December 2009
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Christmas in Your Neighborhood
Merry Christmas! I know that’s not the politically correct thing to say when swaddled in organic cotton blankets and coiled into post-turkey fetal position in the warm hippie belly of Vancouver Island’s Prospect Lake community, but I don’t care. If being well fed and happy is wrong, then I don’t want to be right. It’s too bad mirth isn’t a sustainable energy...
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Avatar
Yesterday our friend Brian was kind enough to get us tickets to Avatar at the IMAX in 3D. The movie’s premise is that scientists and military personnel don native-esque bodies to better negotiate for precious resources with the blue First Nation’s people of Pandora. Due to a lack of truly shared qualia there’s a war, the myth of the noble nature savage is perpetuated and things...
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Why Yossi Vardi is my New Hero
In my haste, I totally forgot to write about the hilarity of legendary Israeli entrepreneur Yossi Vardi’s LeWeb presentation. Best known in the tech world as the first investor in ICQ and the creator of Kinnernet, Vardi has acted as an advisor to the World Bank and UN Development Program on energy and developing world policies.But honestly, the reason Yossi Vardi is my new hero is the fact...
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Self-Expression as Political
Photo Credit: Chris Heuer
On Thursday morning, Chris Heuer, Fabrice Epelboin and I sat down to interview Skyrock founder Pierre Bellanger. Born out of the free radio movement, Bellanger’s pirate radio station has become the 3rd largest European social networking site behind MySpace and Facebook.
Says Bellanger, “We were trying to create revolution. My political act is to create a...
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Day One: InSeine in the Membrane
Oh Canada. Why is it that your lackluster public school system has allowed me to slip through the cracks with no knowledge of what is supposed to be your second language? I am trying my best to do you proud with my broken greetings and garbled French. InSeine in the membrane…I’m in Paris for the Le Web Conference with the Social Media Club House!
Flown in via 747 and delivered to...
My 1st Threatening Hate Comment
I got my first inappropriate hate comment! I must be a real writer now. Someone with the IP address: 88.114.251.23 first commented saying my article about MOG compared with Spotify was bullshit and then I assume that same person showed up on my personal blog calling me an “ugly dried out p@#y” and other nonsensical anti-feminist riffs. The IP links to Finnish telecommunications company...