Category: Misc
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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)
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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
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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.