by Rob Cottingham | Aug 2, 2006 | Online Community, Politics, Technology
These past few weeks have been awkward ones for the company that hosts my blog, DreamHost. Lengthy outages have plagued its users, and just as one problem was solved, another one popped up. You can read the whole sordid tale here, wherein DreamHost – to their... by Rob Cottingham | Jun 15, 2006 | Blogging, Online Community, Technology, Vancouver
Social Signal is hiring a Web Production Manager: WHO WE ARE: Social Signal puts the web to work for social change, helping organizations turn online communities into a powerful force for progress. And we’re looking for a web production manager who will organize... by Rob Cottingham | Jun 8, 2006 | Non-profits, Online Community, Technology
Web of Change, the annual gathering of wired change-makers at the Hollyhock Conference Centre, moved into its spiffy new site a few weeks ago. The site builders are Communicopia (say, that’s their second mention in as many posts), and the project leader is Sarah... by Rob Cottingham | Jun 8, 2006 | Online Community, Technology
Via Jason at Communicopia, news of a new award for those who create open-source software that helps make the world a better place. Introducing the $10,000 Antonio Pizzigati prize for software in the public interest: The new Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the... by Rob Cottingham | Jun 6, 2006 | Blogging, Online Community, Vancouver
I can’t possibly say it better than Alex did at SocialSignal.com: We’re thrilled to be working with Vancity on a new online community project that will be unveiled this summer. The project will create an online community where people in the Lower Mainland... by Rob Cottingham | May 30, 2006 | Online Community, Technology
These guys along with several other very talented folks (including comedian Heather Gold) performed tonight at the NetSquared conference party. (Visit their MySpace page and check out the song Change Tha Nation.) It’s hard, awfully damn hard, to perform for a...