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YouTube Music Awards

Another big step in the convergence of traditional and new media broadcasting as the YouTube Music Awards – their version of the Grammys/American Music Awards/etc. – happened tonight  with a focus on songs that have been heavily viewed and/or gone viral on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG4xaLn2W6s

Posted 03 November 2013 § Censorship § Meme § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – “Terms and Conditions May Apply” Documentary

Shea and I are watching a great documentary as I type this – you should too!  (Er, it’s on NetFlix and they’ll track that you watched it of course.)

Posted 06 September 2013 § Censorship § FridayFunLink § Internet § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

“The Spot Where You’re Sitting Is Now Its Own Internet Kingdom”

Wired magazine tells the story of a British entrepreneur who has designed a system that can designate every three metre space on earth using a three word code. What3Words.com is a system that’s much more accurate and memorable than current GPS, postal codes, street addresses and other similar techniques to designate addresses.   For example, […]

Posted 04 September 2013 § Internet § Technology § Travel § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

How Much Happens Every 60 Seconds On The Internet?

A lot!

Posted 30 July 2013 § Infographic § Internet § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

Four For The Price of One (Friday Fun/Saturday Snap/Sappy Sunday/Music Monday)

We were out of town this weekend for Shea’s parents’ 40th Wedding Anniversary so I didn’t get around to blogging as we were pretty busy the whole time. Instead of going back and post-posting (er, is that a word? Backdating posts to keep my “daily post” commitment going anyhow), I thought that, this time I’d […]

Posted 29 July 2013 § Family § FridayFunLink § MusicMonday § Photo § Sad § SaturdaySnap § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Poetic Variations

Google Poetics Book spine poetry  (Google Images) Invented Poetry Forms

Posted 20 June 2013 § Humour § Internet § Library § Meme § PopCulture § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – GeoGuessr

GeoGuessr is a pretty fun online game where it shows you a random location from Google Street View and then you zoom in and click on a world map to guess where you are with points being assigned based on how close you are to the actual location. There are no “rules” per se but […]

Posted 10 May 2013 § Internet § Randomness § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Google’s Secret of Innovation: Empowering Its Employees

A good article about why Google has been so successful including: Google Cafes to encourage employee interaction, allowing anyone to directly e-mail senior managers Google Moderator which is custom software that allows staff to ask questions about any aspect of the company and then vote on other people’s ideas to ensure the most relevant ideas […]

Posted 29 March 2013 § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , ,

A Psychic Reveals His Greatest Trick

…and it’s actually kinda terrifying.  (h/t JG)

Posted 28 March 2013 § Censorship § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

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!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl-FpuehWGA 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 […]

Posted 21 March 2013 § Internet § Politics § Saskatchewan § Technology § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: ,