Indigo does a BOOKface

Indigo’s Community - where Canadians booklovers connect!
Chapters.Indigo.ca has just unveiled its community social networking site. Think of it as a niche Facebook for books, DVDs, and music in Canada. Overall user experience is good, with unobtrusive AJAX making data input clean. An honourable mention goes to respecting privacy, asking for only an […]

World Water Day & BRTC

Wars have been faught over gold and coal, they are currently being faught over oil, soon it will be over water. In North America and Europe we are sheltered from the fact that clean water is becoming an ever scarce resource. When that fact is realised by the masses the […]

Twitter gets us one step closer

From page 27 of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers,

Phones, faxes, e-mails, SMS, and IM all extend the conversation, as do online forums, bulletin boards, and chatrooms. But none fo them lets one person converse with many people in multiple locations until blogging… [blogs] give compelling evidence […]

Enviro perspective

Toronto Star Podcasts: Linwood Barclay - Mar. 9
There has been much ado about Al Gore and David Suzuki who have been on missions to spread the word of the impact of climate change have been hypocritical. Go and have a listen to Linwood put things into perspective.

Social voyeurism

Voyeurism: is a deviant manifestation of sexuality that involves looking without being seen in order to obtain sexual pleasure.
I have been unlike many my age, those that grew up in the age of the Internet. I have had a tube to the webs and the googles since the web was 3 years old. […]

Podcamp Session Thoughts

I’ll update this as the weekend goes on…
Building a Community Mark Blevis, Bob Goyetche, Chris Brogan
—Watch it—
A community is a critical mass of like-minded people assembling and interconnecting at the same point in time and (cyber)space. It is not “built” by anyone, it is formed throught the mutual interest and ideas share between these […]

Going to PodCamp Toronto

this weekend… see you there.

Maven or monkey?

So I’ve been doing a lot of reading of late, trying to improve on my preparation to really contribute to society. (Luck/Success = Preparation + Opportunity) I have an enormous (but self-under-valued) skill set in my field of study (Software Engineering –that is, use of software to solve engineering problems–), little of which I […]

The real Stroumbo

2006 Gemini Awards skit, enjoy.