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  The cover came off London Ontario’s seedy social media underworld last weekend as key players met openly in what appears to be a brazen attempt to gain legitimacy and leverage into more lucrative rackets. Most interesting to authorities is the degree of collusion between these ambitious underground up-and-comers (whom some people have argued are [...]

PodCamp London: The Day After

by Brian on 04-26-2009

in london,media

Wow, super day of PodCamp – far surpassing my expectations (and destroying the inhibitions I may have had). When I first heard about this a few months ago I was totally expecting it to be a slightly more organized version of the monthly geek dinner meetup, with a few dozen people I already know (or virtually [...]

Thinking about where I fit into the PodCamp London event on Saturday and the social media sphere in general (or even more general than that…) Judging by the registrations planned attendance has grown from a smallish group of bloggers and podcasters — let’s be honest, geeks — to include a somewhat wider cross-section of professionals. In [...]

London’s Social Media Momentum

by Brian on 03-24-2009

in london,media

This is kind of an barely coherent omnibus post full of points I’ve been meaning to make about social media here in London Ontario. I was kicked into doing this when I noticed I missed a couple of good posts on the subject from Titus Ferguson recently (now that I’ve figured out that Titus courteously doesn’t [...]

My First…

by Brian on 02-25-2009

in art,video

So there you have it: my first video. At the very least, I can say it’s out of the damn way. I’ve been meaning to start doing this for a week or two. I’m starting to move more of my writing energy into long-term professional projects rather than blogging — book-writing, I mean (more on [...]

More Retooling

by Brian on 01-15-2009

in general

With all the newspaper stuff happening I wanted to write something along those lines, like, “Citizen Journalism: Your Civic Duty,” or something lame like that.  I was going to recommend PodCamp London (not lame) coming up in April, tip my hat to the encouraging progress the London Free Press is making (with people there starting to appreciate citizen journalists a little [...]