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Category Archives: Internet

Friday Fun Link – #yqr Self-Guided Twinkle Tour

The Centre of the Arts is running a “12 Tickets of Christmas” series on FB for free concert tickets each day.  The other day they asked people to submit the location of the best Christmas lights they’d seen in Regina to enter that day’s draw. Later that day, I also came across this on Twitter – […]

Posted 21 December 2012 § FridayFunLink § List § Saskatchewan § Travel § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Wikipedia’s Doing Their Annual Year-End Fundraising Drive – Do They Need To?

According to this article, not really.

Posted 20 December 2012 § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Happy Holidays from FSM!

Posted 05 December 2012 § Humour § Meme § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

My Real Role on Team Meili… #skndpldr

…is to come up with ideas that are the “first of a kind”. Last time, it was the idea for the Money Bomb (see #3 on the linked list) which was the first ever in Canadian politics. This time, it was putting forward the idea for a Reddit AMA which was the first ever by a Saskatchewan politician. Of […]

Posted 04 December 2012 § Humour § MemoryLane § Politics § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , ,

Star Wars Uncut

The entire Star Wars movie recreated in mash-up form from 15-second, fan-submitted clips makes for a very surreal viewing experience… (via MetaFilter which mentions that the sequel is now underway)

Posted 27 November 2012 § Humour § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

@ryanMeili Monday – Peeking Under The Troll Bridge #skndpldr

My colleague on the Meili 2.0 Team, Aaron Genest, has written a blog post about the level of animosity that he’s observed in the Sask NDP Leadership race so far. The topic of how we talk to (and about) each other has been on my thoughts as well for a variety of different reasons – […]

Posted 26 November 2012 § Politics § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: ,

Battle of the #skndpldr YouTube Videos

Just before the Sask NDP leadership campaign started, I compared a variety of social media metrics for each of the potential candidates. Now that we’re a couple months into things, I thought I’d revisit this idea but with a twist. Instead of looking up all of the numbers (and how they’ve changed) for each candidate […]

Posted 15 November 2012 § Meme § Politics § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Analysing the Reading Level of the 21 Most Popular Sub-Reddits

Cool idea but not too many surprises on this list – the science sub-reddit is really high (just shy of grade 9 level) and the one for people who smoke pot is really low (just shy of grade 5 level).  Also nice to see /r/atheism come in as one of the top three most advanced […]

Posted 09 November 2012 § FridayFunLink § Humour § List § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – How Much Did It Cost Google To Stream “Gangnam Style” 600 Million Times? Did They Make a Profit?

[Edit: This video is now poised to be the first YouTube clip to reach 1 billion views, amazingly in less than six months!] [Edit2: Some further analysis of the revenue Gangnam created.] “Gangnam Style”, a quirky Korean pop song with a very “uniquely” stylish video is the second most watched clip in the history of […]

Posted 02 November 2012 § FridayFunLink § Meme § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Justin Trudeau on Quora

You probably missed it because it didn’t get much media attention but apparently Justin Trudeau recently announced he’s running for Liberal Leader. I’ll likely write more about that as it develops but for now, just want to highlight that Trudeau has an account on the popular Q&A site, Quora and some of his answers are particularly […]

Posted 04 October 2012 § Canada § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: ,