Category: Misc

Greenpeace UK is Looking for an Open Source CMS & Possibly a Vendor Greenpeace UK will be evaluating three open source content management systems

Newbie’s Guide to the Wide Wonderful World of RSS. Chances are, you’re not entirely sure what the point of RSS is. I saw that little orange icon in Firefox, I’ve also seen their “live bookmarks” feature, which just looks cumbersome, and just never thought it could be helpful to me. Now, I wouldn’t live wi

A directory of the best in Web 2.0 applications There’s a lot of innovation going on in the new web right now, with ground-breaking applications coming from individual developers as well as big, well-funded companies. It seems like every day, there’s a new service out there giving you a new way to coll

Civic Mindedâ„¢ This month, the Corante blogging network launched its new Civic Minded blog. Civic Minded is a guide to the political impact of the Internet, looking at issues ranging from online organizing and campaigning to the big picture of how new technology is chan

Man ‘took 40,000 ecstasy tablets’ Doctors have revealed details of the biggest recorded user of ecstasy – a man estimated to have taken 40,000 ecstasy pills in his life. At the height of his use, the man was taking 25 tablets a day, Psychosomatics journal revealed.

CanadaOnRails Afterparty – Sponsored by Raincity Studios Raincity Studios will be hosting the official CanadaOnRails after party on Friday the 14th of April, immediately after the close of the conference. The event will be hosted at Vibes Lounge, located at 555 Davie St and will begin at 6:30pm. Anyone interest

Chillin with MC and Scales on a beautiful day in Vancouver and talking about the internets and Megan’s new job and the warm warm sunshine here during Video Blogging Week ™ (c) (rc). Also here’s a cool lil World Changing article by internet supastar Micki Krimmel about online video and vlogging and stuff that mentions Read More …

Web 2.0 for Good Web 2.0 for Good is the first event in the UK to explore how Web-based tools such as blogs, wikis, podcasting and social bookmarking can be used to promote social change and innovation. These new tools offer unprecedented potential for campaigning organiz

Greenpeace UK CMS Project I’ve been retained by the Greenpeace UK web team to continue working with them on the project we started planning at our away day three weeks ago (also since my last entry, I’ve learned that “away day” is the term used for “offsite” over here). The projec

Unique Partnership Augments Venture Capital With Product Design Adaptive Path Launches Strategic Partnership With Sierra Ventures to Cultivate Emerging Companies, Products

More bangs for the buck: Ben Brown IMterview Online matchmaking is just like the real world: shit happens. The Wall Street Journal points out a few failures and the new effort to perfect it — we can do it better with TECHNOLOGY — from eHarmony, True, and Match.com. And the goal is always marriage.

Megan Cole Starts At Raincity Studios Hello internets. My new post as Marketing Champion, aka Agent99, has officially commenced at Raincity Studios here in fabulous, sunny Vangroovy. As of today, I have joined the team of Robert Scales, Mark Yuasa and the other lovely gems here at Raincity.

Sustainability Business Centre British Columbia’s hug for everything to do with sustainable building.

YouTube – The web at its best? YouTube is the most popular online destination for watching and sharing videos. They are currently serving up over 30 million videos a day and that number is steadily growing. In a matter of minutes, you can create an account, upload a video (up to 100MB)

7 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Podcasts e been talking to some nonprofit pals about how they can use podcasts, so I thought I’d share this list, as well as the blogging one.

Culture Jamming the Chevy Tahoe Chevrolet has opened up a site asking visitors to create advertisements for its ginormous SUV, the Tahoe, using a collection of clips and soundtracks, as well as your own text. Thing is, there’s no reason you have to make ads in favor of ginormous SUVs…

10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs According to an NTEN survey of nonprofit techies, 20% said that they published a blog and 20% said that they didn’t (but they want to). Don’t you want to get yours up, before they get around to it?

The changing world of web design: an interview with Dan Saffer Dan Saffer is the Senior Interaction Designer at Adaptive Path, a widely respected San Francisco web design firm. The company’s portfolio includes design work for Creative Commons, the United Nations ReliefWeb and Blogger.com.