Category: Misc

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

Streisand effect – The increase in popularity of an item due to interest driven by the publicized outrage over its existence. Streisand Effect is a category of Internet phenomena in which a reckless attempt to censor or remove (in particular, by the means of cease-and-desist letters) a certain piece of information (such as photograph, file Read More …

Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection: Photowalking with Flickr’s Heather Champ Robert Scoble and I spent some time hanging out with Heather Champ for Episode 4 of Scoble Show. Heather talked about her photographic style, the reincarnation of JPG Magazine, Flickr, how she shoots her Polaroids and more as we spent the morning in one o

Anyone Up for a DSLR Summit in San Francisco? What about organizing an actual DSLR conference in San Francisco? They have Web 2.0 and CES and Gnomedex and SXSW and all these other tech sort of conferences, why not organize one around digital photography? As far as I know there is not a conference bas

Flickr Upload Limits Increased And it’s even better to give the gift of Flickr since now your recipients will get unlimited uploads — the two gigabyte monthly limit is no more (yep, pro users have no limits on how many photos they can upload)! At the same time, we’ve upped the limit

You Witness News Were You There When News Happened? Upload your photos and video here to have them considered for use in articles and features on Yahoo! News.

FLICKR PICKR / Morning do Narcissism is a recurrent theme on Flickr. There is vast new potential to reveal yourself to the world.

Continuous Partial Attention (if you’re lucky) I just read an article at the Wall Street Journal that made me feel pretty depressed. It’s called “Blackberry Orphans” and describes a generation of parents who can’t/won’t/don’t give their full attention to their children and partners, so addicted are th

Lee and Sachi’s Rockin’ Panorama Photos As I’ve mentioned on many occasions, Lee and Sachi travelled around the world and blogged the heck out of it. Lee recently posted a schwack of his favourite panorama photos. Here are a couple:

Community Wireless in Vancouver – FON, Meraki, Something Else? | So, in recent discussions with folks like Darren Barefoot as well as David Vogt of Mobile Muse (and, of course, kicking the idea around the Bryght offices), it’s become clear that community wireless in Vancouver is something that really should happen.