Growing up one of the most memorable programs on PBS was Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting. I watched the show between other channels or while bored. It featured a white man with a beard and an afro painting incredible landscapes in half an hour. Sounds dry, but the...
Local Vancouver start-up NowPublic have just announced receiving funding of (USD) $1.4-million from a group of leading technology and media investors and individuals. The company will be using the financing to grow its reporter base and deliver the first On Demand...
Yesterday I attended the announcement of the Living Rivers Trust Fund, where BC Premier Gordon Campbell announced a tripling of the fund to $14-million. The story seems to have totally missed all local news outlets, with the except of the lamentable paywall at the...
Via Traffick, Statscan has announced that year-over-year Internet sales have grown by 80 percent from 2004 to 2005. Retailers reported online sales of $5.4 billion in 2005, up 80% from $3 billion in 2004, according to the report. Retail sales accounted for 14% of...
At times, it will. I can promise it. In fact, I bet that right now you could click around and find something not working. And we think that’s okay, for now. We wanted to launch the site, and it was half-finished. So rather than having nothing we launched it....
Congratulations to Smallthought software’s Andrew and Avi for winning Under the Radar’s Best in Show along with a slough of other awards at South by Southwest (SXSW Interactive) last week Under the Radar, a conference unto itself. Smallthought are a local...
For the next 5 days the Work Industries offices will be closed for ski days in Fernie, B.C. We reopen on Wednesday, March 8th. Powder, ho! Update: Photos from Fernie.
Please bear with us while we sort out the details of the very promising Expression Engine software and the Work Industries identity. On this website we intend to practice what we preach: iterate in the wild, deliver in quick cycles, take risks and think about the big...