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Thoughts on Google Instant
eightfold logic on Thu 09 Sep 2010 at 3:10 PM
We've been getting a lot of questions today about our thoughts around the launch of Google Instant and what this ultimately means for search. Overall, I think this was a positive change because it ma
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Front-end Application Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-
Twitter on Thu 09 Sep 2010 at 2:50 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Java Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2344 #hirin
Twitter on Thu 09 Sep 2010 at 2:41 PM
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Enough with the "SEO is Dead” Crap
Stepforth and be found on Thu 09 Sep 2010 at 2:28 PM
My pet peeves related to my industry change on a regular basis but right now it is definitely the over-used "SEO is Dead” headline… it is totally unimaginative and always wrong. Yet here I have to
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VictoriaTechjob: Web Designer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2343 #hiring#careers
Twitter on Thu 09 Sep 2010 at 11:33 AM
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links for 2010-09-09
negativespace.net by msj on Thu 09 Sep 2010 at 11:02 AM
Granville Online
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Twitter, Bieber, Hilton, and Afghan hostages.
Metamend on Thu 09 Sep 2010 at 10:42 AM
Apparently Twitter has been the social media outlet of choice lately, for both stars and hostages.
According to Dustin Curtis, a designer who was quoted recently in the New York Times, there are three
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VictoriaTechjob: Cisco Networking Specialist http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2342
Twitter on Thu 09 Sep 2010 at 10:13 AM
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Google, Bing, Yahoo…. Inflection?
Metamend on Fri 03 Sep 2010 at 1:51 PM
Inflection.com who operates Archives, a family history website, and PeopleSmart, its search engine for
people, raised $30 million in its first round of venture capital financing this week.
Inflection.c
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links for 2010-09-03
negativespace.net by msj on Fri 03 Sep 2010 at 11:02 AM
Photo Manipulations by Erik Johansson | Web Resources, Design Inspiration, and Fun Spill!
15 sites web developers and designers should kno
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VictoriaTechjob: Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/22
Twitter on Fri 03 Sep 2010 at 9:43 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Network Administrator http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2289 #hirin
Twitter on Fri 03 Sep 2010 at 9:00 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Network Administrator http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2289 #hiring#career#jobs
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Google, AOL, Extend Search Deal
Stepforth and be found on Thu 02 Sep 2010 at 12:15 PM
For many years now AOL search results, both organic and paid, were powered by Google. Now with a deal announced by AOL - none of that is going to change. This morning AOL announced the renewal and expa
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UVic Libdub II
Paul Holmes on Thu 02 Sep 2010 at 12:09 PM
Remember the UVic Lipdub video that went viral on YouTube last year? Being from Victoria, I was initially impressed that UVic did such a great job … until I realized that this UVic was a place in Spa
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links for 2010-09-02
negativespace.net by msj on Thu 02 Sep 2010 at 11:02 AM
Home | Dinotown, North America's Only Cartoon Dinosaur town!
I must go here.
