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Reverend Jim Belts the EduGlu Blues

EduBloggers JamFest – 55 by D’Arcy Norman posted 24 Feb ’08, 1.33am MST PST on flickr In celebration of the high watermark of Northern Voice, the music was rocking from Brian’s house… with the sounds of Reverend Jim singing about “Got to get some Edugluuuuuuuuuuu.” It was crazy and unrecorded, had to be there. What […]

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Trackback Love

At the Northern Voice Tiki party, Scott Leslie wowed us (well I was wowed) with his rendition of a poem only geeks could grok, called “Trackback Love”. I grabbed some video with my little Canon Powershot- the lighting is awful but the audio is not bad. Trackback Love (3.4 Mb Quicktime 1:42)

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Twitter Works!

Twitter Works! by cogdogblog posted 22 Feb ’08, 3.38pm MST PST on flickr Bill Fitzgerald exclaimed this after asking attendees at nrothern voice who had aspirin and Chris Lott tweete back, "me" People keep asking for how to use flickr or what its practical applications are. Bill Fitzgerald can now vouch that he was able […]

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VoiceThreading Northern Voice

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 […]

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Look Out Canadian Gulls, CogDog Has Landed

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 Province […]

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Jane… er, Google, Stop This Crazy Machine

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 […]

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How To Lose Readers and Influence No One

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, […]

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Be a Blog Mentor for Al Upton’s miniLegends

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 […]

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Spontaneous Ustream Twitter IM Circus

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 among that percentage.

I was setting down to shoot down some emals, perhaps edit those audios I need to publish soon, like yesterday, and as the habit goes, I said, “I’ll just check twitter quickly, just a minute to scroll.” And there, in the 5 seconds ago, I saw Jen was linking to a ustream.tv channel she was broadcasting on. I’d not done hardly any ustreaming since my trip to Australia, and said, hey, I wonder how it works if you have multiple people broadcasting?

So I flipped on my channel and we could pretty much talk back and forth, and she was relaying chats from ?? Alec Couros and/or Rob Wall?? So without knowing what else to do on camera, I reached for my prop, and brought Fresa on screen: