Comments on: Canada’s Top 10 Digital Thinkers?

By: Shawn Adamsson

Shawn Adamsson — Sun, 30 May 2010 14:50:24 +0000

I’d like to nominate David A. Eaves to the list for his tireless efforts to advance the cause of OpenData and Open Government across Canada.

By: Jon Husband

Jon Husband — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:19:47 +0000

How can I have overlooked Harold Jarche ? One of the clearest, most avant-garde-while-pragmatic thinkers and doers I know.

By: Jon Husband

Jon Husband — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:15:28 +0000

respect your forefathers.

Marshall McLuhan
Derrick DeKerkhove

What Boris said !

By: Martin Lessard

Martin Lessard — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:33:13 +0000

Hugh, about your “digital thinkers?â€ def, I guess we’ll all realize pretty soon this would sounds ackward: is “digital stuff” means publishing online? being not on dead tree or old airwaves? Seams to me those hard core trad birds would be harder and harder to find as all goes digital.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:06:30 +0000

wow this post keeps on giving…

as for the 2 questions that kept popping up:

“what are digital thinkers?” …
I think I tried to give some guidelines in the post, but I should have been more clear: “who do you think are some of the people who are writing, or doing, the most innovative digital stuff in the country?” so: I think it’s up to writers to decide, and they seem to have.

the second question: “why a list?” …
I am just curious about the people all of you think are doing, writing, thinking interesting things. And by posting with “Top 10” in the title, well… you see what happens.

By: Seb Paquet

Seb Paquet — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:31:24 +0000

+Alain DÃ©silets

Robin Millette (who knows even more than he shows :)

By: Martin Lessard

Martin Lessard — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:52:20 +0000

As a matter of fact, such list of names will represent a subset of people we read (or know of). Bilinguale people will surely have a wider pool to choose from (as I think was what Sylvain meant –and as Jon showed quite clearly in his choice).

Seems to me always as hazardous task to narrow it down to a short list of ten (I admire ones who deal with such challenge) whithout falling into some “representation issue” (hey you forgot Nunavut! Hey where are the albinos?).

For sure spanish and innu speaking thinkers in Canada won’t show up in my list, not because there aren’t good, but I can read them. I apologize in advance.

Seb Paquet
Houssein Ben-Ameur (Hou-Hou blog)
Mario Asselin (Mario Tout de Go)
Jean-Michel SalaÃ¼n (UdeM)
GaÃ«l Laliberte (paquerettes.wordpress.com)
ClÃ©ment Laberge (Remolino)
FranÃ§ois GuitÃ© (relief)
Mitch Joel
Jon Husban
Michael Giest
SÃ©bastien Provencher
Sylvain Carle
Dave Pollard
Stephen Downes
et j’en oublie sÃ»rement…

Let’s list the first top 100 000 and we’ll have a more representative list to start with ;-)

By: Boris Anthony

Boris Anthony — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:38:43 +0000

Ditto.
Silliness.

By: karl

karl — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:35:43 +0000

Please if you create such a list and distribute it as OPML, remove me from the list. (Categories and lists create expectations from people. It focuses the attention on a few when the richness is in the voice of every individuals. Fame creates walls.)

Thanks for the understanding.

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Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:29:36 +0000

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