At the very beginning of the year I created a Reading Schedule for 2022 note topped with: “Goal is 20 books. 5 Japanese books.” As I looked over the snowy countryside in Canada last January, ...
(The following started off as a tweet, which quickly developed into a tweetstorm, so I decided to move it to the blog, for this is where longer thoughts belong, right?) I have been trying to wean...
https://chadkohalyk.com/2018/07/22/from-intergalactic-villains-to-badminton/
I got cornered at the park during lunch today to offer a “Random Area Man” soundbite about our mayor’s attendance at the Sugarplum Ball, a cool little event put on by my pals at the Okanaga...
https://chadkohalyk.com/2016/07/08/area-cis-white-man-applauds-diversity/
Our mayor ran on a platform including tech. Our premier seems to have shifted her economic policy to tech. Our downtown is physically changing thanks to tech. Dozens of new tech companies start h...
https://chadkohalyk.com/2016/03/11/sectioned-on-tech-coverage-in-local-media/
Kudos to Kelowna Capital News, one of our local newspapers, for running a special on technology last week. Tech is one of the dominant problems in the global zeitgeist, and it is not often that a...
https://chadkohalyk.com/2016/01/18/nice-coverage-of-tech-issues-at-the-local-level/
Full disclosure: I back CANADALAND on Patreon. Turning a critical eye towards the national news media is an important and valuable endeavour. But the daily lives of Canadians are influenced far m...
https://chadkohalyk.com/2015/01/24/who-watches-the-watchers/
I was inspired by the story of Joey Coleman, an independent and crowd-sourced reporter in Hamilton, who I learned about from this great episode of CANADALAND about the collapse of local news. It ...
https://chadkohalyk.com/2015/01/16/kelowna-news-media-audit/
Two of the scariest areas in startupland are healthcare and education. These are monolithic, highly regulated sectors with long sales cycles — not particularly prone to “disruption.” In thi...
Eviscerating pundits who use boatloads of clichés is akin to shooting fish in a barrel (I took a couple of shots myself recently). But that doesn’t stop Thomas Frank in the latest edition of H...
https://chadkohalyk.com/2013/03/25/arguments-v-beliefs-and-responsibility/
In my last post I explored the characteristics of public intellectuals and pointed out that they are defined somewhat by their audience; which has recently become fragmented to the detriment of t...
Much like the cliché of society, the state of public intellectualism seems to be eternally in decline. Yet in the early 21st century, I think we have a legitimate claim to this omen. I propose t...
https://chadkohalyk.com/2012/11/12/from-belletrist-to-blogger/
This is a follow-up post to Information Fast where I pledged to constrain my information intake for the month of September in an experiment. Let’s start with a brief after action report: Fast r...
The pledge: For the month of September I pledge to limit my media consumption. This means no Twitter, Google+, Path, Tumblr, Hacker News, Popurls , Intigi or Zite. It means no Apple blogs. It mea...
After watching Tinker, Tailor last week, went back and started watching one of my fave TV series ever: The Sandbaggers (1978-1980). ★★★★★ Checkout some other “unflattering portraits�...
https://chadkohalyk.com/2012/01/04/after-watching-tinker-tailor-last-week-went-back-2/
After watching Tinker, Tailor last week, went back and started watching one of my fave TV series ever: The Sandbaggers (1978-1980). ★★★★★ Checkout some other “unflattering portraits�...
https://chadkohalyk.com/2012/01/04/after-watching-tinker-tailor-last-week-went-back/
http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf Inspiring talk by Ethan Zuckerman. Excellent point on how unevenly distributed “global” online media is. It is something I have felt for...
https://chadkohalyk.com/2010/07/16/inspiring-talk-by-ethan-zuckerman-excellent-point/
papadimitriou: Scarcity. Abundance. Indulgences. Modern Media. Clay Shirky. More from btnn.tv (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
https://chadkohalyk.com/2010/07/14/papadimitriou-scarcity-abundance-indulgences/