Finds of the Week

What Makes a Group Collaborative?: We need a few hundred more responses to this survey before we can derive some meaningful results. If you have a few moments, please participate. Thanks!

Young People Changing the World: A group of young women have organized a youth conference on Global Warming in BC at the start of next month. If you’re young and passionate, read up and consider going — some sponsorships available.

Great Nature Photography: Fellow Canadian blogger and knowledge-worker Stephen Downes is also a terrific nature photographer. Take a look at his work.

Understanding the US Social Security Proposals: Here’s a wonderful 12-minute video from Arnold Lee that uses powerful graphics to explain this concept subject, and why “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.

Finally: an Honest Movie About Oil & Corporatism: The new low-budget (but star-packed) film The Deal is a fictional story about oil (and the end of it), politics and how the economic system is broken, that even a conservative could love. Let’s go see it and prove to Hollywood that honest, intelligent, courageous drama has an audience.

Share Your Footage: A new site NowPublic connects bloggers to photographers — find the story that goes with your photos or vice versa. Intriguing idea.

The Art of Edward Tufte: Here’s a fascinating site that shows how important good design is to understanding, and the elements and sources of such design. The graphic above is from his site, and shows a rock from a road project he was working on on the left, and an example of early cubist art by a Spanish artist on the right.