{"id":1228,"date":"2012-01-30T12:30:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T12:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2012-01-31T06:07:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T06:07:46","slug":"building-creative-hubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=1228","title":{"rendered":"Building Creative Hubs"},"content":{"rendered":"
Last week CBC Spark broadcast an interesting interview with Mark Surman<\/a> -Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation<\/a>. \u00a0Mark talks about innovation hubs, ideas regarding geography and online space in ‘workplace’ collaboration, multi-disciplinary design, and makes a few interesting observations:<\/p>\n

…\u00a0the Internet was invented by hippies and the Web was made big by punk rock\u00a0…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2026 if you try to create the next Silicon Valley you are almost destined to fail because the sort of creativity that magnets people in and to a certain degree that kind of gritty gap that brings artists in, brings bands in, brings a sort of edgy culture \u2026 governments don’t create that – the kind of people that want to create Silicon Valleys and create economic development can’t create that open space and so in some ways places of innovation \u2026 can’t be by policy engineering<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Full Interview: Mark Surman on Building Creative Hubs<\/a><\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/podcast.cbc.ca\/mp3\/podcasts\/bonussparkplus_20120123_61399.mp3]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week CBC Spark broadcast an interesting interview with Mark Surman -Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation. \u00a0Mark talks about innovation hubs, ideas regarding geography and online space in ‘workplace’ collaboration, multi-disciplinary design, and makes a few interesting observations: …\u00a0the Internet was invented by hippies and the Web was made big by punk rock\u00a0… \u2026…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-work","tag-work-2","h-entry","hentry","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1236,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/1236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}