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Gastown Graffiti Project In an alley one block east of the Harbor Centre, between between Richards and Homer, running parallel to Hasitngs.

Please go and vote for our Web 2.0 Manifesto over at ChangeThis! Some friends and I decided that we want to write a Web 2.0 manifesto over at ChangeThis. We submitted our proposal to the ChangeThis team and they accepted!

Min Jung Kim Interview We’ve been meaning to interview friend of SFist Min Jung Kim for a while now. We met her way back in the day, when we were regular noobs. Numerous tech conferences, Korean barbecue feasts, nights of karaoke and episodes of Iron Chef later, we’re still in

Book Review – BitTorrent For Dummies by Susannah Gardner and Kris Krug Basically, an interesting book on a technology that is redefining how content is controlled and distributed in the digital world. If you want to know how to make it part of your world, it’s worth reading…

A Neo-Techie’s Morning High-tech cool’s now about capacity: not the gadget’s but the user’s.

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Guess What Arrived Today? When a book is ready to go, the author is sent 10 copies to give away, or roll around on, or whatever… Today my box of 10 arrived!

Brent Holliday with Web 2.0 anti-hype (and get ready for Vancouver Enterprise Forum 2.0) Brent Holliday, a partner in Vancouver-based Greenstone Venture Partners, recently posted an anti-hype rant on the BC’s T-Net site. He makes some really good points, but comes across a little bitter about some of the useful aspects of Web 2.0.

Social Signal is hiring! We’re looking for a deputy geek and virtual office manager who can pitch in on a wide range of socially-oriented web projects and help with our day-to-day administrative challenges. If you’re a community activist with a taste for technology — or a c

remix is active consumption not production (when media becomes culture) My argument is that we stop thinking of remix as production, but as active consumption. Remix happens as a bi-product of consumption. What we’re remixing is culture and the active consumption of culture is part of identity development and living as a soci

BitTorrent For Dummies There is hardly a clearer sign that a technology, service, or product has become mainstream than its inauguration as a ”…For Dummies” title. Susannah Gardner, author of Buzz Marketing with Blogs For Dummies, has her BitTorrent For Dummies released t

Customized Code and Free Hosting for Grassroots Media Activists Designers, developers and administrators from Spain, Netherlands, Austria and Germany are working on a special distribution of the Drupal Content Management System that makes it a lot easier to set up your own multi-user, multi-language, multi-purpose int