cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I’ve had a string of audio recorder devices over the years- one of the first portable MP3 recorders by iRiver, another white plastic one I already forgot the name, a great workhorse in an Edirol R-09. I don’t think I need hardware anymore, though, for basic interviews and […]
Wouldn’t you give anything to be the fly on the wall in the Facebook boardroom as they scramble to put of the little sparks of fire? I’m not even going to dredge up all the links of people citing why they are quitting facebook, why they are not, why they are begrudgingly staying. I think […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by Swiss Bones Arizona is a state bombarded by a free source of untapped energy. Our electric companies have been offering incentives in the forms of rebates and tax credits. it’s not out of the goodness of their heart or their long term vision on the future of energy- it […]
modified from cc licensed flickr photo shared by pfala Sneaky. Damn sneaky. I got a nice $100 Visa gift card for my birthday last month.( I am not looking you in the mouth, Gift Horse). These look like credit card numbers, have numbers like credit cards. But there is is something tricky there- it’s nearly […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by Punchup I got to Austin airport ridiculously early this morning mainly because all I want to do is to get home, which I have not seen since April 28. I hope I remember where it is, much less, where my car is at the Phoenix airport (much less if I remember […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Like ISPs, cell phone companies, I am fairly convinced that ask enough people or fly long enough, and you will find that All Airlines Suck– sooner or later they will jerk you around, lose your luggage, route you through North Dakota when flying from New York to Miami. […]
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Vancouver is indeed a special place for me. I’ll take any bait to attend a conference there, though no incentive is needed for Northern Voice. It always has been, and even with its growth this year to over 500 attendees, more than your garden variety slap a name tag on my and call me Joe kind of conference.
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The Latin origin for the word for this event mentions nothing of bludgeoning by PowerPoint or Conference Chicken, so none of the normal conference stuff that makes my fur itch really happens at Northern Voice.
Proof? Check out the kind of chicken that they served here:
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cc licensed flickr photo shared by Ariane Colenbrander
At my first MooseFest in 2006 I remember then the compulsion to try and capture via blogging every bit of the experience– and for something I will aim to circle back to– really at that time, blogging was about the only venue of personal publishing. YouTube had been out maybe a year, Facebook was still some ivy league college only private web space, the folks who eventually built twitter were focused on a podcast service. Social media? Blogs were it, beyond flickr.
It was that desire to “capture” that led me to skip a session to blog Nancy White’s session which itself to a series of unplanned but wonderful spontaneous network connections I’ve filed under the “Amazing Stories” category.
By 2008 and 2009 I was less invested in trying to do the blogging the experience bit, and dabbled some in documenting the experience in VoiceThread (2008, 2009).
This year gets a scattered, I’m stuck in a delay at the airport after a few days in Vancouver for Northern Voice 2010- the Olympic Delayed version. Actually, May turned out to be a glorious time of year weather wise for the conference, which was still at the UBC campus, but in the larger venue of the Life Sciences building.
mashup of flickr cc licensed photos by digital_trash and by h.koppdelaney I had a blast with this session from Northern Voice that I arm twisted Brian Lamb and Chris Lott to be part of, which I had pitched originally as Every few months some pundit posts something online stating that blogging is dead (invariably posted […]
Ooops. With great irony for being listed as a featured CoolIris enthusiast, and then prepping for MooseCamp session at the Northern Voice conference– I realized the way I had done these last year was now outmoded! This replaces what I wrote up last year… I was still using the old piclens javascript library, which did […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by Bachir It’s time! Let ’em loose! Tomorrow I’m on my way to Vancouver for Northern Voice 2010, which, if I may state subtly, is the best fracking conference in the uni-verse. My first fest was 2006, and I’ve been there for 2008, 2009, and now, 2010 “the Post Olympiad” […]
