Apples and Oranges: City Skating webpages vs. SkateHamilton
Which better serves Citizens looking for skating locations in Hamilton? These separate City of Hamilton webpages: [](http://blog.joeycoleman.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/City_Hamilton_Indoor_Skating.png)http://www.hamilton.ca/CultureandRecreation/Recreation/CentresPoolsArenas/arenaListing.htm [](http://blog.joeycoleman.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/City_Hamilton_Outdoor_Skating.png)http://www.hamilton.ca/CultureandRecreation/Recreation/CentresPoolsArenas/OutdoorRinks.htm OR this:…
Update on HSR labour negotiations: Strike vote Sunday
The negotiations between the City of Hamilton and its public transit operators represented by the Amalgamated Transit Unit Local 107 remain stalled – a stalemate. There is no substantive movement in the negotiations – bus drivers have been without a contract since the beginning of 2011 – as…
Getting the City of Hamilton to release expense spending of elected officials and senior management
Do citizen’s have a right to know how their elected officials are spending public funds? Should government provide citizens with that information? Should citizens have to pay to learn how their money is being spent? In the case of the City of Hamilton, the answers to those questions…
The CFS and SFSS settle: SFU vote to leave CFS recognized
The Canadian Federation of Students and the Simon Fraser Student Society have reached an out-of-court settlement to the CFS lawsuit against students at Simon Fraser University. The settlement, the terms of which are not disclosed, allows an overwhelming vote by SFU students to leave the CFS to stand…
Remember LiveJournal? Anyone?
It was a big deal back in the early phases of blogging. A pre-TheFacebook. I’m spending some time working on fixing my blog archives and there are a couple of posts about LiveJournal and my attempts (eventually successful) to script a cross-posting module in MovableType to share my…
TheSpec gets NYT: Is Torstar responding to possible competition from CBC Hamilton
In a welcome addition to The Hamilton Spectator, the print edition of Hamilton’s daily will include a The New York Times supplement on Saturdays. Since the announcement that CBC would be opening a digital bureau in Hamilton, we’ve seen some interesting changes in the local media landscape. *Torstar *is…
Listening to lectures for leisure
As I spend time coding, I always enjoy the distraction of some background noise. Normally, this means music. Recently, I’ve listened to lectures that are available as podcasts in “open course” packages. I browsed iTunesU and selected a wide selection of courses with my focuses – not surprisingly…
Hamilton Labs: A modest proposal for open data innovation at City Hall
The following is my column from the January 2012 print edition of Urbanicity in which I briefly propose the creation of a new city department – Hamilton Labs – to innovate while improving community assets and skills. It’s time for Hamilton Labs – a new department within the…
Off to the Boys and Girls Clubs
I’m finally starting my Monday schedule – during Wednesday afternoon. I’m off to the Boys and Girls Clubs for a quick meeting before going to fix my grandmother’s wifi router that’s acting up. I’m meeting at the Club on a few projects I volunteer with. The first is…
The Google Iowa live results map
As I continue to struggle with a nasty cold that doesn’t seem to want to go away or more accurately the symptoms related to the cold, I enjoyed watching the results of the Iowa Caucuses tonight. I have to admit surprise at the results. What really piques my…