Wellington Street Readers

I’ve been living in the Holland Wellington area since 1998, and I wouldn’t live anywhere else in Ottawa. We’ve got it all here, and when I see people getting behind the wheel at five o’clock everyday heading out for points further away, I wonder why on earth they do it.

With an interest in enhancing this neighbourhood’s best features even more, in 2004 I co-founded the non-profit group Creative Neighbourhoods.

I like to work on various projects involving new media, and do so through my business, PODCO Podcasting.

PODCO has taken me on some fascinating twists and turns; one of the results has seen me helping to present a graduate class at the University of Regina that uses new media to form a collaborative learning community across Canada.

Recently I’ve rediscovered the joys of cycling, and have started the Hintonburg Daily Mass, Ottawa’s first “commute” mass.

In a very small way I am also a landlord; I’ve found blogging to be the cheapest – and quickest– way to advertise for the perfect tenant. Here’s how I do it.

If you are on Facebook check out group I’m associated with at Uth Ink, and of course there is the WSR Facebook page, started by Richard.

I’ll finish up with one of my favourite blogs kept up by someone else. The Ottawa poet Rob McLennan keeps up a blog on an almost daily basis, and it is a rich resource on creative writing – mostly poetry – and I continue to be astonished at the depth of it. It breaks many “rules” of blog design - font size way too small, uses san serif where he desperately needs a serif font, that kind of thing - but his exuberance and expertise for the topic shines through like few blogs ever manage.