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How does one blog a blogging conference? However you feel like doing it! It’s Friday, time for Moose Camp at Northern Voice 2008 and I am convinced every conference should launch with a tiki bar party. So the Waldorf Hotel was packed with bloggers of all varieties.
Got to hang out with Jim Groom, Chris [...]

Hurry up and submit your session proposals for the Apr 1-3 NMC Symposium on Mashups! This online conference will take place in both Second Life and on the web at LearningTimes.
Creative Commons licensed flickr image from lantzilla
Data mashups were featured on the mid-term slot for the 2008 NMC Horizon Report. And we now have a [...]

Serious Gulls They Have Here in Vancouver by cogdogblog posted 21 Feb ‘08, 12.17am MST PST on flickr

Gonna give the gulls something to worry about, I landed today in Vancouver, in an early landing move of Operation Northern Voice. My role is to represent the blogging interests of the Great Unknown Canadian Southern [...]

Even with spam fighting plugins, on a daily basis, I am spending time I’d rather be doing sometime constructive, and deleting, moderating, click through the relentless barrage of blog comment spam. I am feeling like the dutch boy and I am getting weary of trying to hold back the dam.
The killer was one that came [...]

Do you want to have fewer blog readers? Are you tired of pesky commenters who disagree with your posts? Is there something to be gained by frustrating users? Here’s how…
Just set up your blog so users have to create accounts and log in to post a comment. Heck, they already have 50 gazillion accounts, what [...]

Yesterday I wrote of the power of using twitter as a “CallOut” to get help or participation or just say, “Hey, we’re hanging out over at this cool web place.” And late last night, another example twittered my way- getting a tweet from both Sue Waters and Al Upton.
Al does these fantastic web blogging projects [...]

My oft repeated line this year is something about most enjoying the net based things that happen totally without provocation, plan, just spontaneous connectedness. I am sure that its maybe 3% of the general population that can really experience this with wide eyed excited wonder, and I am fortunate to know some of the best [...]

Let me join the Jim Groom Kum-Ba-Ya I Love WordPress Chorus. In this least year, I’ve rolled out 3 NMC web sites that are published via WordPress, with each one going deeper into the bowels of the templates and just more jazzed how I can bend them to my will, casting CSS, PHP, plugins, MySQL [...]

Be happy…! posted 18 May ‘06, 7.59am MDT PST on flickr
…because life is now!
Don’t wait for things like this to destroy your happiness.
A storytelling moment for the kids at Hummingbird together with kids from our community base, performed by our theatrical director, Valdilene.

I would say many of my blog posts are rants and [...]

Web Storytelling in Interesting Snippets posted 12 Feb ‘08, 10.36pm MST PST on flickr
Lynette Webbs’ Interesting Snippets Flickr Set came to me via UPS delivery, in print form, ordered from LuLu. This is the first on demand print product I bought, and am impressed with it from concept to product.
This set of slides [...]