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Community Garden at McGill and at Home 05.05.08

From Spacing Montreal, a “new initiative to increase downtown gardening space.”

A campus group has formed at McGill to give the city’s many university students — many of whom are apartment dwellers — access to more gardening space.
Campus Crops formed this winter with the goal of identifying underused spaces on the McGill campus and turning [...]

First DataPortability monthly report released 01.30.08

The surprisingly active DataPortability has released their first monthly report.
DataPortability is an open, user-driven and user-centric workgroup addressing the growing concern about data portability, security and ownership. They procliam: “As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen (and trusted) tools or vendors.” [...]

Information R/evolution (Paper: it was here all along) 10.23.07

Merlin Mann, esteemed web-celebrity and thinker, linked to this impressive and inspiring video I had forgotten about.

It suckered me in to reading the rest of his post more intently. Wherein, he “defends” paper, for those who may have erroneously reported its demise:
See, the key is to use paper for what it’s great at and [...]