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Masters of Digital Media Open House Wednesday

March 20, 2010

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Got this in an email (ah, how I love being on mailling lists; when I’m not screaming about how many emails I get on a daily basis, I’m scraping them for announcements): Spaces are filling up quickly for our March 24th Masters of Digital Media (MDM) Program Open House.  Don’t miss your last chance to […]

Man Offline: could you endure?

March 19, 2010

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Don’t try to tell me this hasn’t happened to you. If you’ve got a blog, a Facebook profile, and more than one email address, I have some bad news for you: THIS IS YOUR MIND ON INTERNET WITHDRAWL DCLugi aka Dave Coyne brings another short masterpiece to the Extremely Small Screen. Here, one poor sap […]

Social Media Club Vancouver’s First Event: Olympic Lessons!

March 10, 2010

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Who: The Social Media Club of Vancouver in partnership with the Vancouver Blogger’s Meetup What: Olympic Lessons: a panel discussion of social and antisocial media lessons from the Olympics When: 7pm Thursday, March 18th Where: BOB Coworking Space, 163 East Pender Street, ground floor Why: To review expectations vs outcomes in the context of social […]

Twitter/Art + Social Media at Diane Farris Gallery Call for Artists

March 4, 2010

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I found this via a link from the highly plugged-in Kris Krug’s blog, where I was stealing some photographs of Jer Crowle at W2. Looks really interesting, but this is the LAST day to apply! 22.5 hours left!!! An example of something they might consider is anything tangible that results from a project like Mobile […]

YouTube Annotations, Annotated

February 24, 2010

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Our old favorites the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre are showing unexpected expertise in the fields of tech blogging and social media lately. Here we present their insightful tutorial on the proper use of the new-ish YouTube feature, Annotations! You can’t cheat with this one and work in another window when it plays; don’t you […]

Banff New Media Institute upcoming programs

February 5, 2010

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And the Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition, which I find out about precisely one day too late to go to the launch of. And don’t tell me about dangling my participles! Where I come from, it’s a competitive sport! Banff New Media Institute Multimedia Web Magazine Launch and Upcoming Programs The Banff New Media Institute launches […]

Revitalizing a Media Reform Movement in Canada by OpenMedia

January 26, 2010

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OpenMedia, a cross between an activist group, a think tank, and a startup, have released the results of their study of the potential for a broad-based media revolution in Canada. It’s available as a PDF download or a Scribd document (also below) and they have a related online survey that you can fill out to […]

Open Data Hackathon Tonight

December 9, 2009

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The Powers That Be swear that they’ll have a mailing list or Facebook Group or something. Any. Day. Now. They could have one now if they’d hire me! Second Vancouver Open Data Hackathon When: Wednesday, December 9th, 2009, 5 – 10 pm Where: City of Vancouver Archives, 1150 Chestnut Street, Vancouver. More: http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archives/about/index.htm Limited to […]

WoW that sucks

November 11, 2009

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Tech Strikes Back

October 2, 2009

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Sometimes you’re the Operator, sometimes you’re the Operand.

Coworking is Copacetic

October 1, 2009

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You may have read the sad tale of the demise of Workspace, the devastatingly gorgeous, open-plan coworking space which effectively functioned as the clubhouse of the Gastown tech community (well, that and the Irish Heather). And as we all know, the Network Hub is full (although Raul says if you’re serious, contact him directly) and […]