From my newsreader this week: Peter Rukavina blogs a fish eye view (or sushi eye view) of a Japanese evening out. Dirk at mediabuzzard on the history of Chinese – First Nations relations in British Columbia
Interesting reads this week: DeAnna Martin on a design for using Dynamic Facilitation with large groups Worldchanging Canada has a great post about art derived from the complexity of nature Metafilter link of an insane film about fishing for Great White Sharks. From a beach. Surfing is involved. Rob Bailey on the perfect crab curry Ravi Tangri on innovation in the service industry in hard times Nancy White, with palpable delight wraps up her take on Northern Voice Sheri Herndon emailed an interesting link about how Obama communicates by George Lakoff Dustin Rivers takes his blog to new digs. …
Things to chew on from the last weeks newsfeeds. Viv McWaters writes a great piece on the role of facilitators in disastery recovery. Christopher Gohl‘s new blog, diagoal. Rob Ballentyne will take you to see the solar eclipse of a lifetime this summer (he’ll also show you a comet for free!) Jack Ricchiuto on using a moleskin to manage to do lists. Nancy White and others launch the Community and Networks Connection. Viv McWaters blogs about the community site for facilitators helping with the bushfire tragedy in Australia.
Scoured from the corners of the web this week: Luke Mitchell on the challenges of establishing universal health care in the USA. Courtesy of my friend Vera Wabegijig’s facebook page, a list of Aboriginal CBC personalities. Peter Rukavina finds a great site on mapping your childhood WFMU shares some blue excerpts from Obama’s autobiography. Great ringtone potential here.
could it be that I actually like the flow of music on CBC Radio Two? …hmmmm…. Last year when Radio Two changed its format, it was met with stinging criticism as it cut back it’s classical music offerings and diversified the genres it plays. But last week I was hanging out in Toronto at my brother’s house and he put on Radio Two in the morning and we left it on all day. I was struck by how well the mix of programming seemed to go with my mood. Most of the day is still classical music, the afternoon drive …