by Rob Cottingham | Feb 22, 2007 | Blogging, Online Community, Technology
Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us I’ve never seen a more compelling case for the transformative implications of Web 2.0. And in only five minutes. by Rob Cottingham | Feb 2, 2007 | Media Mix, Online Community, Technology, Vancouver
One of the nicest, most talented folks in Vancouver’s independent media scene is leaving town. Dawn Buie is off to Toronto… which means there’s a dream job opening up at The Tyee: Position title: Webmaster, Full time Salary: Competitive; based on... by Rob Cottingham | Jan 8, 2007 | Online Community, Technology
Holy cow: the Second Life client has just gone open-source: [W]e welcome the inevitable with open arms. Stepping up the development of the Second Life Grid to everyone interested, I am proud to announce the availability of the Second Life client source code for you to... by Rob Cottingham | Dec 19, 2006 | Blogging, Online Community
Lee and Sachi LeFever have made it home to Seattle, after embarking on a trip that lent new meaning to the term “world-wide web”. Throughout their year-long globe-spanning odyssey, they maintained a photographically-rich chronicle via their custom-built... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 22, 2006 | Non-profits, Online Community, Technology
If you’ve always wanted to put your web and writing chops to work for Canada’s labour movement, here’s a great opportunity: The Canadian Union of Public Employees is looking for someone to see to the day to day content of their national website,... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 14, 2006 | Online Community, Technology
It’s official, but it was a squeaker: The final result, as voted for by judges from The Open Source Collective, MySQL, the Eclipse Foundation, and 16,000 users on www.PacktPub.com saw a tie for first place between Joomla! and Drupal. In the event of a tie, a...