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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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