Category Archives: Creative Capital

As it pertains to the creative process, output, service, potential, of artists and lateral thinkers of all kinds

Building Digital Canada

I wanted to let you know about a recent epiphany that has me finally grokking the digital policy landscape and what needs doing about it. All because I was sick and channel surfing.
 
I happened to catch a broadcast on CPAC of the June 8 Panel at the Telecom conference and I think it gave me [...]

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Artists are a renewable resource.

Artists are a renewable resource. They often produce so much out of thin air that it seems like photosynthesis to me. And they seem compelled to produce creative ideas and objects regardless of the outcome, unable to resist some cellular imperative – kind of like salmon heading upriver to spawn and then to [...]

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More opinion on the Creative Class

(from a posting I made to the Sirolli Institute Public Forum on April 21, 2007, which generated a little bit of a buzz)
….I apologize in advance for the length of this rant, but here goes..
The coveted Creative Class referred to by Florida, is that ‘class’ of knowledge worker whose earnings are large and whose skills [...]

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