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VictoriaTechjob: UNIX Systems Administrator http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2287 #
Twitter on Thu 02 Sep 2010 at 10:54 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Web Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2285 #hiring#career
Twitter on Thu 02 Sep 2010 at 10:41 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Web Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2285 #hiring#careers#jobs
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VictoriaTechjob: Graphic Designer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2283 #hiring#ca
Twitter on Thu 02 Sep 2010 at 8:59 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Graphic Designer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2283 #hiring#careers#jobs
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Top 5 reasons why t.co is a bad move by Twitter
Paul Holmes on Thu 02 Sep 2010 at 2:18 AM
Twitter announced, by e-mail to every user, that they are going to make their URL shortener ("wrapper”) mandatory on Twitter, and this will be applied to every URL posted, effectively eliminating the
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Apparently the use of the "Fair” is not "Fair use”…
Metamend on Wed 01 Sep 2010 at 1:44 PM
Minnesota State Fair's officials asked Michele Bachmann and her running for Congress campaign to desist
using its logo in a television ad that began running this week. The media will often use corpor
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VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Technical Analyst, Citrix http://www.viatec.ca/job-
Twitter on Wed 01 Sep 2010 at 10:48 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Quality Assurance Technologist http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/22
Twitter on Wed 01 Sep 2010 at 9:04 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Quality Assurance Technologist http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2269 #hiring#careers#jobs
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VictoriaTechjob: Mobile Marketing Buyer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2268 #hiri
Twitter on Tue 31 Aug 2010 at 2:27 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Mobile Marketing Buyer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2268 #hiring#careers#jobs
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VictoriaTechjob: Java Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2263 #hiring#caree
Twitter on Tue 31 Aug 2010 at 8:35 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Java Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2263 #hiring#careers#jobs
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Social Media - Top 25
Paul Holmes on Mon 30 Aug 2010 at 7:10 PM
It's been over 8 months since my last social media top 10 list, so I figured it was time for an update. Last time, my top 10 list was actually a top 18, so I figured I'd just bite the bullet, and make
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The White House wants help and so does ICANN; could it be you?
Metamend on Mon 30 Aug 2010 at 12:41 PM
ICANN is searching for applicants from the Internet user community to occupy a seat on their Board of
Directors.
They hope to fill this position with those who may be interested in helping to develop p
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Technical Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2261 #h
Twitter on Mon 30 Aug 2010 at 11:52 AM
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links for 2010-08-30
negativespace.net by msj on Mon 30 Aug 2010 at 11:04 AM
How to Back Up and Play Your Wii Games from an External Hard Drive
Hack Your Wii for Homebrew without Twilight Princess
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VictoriaTechjob: Imagery Viewer/Data Technician http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/22
Twitter on Mon 30 Aug 2010 at 9:16 AM
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links for 2010-08-27
negativespace.net by msj on Fri 27 Aug 2010 at 2:34 PM
How to Crochet a Yip Yip Alien (with pictures) - wikiHow
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links for 2010-08-27
negativespace.net by msj on Fri 27 Aug 2010 at 1:33 PM
How to Crochet a Yip Yip Alien (with pictures) - wikiHow
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links for 2010-08-27
negativespace.net by msj on Fri 27 Aug 2010 at 12:02 PM
How to Crochet a Yip Yip Alien (with pictures) - wikiHow
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links for 2010-08-27
negativespace.net by msj on Fri 27 Aug 2010 at 11:04 AM
How to Crochet a Yip Yip Alien (with pictures) - wikiHow
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VictoriaTechjob: Business Systems Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2258 #hi
Twitter on Thu 26 Aug 2010 at 1:44 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Business Systems Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2258 #hiring#careers#jobs
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The most underused tool in the marketing toolbox - Linking?
eightfold logic on Thu 26 Aug 2010 at 11:06 AM
Sometimes I don't understand things - including the inner workings of marketing professionals. Yet I've tried to tackle this challenge and have been building and selling marketing applications for mark
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links for 2010-08-26
negativespace.net by msj on Thu 26 Aug 2010 at 11:03 AM
Penguin Pete's Blog
Java Programmers are the Erotic Furries of Programming « Some Guy Ranting
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VictoriaTechjob: Java Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2254 #hiring#caree
Twitter on Thu 26 Aug 2010 at 9:19 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Java Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2254 #hiring#careers#jobs
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Sometimes good faith just isn't enough.
Metamend on Wed 25 Aug 2010 at 4:44 PM
In an arbitration battle this week, Take-Two Interactive lost its fight for Bioshock.com to professional domain name purchaser, Name Administration Inc.
