Mark Kingwell delivered a talk on our place as citizens in “capita democracy”. Kingwell claims that capitalism is in its third stage: post-modern capitalism. This stage is marked by the commodification of status (or coolness), the proliferation of desire, and our acceptance of our selves as consumers. We live in a time of the American…
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An important study was released today on the influence of online research in world capitals specifically with political staffers. Unfortunately, Canada’s public policy makers were not survey for this study – but I think the broad trends present most certainly apply in the Canadian context. Edelman’s Capital Staffers Index (link opens PDF) seeks to measure…
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The great folks at Environmental Defence whipped up this ad for today’s visit to the US by PM Harper, I love it! Now, sign the petition!
The entire text and the full audio of the “Address to the Democratic National Convention by Senator Edward M. Kennedy” in 1980 can be found here.
At ChangeCamp Ottawa, I was proud of the way we worked with Twitter as a “back channel” to facilitate information sharing and collaboration. This is a quick set of bullet points on what I think worked and what I think could be improved at future versions of ChangeCamp. At the end of the post, I’ve…
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In case you missed LIVE 88.5 at 8:05am this morning in Ottawa, here is an MP3. As always let me know how I did by email or in the comments. LIVE 88.5PM Political Whirlpool :: Feb 4/09
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