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Guess What Arrived Today? When a book is ready to go, the author is sent 10 copies to give away, or roll around on, or whatever… Today my box of 10 arrived!

Brent Holliday with Web 2.0 anti-hype (and get ready for Vancouver Enterprise Forum 2.0) Brent Holliday, a partner in Vancouver-based Greenstone Venture Partners, recently posted an anti-hype rant on the BC’s T-Net site. He makes some really good points, but comes across a little bitter about some of the useful aspects of Web 2.0.

Social Signal is hiring! We’re looking for a deputy geek and virtual office manager who can pitch in on a wide range of socially-oriented web projects and help with our day-to-day administrative challenges. If you’re a community activist with a taste for technology — or a c

remix is active consumption not production (when media becomes culture) My argument is that we stop thinking of remix as production, but as active consumption. Remix happens as a bi-product of consumption. What we’re remixing is culture and the active consumption of culture is part of identity development and living as a soci

BitTorrent For Dummies There is hardly a clearer sign that a technology, service, or product has become mainstream than its inauguration as a ”…For Dummies” title. Susannah Gardner, author of Buzz Marketing with Blogs For Dummies, has her BitTorrent For Dummies released t

Customized Code and Free Hosting for Grassroots Media Activists Designers, developers and administrators from Spain, Netherlands, Austria and Germany are working on a special distribution of the Drupal Content Management System that makes it a lot easier to set up your own multi-user, multi-language, multi-purpose int

Raised Voices Testimonies from the majority world on the effects of G8 policies have on their lives.

Playlist Module Released Over the last little while I’ve been working on a playlist module for Drupal. Farsheed was also working on a playlist module. So we have combined forces and now present to you the fruit of our labours: The new, improved, ass kicking playlist module.

Is “Fix it in Photoshop” A Valid Statement? My opinion on this has always been a very loud and clear, “NO!” There’s so much more to taking good shots than uploading something that isn’t so great onto your computer and changing it to become semi-okay.

Blue Flavor is Open for Business Congrats to my friends and Seattle guys Blue Flavor for getting their new company off the ground.

BitTorrent’s Grab at Respectability Its technology is beloved by illegal downloaders and file sharers. Now the outfit is raising venture funding in a bid to go commercial