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’m really happy to mention that my Agile Design talk at Creative Mornings can now be seen on Vimeo at http://www.vimeo.com/4831538. The entire video is about half an hour with the Q & A—I guess I went over my ten minute slot, ha. I just want to thank Tina and the entire Creative Mornings team for giving me the opportunity to talk, setting up the event and producing a great video that ties my talk together. I also wanted to thank James A. Reeves who was hanging out in Finland and was the virtual skype guest, and Core Industries for sponsoring the talk.

The key to the success of the workshop is making sure that relevant stories (or cases) are collected

Design is a problem-solving activity. It provides a means of clarifying, synthesizing, and dramatizing a word, a picture, a product, or an event.”

The 5th Montreal Citizen Summit is a social forum open to all and is based on the concept “The City We Want”. This event will take place from June 5-7, 2009 at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and will be an opportunity for citizens and civil society practitioners to strengthen their ties in order to collectively organise social action initiatives. The Summit will also be the opportunity for citizens to learn and exchange on urban issues related to this year's themes: 1) Economy 2) Urban planning 3) Social justice, inclusion and citizenship 4) Environment 5) Democracy 6) Culture.

Barcamp Event and Content Management System: This is a web-based-wordpress-powered system aimed at helping people running unconferences manage their event's content in a more organized manner.

Author Shelley Jackson invites participants in a new work entitled “Skin.” Each participant must agree to have one word of this story tattooed upon his or her body. The text will be published nowhere else, and the author will not permit it to be summarized, quoted, described, set to music, or adapted for film, theater, television or any other medium. The full text will be known only to participants. In the event that insufficient participants come forward to complete the first and only edition of the story within the author’s lifetime, the incomplete version will be considered definitive.

There are too many ideas in the world, and not enough action. Without organization and productivity, brilliant ideas never happen.

Action Method Online is a radically different approach to productivity, designed to simplify project management and life.

All of life can be divided into "projects" - the categories we use in our minds to separate and make sense of what we need to accomplish (e.g. "the party I'm planning," "client X," "event Y," "finances"). The Action Method helps you manage your projects starting with the most basic elements - always with an emphasis on action.

Incidentally, I used validator.nu to check my work. It seemed the most up to date, but there’s no guarantee it’s perfectly accurate.

Etant donné que c'est le seul qui soit sérieusement fait, on espère qu'il est à peu près à jour. Maintenant, difficile de valider un machin mouvant comme HTML 5 (et à quoi ça sert d'abord, étant donné qu'aucun navigateur n'implémente le gros de la spéc, à savoir les 232 pages d'algorithme de parsing).

The goal of Hookah is to take most of the work out of implementing web hooks. Ideally, Hookah will allow you to have all the features you need for successfully deploying web hooks and only need to add a few lines of code to your app. In fact, one line for each event! On top of that, the interface for Hookah is HTTP, so it’s not that different than directly invoking web hooks and works easily from any language.

webhooks are the last cool things.

The Burst Engine is an OpenSource vector animation engine for the HTML5 Canvas Element. Burst provides similar web functionality to Flash and contains a layer based animation system like After Effects. Burst uses a very light-weight JavaScript frame, meaning your animations will download unnoticably quick and can be controlled using very simple JavaScript methods. For example: the [-] logo above is a Burst animation attached to a mouseOver event using the following code...

canvas is the next Flash or not

The organizers of the World Wide Web conference recently announced the list of accepted papers for this year’s event. In the Social Networks and Web 2.0 track (chaired by Elisa Bertino and Lada Adamic) the following papers are listed (where the paper is available online, I’ve provided a link to the PDF):

Filmmaker, Laurie Hill has won the grand prize of £5,000 after being announced as the winner of The 2008 Getty Images Short & Sweet Film Challenge. Laurie Hill scooped the prize at an event held at the AKA Bar in Soho, London on the 25th November, where his short film entitled ‘Photograph of Jesus’

“EN MASSE” @ Galerie Pangee, co-curated by Tim Barnard and Jason Botkin, is an explosive encounter between the worlds of fine art, comix, and graffiti on a massive scale. This month-long event, running from February 1st to March 1st, will climax with an all-night party for Montreal’s Nuit Blanche on Saturday, February 28th, 2009.

Twenty-eght Montreal artists, chosen for their cutting-edge graphic styles, have been invited to invade the space of Pangee for an entire month of production, working to cover the walls in a collaborative ecstasy of mark making.