February 9th, 2008
My friend Stuart Davis regularly pulls together photo/sound packages for the Vancouver Sun. Sometimes it’s other photographers’ work and sometimes his own.
The latest one is a nice look backstage at Ballet B.C., with some beautiful photos, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons playing in the background, and the voices of some of the dancers and choreographers.
The photo essay […]
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October 10th, 2007
Office collaboration software.
It sounds so simple. But the kind of freeform collaboration I assumed would spring up to make the best use of the first Macs and PCs has been elusive.
Corporate networks allowed the sharing of e-mails and files, but software that let groups fiddle with how they shared information always seemed to get […]
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July 17th, 2007
Massive security surrounds the sale this week of the latest Harry Potter book.
Now, from Duncan Riley’s Twitter stream, I hear that there’s a bittorrent visual presentation of the book, available for download.
Dude. Don’t mess with J.K. Rowling. Somewhere in the world, a ninja strike team has been activated to take out whoever posted digital pictures […]
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July 16th, 2007
Time was, corporate video was all about production values. Times change.
Authenticity and simplicity are gaining ground as ways to reach audiences by video.
The style is not for everyone, but the simplicity of Common Craft’s videos on social media topics are worth looking at.Lee and Sachi Lefever use a simple storyboard-style of presentation to walk you […]
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March 21st, 2007
Podcasters, bloggers and their readers are proving the power of their media by joining together Thursday to boost an indie band to the top of the iTunes charts.
This is an organic campaign that has evolved from a couple of people to a movement. The genesis was on an episode of Pacific Coast Hellway, with Mark […]
By Eric Eggertson -- 5 comments
March 8th, 2007
Waiting for an official process to take place, asking average people for suggestions about how the CBC operates could take years or decades, so it’s good to see some outreach from some parts of Canada’s national broadcaster.
At Moose Camp, which preceded the Northern Voice conference, I took part in an open discussion of what changes […]
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February 22nd, 2007
As Wikipedia inches its way toward being one of the top search results for every entry it contains, the temptation to write or edit an entry about yourself or your company is pretty hard to resist.
Resist!
Darren Barefoot, a founding organizer of Vancouver’s Northern Voice conference, posted the question of whether there should be a Wikipedia […]
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February 9th, 2007
Brian Oberkirch suggests that most tech entrepreneur wannabes get over the uniqueness of their pet concept. Everyone has lots of ideas.
He’s more interested in people who want to develop their ideas into something real, and who want to get lots of feedback in order to make their concepts even better. The cloak and dagger, complete […]
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