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Some Thoughts On The Role of Social Media in the Sask NDP Leadership Race, Written on the Occasion of Twitter’s 7th Anniversary in 144 Chars

(Well, the title of this post is 144 characters anyhow.  The body of this thing will be *much* longer!) Twitter is celebrating the seventh anniversary of the first tweet ever which means today is as good of time as any to look back at what role social media played in the recent Sask NDP Leadership [...]

Posted 21 March 2013 § Internet § Politics § Saskatchewan § Technology § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , ,

@RyanMeili Monday – Putting the “Fun” Back in Beard. Or something like that. #skndpldr

I don’t know if Ryan Meili will win the Saskatchewan NDP leadership race. But as one of his supporters told me recently, we’re not not just leading in fundraising, we’re leading in “fun” raising and “friend” raising. And win or lose, that’s the kind of campaign I’m proud to be a part of and the [...]

Posted 14 January 2013 § Humour § Internet § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Regina Public Library is now on Twitter (And So Are A Lot of Other People)

Regina Public Library has officially launched their official Twitter account at @RPLOfficial. It’s good to see as it’s been a long time coming. In fact, I’ve advocated for us to get on Twitter many times in my four years at RPL and I know others who were pushing for the addition of that service long [...]

Posted 07 November 2012 § Humour § Technology § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

@Erin_Weir @ryanmeili Or this? #skndpldr

Max FineDay asked the #skndpldr candidates who they were going as for Halloween on Twitter. Ryan Meili replied that Che Guevara was in the lead but he was open to suggestions.  Somebody suggested he dress as Tommy Douglas and Erin Weir replied that all candidates could go as the leaders I compared them to in a previous post [...]

Posted 28 October 2012 § Humour § Politics § Saskatchewan § Technology ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

An Exercise in Responsive Local Democracy #yqrvotes #yqr #tweetocracy

Today’s the municipal election.  As I posted yesterday, I’d long ago made my decision about who I would support as Mayor.  But I was still undecided about who I would support for my local councillor. My choices aren’t really that different as far as I can see – the current Councillor is Chris Szarka, a [...]

Posted 24 October 2012 § Politics § Saskatchewan § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Facebook Didn’t Kill Digg, Reddit Did

After being one of the hottest web properties and spurning a $200 MILLION dollar offer from Google, user-driven voting site Digg was sold last week for a measley $500,000.  Some commentators thought it was competition from user-driven sharing sites like Facebook and Twitter that put the nail in Digg’s coffin but ignored the rise of [...]

Posted 15 July 2012 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Celebrities Read Tweets About Themselves

(via MetaFilter)

Posted 23 March 2012 § Humour § Mobile § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Twitter TrendsMap

TrendsMap is a great way to see current Twitter trends from a local to worldwide basis.

Posted 24 February 2012 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – #TellVicEverything

I’ve mentioned in the past that the popular quote that the Internet interprets censorship as damage to be routed around.  I think there’s a related rule that the Internet even responds to attempts to control/restrict access in a similar fashion. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews found this out the hard way this week after introducing [...]

Posted 17 February 2012 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Singly – A Site For Your (Online) Life

There have been other sites – FriendFeed is one that immediately pops to mind – that have tried to become a central hub for all of your online activity.  But I don’t know if any have ever tried to pull your online activity into one location as a repository, not just a hub. Now, the [...]

Posted 17 November 2011 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,