Category: Misc

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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 Read More …

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

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

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.

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

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.

trendwatching.com’s TOP 5 CONSUMER TRENDS FOR 2007 del.icio.us warning: non-utf8 string! (sorry)

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

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.

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,

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 Read More …

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