Author: Kris Krüg
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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…
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Change Everything starts with small steps close to home
Change Everything starts with small steps close to home Congratulations to Kate and the team at Change Everything for the fine mention of their efforts to help the homeless with toques and warm clothes in the Globe and Mail. Part of the Web and Early Blog archive collection. See also: The Web3 Manifesto: Challenging Tech…
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trendwatching.com’s TOP 5 CONSUMER TRENDS FOR 2007
trendwatching.com’s TOP 5 CONSUMER TRENDS FOR 2007 del.icio.us warning: non-utf8 string! (sorry) Part of the Web and Early Blog archive collection. See also: Building AI Companions w/ John Anthony Hartman of IHAVEROBOTS.
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Eric Appel’s SmartSetr Seriously Rocks
Eric Appel’s SmartSetr Seriously Rocks One of the things that I really like about Zooomr is that we have SmartSets. SmartSets are a much better way of building sets or albums than the way that most photo sharing sites are organized. SmartSets allow you to predefine criteria and then use a data Part of the…
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Google’s Identity Infrastructure is Messed Up and No One Is Talking
Google’s Identity Infrastructure is Messed Up and No One Is Talking OK, I’ve talked to several people about this now and everyone is feeling the pain. 2007 means no more free ride for Google. No, they’re not evil….they’ve just seriously messed up their infrastructure to the point that it is utterly broken. Part of the…
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The Compact – the Antithesis of American Consumerism
The Compact – the Antithesis of American Consumerism You got to respect these trendsetters. The Compact is a consumer group from the Bay Area who’ve made a vow not to buy anything new in 2007 — except food, health and safety items and underwear. Compacters can get as much as they want from thrift shops,…
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We’ve (Finally) Posted the Northern Voice 2007 Schedule Grid
We’ve (Finally) Posted the Northern Voice 2007 Schedule Grid We finally got our sundry ducks in a row (and there’s a barnyard full) and have published the Northern Voice 2007 schedule for day two, Saturday. As I mentioned a while back, there were more submissions than ever, so we had a ton of tough decisions…
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Photoshoot Tips for Models
I recently stumbled on this great list of photoshoot tips for models (or anyone who is having their portraits taken). Thanks to Vancouver editorial and people photographer Dawn Stenzel for the list! 🙂 I'm sure every working photographer probably has their own list. What's on yours? Make sure you get a good night's sleep prior…
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LinkedIn Answers Getting Hot
LinkedIn Answers Getting Hot If you haven’t been back to LinkedIn for a while, it’s time to check it out again. I’ve written about it in full or passing before — my favourite title is probably The first business plan with social networking features: LinkedIn, highlighting the fact t Part of the Web and Early…
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Web Directions North – SXSW in Vancouver?
I’ve been overdue in posting about the upcoming Web Directions North coming to Vancouver February 6-10th, but 2007 is upon us and it’s just around the corner and I’m getting really excited. The combination of amazing speakers, fantastic location, and after-hours events will make Web Directions North about as good as a conference can be.…
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Today’s Special Photoshoot with Chantelle Bousquet and Jessie Harris
I've worked with Jessie Harris once before on the Made In Vancouver photoshoot with Margaret Torgerson and he was great. That time I called him. This time around Jessie lined up a model and friend of his, Chantelle Bousquet, and asked Static to do a shoot of them. With help of the styling team of…
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Screamo Photoshoot with Lenore Owens and Mitchell Bowman
Recently I had the chance to do a photoshoot with models Lenore Owens and Mitchell Bowman in Gastown that we ended up jokingly calling "Screamo". We had the help of our friends Kimberley Nelson of Discollection, Shai of PrepWork, and Tamar Ouziel. We've done several shoots together now over the past few months and I…