3 things Toronto needs to do fix itself

The following is from Richard Florida’s column he wrote on the “Rob Ford embarrassment” and a “broken Toronto”

Most of all, we must acknowledge that Mr. Ford is a symptom of a set of much deeper maladies. Before Toronto can put itself back together, three key issues must be addressed:

  • First is the fact of a weak, dare I say, powerless mayor’s office
  • Second, we need to become a more unified city
  • Third, the city and the region need grown-up leadership

Not sure I agree with the first point, though. Had the former mayor, David Miller, pushed for strong mayor powers, Rob Ford could have done more damaged to Toronto than Godzilla does to Toyko.

The Xbox One can be controlled simply through voice commands and body gestures. The Apple remote still has six buttons.
David Yanofsky, Microsoft’s new Xbox One is an Apple killer, in the living room

You’ve heard of responsive web design? Now meet responsive logo design

Four Torontonians talk about the best and worst of parts of commuting by bike in the city. (via A bicyclist’s guide to Toronto: Where to go and what to avoid)

Four Torontonians talk about the best and worst of parts of commuting by bike in the city. (via A bicyclist’s guide to Toronto: Where to go and what to avoid)

May Two-Four, On Fire, Harmacy

May Two-Four, On Fire, Harmacy

life:

We like his glasses. What about you?
On this day in LIFE — May 17, 1968: The Generation Gap

Those danged twenty-somethings, again

life:

We like his glasses. What about you?

On this day in LIFE — May 17, 1968: The Generation Gap

Those danged twenty-somethings, again

The name of the game for most publishers is, churn out as much content as possible, at as low a cost as possible, in order to amass huge quantities of ad impressions that are sold at bulk.
Pitchfork’s position is: That’s wrong. It’s an old-fashioned argument that lasting media brands are built by establishing a deep tie with a passionate audience.
Jack Marshall, Pitchfork Opts Out of the Pageview Rat Race

Toronto’s alleged crack-smoking mayor Rob Ford caught on tape! And the NMA World Edition offers what may be the most honest take on it yet!


About 12 million Canadian households subscribe to traditional television packages, compared with two million for Netflix. But Netflix is on a different trajectory, doubling its number of subscribers in the past year as it bulks up on content and introduces original shows

—Stev Ladurantaye, Netflix rearms for a Canadian onslaught

About 12 million Canadian households subscribe to traditional television packages, compared with two million for Netflix. But Netflix is on a different trajectory, doubling its number of subscribers in the past year as it bulks up on content and introduces original shows

—Stev Ladurantaye, Netflix rearms for a Canadian onslaught

Now’s design, like its usage ambitions, was a culmination of everything that Google had done before. But it evolved in a mature, new direction, so that it looked quite unlike anything else Google had created. […] The primary interface element of Now is what Google calls “cards,” which are modelled after real cards. They present a clean, trim canvas for information—one recalls the discussion of tasteful business-card design in the film “American Psycho.
Matt Buchanan, Google Maps, Google Plus, Cards, and the Evolution of the Company’s Design.
You can scan the barcode on any product and the free app will trace its ownership all the way to its top corporate parent company, including conglomerates like Koch Industries.
Once you’ve scanned an item, Buycott will show you its corporate family tree on your phone screen. Scan a box of Splenda sweetener, for instance, and you’ll see its parent, McNeil Nutritionals, is a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson
Clare O’Connor, New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More By Scanning Your Shopping Cart

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