Thankfully, Colin Mayes, MP (Conservative – Okanagan-Shuswap-North Gulag) now no longer supports jailing reporters who write articles that strike him as unfair:
In a column e-mailed this week to several B.C. newspapers in his riding of Okanagan-Shuswap, Colin Mayes said that jailing reporters might help the public get accurate information.

“Maybe it is time that we hauled off in handcuffs reporters that fabricate stories, or twist information and… Read more...

We’re putting the finishing touches on Word Power, the Social Signal blogging workshop that Alex and I will be holding at the Hollyhock Centre from May 17 to 21.

I’m excited about this: there are a growing number of technical how-to resources for blogging, but there are still very few opportunities to learn about blogs from a strategic standpoint. How do you position them as part… Read more...

Early in your career using open-source tools, you’ll probably run up against the highly uneven quality and quantity of documentation.

With nobody actually getting paid by the programmers to crank out user manuals and training material, the job falls to volunteers and after-market publishers. Some programs – especially those a little longer in the tooth – have evolved a sophisticated library of materials suited for any level of expertise… Read more...

I just posted this at the Social Signal blog. It’s the opening presentation I didn’t end up delivering at the 2006 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Here’s an excerpt:
Think about Web 2.0 – the loose collection of new technologies like blogs, news feeds and the like – and one of the key things that jumps to mind is aggregation. These new technologies allow us to take raw information from… Read more...

Last week at the NTC conference, I kept hearing the term “circuit rider” bandied around. I finally happened to ask the very kind Deborah Elizabeth Finn to relieve me of the burden of trying to bluff my way through those conversations. She obliged with an enthralling account of the rise and eventual transformation of a movement of tech evangelists bringing the gospel of wired wonderment to non-profit… Read more...

What I’m up to for the rest of the week: Nonprofit Technology Conference, convened by N-TEN: The Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network

One of my favourite local reads, Raymond Tomlin at the Vanramblings blog, is getting into the web design world with two new sites.

• One of them is my favourite Vancouver stop for salad rolls: Lan’s Restaurant on West Broadway just east of Granville.
• And the second is a site for Cardinal Transportation employees – school bus drivers and aides who are trying to get

I don’t know much about state senate races in Maryland. I do know a great quotation when I see one… and Jamie Raskin, a constitutional law professor running in the Democratic primary, has just assured himself a place in the next edition of any half-decent book of quotations.

Testifying at a state senate committee’s hearings into a proposed ban on same-sex marriage, Raskin was asked by a Republican… Read more...