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Words_Ira LaFontaine Japanese Footwear boutique Atmos has continued their rampant run through the ranks of collaborations with their newest team-up, the DC Double Label Project. Atmos used two models for the pack, the DW1 (Danny Way’s signature shoe) and the CM1 (Colin Mckay’s signature shoes).

Yeah, you heard right! DC are bringing their Live from Europe Skate Tour to the mean streets of London and …err Oxford. Between 16th and 18th July, the likes of Colin McKay and Ryan Smith amongst other pro stick-flickers will be dropping by to seriously slam some urethane on concrete.

Colin McKay posted earlier this week about a fascinating piece of research published by the Canadian government. The paper, New Technologies and GC Communications [Word], is the first phase (the qualitative) of a survey into Canadians views on their government’s use of Web 2.0 technologies.

A quick thought, prompted by Colin McKay at last night’s Third Tuesday Toronto event (with Katie Paine, Marshall Sponder and Marcel Lebrun), on online privacy… People who are part of the social media community know that when you put something online publicly, it gets indexed by search engines and is effectively ‘out there’ for people to see forever.

The long-awaited return of Third Tuesday to Ottawa was a ringing success, with more than 60 people forsaking the warmth and sunshine of a lovely Ottawa spring day for the basement of the Clock Tower to hear Ryan Anderson, Brendan Hodgson, and Colin McKay talk about the "Shiny New Object" syndrome, and then get the discussion going.

Plan B Skateboards new line of skateboard decks are coming out soon and they are looking good. New decks for Danny Way, Colin McKay, Pat Duffy, Ryan Sheckler, Paul Rodriguez, Jereme Rogers, PJ Ladd, Ryan Gallant and Brian Wenning.

Time flies, and suddenly I realise that I haven’t posted here since the excitement of the civil serf affair. Rather than the usual (unintentional I assure you) long essay, here’s a few things that have interested me over the last few weeks - and might be of interest to you too: Networking Democracy

In mid-January, Gavin Heaton and Drew McLellan announced they were ready to take on the sequel to the incredibly successful Age of Conversation. I approached Drew very late in the process on Age of Conversation and, unfortunately, I could not get content to him in time.

The Morning News are asking for our most recent, favorite download. I’m nominating Colin McKay’s The Secret Underground Guide to Social Media for Organisations which I read yesterday evening and found compelling and true to my experience of both blogging as a councillor and the experiments I’ve taken with social media in my current day job.