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My Night with the Occupiers or…Almost

By Brett Mineer I arrive not long after dark. The evening General Assembly is about a half hour away and with my iPhone nearly fully charged, I intend to Tweet details of what happens. Right now I have no deadline, no boss, and no format to adhere to. It’s perfect. Until now I have stopped [...]

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Now You Can Have Your Own Murderous Facebook Stalker - TakeThisLollipop.com

Now You Can Have Your Own Murderous Facebook Stalker

That’s right – just in time for Halloween, you can have your very own murderous Facebook stalker terrorize you. Well, sort of. The folks behind the oddly named TakeThisLollipop.com has a Facebook app which once you grant permission, scans your Facebook profile to insert your personal photos, info, location, etc. into a well produced 2 [...]

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City of Vancouver Blunders Away MMA, Time for Province to Step Up

City of Vancouver Blunders Away MMA, Time for Province to Step Up

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) announced this week that they are tired of dealing with the ever changing rules surrounding doing Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) events in the City of Vancouver and will most likely not return in 2012. I agree with UFC. I have been involved in this process for years and while the City [...]

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Transfering Your Domain Names - A Quick How To

Transfering Your Domain Names – A Quick How To

I recently needed to provide support for a client transfering domain names from one registrar to another. In a future post I will explain why, the advantages, etc. but this post is meant to merely break down the basic steps to making the transfer. Here are the simple steps to move .ca, .com, .net, .org, [...]

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Using Social Media To Spread Mistruths

Using Social Media To Spread Mistruths

Over the last few days two news pieces have come to my attention which have a similar theme: social media used to amplify wrong information. In the first case the anti-smart meter folks have waged a Twitter misinformation rally, the likes I have not seen before. Referencing studies from the 1980s for 2011 technology; claiming [...]

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A former politician caused a minor uproar on Twitter on Wednesday for questioning whether B.C. Premier Christy Clark's cleavage-bearing outfit was appropriate for question period.

How the Premier’s Fashion Choice Proved Cameras Should Be In the Riot Trials

For those who know and/or have had the pleasure of dating me, you know that I am never wrong. This post will once again support that irrefutable fact. Some quick background: you heard British Columbia Premier Christy Clark wants to have television cameras in the trials of the June 2011 rioters, right? And you are [...]

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TWiSM – Get More Friends’ News in Your Facebook Newsfeed

This week I had four people say that I am the only person who shows up in their newsfeed or that they see the same people over and over. They went on to say that  these “newsfeed jammers” need to get a life because no one else used Facebook status updates like these handful of [...]

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Anonymous bringing down Facebook on November 5th?

TWiSM – Is Facebook Going Down On November 5th?

It seems the hacktivist group Anonymous wants to bring down Facebook on November 5th. Why? Well, they do not like Facebook’s privacy settings nor how the social media giant handles your personal information. Here is an interview I did with Mountain FM for my weekly “This Week In Social Media” segment: [Audio clip: view full [...]

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