After hearing Dave Olsen talk a bit about the restrictions being applied — in particular, to the “pedestrian corridors” being established here in Vancouver during the Olympics, I’m concerned about the implications for free speech, as well as the potential for these laws to endure after the Olympics have ended. I’ve been convinced for a long […]
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Blogathon 2009: Dave Olsen & the True North Media House
Dave Olsen stopped by Workspace this evening to cheer some of us on and tell us a bit about the social/indie/citizen media project he’s working on for the 2010 Olympics this year, the True North Media House. From the TNMH website: We intend to create a space in downtown Vancouver to serve as a media […]
Blogathon 2009: WordPress, WordPress, WordPress!
This is what happens when you spend all day at Blogathon: “Catherine, do you want anything?“ “No, I’ll get something upstairs at WordPress.“ ”…what?” “Raul, is that your phone?“ “No, it’s WordPress’–WordCamp–Work. Space. It’s Workspace’s phone.”
Blogathon 2009: 3 killed, 14 injured. Also, kitty videos!
So this has been bugging me for a long time: Digg.com seems to have grown past the point of usefulness lately. Digg is ostensibly a link-sharing site, where the most popular sites people are reading and voting upon are promoted to the front page. The downside to this is that popularity does not equal relevance. […]
Blogathon 2009: Catherine needs panniers!
So I was working on my next post here at Workspace, when who should arrive but noted fountain pen enthusiast and friend to WordPress themers everywhere, Tris Hussey![1] Which is good, because he very graciously tolerated my inadvertent inviting-myself-along-to-dinner last night, and answered my questions about categories and post visibility and things. And even more […]
“49 posts? How short can they be?”
The question I’ve been asked more than “why?” or, “are you drunk?” is, “how short can your posts be”? This is a good question! I suppose brevity IS fastest, but there’s something dissatisfying about “only” taking 30 minutes for a blog post. Surely there must be a clever way to make it look as though […]
Blogathon 2009: In which Catherine supports cancer research
I’m happy to announce that this Saturday, July 25th, I’ll be participating in Blogathon 2009. My charitable organization of choice? The Canadian Cancer Society. “So wait, what’s Blogathon?” you may ask, your brow wrinkling up in skepticism. Allow me to explain! Starting at 6am, I write 48 blog posts, once every half hour, for 24 […]
Suggestion Box: Attribution/ShareAlike/ActuallyTellMeAboutIt
Creative Commons covers almost all use cases apart from one revealed on Twitter this morning: you’ve granted others the right to use and remix your work, but how do you know if someone’s done it? Sure, it’s certainly courteous to do so, but they’re not necessarily under any obligation to let you know about it. With […]
C3YVR: CupCakeCampVancouver09
There. That’s sort of a title, right? So yes, in just a few short hours, I will be attending CupCakeCampVancouver at Workspace in Gastown. While there, I will be eating cupcakes, looking at cupcakes, remembering cupcakes I’ve eaten in the past, and so on. I hadn’t originally been able to get a ticket, but managed to […]
“Down with spam! Up with Vioxx!”
If you blog, you may have noticed that you tend to get lots of spam comments. Lots. Possibly even three or four orders of magnitude more spam comments than legitimate posts. (Use WordPress? Run Akismet. Seriously.) Speaking personally, in my comment moderation queue, I see that Ab, Ada, Addie, Addison and Azox have taken offense […]