With the weather so nice, I hung around outside instead of blogging this weekend. Terrible, I know.
So, here’s an update on some books I’m reading right now.
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software - Stephen Johnson
The New City: How the crisis in Canada’s urban centres is reshaping the nation - John [...]
Loretta Napoleoni, Italian economist and Fulbright Scholar, has a new book that’s piqued my interest. Her appearance on Democracy Now this week finished with me very interested in her book. [Full Transcript] Napoleoni defined rogue economics at the start of her interview with Amy Goodman:
Rogue economics is a sort of umbrella under which we find [...]
This is the first of a series of posts on free culture and podcasting. I’ll be pulling out some of my favourite podcasts for discussion and highlighting some of the best podcasting available in the commons.
Free Culture Podcasts: One
Canada’s Robert J. Sawyer on TVO’s Big Ideas
Science fiction — or, as it is often wished to [...]
Author David Sedaris delivers a pizza. Hilarious.
[via kottke]
2008’s first Newsweek offers:
[The Long Tail] is now playing a part in our politics, where Paul’s recent rise reflects the same dynamics. In 1988 his libertarian message—reduce government at home, resist military meddling abroad, restore the gold standard—went unheard. Today, it’s spreading quickly online and connecting activists across the country, a few people at [...]
Naomi Klein, author of the now-bestselling “Shock Doctrine” wrote in the Guardian:
On a recent visit to Calgary, Alberta, I was taken aback to see my book on disaster capitalism selling briskly at the airport. Calgary is ground zero of North America’s oil and gas boom, where business suits and cowboy hats are the de facto [...]
Richard Florida has a new blog over at the Globe and Mail. He’s started writing a column for them, although I’m certainly more excited about the blog.
Florida, an American economist focusing on urban studies wrote the renowned Rise of the Creative Class. More recently, he’s moved to the University of Toronto to become head [...]