Name Administration is a Cayman Islands based co
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Who's Been in Search the Longest - Results
eightfold logic on Wed 25 Aug 2010 at 10:42 AM
Who's been in Search Longer? Bruce Clay / Al Gore / Bono / Marco Polo
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VictoriaTechjob: Quality/Regulatory Manager http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2248 #
Twitter on Wed 25 Aug 2010 at 8:28 AM
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Hotmail Fail with Google Sitelinks
Stepforth and be found on Tue 24 Aug 2010 at 12:54 PM
I wish I had found this myself, but a friend of mine sent me an instant message today with a link to a "fail” over at FailBlog. I tried the Google search myself and sure enough the error is in fact r
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VictoriaTechjob: Corporate Accountant http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2244 #hiring
Twitter on Tue 24 Aug 2010 at 11:59 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Corporate Accountant http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2244 #hiring#careers#jobs
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Google acquires Like.com and Yahoo likes Bing's algorythm
Metamend on Mon 23 Aug 2010 at 11:55 AM
Algorithms are in the news this week and as far as that goes, this year.
In a surprising change, Yahoo and Bing are partnering up to take on Google.
Bing, to those who remember, used to be called "Live
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links for 2010-08-23
negativespace.net by msj on Mon 23 Aug 2010 at 11:03 AM
50 Things You Should See
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VictoriaTechjob: Software Deployment Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2243
Twitter on Mon 23 Aug 2010 at 9:51 AM
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links for 2010-08-21
negativespace.net by msj on Sat 21 Aug 2010 at 11:01 AM
HTML5 Security Cheatsheet
Worldometers - real time world statistics
Stop the planet. It's time for me to leave.
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VictoriaTechjob: Help Desk (Systems) Support Representative http://www.viatec.ca/
Twitter on Fri 20 Aug 2010 at 12:14 PM
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links for 2010-08-20
negativespace.net by msj on Fri 20 Aug 2010 at 11:04 AM
http://www.netliberty.net/dreamachine.html
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VictoriaTechjob: Production Technologist http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2237 #hir
Twitter on Fri 20 Aug 2010 at 10:01 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Web Developer - PHP http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2235 #hiring#
Twitter on Thu 19 Aug 2010 at 12:15 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Web Developer - PHP http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2235 #hiring#careers#jobs
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links for 2010-08-19
negativespace.net by msj on Thu 19 Aug 2010 at 11:04 AM
HTML Purifier - Filter your HTML the standards-compliant way!
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VictoriaTechjob: Partner Coordinator http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2234 #hiring#
Twitter on Thu 19 Aug 2010 at 8:59 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Partner Coordinator http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2234 #hiring#careers#jobs
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VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Java Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2233
Twitter on Thu 19 Aug 2010 at 8:46 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Java Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2233 #hiring#careers#jobs
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VictoriaTechjob: Manager, Marketing Communications http://www.viatec.ca/job-board
Twitter on Wed 18 Aug 2010 at 12:01 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Manager, Marketing Communications http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2231 #hiring#careers#jobs
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VictoriaTechjob: Junior Software Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2230 #h
Twitter on Wed 18 Aug 2010 at 11:19 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Junior Software Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2230 #hiring#career#jobs
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Who's Been in Search Longer?
eightfold logic on Wed 18 Aug 2010 at 10:52 AM
I'm at SES San Francisco, part of Connected Marketing Week. This morning, I have the pleasure of introducing Bruce Clay for the session "Search 101.” It thought I would have a little fun with Bruce
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Poll Results - Top Link-Building Expert: Eric Ward
eightfold logic on Wed 18 Aug 2010 at 9:21 AM
Continuing on yesterday's PPC Experts results list, I'm continuing to use the opportunity that Connected Marketing Week presents to post some of the results to the lists I created around top experts
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links for 2010-08-17
negativespace.net by msj on Tue 17 Aug 2010 at 11:04 AM
Pictos
Practical Functional JavaScript: Code Samples
HTML5 Boilerplate - A
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VictoriaTechjob: IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2227 #hirin
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Poll results - Top PPC Expert - David Szetela
eightfold logic on Tue 17 Aug 2010 at 10:07 AM
I thought it would be interesting to use Connected Marketing Week to post some of the results to the lists I created around top experts in the various online marketing disciplines.
