Rob’s blog
SL meets GPL
Holy cow: the Second Life client has just gone open-source: [W]e welcome the inevitable with open arms. Stepping up the development of the Second Life Grid to everyone interested, I am proud to announce the availability of the Second Life client source code for you to...
Tim pulls his last pint
Pints of Drivel is shutting its doors. It's too bad... I'll miss Tim's words of wisdom and wit.
Once around the world, and then home: Lee and Sachi prove The World Is Not Flat
Lee and Sachi LeFever have made it home to Seattle, after embarking on a trip that lent new meaning to the term "world-wide web". Throughout their year-long globe-spanning odyssey, they maintained a photographically-rich chronicle via their custom-built online...
The best way to experience the Liberal leadership convention…
...may not be from the convention floor, or even on CPAC. No, I expect I'll be getting most of my leadershippy goodness from The Tyee’s Election Central Blog. They have a great crew of bloggers this year, and – unlike the rest of the media, as far as I can tell...
Now blogging at Civic Minded
I'm pleased to announce that I've begun blogging at Corante's Civic Minded blog, your guide to the political impact of the web. My inaugural post begins like this: When I worked in a Member of Parliament's office back in the early 1990s, our office – like those of...
Canadian Blog Awards: This blog endorses…
In the business category... ...MyNameIsKate.ca. Why? Great posts like this one: I just registered for YAWTPOS (Yet-Another-Web-Two-Point-O-Service .. apologies to Yahoo!) and I received the following email: Congratulations on your successful registration! You can now...
Dancing on the Edelman boardroom table
As you may have heard, Edelman is making some big moves in Second Life, an avatar-based immersive environment (that's the current buzz phrase while we figure out what to call the damn things). I've been learning a little about SL myself, and... well... nobody was home...
Job opportunity: new media officer with CUPE
If you've always wanted to put your web and writing chops to work for Canada's labour movement, here's a great opportunity: The Canadian Union of Public Employees is looking for someone to see to the day to day content of their national website, cupe.ca. The Senior...
Joomla! wins Packt’s top CMS award
It's official, but it was a squeaker: The final result, as voted for by judges from The Open Source Collective, MySQL, the Eclipse Foundation, and 16,000 users on www.PacktPub.com saw a tie for first place between Joomla! and Drupal. In the event of a tie, a fourth...
RootsCamp comes to Second Life!
RootsCamp - a series of gatherings for progressive Americans and members of the "netroots" to discuss and debrief on the U.S. midterm elections - won't just be happening in San Francisco, New York City, Bloomington, Washington DC and Columbus. The first of the planned...
Kerry gaffe proves joke-writing needs to be goof-proof
It's been a rotten week to be John Kerry. His party is gearing up for a mid-term vote on Tuesday that seems likely to give them a majority in the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate, while sending some high-profile Republicans down in flames and...
Ensuring a good life for a relative with a disability
One of the most amazing sessions at last May's Social Change Institute at Hollyhock was a presentation by Vickie Cammack and Al Etmanski of the PLAN Institute for Caring Citizenship. They do amazing work helping families and circles of friends ensure a secure,...
Why, yes — I’d LOVE to speak at your event
Public speaking and speechwriting: the essential guides
Looking for advice on public speaking, speechwriting and leadership communications? Here are some of my most comprehensive posts, on topics that people ask me about most often.
