Montreal Tech Watch

ok, we are great. are we?

By Heri Mar 12th 2008 in Business

There is a funny blog post at techvibes, which reports about a South By South West Panel entitled “Blame Canada“. It ended with:

The panel ended with a rah rah Canada sentiment – we’re a viable place to work and we’ve made several fantastic contributions to new media and technology. All in all, Canada rocks. Which, we knew.

Sounds to me like self-congratulations and self-reassuring statements.

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Comments

  • Montreal Tech Watch March 12, 2008

    ok, we are great. are we? http://tinyurl.com/yvuehq

  • colleen coplick March 13, 2008

    Glad you enjoyed the post – thanks for the image. :)

    I don’t know about you, but I quite like Canada. all in all, we are pretty damn great, and all of the people that I work with here in Vancouver are pretty amazing.

    Do you think Canada is missing something or is a larger picture issue you see?

  • Heri March 15, 2008

    well, colleen, for a start, i think people should stop watching the south and comparing themselves to other countries/valleys and just focus on building great stuff.

  • colleen coplick March 15, 2008

    i agree, but i don’t think that precludes Canada from being a great country.The panel said NOTHING about comparing ourselves to other countries but instead focused on the fact that Canada was a great place to work and a viable country in which to DO the work.

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  • kk+ March 17, 2008

    heri you would have liked the panel. we agree with you. :)

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