Tag: Misc

Digital-Web Magazine/WebVisions Scavanger Hunt Welcome to the WebVisions / Digital Web Magazine scavenger hunt for 2005. This is your chance to get a free pass to WebVisions 2005 and win some cool prizes as well.

RSS and News Aggregators: Opportunity or Threat? There is only one thing you need to understand about RSS and news aggregators: None of this has been developed to make traditional publishers’ lives any easier or our businesses any healthier. It is all there for our readers – and it does a very good

Shifting Paradigms: The Mental Evolutionary Process of Moving from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 in 17 Steps I thought that rather than leave this email in my sent items, it would be worth cleaning up and adding to the (overdone?) conversation about what it is and isn’t.

Marc Canter is Announcing ReBlg.com “Ever wondered why you can’t just click on an article and blog it?” – where’s the universal “Blog This” button?

Vancouver – Alternative Center for Web 2.0 Business? As I mentioned this week, it’s my goal to live and work in Silicon Valley. But if I can’t work there, maybe I’ll head over to Vancouver in Canada. It seems to be a hotbed for innovative Webheads and in particular Web 2.0 people.

Whirlwind podcast between Roland, Boris and Marc Canter Here’s the audio (1.9 MB file, 6 minutes, 40 seconds) of my discussion with Marc Canter and Boris Mann at the Victoria Chinese restaurant in Vancouver Canada on Friday June 19th after Vidfest 2005 !

Better Digital Photography: Market Your Photography Business Don’t underestimate the power of marketing, because it is the tool that can make or break your business. You need to market your photography business.

LightWeight User Generated Business Models An alternative title for this post would be “Participative Commerce”. I couldn’t decide.

Less Cursing, Better Pictures: 10 Suggestions The New York Times’ David Pogue offers 10 suggestions for better digital photography.

Flickr Schwag 1.0, baby! One of the most often requested Flickr features is schwag. We’re pleased announce the arrival of Flickr Schwag 1.0. These three buttons and two stickers can by yours by sending a Self Addressed Envelope* to:

Paper Airplane and The Two Way Web: A Collaborative and Decentralized World Wide Web This paper describes a radical new vision of the World Wide Web and browsers that deeply embed collaboration and editing.

WWJDT: What Would Jesus Dance To? “God is interested in truth, and only in truth. And that’s why God is more interested in Rock & Roll music than Gospel… If you can’t write about what’s really going on in the world, I mean, ‘Please, don’t patronize Me!’”

Progressive U The new media voice for progressive students and other problem solvers.

(from Salon.com) Mena and Ben Trott thrilled the world of bloggers with their Movable Type software. Then their company, Six Apart, received venture financing and they decided it was time to get serious. In the spring of 2001, Mena Trott, a Web designer in San Francisco, began a quirky Web log called Dollarshort. This was Read More …

After software, the most important tool to a hacker is probably his office. Big companies think the function of office space is to express rank. But hackers use their offices for more than that: they use their office as a place to think in. And if you’re a technology company, their thoughts are your product. Read More …

I’ve been getting some questions about these topics lately and learning a lot about it myself, so I decided to put some information together in a post. Do you like reading this site? Do you come here regularly? If so, you may want to consider using a news reader (aggregator) to receive updates from all Read More …

(interview originally published at twohundredby200 magazine) Michael C. Place was born in North Yorkshire, England in 1969. He graduated from Newcastle College in 1990. He then went on to work at Bite It!, London with Trevor Jackson working on mainly record covers for Champion Records, Gee Street Records for artists such as The Stereo MC’s Read More …

(interview originally published at UrbanVancouver.com) Jeremy Crowle is an up-and-coming Canadian painter, illustrator, photographer, and all-purpose lunatic. I recently had the chance to interview him and we got to talking about art, politics, environmental sustainability, and relationships. He currently works at a Vancouver graphic design studio and his work can be seen at the Alibi Read More …

Hey tough-guy! Not hardcore? Want to pretend you are so you fit in at Burning Man? Maybe you want to get inked, but are scared it will hurt. Or you like the idea of tattoos but don’t know what you want to get. Maybe you’re afraid of catching Hep C from the tattoo needle. Well Read More …