Author: Kris Krüg
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Vancouver Olympic Protest Flickr Group
Vancouver Olympic Protest Flickr Group Photos and discussion of anti-Games resistance. Includes protests, posters and signage. You don’t have to be against the Games to participate in this group. Part of the Vancouver AI Ecosystem collection. See also: Vancouver Tech Journal Isn’t Journalism.
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Fotolog overtaking Flickr?
Fotolog overtaking Flickr? Quick! Which photo sharing site community thingie is more popular: Fotolog or Flickr? You might be surprised at the answer…but first some history. Part of the Photography and Visual Storytelling collection. See also: Embarking on a Media Revolution: My Participation in the Google News Initiative Pre-launch Lab.
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Minimal Lime MySpace DIV Overlay
Minimal Lime MySpace DIV Overlay With over 22,000+ downloads to date, the Dark Minimal MySpace DIV Overlay has received a great amount of success aiding MySpace users in covering the default eyesore. After coming to the realization that the overlay was due for a fresh revision, I decided Part of the Web and Early Blog
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when the postman looks twice – or why photo theft can be a bad idea nowadays
when the postman looks twice – or why photo theft can be a bad idea nowadays The story I heard of yesterday (my friend Schoki told me about) is an other example for working communites and that stealing intellectual property can backfire badly. Part of the Photography and Visual Storytelling collection. See also: Embarking on
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Former Olympian hops the Cluetrain, riding the rails.
Former Olympian hops the Cluetrain, riding the rails. My good bud, former Olympian, and fellow renaissance-man/entrepreneur and marketer extraordinaire Dave Olson gets the business press of the week, by feeding coal into the engine of the Cluetrain with an article in PR Web on his Practical Advice for Market Part of the Web and Early
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The Canadian behind Hip-Hop 2.0
The Canadian behind Hip-Hop 2.0 McLean — or MMG, as some people call him — was once referred to in the Village Voice as a “black Web hero” and “media mogul,” in part for his work doing Web development in New York with clients like Sean “P. Diddy” Coombs and Spike Lee. He and his
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RapSpace.tv Online HipHop Community
RapSpace.tv Online HipHop Community How a Canadian is leading the way with the most popular rap studio online. Part of the Web and Early Blog archive collection. See also: Community Shout-Outs: People & Projects Worth Checking Out.
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Why Do You Blog?
Why Do You Blog? Why do you blog? Why do I blog? Why does anybody? As the medium enters its pubescence, it’s a question that I wonder about all the time. I’ve talked about it with a lot of different bloggers, and everyone offers a different reason. Part of the Web and Early Blog archive
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Longboard Hockey in Vancouer
Longboard Hockey in Vancouer Out n’ about on assignment for a forthcoming Heads article, I witnessed a sport hitherto unknown to me which combined many activities I enjoy into one sublime recreational pursuit: full contact hockey, tasty weed, chillaxin’ and longboarding Part of the Web and Early Blog archive collection. See also: Building AI Companions
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Blogging for Retailers White Paper Provides Practical Advice for Online Merchants
Blogging for Retailers White Paper Provides Practical Advice for Online Merchants A new white paper explores the benefits of blogging as an online retailer including how-to’s and tips to improve customer communication, increase search engine exposure, and ultimately sell more stuff. Part of the Web and Early Blog archive collection. See also: Building AI Companions
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Hillary Clinton using Drupal
Hillary Clinton using Drupal Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton announced today that she’ll embark on a campaign to become the first female president of the United States. And do you know what? She’s using Drupal for her official campaign website. Yay! Part of the Web and Early Blog archive collection. See also: Building AI Companions w/
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Basco5 Makes a Northern Voice Mascot
Basco5 Makes a Northern Voice Mascot This year we decided to go back to Basco to get some new artwork done for some stickers we’ll be given out. He created Monte, the little dude you see at left. I’ve created some little web badges and banners featuring Monte, should you want to show him off
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Make Money By Giving Away Your Photos
Make Money By Giving Away Your Photos One of Larry Lessig’s favorite Creative Commons articles, is from Mark Glaser in Media Shift. Here Glaser quotes Kris Krug, president of the online community management company Bryght Part of the AI for Creatives collection. See also: Make Culture, Not Content.
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One-click Drupal 5 Hosting – Preview Release
One-click Drupal 5 Hosting – Preview Release Bryght has been busy too! In addition to contributing to the Drupal 5 release, we have upgraded our own service so now anyone can create their own Drupal 5 site, with the push of a button. But that’s not all! We’re also cutting our prices in half, from
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one year anniversary approaching for discollection
one year anniversary approaching for discollection Over the next little while I will be sharing with all of you what I have learned, what opportunities discollection has provided me, people that I have met becoming a part of a gastown community, and how this store has entirely changed my life. I expect it Part of
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Happy sixth birthday Drupal
Happy sixth birthday Drupal Today, six years ago, Drupal 1.0.0 was released! The following snippet is taken directly from the original announcement: Today, drop.org announces the release of drupal 1.00 after an extensive period of testing. Drupal is a full-featured content managemen Part of the Web and Early Blog archive collection. See also: Building AI
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Get a Travel Bursary for Northern Voice
Get a Travel Bursary for Northern Voice This year Northern Voice is offering six travel bursaries of CAN $500 each. To apply, write a blog post, or record a podcast or video blog post describing why you want to come to Northern Voice. Part of the Web and Early Blog archive collection. See also: Building
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Krug’s Law of Social Media
I’ve noticed an interesting trend in online communities and social software. It seems that quality of design and usability of a site is inversly proportional to the number of people who use it. That is, in a situation where more than one tool/site exists to serve a similar market… the ugliest, most unusable one will
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Personal Challenges on 43Things
Personal Challenges on 43Things We’re always looking for ways to better engage the software in your head that actually changes behavior rather than just gives you a new tool or feature. The influences of peer pressure, reputation, and other social contracts are a lot more powerful as Part of the Web and Early Blog archive