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Building a Diabetes Community Online
This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on November 12, 2008.
Not everything you find on Google can lift your spirits. If the doctor gives you a diagnosis, or if you feel funny symptoms, “Dr Google” is often the first place we turn for a deeper explanation - and it’s not always good news.
It was [...]
A Workout for Writers
This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on November 5, 2008.
The internet is all about building communities. Look in the right corners and people with shared interests will gather together on any sorts of topics from dog sweater knitting, to miniature plane building, to parenting children with special needs.
It’s at the core of our [...]
When @gradontripp Met @megfowler
This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on October 22, 2008.
Modern dating can be so complicated - especially when you try too hard.
How’s this for an opening line. “Hey, I started following you and checked out your blog.”
Whoa. That would put the brakes on pretty quickly in a bar, but online, when the rest [...]
24hrs Blogosphere Buzz 10.08.2008
This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on October 8, 2008.
If you’re a fan of a browser other than Internet Explorer, you can also look for the Eco-Safe as alternative to SmartWeb. Instead of printing off pages you find interesting, Eco-Safe will turn them into a PDF that you can download, or email to yourself [...]
24hrs Blogosphere Buzz: 2008.09.03
This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on September 3, 2008.
The trend to moving educational content online was pioneered by MIT in 2001 when they created something called OpenCourseWare (OCW). Currently there are lecture notes, readings, videos, and exams for more than 1,800 MIT courses online for free. More than 200 universities participate in the [...]
Vancouver Crowd Putting the Social in Social Media
This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on August 27, 2008.
The new world of blogging, Twittering, Facebook etc is called social media. It’s about interacting with other people, building and sharing experiences and ideas and working together to create new ones. In this case, the medium truly is the message, and Vancouver’s social [...]
24hrs Blogosphere Buzz: 08.27.08
This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on August 27, 2008.
Want to know more about these events before you dive in? Visit DotComPho.com, where videos of the lunches are cut together highlighting the best parts of the conversation along with a featured Gadget of the Week. The Vancouver Bloggers Meetup schedule can be [...]
24hrs Blogosphere Buzz: 2008.08.20
This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on Augsut 20, 2008.
You may have heard of Brendan Baker, a local guy who was using the web to try and crowdsource $90 000 to fulfill his dream of attending Oxford for an MBA in social entrepreneurship. Instead of using a DreamBank to reach out to family [...]
Urban Vancouver Stole My Blog
I got into a very heated discussion today with some editors and manager types over at Urban Vancouver.
The site is an aggregator of blogs from across Vancouver and the web. They access the RSS feeds distributed by the blog and repost the entire blog entry on their site. I call it scraping, [...]
Olympic Coverage From the Streets of Beijing
This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on August 13, 2008.
Citizen journalism; it’s you and me with a web camera, or a cell phone and an internet connection immediately posting what we see online. When you bring citizen journalism to a place like Beijing and the Summer Olympics, things can get interesting.
NBC and the [...]
