The gig is up… the spaces are set, registration is full, the wi-fi works, the keynote speakers are kicking ass, my t-shirt fits…
I’m not much of a conference blogger. Judging by the amount of keyboard wrestling and digicam snapping that’s going on, I don’t think the event will lack for coverage.
Still in the first [...]
From the monthly archives:
February 2005
Earlier today I was asked to appear on tomorrow’s broadcast of CBC Vancouver’s The Early Edition to talk about the Northern Voice weblog conference.
Thankfully, it won’t all be up to me — Darren Barefoot will also be in the studio (this is getting to be old hat for him).
If you happen to be awake between [...]
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One of the cooler and more intimidating elements of the upcoming Northern Voice weblog conference is that being slated to moderate a panel on “The Blogger as Citizen Journalist.” It’s a notion that has dominated much of the discourse around weblogs in recent years… and as I’ve been known to complain, the subject generates [...]
Those of you who responded to my last not-quite-cryptic references in my last posting were correct… as of last Friday it appears that my family are now home debtors. We move at the end of May. I never knew that a lifetime of financial obligation could feel so liberating.
On Sunday I [...]
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Anyone who has had the misfortune of talking music or popular culture with me the past few years has undoubtedly been subjected to my WFMU rant… This legendary freeform radio station, which I remember reading about with yearning growing up in Saskatchewan in my dogeared copy of Radiotext(e), not only streams in multiple formats [...]
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Yesterday I did my near-standard-but-never-smooth weblog and wiki song, dance and fire-eating routine for the BCCampus Online Community.
The event was to be delivered via Breeze Live, a nifty but new technology to me. The prospect of severe meltdown was sufficient for me to take a number of unprecedented precautions, including having my presentation materials [...]
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Consider the day’s events:
The Register posts an interview with a link spammer, regaling us with tales of the big money to be made pushing PPC (pills, porn, casinos), the many technical advantages spammers enjoy, and their near-limitless prospects for continued success. Many illuminating bits of strategy and tough-minded wisdom:
Darwin would understand. Link spamming, with [...]
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