, 1962 [...]
Andrew "Rocketboom Guy" Baron’s Visit, Videos and Glamour Shots
July 9, 2006 – 7:23 pm
Here’s a long entry on Drew “The Rocketboom Guy” Baron’s visit to CaseCamp last Friday, which includes links to the videos I shot of his presentation, why I took them down and then later put them back up, my take on Amanda’s departure and finally, a glamour shot of Drew.
As I said, this one’s long, [...]
The Last of the Notes from the All-Candidates Meeting
January 22, 2006 – 3:49 pm
And finally, the last of my notes from the January 11th all-candidates meeting for the Parkdale-High Park riding, complete with closing statements. If you’d like to see my other notes, follow the links below:
All-Candidates Meeting: Opening Statements
All-Candidates Meeting: First Two Questions
More Questions from the All-Candidates Meeting
Even More Questions from the All-Candidates Meeting
For all these notes, [...]
Even More Questions from the All-Candidates Meeting
January 18, 2006 – 5:00 am
That’s right, even more from my notes on last week’s all-candidates meeting. In case you missed them, here are my earlier entries on that meeting:
All-Candidates Meeting: Opening Statements
All-Candidates Meeting: First Two Questions
More Questions from the All-Candidates Meeting
Question Seven: The Gun Crime Question
What are you going to do about gun crime?
Peggy Nash, New Democratic Party
This [...]
More Questions from the All-Candidates Meeting
January 17, 2006 – 5:00 am
Sorry it took so long, but here’s more from the All-Candidates Meeting. If you missed the other installments:
All-Candidates Meeting: Opening Statements
All-Candidates Meeting: First Two Questions
Question 3: The “Psychotropic Drugs” Question
“There’s no right answer to this question,” said the guy who was next in line, “but I’m just as interested in the way you answer it.” [...]
All-Candidates Meeting: First Two Questions
January 13, 2006 – 5:33 pm
Here are my notes from the first two questions asked at Wednesday’s all-candidates meeting. Just in case you missed it, I also have an entry containing my notes on the opening statements.
Question 1: Island Airport
[As a resident of the area] we are in the flight path leading to the Toronto Island airport. We expect that [...]
More Notes from the All-Candidates Meeting…Later [Updated]
January 12, 2006 – 4:46 pm
Update: I mis-attributed a line by Rob Rishchynski (Green Party) to Lorne Gershuny (Marxist-Leninist Party). This has been corrected.
I’ve got more notes. In fact, I took notes for the entire meeting. They’ll take a little time to transcribe, but I hope to get some of that done later tonight.
I’ve always wondered what it would be [...]
Sam Bulte and the Copyright Pledge
January 12, 2006 – 8:04 am
Courtesy of Michael “The Darker Side to Rants” Kalus, here’s Sam Bulte’s response to being asked to take Michael Geist’s Copyright Pledge:
Want your own copy? Here’s an iPod/iTunes-ready version [8.4MB, M4V file].
…and here’s a torrent for the full, raw video featuring all the candidates’ responses (BitTorrent required).
All-Candidates Meeting: Opening Statements
January 12, 2006 – 7:16 am
The following is based on my handwritten notes of the the opening
statements. I’m wearing my “citizen journalist” hat here, which means
that I have attempted, to the best of my ability, to provide an honest
account of what I saw and heard at the meeting. Any of my personal asides will [...]
A Taste of the All-Candidates Meeting
January 12, 2006 – 3:44 am
Earlier this evening, I attended the all-candidates meeting for my
riding, Parkdale-High Park. The photo below was taken about five
minutes before the meeting started and with people still piling in. The
seats were filled soon shortly thereafter, and it became a “standing
room only” event.
I [...]
Notes from Internet+Society 2004: The Election Panel
December 19, 2004 – 8:03 am
Continuing my (admittedly late) series of notes from the Berkman Center’s Internet+Society 2004 conference, here are my notes from the session on the 2004 US Election.
Here’s the writeup of the session taken from the conference schedule:
Affecting the Outcome II: Election 2004 in the United States
What happened here in the United States? [...]
Notes from Internet+Society 2004: The Business Panel
December 18, 2004 – 6:39 am
More notes from the Berkman Center’s Internet+Society 2004 conference — these are from the “Business” panel.
Here’s the description of the panel:
The most promising Internet business
models have a great deal in common with the most promising political
movements. They empower the grassroots and serve as platforms
upon which greatness can [...]
