One thing I’m thinking about today as we continue to cobble together the details on the SkyTrain Unconference is diversity. This flared up as a topic of discussion in the Web 2.0 world more generally a while back, with many high-profile bloggers like Jason Kottke looking at the gender breakdown of speakers at conferences, and Chris Messina doing the same for ethnic diversity. …
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Evaluating Diversity in Unconference Participation
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Oh, Media - Breakfast Television tomorrow
http://www.countablyinfinite.ca/blog/2008/09/oh-media-breakfast-television-tomorrow/As you might (or perhaps might not) expect of a student of Communication, media gives me swishy feelings. I got a few days head’s up for this, which is better than what I usually get. We hashed out the details this morning - tomorrow morning, I will be up bright and early to talk about the SkyTrain Unconference on CityTV Breakfast Television. …
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SkyTrain Unconference
http://www.countablyinfinite.ca/blog/2008/09/skytrain-unconference/The last three weeks have been an absolute whirlwind of activity, new things happening at a terrifying pace that has left me with little time for much of anything. But the only way out of this big backlog of blogging is to start somewhere, so I will start with the most important. …
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Hank Hill's exclamation after hearing from the train conductor the rules of the train on a disco murder mystery ride. "This is gonna work", he happily declared. Episode CABE10, titled ""Strangeness On a Train", which aired on April 27th, according to Wikipedia.
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Ephemeral Feasthouse
http://feasthouse.wordpress.com- flash animation Cyan Design - graphic design Info distillery - information gathering Frog squadders Rebecca Bollwitt John Bollwitt Raul Hummingbird604 Alexa Booth Joe Solomon Greg Andrews Colleen Coplick Lisa Tilson Karen Fung Tris Hussey Olga Orda Rex Weyler Roland Tanglao Keira-anne Brad Rees Jonathan Narvey and all the other frogs who blogged, podcasted, vid-casted and otherwise helped. Thanks also go to all the business owners who came to our focus grou
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Upcoming events - Skytrain Security Unconference
http://hummingbird604.com/2008/10/02/upcoming-events-skytrai...My friend Karen Quinn Fung is helping Translink organize the Skytrain Security Unconference this coming Saturday. Unfortunately, I have a gazillion things to do, so I won’t be able to attend, although it would be great if people did, particularly because this is a first
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Barcamp Vancouver 2008
http://danielquinn.org/blog/1442.htmlregarding the mobile web (and how it doesn't exist), django-bloom (REALLY fucking cool), and cloud computing (it may not be as cool as you heard, but it's still really cool). Had some really great conversation outside of the presentations. I met Karen Quinn Fung, an activist and organiser for the upcoming Skytrain Security UnConference. She's a striking young woman with a solid understanding of social media and community activism and with a few others in a small group we all tackled the touchy subject of
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Urban Vancouver | Vancouver's community blog
http://www.urbanvancouver.comUpset over loss of 0.5 FTE staff at their small annex _MG_0220 [Flickr] _MG_0231 [Flickr] _MG_0244 [Flickr] Star Trek as The A-Team _MG_0245 [Flickr] _MG_0257 [Flickr] Gas leak closes Fraser Highway at 168th JO hiver 2018 - winter olympic game 2018 Open Uncertainty Things that make me howl… Dion's Greenwash Gateway? - More cars and trucks "sustainable" Today is Earth Overshoot Day Gateway P3 Contracts Complicated, Costly Mistake like Sub-Prime Products The BCNDP
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TransLink ventures into new media
http://www.paulhillsdon.com/blog/2008/09/10/translink-ventur...Vancouver On the Rails, which debunked, head on, false media reports. The site has been pulled however, and it seems TransLink is confronting a lot of issues through news releases and blurbs on their homepage now. Karen Fung, of Vancouver TransitCamp fame, was hired by TL to organize a SkyTrain security unconference and run the corresponding blog. The event has been pushed completely underground by TL and it’s rather odd the relationship of the unconference to the
