Archive for the ‘internet’ Category
November 19th, 2008 by
Miss604
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While recording an episode of The Crazy Canucks Podcast tonight, my co-host Alanah mentioned she did a Wordle of a Patrick Roy conference call. As this was the first time I had heard of Wordle I looked into it and even made my own based on my current feed.
You can input a block of text, [...]
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Tags: neat, tool
Posted in geeky, internet
November 19th, 2008 by
Miss604
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While in the middle of my weekly segment on Talk1410am my computer screen flickered and my Gmail turned blue. Thinking something was amiss, I immediately signed out of my account. Once I logged in again I took notice of a little message at the top of the Gmail window - hello themes!.
I know there [...]
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Tags: gmail
Posted in geeky, google, internet
November 8th, 2008 by
Miss604
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It’s been a while since I did a photo-only post so while browsing Flickr this evening I decided to share some photos that I have marked as favourites over the last few weeks.
Yours truly - Photo credit: Duane Storey on Flickr
Mount Baker in HDR - Photo credit: Tyler Ingram on Flickr
Scales sporting DaveO’s famous hat [...]
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Tags: photography
Posted in flickr, internet, photos, vancouver
October 27th, 2008 by
Miss604
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Parsing through my Delicious links this morning I came across two articles that John sent me (yes, I become giddy when I notice my husband tagged something for me in Delicious).
The title of the first bookmark was “Blogs More Relevant Than Ever” and the next one, right on top of that listing was, “Blogs [...]
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Tags: blogging, blogs
Posted in blogs, geeky, internet
October 24th, 2008 by
Miss604
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There are 15 speakers in the room this evening for Interesting Vancouver at the Vancouver Rowing Club, all from diverse and unique backgrounds and each with something interesting to say. I’m sitting here looking up at the Rowing Club’s Roll of Honor for men who gave their lives for their country in from 1914-1918.
Upon arrival [...]
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Tags: events, interesting vancouver, interestingvancouver08
Posted in conference, internet, live blog, meetup, social media scene, vancouver
October 24th, 2008 by
Miss604
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Taking a break from the municipal and provincial election coverage to engage in some silly entertainment (see last night’s post about sweet, sweet 80s tunes) I’m going to complete my mission after being “tagged” by Tyler Ingram yesterday.
I admit, I have participated and perpetuated many memes before, and for those of you who are not [...]
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Tags: meme
Posted in blogs, geeky, internet, personal
October 22nd, 2008 by
Miss604
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It’s 92 years young and a staple of transit cars in the greater Vancouver area.
The portable, printed, paper newsletters informing you about the latest in transit trends is now online with The Buzzer Blog. I did a quick blogger profile interview with Jhenifer Pabillano who has been writing The Buzzer since January 2008, and [...]
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Tags: blogger profile, blogging
Posted in blogger profile, blogs, internet, interview, transit, vancouver
October 15th, 2008 by
Miss604
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Last night I probably did the most Twittering I’ve done in a few months while watching and tracking election coverage. The dust has settled this morning (well for some, since our voter turnout was a record low) and while we all try to adjust to our new same minority government, here’s a tasty link fest [...]
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Tags: links
Posted in blogs, internet, link fest, vancouver
October 11th, 2008 by
Miss604
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Over the last four years I have profiled almost 30 local bloggers and posted 74 link fests to other sites. It’s taken me far to long to share another great part of the digital media realm, to which many of my good friends belong.
Digital photography is a big part of any social media event, stroll [...]
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Tags: photography
Posted in flickr, internet, photos, vancouver
October 9th, 2008 by
Miss604
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When I was interviewing local filmmakers Colin Cunningham and Madison Graie earlier this month I used Matthew Good as an example of an artist that has had great success with iTunes since they were excited about their short film’s premiere later this month. As it turns out Matt has done it again with his latest [...]
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Tags: itunes
Posted in internet, music, music news, vancouver