Author Archives: Brian

Ever since I first spoke with Gardner Campbell one fateful evening at an In-N-Out Burger he has been at the top of my wish-list for people to speak on my home campus. The wait is finally over: Emily Dickinson once … Continue reading →

I’ll try to refrain from selling you on the greatest station in the history of radio, who are currently in the process of the most riotous fundraising drive going… I won’t explain yet again how they model the transition from … Continue reading →

The NV edublogger crew had all drifted off from Van Rock City by midday Sunday, and I confess to something that felt like empty nest syndrome. Bereft, with a massive sleep debt, a few cold frosty beverages, a back deck, … Continue reading →

Scott Reads RSS Poetry, originally uploaded by cogdogblog. Scott Leslie (whose own Northern Voice reflection is a must-read) had an awful slot for the Friday night Wiki-Tiki party open mic. He was something like the fifteenth speaker (seemed like the … Continue reading →

It seems that every year I sit down to write the post-mortem for Northern Voice and find myself at an absolute loss. This event is such a toxic cocktail of ideas, energy, urgency, depravity, laughter, logistics, friendship, and chronic sleep-deprivation … Continue reading →

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } NV08 Keynote, originally uploaded by mastermaq. … cuz I’m too busy grooving on Northern Voice. The … Continue reading →

UBC Library book retrieval system, originally uploaded by stodmyk. This nifty Creative Commons-licensed photo is of UBC Library’s Automated Storage and Retrieval System. It’s part of the newly rebuilt Main Library at UBC. From what I understand, I’ll be moving … Continue reading →

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } At The Very Heart Of Where The Action Is, originally uploaded by drp. Stephen Downes mentions … Continue reading →

It’s not a revolutionary proposition that a blog platform can be a low-cost, low-stress means of hosting course materials. The argument was moved along nicely by a session Jim and D’Arcy did at last year’s Open Education Conference, and many … Continue reading →

Faust / Faust, originally uploaded by bradleyloos. [Suggested soundtrack for this post, LCD Soundsystem’s amusing ode to musical obscurity and idolatry, with ruminations on formats, “Losing My Edge“] @import url(http://skreemr.com/styles/embed.css); CharlesV – LCD Soundsystem – Losing My Edge Found at … Continue reading →