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There is an old Vulcan proverb “Only Nixon could go to China.” Nixon in China-Overture

March 13, 2010 By 4 Comments

It’s not often you can start off a post about opera with a quote from Star Trek. Since the opportunity was there, I just had to take it. Regardless, it’s opening night for Vancouver Opera’s production of Nixon in China, which is the Canadian première of the opera (take that Toronto and COC!). This production [...]

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DreamHost offers Status.net as a 1-click install. Great step towards distributed micromessaging

March 12, 2010 By 25 Comments
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I’m a pretty heavy Twitter user but I have long argued that we need the equivalent of SMTP/POP for micromessaging as we have for email. I know Twitter is great and has a great ecosystem going, but it can’t last forever. Sure a lot of us have gmail addresses, but we can still send/receive email [...]

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Catch my crash-course in podcasting at F5 Expo

March 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I got an email from Lindsay yesterday to ask if I wanted to get 15-20 workshop on podcasting at the F5 Expo next month. Hmm, let me think about that for a moment… Hellz yeah! So, it’s all set now, I’m giving a few (2-3) short podcasting workshops on the show floor during the F5 [...]

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Is it the medium, the message, or both? Deconstructing a communication failure

March 10, 2010 By 14 Comments

We had a bit of a tempest in a teacup over here in Vancouver yesterday afternoon-evening over comments on an upcoming Third Tuesday Meetup Event. What I find far more interesting than the discussion, which was certainly interesting, is the whole medium-message question-quandary. Here is a good segment from a post about the events of [...]

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Want to help me warp, er, teach young minds tonight at BCIT?

March 10, 2010 By 8 Comments

I’m in a bit of a bind with tonight’s (final) class that I teach at BCIT—I need a guest speaker! Robert Scales was going to be the capper for this term (and I couldn’t have thought of a better one, since he went to BCIT), but he is still recovering from a terrible car accident [...]

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