A tribute to Dan

by Kathleen on July 13, 2010

Ian, Michael and the rest of the Catherine North gang released this song today in celebration of Dan Achen’s birthday:

Ian Smith – Passing Trains by Catherine North

Happy Birthday Dan. We still miss you. Every day.

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Catherine North MashUP

by Kathleen on June 28, 2010

FYI: The last time I edited anything, it was on a flatbed editor. Final Cut Pro = awesome fun.

Catherine North MashUP Teaser from Catherine North MashUP on Vimeo.

Too many people to thank for helping me make this event happen: Karyn, Ian, Michael, Duke, Tristan, Marcone, Moussa, Ivar, Long, Paul…

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Citizen Kane Redux

May 9, 2010

Just so you know, those two years I spent in film school weren’t an absolute waste of time:

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Quality

April 17, 2010

I’m a fan of Hugh MacLeod’s work as well as his blog, Gapingvoid. According to Hugh, A couple of decades ago, Ford had a tagline for its car commercials: “Quality is Job One”. Well, that may be fine if you’re a big, old car company, but it never quite grabbed my imagination. I figured if [...]

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Dan Achen 1958-2010

March 17, 2010

On Monday night we lost our friend and mentor Dan Achen. RIP Dan, we miss you and we are grateful for the happiness and inspiration you brought into our lives.

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Yes, I think I can garden

March 5, 2010

So… I’ve succumbed to the lure of Canadian Gardening’s “So You Think You Can Garden” contest. The winner gets to blog for 6 months for CanadianGardening.com. I think this would be a fun opportunity to get some extra writing in about topic I’m nuts about already: gardening. Here’s an excerpt from my entry: My initial [...]

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Now, we can do big things for love

February 6, 2010

I’ve been reading Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky. So far I find it’s an excellent commentary on the evolution of organizational behaviour in the context of social media. I came across the following quote, which neatly expressed how I feel about Yibboo – both from the perspective of creating it (what’s motiving me to [...]

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Giving credit where credit is due

January 30, 2010

I’m incredibly grateful to the many generous people whose photographs and images I was able to include in my Yibboo video. I listed everyone in the credit sequence at the end of the video, but I also wanted to acknowledge their contributions here. The following images were generously provided royalty free by the authors (standard [...]

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Hey, what happened to Mwalimu?

January 11, 2010

If you saw the original video I made to share my idea of a social network-based learning website, you probably heard me talk (on and on… and on) about this thing called “Mwalimu.” The thing is… I never planned to use the name Mwalimu. So why the heck did I use the name Mwalimu in [...]

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