by Michael Tippett
Early days of NowPublic, before The Arab Spring
"The tool that is redefining news is the cellphone."
"The Crowd Sourcerer", 2006
Vancouver Startup Weekend
Made in Vancouver
World Economic Forum, Eurasian Media Forum, Almaty Kazakhstan
Interviewing Eric McLuhan
Vancouver Archive
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Thousands protest Joe Oliver’s Oil Pipeline in Prince Rupert
Wow, for a town of 13,000 it’s impressive that 2,000 people showed up to protest. The Prince Rupert police estimate that 2,000 people protested against the Enbridge Northern Gateway…
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Startup City Mayor
Thanks to The Mayor for supporting the Made in Vancouver initiative. Ayoudo is working with the city and others to make this happen. Here’s part of the release from…
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Ayoudo Team in The Province Today
The Province wrote about Ayoudo and our support for Made in Vancouver: If Internet startup companies are the new band, and entrepreneurs the new rock stars — as Vancouver…
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Ayoudo : the Evolution of Social Media
Today in Vancouver we’re launching Ayoudo. It’s a project I’ve been working on with a great team for the last 6 months. Check it out and let me know what…
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Extreme Startups Launches Accelerator With $7 Million In Funding From Top Canadian VCs
Great to see another Canadian accelerator get some cash: Not to be outdone by its southern neighbor, Canada has been hard at work on its own fleet of tech…
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Hey You With the Totally Awesome Face
The brilliant Jeremy Bailey who will be at The Western Front this week. Hey You With the Totoally Awesome Face (short edit) – YouTube.
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Harper Gov’t to Celebrate Role of First Nations in Canadian US War of 1812
Stephen Harper has been trying to paint opponents of his prized pipeline as radical Americans who shouldn’t be meddling in Canadian business. But in reality much of the…
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Native Chief to Enbridge: “No in the name of my grandchild”
Unanimous Indigenous opposition to the Enbridge Pipeline make a total mockery of the government’s claims that the plans are being opposed by radical ‘foreigners’. This from Adam Gagnon in…
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A History of Vancouver Real Estate
“Land prices are high, it is said, higher than anything would warrant. ’Why, the workingmen cannot afford to pay at the rate demanded for these tiny outside lots,’…
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Anonymous Says Theyll Attack Facebook Next
Anonymous Says Theyll Attack Facebook Next.
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The 1970′s.
Facebook.
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Is Vancouver Becoming a Social News Hub?
It was nearly a decade ago that I started thinking about how camera phones and blogs were going to change the news business. Those thoughts eventually turned into NowPublic and…
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B.C. native chiefs overturn deal with Enbridge on Gateway pipeline – The Globe and Mail
This puts that whole ‘foreign radical’ category into perspective. A controversial deal signed by a B.C. First Nation official with Enbridge on the Northern Gateway pipeline project has been…
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This Poodle is Defending Your Internet Freedom
Image(810) | Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
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Murder at the Wall Center
Vancouver Police Homicide Detectives have been called in to investigate after a man was shot dead at about 7:45 p.m. inside a restaurant in the Wall Centre in the…
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A City Is A Startup: The Rise Of The Mayor-Entrepreneur | TechCrunch
From today’s TechCrunch: The ingredients for a successful startup and a successful city are remarkably similar. You need to build stuff that people want. You need to attract quality…
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Cortes Island residents submit petition to stop logging of pristine B.C. forest
Cortes Island Logging Petition Delivery from VancouverObserver on Vimeo. Cortes Island residents submit petition to stop logging of pristine B.C. forest: video | The Vancouver Observer.
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Ottawa Citizen on The real foreign interests in the oilsands
If there were a global competition for the most brazen and preposterously transparent attempt by a ruling political party to change a necessary subject of national debate with alarmist…
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Spectacular! CBC Showdown: Sierra Club vs “Ethical Oil” – YouTube
CBC Showdown: Sierra Club vs “Ethical Oil” – One of them is a Ridiculous Radical – YouTube.
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The Tyee – An Open Reply to Joe Oliver’s Propaganda for the Petro State
Canada’s Natural Resource Minister Joe Oliver has just pulled a Hugo Chavez: he’s penned a formal and desperate attack on democracy and interfered in the nation’s allegedly impartial regulatory…
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VO: Oil money on the campaign trail
So you want to talk about money influencing Canadian energy policy? The good people at the Vancouver Observer do too: “As regulatory hearings take off this week in Kitimat, the…
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Harper Government Ratchets up Rhetoric in Tar Sands War. Calls Opponents ‘Foreign Radicals’
Harper is now calling opponents to tar sands ‘foreign radicals’
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Jonathan Tippett, Engineer/Artist, Industrialus Design – YouTube
My Brother Jonathan on Mondo Spider.
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Harper doesn’t care what the world thinks, calls international opposition to oil sands ‘hijacking’
There was a time when Canada actually cared what the world thought about our ethics. But now -according to a story in today’s Sun – Stephen Harper doesn’t…
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Wall Street Firm to Log Birthplace of Green Movement
Most people don’t know this but Cortes Island, British Columbia was where Greenpeace and the environmental movement was born. The founders of Greenpeace had homes there when they were…
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Rick J. Smith: Yes, Americans Give Us Money to Protest the Pipeline. So What?
Finally, the voice of reason: Over the last few months, some of the oil industry’s biggest fans have made what they think are startling revelations about us. They’ve…
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Trailer for MIDWAY : a film by Chris Jordan. Powerful
via MIDWAY : trailer : a film by Chris Jordan – YouTube.
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The Tyee – Occupy Movement: Show Me Your Face
The Tyee – Occupy Movement: Show Me Your Face.
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The Worlds Best Places To Live And Work
Check out the list here: The Worlds Best Places To Live And Work.
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This is what we have pinned on the wall at ayoudo world HQ
See how it’s shaping up by going here.