Tag: Misc

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.)

Blogs n Dogs – Geeking out in kk’s room Robert Scales testing out Odeo podcasting suite in my room at Blogs N Dogs.

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.

Blogs n Dogs – Faculty Geeking out We had a long day of travel

Off to Blogs and Dogs Long underwear? Check (though I had to go buy it today). Toque? Check. Snobby attitude about the West Coast? Check.

Currently -13 F, but Real Feel is -24 F Holy crap, it’s cold. That’s -25 / -32 Celsius for our metric friends. My narrow Californian ass is confused. It’s 11 pm. Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

The Right’s of Photographers (when shooting in public places) I carry my camera with me everywhere I go. I know I’m not alone on this because as photographers we know that the greatest shots often come at the least expected times and I never want to be unprepared for those great moments.

Flickr Favourites: Why? Why? Why? What makes one person’s pictures stand apart from another or even what makes one shot of someone’s stand apart from a similar shot by the same photographer.

Remixing the Web for Social Change Net2 is an online and offline community created by TechSoup, a project of CompuMentor. We’ve helped nonprofits access direct assistance, web-based knowledge and articles, and donated technology products for 18 years.

Announcement: Open Source CMS and Blogging Tools Summit, Vancouver, February 7 – 9, 2006 This is the official first post announcing planning of the Open Source CMS and Blogging Tools Summit. I’m taking the opportunity of the Northern Voice conference (and especially the spirit of Moose Camp) to try and put together a mini-conference of Read More …

FairSource: Model for Sustainable Trade in Services FairSource is a standard and innovative business model for trade in services based on principles of fair trade, access to opportunity, and sustainability.

Green Business? Go Carbon Neutral!!! ifPeople recognizes that human contributions of carbon to the atmosphere represent a serious threat to global climate stability, with potential consequences in terms of human health, ecosystem survival, and society’s stability. For that reason, we have co

A del.icio.us Tagsgiving dinner How can we possibly thank our favourite Drupal wizards for all they’ve done for Social Signal and its clients? Well, since you did so much to make our feeds work, the very least we can do is put on a feed for you.

FloatLeft – Design and Web Development for Non-Profits atleft is an organization offering high quality, affordable design and web development solutions for nonprofits. We’re a socially conscious group of independent professionals providing a hands-on approach to supporting organizations in effecting social ch

XML Conference 2005 – Presentin’ and Representin’ Kris and Roland are XML Conference 2005 in Atlanta representing and presenting. Roland spoke on RSS Remixing Past, Present and Future (PDF) and Kris is giving a Bryght overview talk tomorrow. We’ve had great conversations about Bryght and Drupal with the

I cut off all my hair. 🙁

50 flavorful, affordable wines Here are all the $10-and-under wines tasted, with notes for the whites and reds that made the tasters’ lists and others the group thought interesting. Countries of origin are included in parentheses, followed by the shop the wines came from (check your lo

From cells to bells, 10 things the Chinese do far better than we do. Ah, those clever Chinese. First they invent gunpowder and a few other essentials of modern civilization. Now they’re gunning their economic engines. Yet who would have thought that, after a millennium of poverty, they’d already do so many things better th