I spent much of the weekend in Calgary at a course, so I missed out on a lot of cool events taking place in Edmonton. I mostly wanted to go to WordCamp Edmonton, and attended the Christmas tree lighting at Churchill Square. Instead I was in class learning about archetypes and storytelling. So if you weren’t around Edmonton much last week too, this post will help bring you up to speed!

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Now on with the show:

• Sarah Sinfield wrote an interesting and quick review of this past weekend’s WordCamp.
• Hilary Darrah previously shared her experience of having a seizure with the Edmonton Blogosphere, and last week she announced she’s been seizure-free for over 7 months.
• Kick Point’s Dana DiTomaso wrote about failure, and how it’s helped her in her professional life.
• OilersNation’s Jason Gregor provided an NHL labour negotiations update. Briefly: negotiations not going anywhere.
• Last week, the Journal published a story about a British researcher who was offered a $10 million grant to do his work at the U of A. Ultimately, he decided not to come. Predictably, Edmontonians are extremely worked about this. But Todd Babiak had some wise words on the subject last week.
• Finally, Dave Cournoyer wrote an interesting post the Wildrose Party’s inside baseball politics.

Image by Gord McKenna on Flickr. Used under Creative Commons License.