March 2010
34 posts
February 2010
47 posts
“The lean movement has been preaching waste reduction for many years, and anyone...”
– Eric Reis tells us why startups need to build processes for feedback optimization, not profit or volume maximization, on The Conversation blog.
“Consider this: there are now more grandparents on Facebook than high school...”
– Marilynn T. Mobley (an Edelman colleague) has lots to say about a growing group of online users, in Boomers Now Turn to Social Networking to Praise, Protest and Pontificate
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http://kitkadesigntoronto.com/?page_id=8093 →
Juli and John, co-proprietors of Mjölk and the bloggers at Kitka Design Toronto, keep a running tab on things they like and do in their new ‘hood.
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“It would be great to know how this all works, but in the meantime we can enjoy...”
– I will read anything by Michael Pollan. Yes, even things from way-back-2007.
“January data just went live on compete.com, and perhaps the biggest story to hit...”
– We’re Number Two! Facebook moves up one big spot in the charts
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“Vancouver (Canada) still sits atop the global ranking, with the city offering an...”
– Economist Intelligence Unit, which ranked Vancouver as the world’s most livable city, again (via Richard Florida)
Oh man, I wish I got to say “I chose that one for the Sheezer” more often.
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Where the hell did the term “live-in girlfriend” come from?
“We are casting breadcrumbs. Done well, consumers react. Journalists notice. ...”
– Todd Defren, PR2-Squared
Joe Clark knows his TTC bylaws too. →
Some changes to the site: Disqus is working again, new theme, and Tweetboard’s up. Thoughts?
Update: Disqus still seems to be having issues. I’m seeing the option to comment on some posts, but not others. What to do?!
TTC Bylaws allow video recording on TTC property.
The argument was made on blogTO earlier today, and quickly refuted, that shooting video of TTC employees is prohibited. Fortunately, the regulation in Bylaw 1 only applies to commercial video.
3.17 No person shall operate any camera, video recording device, movie camera or any similar device for commercial purposes upon the transit system without authorization.
What’s sad, though, is that...
How To: Avoid All Accountability to your Customers
Incredibly, the TTC employees union has negotiated the terms under which Torontonians can file complaints about poor service, rudeness, etc. So I filed a Complaint/Suggestion about the Complaint/Suggestion system, along with some questions in regards to a few ambiguities. The archaic and labyrinthine system reads like this:
In accordance with Article I, Section 41 of the collective Agreement with...
“I’ve found the key to this image lies in the referential nature of the above...”
– from the Oh (no!) Canada blog.
“For Joseph Knecht is no impetuous radical thrusting non-negotiable demands upon...”
– Theodore Ziolkowski, in the forward to Magister Ludi
The Junction really is a unique community
Isabel: ok WHAT is junctionTO??
me: Haha, it's the neighbourhood I live in.
me: there's a good Twitter community.
Isabel: ahhhh i see
Isabel: sillyyyy
Isabel: i wonder if people hashtag mount pleasant/east van
me: Good people.
me: probably!
Isabel: east van not really... let me check mount pleasant now
Isabel: oh they do tweet mount pleasant!
Isabel: cooool.
me: I think there'd be a lot of mount pleasants.
Isabel: yeah probs
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Where is tumblroid pro? Where is atumble? If a company says something exists, it bloody well should. Argh.