• BarCamp Vancouver report on NewsForge
  Sigh. Alex and Jonah make it into NewsForge before I ever do.
  (tags: socialsignal, alexandra_samuel, barcampvancouver)

Want to take the latest, greatest edition of Drupal out for a spin – and run it from the comfort and safety of your very own Mac? Only a few short years ago, that was strictly the domain of the geekier Mac users… but today, it’s a lot easier.

That’s thanks to programs like MAMP, which stands for Macintosh, Apache, MySQL and… Read more...

• How Not To Promote Your Movie To Me
  A clumsy, half-assed marketer pitches a smart one… and off the top of his head, Darren Barefoot offers five ideas good enough that the studio ought to ditch their marketing firm and hire his, sight unseen.
  (tags: Marketing blogger_relations movie pr public_relations)

Joy Boyson has just officially let me know about Case Camp Vancouver:

CaseCamp is a marketing unconference open to anyone. Presenters share case studies of their work, with the goal of creating a commons for discussion, learning and networking.

CaseCamp sounds terrific: a high-speed series of 10-minute stories about how technology and marketing intersect (or, I guess, collide). It all happens Tuesday, September 26th at 6:30… Read more...

According to Bloglines, my online newsfeed aggregator, the 34 bloggers in my list of Canadian blogs have written a prodigious 631 blog posts in the past 8 hours or so. My list of BC bloggers is roughly as long; they’ve managed to rack up more than a thousand in the same period of time. And all the other bloggers that I read – a few hundred – have apparently… Read more...

• The Stephen Colbert “On Notice Board” Generator
  Pick eight people or things and put ‘em on notice
  (tags: funny generator graphics images tv stephencolbert)

I just posted at the Social Signal blog:

I had a great conversation on Saturday night with Kate Trgovac on Sean Holman's Public Eye Radio. The topic was Petro-Canada's foray into the video-sharing world of YouTube, a project Kate got rolling for them before moving on to her new gig. (The videos purport to explain why gasoline prices are so high.)… Read more...

When we replaced our ailing Airport Base Station with a Linksys WRT54GS, we had high hopes for trouble-free connectivity.

But alas, our G4 desktop, both of our iBooks, a MacBook and a PowerBook all had trouble getting the router’s DHCP server to give them IP addresses. It’s a problem I’ve had before, including in several Internet cafes with Linksys routers. I tried a lot: restarting the routers, fiddling with… Read more...