As I've written be
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VictoriaTechjob: Market Research Assistant http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2225 #h
Twitter on Tue 17 Aug 2010 at 9:30 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Market Research Assistant http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2225 #hiring#careers#jobs
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior or Intermediate Programmer/Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/j
Twitter on Mon 16 Aug 2010 at 3:29 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior or Intermediate Programmer/Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2224 #hiring#careers#jobs
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VictoriaTechjob: Business Development Manager http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2221
Twitter on Mon 16 Aug 2010 at 2:28 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Business Development Manager http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2221 #hiring#careers#jobs
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VictoriaTechjob: Network Software Systems Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-boar
Twitter on Mon 16 Aug 2010 at 2:04 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Network Software Systems Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2223 #hiring#careers#jobs
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links for 2010-08-16
negativespace.net by msj on Mon 16 Aug 2010 at 11:03 AM
Fonts from Adobe | Typekit
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VictoriaTechjob: Corporate Controller http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2222 #hiring
Twitter on Mon 16 Aug 2010 at 10:14 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Corporate Controller http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2222 #hiring#careers#jobs
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Is your data copyable?
www.herblainchbury.com on Sun 15 Aug 2010 at 9:38 PM
Of all the concepts that data users have to concern themselves with, copying and the legal ramifications of copying has to be one of the most important. All technology is a product of copying but in t
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Robots Of The Future!
Paul Holmes on Sun 15 Aug 2010 at 12:36 AM
It was Christmas, 1987. My favourite magazine was Popular Mechanics. I owned a 80286 PC with a 40 MB hard drive, 1 MB of RAM, MS-DOS 4.01, VGA monitor, and a 9600 BPS modem. From this computer, I opera
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links for 2010-08-14
negativespace.net by msj on Sat 14 Aug 2010 at 11:01 AM
#4733 (Option for all login links to use HTTPS) - The Trac Project
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Emerging Geo-location Technologies and Social Media
Paul Holmes on Fri 13 Aug 2010 at 11:39 PM
The following is a guest post by James Mowery. Though it may seem that geo-location is the latest technology trend to enter the realm of social media on the Internet, the origins can be traced to the s
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Game-Changing Local Search Results Discovered on Google
Stepforth and be found on Fri 13 Aug 2010 at 5:11 PM
Chris Boudreaux and Adam Edwards over at Blog.Converseon.com stumbled across Google search results for a highly local term that spells trouble for anyone who has not spent time focusing on Local SEO. W
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The Next SEO 101 is About a Web Marketing Toolset Not to be Missed
Stepforth and be found on Fri 13 Aug 2010 at 2:33 PM
Tune in to this coming Monday's episode of SEO 101 on WebmasterRadio.FM where I (Ross Dunn) and my co-host John Carcutt interview Jon Henshaw and Taylor Pratt of Raven Internet Marketing Tools (<- affi
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Results to the Lists and Voting Observations - Overview
eightfold logic on Fri 13 Aug 2010 at 12:49 PM
Are SEO's and PPC experts more effective at driving referral traffic to a web site from Twitter than SMM specialists? That could be the conclusion based on data I've collected from a series of polls, s
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links for 2010-08-13
negativespace.net by msj on Fri 13 Aug 2010 at 11:02 AM
Calvin & Hobbes Search Engine - by Bing
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Twitter Pushes Out Tweet Button
Stepforth and be found on Fri 13 Aug 2010 at 9:58 AM
It's taken a little while but Twitter has jumped on the bandwagon and launched an official "tweet” button for your social icon set. Twitter made the announcement yesterday on their official blog. Whi
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VictoriaTechjob: Manager, Human Resources http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2219 #hi
Twitter on Fri 13 Aug 2010 at 9:08 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Manager, Human Resources http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2219 #hiring#careers#jobs
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VictoriaTechjob: Enterprise Support Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2218
Twitter on Fri 13 Aug 2010 at 8:56 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Enterprise Support Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2218 #hiring#careers#jobs
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VictoriaTechjob: Director, Product Management http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2216
Twitter on Thu 12 Aug 2010 at 9:57 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Director, Product Management http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2216 #hiring#careers#jobs
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Net Neutrality? Not Now, But Soon.
