longreads: The web was surprisingly good at emulating a TV, a newspaper, a book, or a radio. Which meant that people expected it to answer the questions of each medium, and with the promise of advertising revenue as incentive, web developers set out to provide those answers. As a result, people in the newspaper industry … More The Web Is a Customer Service Medium
ilovecharts: United States of Google’s Autocomplete (via very small array) Tried it with Canada. Not as sporty (except for the obvious exception): British Columbia Institute of Technology Alberta Health Saskatchewan Roughriders Manitoba Hydro Ontario government Quebec City Newfoundland news New Brunswick election Nova Scotia Power Prince Edward Island tourism Yukon Blonde Northwest Territories jobs Nunavut … More
The answers to this question sold me on the value of Quora: What are the best blogs about data?
Neat photo gallery at Boston.com of Boston Public Library’s map collection. Old maps are beautiful
I am especially proud that this is our 5th consecutive year on the list. In fact, out of the five years, this year was our highest ranking at number 3. Alberta Venture FAST 50 – 5 Years in a Row – http://www.ChrisLaBossiere.com – a Progressive Capitalist in Edmonton Congratulations to local software company Yardstick Software! … More
penseesin: This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Cover design by Coralie Bickford-Smith. Lovely.
maybeedmonton: Peter Fehler: “Children see moose in front yard on our Edson, Alta., acreage.” Neat scene from my hometown.
A new year, and a newly proposed zone for downtown. The Charrette » The RCI Files: All about the Arena District (via mastermaq)
mastermaq: Health care was Edmonton-area’s top story of 2010 “The word cloud you see above is what happens when you mash together every headline printed on the Edmonton Journal’s front page in 2010. What you see reflects the issues Edmontonians talked about — what mattered most to us — in the past year.” Love the … More
maybeedmonton: “We Hate This Place Here; It’s Our Home exists. It’s about, at its simplest, the overlapping lives of a group of Edmontonians—some still living here, some thinking of going, some returning—in the weird season that is Christmas…To be published in six individual chapters, We Hate This Place Here; It’s Our Home is the work … More
Seen and Heard in Edmonton 