By Greg Hluska
Has anyone seen infinitehorizons.ca? The site (which debuted on February 8 – where was I?) is apparently Regina’s new brand. The site Q&A says that Infinite Horizons is, “a community brand. A brand re-development process involves the creation of a visual branding system and a verbal communications platform. In this case, branding and communications were developed as a community brand – meaning it will be adopted by more than one organization.”
I don’t what that means, but I still like the web site a whole lot. For one, the design is crisp and the information is presented in a great format. It runs on Word Press (open source software makes me happy).
The only downside is that it makes the re-design at regina.ca look really awkward. Oh well, one out of two ain’t bad.
By Greg Hluska
Version 2 of this site has been taking almost all of my time lately – I have an interesting template and several iterations of an application alive in a development server. This is, by far, the most ambitious web project I have ever undertaken and I am putting an inordinate amount of time into it. I can’t wait for you to see it.
I also have a few other things up my sleeve, including the next issue of the magazine and a beginner’s guide to starting a street publication with open source technology. Stay tuned….
By Greg Hluska
The word on the street(s) is that this site is soon going to start hosting (free) event listings…
By Greg Hluska
Has anyone else noticed that the City of Regina has video clips up on their Election 2009 candidate profiles? I’m glad to live in a city that announces candidate news on Twitter and takes the time to put clips on Youtube.
Now if only we’d vote…
By Greg Hluska
This map isn’t very easy to find on the City of Regina’s web site, so I thought I would post it on here.
Regina Municipal Election - Ward Map
By Greg Hluska
I feel like a traitor.
My love affair with Regina’s Transition Area is coming to an end and I am soon moving into the General Hospital Area. While the General Hospital Area is beautiful, funky and vibrant, I can not help but feel a little bit guilty and a little bit sad. This marks the end of an era – I have lived in and around downtown Regina for years and have never lived outside of the Transition Area. These are very sad days….
Keep watching this spot – I am shooting a video to serve as something of a goodbye to the Transition Area. And, I will ‘premiere’ it here when it is ready to go…
By Greg Hluska
We have been using this crappy template for some time (mainly to get this site indexed and out of Google’s sandbox), but we wanted to let you know that we are about to make some changes. Not only do I have a custom template ready to go, but I am also developing a few different applications for reginastreets.ca.
I am not ready to formally announce what is going to happen to this site, but the changes will be fairly drastic. While the blog is currently a large part of this site’s content, we are going to roll out some new features over the next few months. Keep on the lookout for these exciting changes!
By Greg Hluska
University of Regina Political Science Professor and regular Regina Streets (Print) Magazine contributor, Joyce Green was recently interviewed for a Leader-Post article on the municipal election campaign. Green was speaking about how quiet the campaign has been:
Joyce Green says that could be a sign of citizen satisfaction with the status quo, but it is more likely a symptom of voter alienation in an unhealthy system.
“People are detached — maybe from municipal politics, but I would say more generally all of our formal political processes,” she said. “In a democracy, this is a terrible thing. We ought to be having important public discussions about public policy … (and) we’re not.”
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By Greg Hluska
Here are some figures from the 2006 Municipal Election. As you can see, our voter turnout was pretty abysmal. Let’s try to add 20% to these numbers this year:
| Ward |
|
Voter Turnout |
| 1 |
|
43% |
| 2 |
|
44% |
| 3 |
|
32% |
| 4 |
|
34% |
| 5 |
|
34% |
| 6 |
|
22% |
| 7 |
|
31% |
| 8 |
|
32% |
| 9 |
|
41% |
| 10 |
|
40% |
By Greg Hluska
This is cheap, but I just put up some content on my personal web page and wanted to get it indexed. So, you likely shouldn’t bother checking out hluska.ca.
This particular site is going to start going through some serious changes. Keep an eye out for them…