I’m pleased to announce that I’ve begun blogging at Corante’s Civic Minded blog, your guide to the political impact of the web. My inaugural post begins like this:
When I worked in a Member of Parliament’s office back in the early 1990s, our office – like those of our colleagues – was inundated with an unending stream of petitions, pre-printed form letters, faxes and actual mail. Sifting through… Read more...

I’ll let Kate do the talking:
There are some really cold people in Vancouver right now. I was struggling trying to figure out how I could get my extra scarves, blankets and hats to them because my car won’t drive in this stuff. Then I thought I would call some car rental places. I ended up talking to someone at the Car Coop and it looks like they might lend… Read more...

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Vancouver Coastal Health says we can now drink the water again:
On the recommendation of the Medical Health Officers of Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health, the boil water advisory that has been in effect for Vancouver, North Shore and Burnaby is now lifted for these areas. Hospitals, care facilities, schools, food premises and the public are no longer being advised to boil drinking water or to use an… Read more...

Distributed magnolia, originally uploaded by Alex and Rob.

I guess it wasn’t one of the steel ones… Read more...

Magnolia down! MAGNOLIA DOWN!,
originally uploaded by Alex and Rob.

No worries: we’re all okay. But last night’s storm wasn’t kind to our magnolia. (You’d think they weren’t intended to live in a winter climate or something.)… Read more...

• geoGreeting
  A cunning little Google Maps mashup that creates words out of geographical features that look like letters when seen from a satellite.
  (tags: cool mashup google maps generator greeting)
• Case Camp Second Life
  The marketing case study unconference moves to Second Life. If you’ve always wanted to see blogger engagement explained

In the business category…

…MyNameIsKate.ca.

Why? Great posts like this one:
I just registered for YAWTPOS (Yet-Another-Web-Two-Point-O-Service .. apologies to Yahoo!) and I received the following email:
Congratulations on your successful registration! You can now start doing ABC and XYZ – and blah, blah, blah, blah blah … and for future generations to come.
[...] This irks me in a couple of ways …First … Read more...