This was actually my very first Vancouver Blogger Meetup. I’ve been to many social gatherings before, including podcast meetups and unconferences, but on a whim yesterday John and I decided to head to the official group‘s get together at The Whip on 6th and Main. I have to say, it all has to do with [...]

After spending the weekend at Northern Voice, Sunday night we went to a podcast meetup in Coal Harbor. This was convened by Mark Blevis from the Canadian Podcast Buffet. I have to say, podcasters are really down to earth, they don’t have blogs and they all wear glasses. At least these were my impressions based [...]

I just realized that my pics were returning spaceballs for anyone trying to view/download my images in Flickr. Oops. There are workarounds but I have now loosened the settings for all my contacts. Sorry about that. While we’re on the topic of Flickr – RadioZoom #110 is a soundseeing/on location podcast that was by special [...]

(Photo property of m.d.on Flickr) Could we BE more active in the Vancouver blogging community? If we were I’d have to start drinking a lot more coffee, not sleeping at all and get bionic hands since all this typing (at work and home) is killin’ me. John was invited to podcast a meetup, which we [...]

Last night John and I headed over to the Metroblogging Meetup in Stanley Park [met]. The potluck was yummy, the people were friendly and it was really great to see all these bloggers you’ve probably read but never met before. Sometimes you think Vancouver’s become so plastic and fake (whether your nemesis be lululemon, snack [...]

i wrote a lovely post this morning then blogger decided to be a complete spazz and delete it – it even deleted john’s podcast/show notes from last night. basically, it was my report on the vancouver podcast meetup last night. there were bloggers, podcaster-hopefuls and gurus all coming together over beer and chicken strips. it [...]