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(Cross-posted from my fashion photography blog over at www.staticphotography.com) This is a very exciting week for me as I prep with the rest of the organizing team for Northern Voice 2007 and MooseCamp.. I'm going to be leading a PhotoCamp as a part of the event and am wondering who else will be there? Didja Read More …
I’ve been overdue in posting about the upcoming Web Directions North coming to Vancouver February 6-10th, but 2007 is upon us and it’s just around the corner and I’m getting really excited. The combination of amazing speakers, fantastic location, and after-hours events will make Web Directions North about as good as a conference can be. Read More …
Hey there guys. We’ve been scrambling to pull together the plans for our 3rd Northern Voice personal publishing conference here in Vancouver. There are a couple important announcements from the past few days that I wanted to pass along. The deadline for prentations, panels, and speakers has been extended to December 1st. You don’t have Read More …
I recently had the chance to shoot photos of the DeSmogBlog team at their headquarters here in Vancouver. They wanted black and white, journalistic style photos that said “We’re serious about climate change!” Check out the photos from the shoot here and some nice words from the client in our portrait photography references section of Read More …
My friend Andre Charland’s (AKA Captain Ajax) company recently underwent a branding change. They’re old name was eBusiness Applications and thier new name is Nitobi. As a part of the renaming and rebranding efforts they wanted new pics of their executive team to corresponding with changing face of the company. Nitobi is an agile, honest, Read More …
I joined the new community website over at JPG Magazine. JPG Magazine was started by friends Derek Powazek and Heather Champ and has had close ties with Flickr since the beginning. They’re launched a cool new site with community features and I think it’s going to be a hit. I submitted a couple photos for Read More …
Due to the overwhelmingly positive feedback from attendees to Northern Voice 2006 and Northern Voice 2005 we’ve decided to bring it back again for 2007. For those of you who are unfamiliar (gasp!) Northen Voice is an independant and grassroots personal publishing conference based here in Vancouver. Think internet, photography, audio, video, blogs, games, mobile. Read More …
Barcamp Vancouver is THIS FRIDAY. We’re all very psyched to be part of the first BarCamp Vancouver, and hope you are too. Read on for all the deets… If You Can’t Come, Please Remove Your Name From the List There are currently about 15 people on the waitlist. If you can’t make it, please visit Read More …
If you want to come to Barcamp Vancouver it’s important that you go over there and register now. We only have 23 spots (of 90) left. These last spots will fill fast. Please don’t make me try to squeeze you in at the end ’cause you’re too busy to just go put your name on Read More …
Check out this quick interview with George from Flickr at the Vancouver International Digital Festival on Granville Island. I think if you absolutely forced me to pick a favorite Flickr peep…. I’d have to go with George. 🙂
Last week the Bryght guys went down to Seattle for our second Gnomedex in Seattle put on by friends Chris and Ponzi. We saw lots of our geek peeps and a great time was had by all. The event was keynoted by John Edwards who was there to make connections with the blogging community and Read More …
I’m here at the China Access 2008 Business Forum with Scales and MC of Raincity Studios and Richard Eriksson of Bryght. We’re getting a whirlwind business tour of China including an overview of the economy, political climate, growth trends, geography and communications challenges. There are about 40 or so people here at the SFU Centre Read More …
Roland and I will be presenting with Darren Barefoot and Tod Maffin at an upcoming event here in Vancouver called “What Citizen Journalism Means to Corporate Communications” put on by the Canadian PR Society. Details are below… please come out and join us if you can. 🙂 What Citizen Journalism Means to Corporate Communications A Read More …
(cross-posted from Bryght.com) After NTC and Penguin Day in Seattle, I drove East accross Washington to Spokane and then north back into Canada to keynote at a cool new tech conference called Switch On put on by a non-profit called TechVillage. TechVillage is funded by Western Economic Diversification Canada and the Kooteney Association for Science Read More …
I’m just getting back into the Vancouver flow after my trip to Italy and now it’s time to hit the road again. On Thursday I leave for SXSW in Austin, Texas for 2 days. If you’ve never heard of it or been, here’s a few stats that should give you an idea what I’m in Read More …
Checkin’ in quickly from Torino, Italy. I’m here with Robert Scales from Raincity Studios and Boris Mann from Bryght. We’re jet lagged, hungry, internet deprived and struggling to learn Italian… but having a blast so far in our delirious state. The syposium I’m co-chairing with Andy Miah, “The Olympics and Web 2.0“, is on Friday Read More …
Or a vlogger or whatever. 😛 I’m testing out this new site called YouTube.com that is talkin about bein the ‘Flickr of video’. *cough* Anyway, this is what I came up with today. The first one… Testing… 1 2 and the second one… Smoke Break UPDATED: I did another one today and added it here. Read More …
My CMS can kick your CMS’s ass. Sewiouswy. Thanks for the modeling support from Miss Drupal 2005.
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 Read More …