Considering…
considering possibilities in light of conundrums, non sequiters and malaise
Notes to Future Self
Social + Cmty + Start-up, Social + Culture
Podcasting for Social Change – Net Tuesday4 with DaveO and All-Star Panel
What: Net Tuesday4 – Podcasting for Social Change When: Tuesday, July 8, 2008 5:30 PM! Where: WorkSpace 400, 21 Water
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Cannabis, Annotated, Tools + Annotations
How to Smoke Cannabis while Avoiding Jail – an illustrated guide by Seattle lawyer Jeffery Steinborn
{Update – thanks Dominic!) This user-friendly guide was Illustrated and created by *awesome* graphic artist Ellen Forney (ellen’s blog) based
Music / Rock
Levon’s Dirtfarmer Documentary
Levon Helm is one of my all-time heroes – drummer, mandolinist, songwriter, sanger, southern gentleman (Arkansasan), cancer (throat) survivor, actor,
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BC & Vancouver Activities
Trainspotting: CP Classic on the Gastown Rails
Tis no secret i enjoy trains and would ride trains everywhere given a choice of trains, planes and automobiles. I
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Crazy Canucks, Northern Voice x 11
Crazy Canucks: Social Media and Hockey Panel – Northern Voice, 2008
At Vancouver’s personal expression conference, Northern Voice 2008, i presented my (now semi-infamous) spiel “Fuck Stats, Make Art” to enthusiastic
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Community Feasthouse, Happyfrog
Talking happyfrog and Greening Planet Earth – Evolution Radio (2008)
Nick Kempinski from Evolution Radio 107.9 (run by students at BCIT) interviews happyfrog.ca’s Community Manager Dave Olson for the Planet Earth
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True North Media + Olympics
The Role of New Web Media at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games via Vancouver Access 2010
The Role of New Web Media at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games | Vancouver Access 2010 by Dave Olson, June 5, 2008 I’ve
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BC & Vancouver Activities
Olympic Sliding Venues Open for Self-Guided, $5 Tours
Be sure to add this to your summer agenda! Self-guided walking tours of The Whistler Sliding Centre will begin on
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Camps + UnConfs
Rolling the Magic Bus: Seattle, Gnomedex 2008: Geeks Ahoy!
Whilst at Gnomedex conference in Seattle in 2008, with Nat at the wheel, and a batch of geeks aboard, we
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Social + Culture
Uncle Weed and Leo Laporte Riff about Art and Publishing Culture
A few months back, I recorded an episode of Lab with Leo at the greedy productions studios towards Railtown way.
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Cannabis, Annotated
What to say to the Police (hint: nothing!)
Professor James Duane, a fast-talking, charmingly rebellious, and engaging law professor gives a compelling lecture about how to respond to
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Community Feasthouse
Chris Anderson Talks about Free + Long Tail – Vidfest, Vancouver, 2008
Noted thinker and authour Chris Anderson – also Wired editor-in-chief – speaks about (then new) book Free and the important
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Video Dim Sum
Mars Martian Flying Boat Flies o’er Burrard Inlet Vancouver
The Mars Martian is the largest flying boat (or something along those lines). Usually stationed on Vancouver Island, the Martian
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Raincity + Bryght
SXSW: Open Source Conversations about WordPress and Drupal
At SXSW Interactive 2009, Robert Scales of web community building company Raincity Studios (now defunct) leads a conversation from the
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Video Dim Sum
BC Ferries in the Strait
Looking towards Bowen Island and the Sunshine Coast behind from a park in Horesehoe Bay, West Van, BC as Ferries
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