Martin Cleaver, masterfully.

It’s Toronto Wiki Tuesday time!
Continuing our 2008 Toronto Wiki Tuesday Guest Speaker Series,
Vanessa Peters (PhD Candidate, OISE) will lead discussions next Tuesday at Toronto Wiki Tuesday
at another new location, GROUNDHOG PUB.
http://www.torontowikituesdays.com/twiki/bin/view/TorontoWikiTuesdays/WikisInEducationMay2008
Here’s Vanessa’s description:
In this meeting I will discuss a new wiki-based scripted activity that was created for secondary school biology students. Using a co-design method, […]

Toronto’s tech sector is on fire!
When I first arrived in Toronto in 2004 I found very little in the way of Tech community. I was told that the Dot Com Crash had pretty much annihilated every shred of enthusiasm this city had left to offer.
Today, in 2008, there’s no doubt in my mind that […]

Some of you may have noticed on the upcoming page that March’s date for Toronto Wiki Tuesday was preliminary, due to a schedule clash on my diary. I’m settling on the 2nd Tuesday of the month whereever possible, making Toronto Wiki Tuesday on the 2nd weekday of the 2nd week of each month.

This month only, […]

Last month’s Toronto Wiki Tuesday marked a turning point. For the next 3 months in 2008 we have speakers lined up! To date I have usually lead a conversation based on my work with clients but I much prefer to not have to be center-stage all of the time.
Talks at Toronto Wiki Tuesdays usually […]

Toronto Wiki Tuesdays got a brief mention in today’s National Post

‘‘I will be heading to Rower’s Pub to this month’s Toronto Wiki Tuesday, Toronto’s dedicated Wiki event. We’ve had some great topics, talking about how using a wiki efficiently creates knowledge, how we can use them to couple thinking to the output of systems […]

I’m just going to give a quick mention for Onaswarm, a product of Toronto firm BlogMatrix, and run by my friend David Janes.
The web has seen a plethora of sites become platforms, each site now holding some fragment of our digital lives. From that stems a problem: many of us find our attention fragmented across […]

Shove over Rogers, Bell and Telus.

I’ve been long griping about the Canadian Telcos and their stupid, exorbitant data rates:

[Canadian oligopolistic Telcos] will only voluntarily drop their prices if they thought that they’d make more money by doing so. Their duty is to please their shareholders, not the public, though they could stand to make much […]

It’s apparently not sufficiently well known that I am available for speaking engagements. Let’s see if we can change that
Here are some recent talks:

Professional Administrator’s Forum - Aug 16 2007 (Private)
Office 2.0, San Francisco - Sep 5 (Public)
McMaster University - Wikis and Social Software as it applies to Knowledge Management - 12 Nov […]

In terms of transit, one of the things that shocked me most when I moved to Toronto was the lack of suburban railways, especially compared to London, England and Melbourne, Australia, two places I’ve to date spent much of my working life.
Toronto has corridors already for trains, use these for the city, not just to […]

Tonight at Toronto Wiki Tuesday we will begin with a quick talk about IBM’s QEDWiki, starting with a short video clip.

We’ll question how IBM have extended the concept of a wiki as a mashup of content to wiki as a mashup of data & content and how this relates to their other product suites. We’ll […]