Metamend on Thu 12 Aug 2010 at 9:56 AM
The Internet has become a battleground lately; instead of fighting over adult content, trademark rights,
search results and market share, the fighting is over the very speed at which you can receive
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VictoriaTechjob: Oracle Database Administrator http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/221
Twitter on Thu 12 Aug 2010 at 9:02 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Payment Processor http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2210 #hiring#c
Twitter on Thu 12 Aug 2010 at 8:44 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Payment Processor http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2210 #hiring#careers#jobs
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Get On Board - Nominations now open
VIATec Industry blog on Wed 11 Aug 2010 at 12:53 PM
VIATeC’s AGM is coming up on September 23 and that means it is time for Board Elections. We are very lucky to have a well attended AGM with more candidates for the board than vacancies.
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links for 2010-08-11
negativespace.net by msj on Wed 11 Aug 2010 at 11:03 AM
Stanford Online Accessibility Program - Stanford University
Dublin Core Metadata Generator | Stanford Online Accessibility Program
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Is your data accessible?
www.herblainchbury.com on Wed 11 Aug 2010 at 7:27 AM
Public servants with responsibility for publishing government data have decisions to make when it comes to making that data available to citizens on the internet. Along with readability and usability
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VictoriaTechjob: Electrical/Computer Engineer or Technologist http://www.viatec.c
Twitter on Tue 10 Aug 2010 at 1:56 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Electrical/Computer Engineer or Technologist http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2199 #hiring#careers#jobs
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VictoriaTechjob: Software Developer/Engineer or Technologist http://www.viatec.ca
Twitter on Tue 10 Aug 2010 at 1:55 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Software Developer/Engineer or Technologist http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2200 #hiring#careers#jobs
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links for 2010-08-10
negativespace.net by msj on Tue 10 Aug 2010 at 11:04 AM
Pretty Link WordPress Plugin | Blair Williams
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VictoriaTechjob: Electronic Technologist http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2195 #hir
Twitter on Tue 10 Aug 2010 at 10:36 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Electronic Technologist http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2195 #hiring#careers#jobs
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Social media may be what your business is ISO
Metamend on Tue 10 Aug 2010 at 8:55 AM
Everyone knows there are applications known as Facebook, Twitter and handfuls of others but what many
people are still slow to understand is the power that these applications hold.
To most people, thes
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VictoriaTechjob: Lead Generation Program Assistant http://www.viatec.ca/job-board
Twitter on Mon 09 Aug 2010 at 4:09 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Lead Generation Program Assistant http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2193 #hiring#careers#jobs
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Java Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2191 #hiri
Twitter on Mon 09 Aug 2010 at 4:08 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Java Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2191 #hiring#careers#jobs
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The Ten Thousand Year Blog Moves Again
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Sat 07 Aug 2010 at 1:50 PM
I decided to relocate The Ten Thousand Year Blog from its home at WordPress.com to Google's BlogSpot service. The URL is http://tenthousandyearblog.blogspot.com/ Please adjust your bookmarks and Atom/R
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Celebrating Google's Failures
Stepforth and be found on Fri 06 Aug 2010 at 4:20 PM
If you are looking for a fun Friday Afternoon read, check out the latest article by Danny Sullivan over at Search Engine Land. Danny pokes into the many attempts Google has made in products that didn't
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Should You Consider "Author Authority”
eightfold logic on Fri 06 Aug 2010 at 10:35 AM
Search marketers are familiar with signals. One of the truisms is the logic: if no one links to your site, it can't be considered important, therefore why should it appear in the search results? The mo
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New York, New York; bad faith, bad faith.
