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Thoughts From Another Armchair Quarterback of Occupy Calgary
November 16, 2011
It's time the City of Calgary kicked the bums out! This knee-jerk reaction to Occupy Calgary and others like it are common. It's a popular…
Open Data - What It Is and Why You Want It
May 26, 2011
Did you see The Social Network movie? Do you remember that scene in which there is a "hackathon" where eager students do a random hacking…
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How You Can (and why you should) Make Government Work
April 15, 2011
I knew once I broke my silence on federal politics on this site, the floodgates would open. Rest assured this will be my final article…
Social Media Denial
February 10, 2011
Is social media influential? I still hear people debate whether social media, and in particular twitter, has any influence in the 'real…
The Purple Revolution
December 2, 2010
This was originally written much, much differently... I had begun work on a scathing critique of the level of democracy in Calgary in…
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