Photo: Dan Toulgoet We’ve always appreciated any coverage we’ve received for our work and the issues we discussed at City Caucus. The Vancouver Courier has been generous over the years covering various community efforts I’ve been involved with, and they published this great report on the wrap up of the City Caucus blog. Founders pull […]
To my faithful readers (both of you), my apologies for going dark in the past several weeks here at Screaming White Hot Electric Guitars (aka mikeklassen.net). The holidays, work, and other projects have taken precedence, and that will likely continue for the coming months. First of all, I'd like to invite you to another blog […]
Jeffrey Veen describes syndication feed systems like Bloglines as a type of social glue. In particular he flags the unfolding Microsoft RSS feed strategy. This is probably because the software giant has a poor track record of following open standards. I’m not surprised that more people don’t rely upon RSS readers as part of their […]
This morning greets us with another “controversy” about a political blog gone awry. This one for a Ontario Liberal insider who (surprise!) does government relations for a living. Mike Klander has already been purged from the memory banks of the Liberal Party, and his membership has been resigned. His credentials include being elected Executive Vice […]
Zeitgeist is German for “Spirit of the Age”. If it’s possible for an individual to reflect their own personal zeitgeist, then mine would be pure white noise. I work constantly. Not complaining, mind you. Great to have an income and clients. A little more downtime is always welcome. I set up this blog as a […]
Had lunch with this bunch of geeks: Mark Cantner Tod Maffin Jay Dedman Richard Murray among others… It was fun stuff getting to yak with a bunch of the Blogosphere’s pioneers. I also spoke with Robert Scoble, who is a really nice guy. He even brought his family up to Vancouver from Seattle for the […]
Subject: Videoblogging Interesting topic. Here are a few points. RSS and Commenting make it cool. Bandwidth issues being resolved by outside resources such as new “ourmedia.org” (Mark Canter) Community access programming married with videoblogging can be cost effective and informative Using Bitorrent protocol makes file transfers faster, more practical “Digital Bicycle” lack of video codec […]
Robert Scoble and Tim Bray, aka Blogging Gods, took the stage this a.m. at Northern Voice. Tim talked at length at the principles of blogging. Robert talked about how cool RSS newsfeeds are. Now Tod Maffin, Vancouver radio wunderkind, is on stage talking about podcasting. Tod makes good points about compression rates for MP3 files. […]
Just sitting down at the Northern Voice Conference, and I spared a young chap from a day of humiliation by quietly taking him aside to point out that a seagull had crapped on his back. This is a truly funny environment, where wi-fi notebook computer users are the dominant presence. If someone walked into this […]