Metamend on Thu 05 Aug 2010 at 9:10 PM
For the casual observer, anything with the words "New York” inspires images of the "big apple” and possibly a Frank Sinatra song, but Las Vegas usually is nowhere in the vicinity.
Recently, however
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Anthologize that WordPress blog, just not your WordPress.com one
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 05 Aug 2010 at 4:37 PM
Form follows feed promises Anthologize, a new open source blog publishing tool that according to its About page is a free, open-source, plugin that transforms WordPress 3.0 into a platform for publishi
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VictoriaTechjob: Web Content and Design Specialist http://www.viatec.ca/job-board
Twitter on Thu 05 Aug 2010 at 4:23 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Web Content and Design Specialist http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2183 #hiring#careers#jobs
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VictoriaTechjob: Accountant http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2173 #hiring#careers#j
Twitter on Thu 05 Aug 2010 at 4:22 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Accountant http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2173 #hiring#careers#jobs
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VictoriaTechjob: Web Interaction Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2171 #h
Twitter on Thu 05 Aug 2010 at 4:21 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Web Interaction Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2171 #hiring#careers#jobs
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VictoriaTechjob: Java Software Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2170 #h
Twitter on Thu 05 Aug 2010 at 4:21 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Java Software Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2170 #hiring#careers#jobs
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VictoriaTechjob: Administrative Assistant http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2169 #ca
Twitter on Thu 05 Aug 2010 at 4:19 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Administrative Assistant http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2169 #careers#jobs#hiring
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VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Business Systems Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-b
Twitter on Thu 05 Aug 2010 at 4:18 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Business Systems Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2164 #hiring#careers#jobs
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VictoriaTechjob: Web Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2163 #hiring#career
Twitter on Thu 05 Aug 2010 at 4:17 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Web Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2163 #hiring#careers#jobs
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VictoriaTechjob: Client Support Representative http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/215
Twitter on Thu 05 Aug 2010 at 4:16 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Client Support Representative http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2155 #hiring#careers#jobs
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VictoriaTechjob: Assessment Representative http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2153 #h
Twitter on Thu 05 Aug 2010 at 4:15 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Pricing Officer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2146 #hiring#car
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Google Places Allows Businesses to Respond to Reviews
Stepforth and be found on Thu 05 Aug 2010 at 11:51 AM
Today Google announced it is finally embracing the two way conversation for business place reviews on its Google Places platform. As a result, business owners can reply to both negative and positive re
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Google Wave crashes on boulders of public apathy
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 05 Aug 2010 at 7:27 AM
Google announced on August 4, 02010 that it will no longer be developing Google Wave as a standalone product. As I said on my personal, the Wave has crashed on the boulders of public apathy. This must
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Do You Know Which Referral Source Drives the Most Traffic
eightfold logic on Wed 04 Aug 2010 at 3:20 PM
It's amazing how much marketing attention is focused on social considering the volume of referrals it drives to businesses, relative to other customer acquisition channels. However, it's understood tha
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Observations from the Receiving End - Surprising Results in Poll Lists
eightfold logic on Wed 04 Aug 2010 at 12:41 PM
It's also been extremely interesting to observe which channels have been driving the most traffic via social media, and other sources, as well as observing which channel's traffic has the best user beh
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Tacos, beer and trademark violations.
Metamend on Wed 04 Aug 2010 at 11:16 AM
Apparently, my Tuesday lunch routine full of beer and tacos, to unwind from a day filled with intellectual property is now linked to my work day; tacos and beer are in the news.
