Category: Misc
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Family Picture Christmas Cards
Family Picture Christmas Cards Each year I open my cards with anticipation hoping that this might be the year that I actually get a picture where the family has given up trying to get everyone perfect. Instead the shot is a depiction of what it was really like – someone running into th
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Blogging for Independent Artists and Creatives
Last week at Blogs N Dogs in Banff I gave several presentations including one about using blogging and web technologies specifically for indendent artists and creatives. Christina Carr was cool enough to take copius notes and post them to her blog. Thx Christina. Blogging for the Creative Crew. Blogs’n’dogs at The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada – an
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The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005
The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005 So in spirit of the holidays, here is a list of some of the best Web 2.0 software that I’ve come across so far. You may have heard of some of these, but hopefully you’ll find a few nice new Christmas presents under your Web 2.0 tree.
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Moving On – Some words that I would love to see retired from my existence for quite some time:
Moving On – Some words that I would love to see retired from my existence for quite some time: If you want to impress me, here are some buzzwords you can try out: “context-free grammar,” “naked women,†“python,†and “can I get you a beer?â€
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Recovering from Blog-Verload
Recovering from Blog-Verload Yes! I just coined a new blog word. Or did I? Let’s see, a quick Technorati search should be able to determine that… Technorati says: There are no English posts about: blog-verload (or blogverload, for that matter) Done and done. I’m the first.
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Blogging for the creative crew
Blogging for the creative crew As an innocent in this new democracy, and as a writer, teacher and artist, I’d like to share with you some of the most pertinent features of blogging that I discovered through our ‘Blogging for creative people’ session, run by Kris Krug.
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Bold predictions for the savvy designer, 2006 edition
Bold predictions for the savvy designer, 2006 edition “that Fisher Price lookâ€: “Big buttons, big text, big everything. Yes, it definitely has its place at times. But I wonder if we belittle users with visuals that implicitly say, ‘Hey, you’re too foolish to choose what to do next, so I’ve put a
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Web Design and Development Trends for 2006
Web Design and Development Trends for 2006 Designs will soften, with more rounded corners, pastel colours and hinted boxes.†and “2006 is going to see Ruby on Rails development take off in a big way.
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BeerCasting from the Props Pub @ Blogs N Dogs in Banff, Alberta
Last night we got together and did some podcasting at the pub here in Banff. It was a great time… 20+ people from the confernce showed up, and in the end we ended up with 3 solid podcasts. Download Podcast 001 Zen. Yoga. Spirituality. Sarah Pullman, Len Edgerly, Val Gregory, and Nick Erly chat about
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Canada.com Redesigns Without RSS Feeds
Canada.com Redesigns Without RSS Feeds Canada.com recently launched a long-overdue redesign of their website. I’ll let you decide what you think on your own, but I find it way too busy, deeply unusable and just plain ugly. As somebody recently remarked, they went from looking like an early-n
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Things I Didn’t Know Before Yesterday
Things I Didn’t Know Before Yesterday A number of people asked me yesterday what I learned at the conference, and I had a hard time answering, not because I didn’t learn anything but because the things I learned were a bunch of small things rather than one large thing.
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Why We Love JPG Magazine: Photography is Not a Crime
Why We Love JPG Magazine: Photography is Not a Crime We are not terrorists. We are not dangerous. And we are certainly not a threat. For Issue 5, we’re asking you to go out in public and take photos. Insist on your rights as a photographer. Shoot where people tell you not to. Talk to
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The Dogs Part of the Equation
The Dogs Part of the Equation So, perhaps you were wondering why this geek conference I’m at was called Blogs N Dogs? Well, wonder no longer because I’m here to tell you that today I went dogsledding with my fellow geeks. And jaysus murphy was it ever cold.
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Rhonda Fast’s Photography Opening @ Wicked Cafe in Vancouver
My business partner, Rhonda Fast, is having a photography show at the Wicked Cafe in Vancouver. It’s a part of a 12 month series we’re running featuring emerging Vancouver photographers and Rhonda is the 3rd artist to exhibit. Her show is titled “Strike”. The idea behind minimalist art is that it lacks concept, focusing on
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Greetings from Banff
Greetings from Banff Right now in Kris Krug’s room there are 7 people, 8 computers and quite inexplicably, a double turntable with a mixer. This is going to be fun. We just got into Banff this afternoon and the mountains are big and the temps are low, like single digits.
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Welcome to BlogsnDogs
Welcome to BlogsnDogs The faculty and their guests are almost all here and Robert Scales confirms that yes, we are all geeking out. In proper journalistic form, Travis Smith has some numbers on the run up.
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The Quest to Acheive Buzzword Compliancy
The Quest to Acheive Buzzword Compliancy …will I really have to start referring to things like my DLA? Or my PSP? In the middle of sentences as if everyone knows what I’m talking about? (Which they would, here at Blogs N Dogs.)
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Blogs n Dogs – Geeking out in kk’s room
Blogs n Dogs – Geeking out in kk’s room Robert Scales testing out Odeo podcasting suite in my room at Blogs N Dogs.
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Testing Odeo – Blogs and Dogs, Banff
Testing Odeo – Blogs and Dogs, Banff Just a lil test of the new Odeo Studio in browser podcasting tool built in Flash. It’s basic functionality seems simple and cool.