Something is happening here, what is it ain’t exactly clear
2007 has comes with various changes and milestones (Aimee and I planning to get married, looking for a home, 1 year self-employed and 30 years alive to name the big ones). All this has brought with is a lot of thinking, here are some of the pieces that seem like they might fit in the puzzle whose shape I can’t quite make out.
David Crow thinking about the nature of community, having kicked off BarCamp Toronto
Tara Hunt blogging about community and integrity in marketing
Indoor Playground launches, for a cool shared co-working space in Toronto
Centre for Social Innovation expands, providing shared office space for social innovators
Robert Patterson blogs with hopefulness on a huge range of things, like education, energy and wood stoves
Jevon on thinking about Enterprise 2.0 and radar
Steve Jobs on Digital Rights Management (it’s bad and we need a new, less double-speak name for the damn stuff)
Seth Godin, more integrity in marketing
TransitCamp, bringing the BarCamp ethos into the real world in Toronto
Worldchanging condensing thought about how we can best approach the possibilities and threats in our near future, with hopes for a Bright Green future
Wikinomics, telling it to business like the Web 2.0 geeks amongst us always knew it was (collaboration good, industrial age business models in the information age bad)
Unto This Last, a shop building smart furniture on site using a stack of plywood and a computer controlled machine
I’m going to try to make something more considered out of this mess of stuff, but it felt worthwhile just getting it out there for now.
Patrick,
Congratulations on one year of self employment. More to come I hope! I love Unto This Last! And yes, a lot is happening in Toronto and around us. I still remember the first time I met David Crow and talked about the tech community in TO and wondered out loud how it would look like a year later. Great times we live in.
Glad to have met you last year.
Leila Boujnane
11 Feb 07 at 8:47 pm
Thanks Leila. Yep, there’s certainly more self-employement in my future (so far as I can tell it anyway). I just signed a lease on an office, so there better be.
Great times indeed, I wonder where we’ll be in another year?
Let me know if Idée decide to branch out into futuristic CAD/CAM furniture production, I want to be in on that
pdinnen
16 Feb 07 at 10:05 am
Wish I had the time to read all these references right now . . . going to put them on my list . . . looking forward to SXSWi 2007!
Rothko
16 Feb 07 at 2:09 pm
Yeah, I try to avoid big link dumps for just that reason – I usually don’t have time to read them and prefer a condensed post. I was having trouble condensing all this stuff though, so link dump it is.
I’m looking forward to SXSWi too. Texas has a particular appeal when it’s -16C with the windchill in Toronto right now.
pdinnen
16 Feb 07 at 2:18 pm