Recently, Budweiser th
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links for 2010-08-04
negativespace.net by msj on Wed 04 Aug 2010 at 11:03 AM
Passionato | Classical Music CD Quality Downloads in MP3 and FLAC
Classical Music - Streaming Classical Music
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Nomenclature 3.0 Community available
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 03 Aug 2010 at 4:41 PM
Nomenclature 3.0 Community - Now Available!, so proclaims the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) News. According to the August 2, 02010 story, "Nomenclature 3.0, a product of the American Ass
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DCC / DPC What's New: Issue 28
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 03 Aug 2010 at 9:01 AM
The Digital Curation Centre and the Digital Preservation Coalition released What's New, Issue 28 (August 02010), on August 3, 02010. According to the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
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Book Burning 2.0
Paul Holmes on Tue 03 Aug 2010 at 1:01 AM
The year is 2017. You get on the bus, and people are busily going about their business. A handful are talking on their phones, some holding it to their ears, and others watching their friends on the sc
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Its Search Engine War!
Metamend on Mon 02 Aug 2010 at 1:54 PM
Google has taken a big enough bite out of the market for too long, if you ask the other search engines.
Speaking of asking, Ask.com relaunches its search engine to take a portion of Google's traffic.
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This Week in Links - Week Ending July 30
eightfold logic on Fri 30 Jul 2010 at 8:35 PM
Is Google Planning to Kill SEO?
Bravo to Econsultancy for winning link-baiter of the week with this story. Econsultancy makes the claim: "If a recent patent comes to fruition, it seems the big G may
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links for 2010-07-30
negativespace.net by msj on Fri 30 Jul 2010 at 11:02 AM
CSS3 Generator
Open Web Vancouver 2009
Group 42 | A site by Dale McGladdery
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I was just following orders: Canadian Department of National Defense computers us
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Fri 30 Jul 2010 at 8:03 AM
Here's a sad but true CBC News article about Department of National Defense computers being used to edit a Wikipedia entry about about "the [F-35] Joint Strike Fighter jet and the Conservative governme
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Google Apps for Government
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 29 Jul 2010 at 1:32 PM
According to this ITI Newslink item (July 29, 02010), Google has announced its Google Apps for Government, "the first suite of cloud computing messaging and collaboration applications to receive Federa
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VictoriaTechjob: Pricing Officer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2146 #hiring#care
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The product may be smaller but the price tag rarely is.
Metamend on Wed 28 Jul 2010 at 3:29 PM
Recently Overstock.com, paid $350,000 for "O.co”name. The president of Overstock, justified the price by the possible opportunities that a one letter domain could represent.
Currently, O.co redirec
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Bing Growing, Yahoo Steady - Search Engine Market Share Update
eightfold logic on Wed 28 Jul 2010 at 10:14 AM
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It's been almost seven months since I last provided insight into the search engine market
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List of Amazing Cross Channel Contributors
eightfold logic on Wed 28 Jul 2010 at 6:00 AM
Over the last few days I've been publishing lists of people I read or whose online marketing comments I find useful / interesting. I hope you'll add all these individuals to your bookmark list of peo
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VictoriaTechjob: Quality Assurance Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2145 #
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VictoriaTechjob: Systems Administrator (SAN/Storage) http://www.viatec.ca/job-boa
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VictoriaTechjob: Lidar Technician/Data Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/214
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VictoriaTechjob: Startup Leader - AppLifter.com http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/21
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VictoriaTechjob: Field Service Electronics Technologist http://www.viatec.ca/job-
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VictoriaTechjob: Software Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2139 #hiring#c
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links for 2010-07-27
negativespace.net by msj on Tue 27 Jul 2010 at 11:02 AM
Style Master CSS Editor for Windows and Mac OS X
Drag and Drop files | drupal.org
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VictoriaTechjob: Human Resources Assistant http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2137 #h
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VictoriaTechjob: Systems Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2136 #hiring#care
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VictoriaTechjob: Systems Analyst , IT Services Web Systems http://www.viatec.ca/j
Twitter on Tue 27 Jul 2010 at 8:51 AM
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Whose Advice Works Best for Link Building?
