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Field notes for the age of generative everything.

Essays on AI, culture, community, creative practice, consent, taste, and what stays human when the tools get loud.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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”…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

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