eightfold logic on Tue 27 Jul 2010 at 7:47 AM
Over the last four work days, I've been publishing lists of people, broken out by online marketing disciplines. These are people whose writings or commentaries I recommend that people read to keep ab
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links for 2010-07-26
negativespace.net by msj on Mon 26 Jul 2010 at 11:02 AM
GraphicsMagick Image Processing System
Blueprint: A CSS Framework | Spend your time innovating, not replicating
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VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Business Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/212
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VictoriaTechjob: Systems Engineer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2126 #hiring#ca
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Manager, Business Solutions http://www.viatec.ca/job-boar
Twitter on Mon 26 Jul 2010 at 8:50 AM
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Et tu Snarkus
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Mon 26 Jul 2010 at 7:43 AM
I read about "the rise of the ridicule” or "online snark culture” in a newspaper article by Melissa Martin of the Winnipeg Free Press on July 25, 2010. What was it comedian Rodney Dangerfield said,
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Who do you follow for Social Media Marketing?
eightfold logic on Mon 26 Jul 2010 at 6:51 AM
Last week I began a series of posts to answer a question I keep getting asked by people entering the industry, attending conferences, or even veterans looking for new sources of information: Whose wr
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links for 2010-07-25
negativespace.net by msj on Sun 25 Jul 2010 at 11:00 AM
Identifiers « SWORD v2.0: Deposit Lifecycle
Marginalia by Nabokov, Plath, Twain, and Coleridge : The New Yorker
One of
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links for 2010-07-24
negativespace.net by msj on Sat 24 Jul 2010 at 11:01 AM
CSS Frame Generator
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14th European Conference on Digital Libraries, Glasgow, Scotland, September 02010
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Fri 23 Jul 2010 at 9:43 PM
The 14th European Conference on Digital Libraries, also known as the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), has issued its call for participation. ECDL 02
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VictoriaTechjob: Junior Mechanical Engineer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2124
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Whose Writings / Comments assist you the most with your Paid Search Marketing wor
eightfold logic on Fri 23 Jul 2010 at 10:27 AM
Yesterday, I started a series of posts to answer a question I keep getting asked by people who are entering the industry, attending conferences, or even veterans looking for new sources of information:
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Thoughts from OSCON 2010
www.herblainchbury.com on Thu 22 Jul 2010 at 3:35 PM
I am currently attending OSCON 2010 (Open Source Conference) in Portland Oregon. It's a conference for free and open source software enthusiasts, developers, hackers and users of all levels. There
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Switch To Bing & They'll Donate $3!
Stepforth and be found on Thu 22 Jul 2010 at 6:19 AM
Since the launch of bing a little over a year ago, Microsoft has tried all kinds of things to try and boost their search market share. Well they are out with their latest marketing attempt - switch to
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Whose writings / comments assist you the most with your SEO work?
eightfold logic on Thu 22 Jul 2010 at 1:01 AM
I thought it would be interesting to put together lists of people, by discipline, whose writings I have found useful, and ask you: Who are your top 5?
Every time I tell someone what I do, and at ever
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Dear Twitter: Please Rob My House
Paul Holmes on Wed 21 Jul 2010 at 4:40 PM
OK, not really. Seriously. Please don't. But I was delighted to be interviewed for a CHEK News story by Kristen Robinson on this exact topic. Watch the video on their official Facebook page. Here's a
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The NEW Bing Webmaster Tools is Now Live
Stepforth and be found on Wed 21 Jul 2010 at 12:15 PM
I will cover this in greater detail later but for now, I figure it is worthwhile to provide a little info around Bing's announcement today that their freshly redesigned Bing Webmaster Tools is now onli
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VictoriaTechjob: Executive Director, Enterprise Delivery Services http://www.viat
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links for 2010-07-21
negativespace.net by msj on Wed 21 Jul 2010 at 11:04 AM
Kodachrome Curtains - Updated! Now with lampy goodness! - HOME SWEET HOME
How to convert unordered list into nicely styled <select> dropdo
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How to Become a YouTube Sensation
Stepforth and be found on Wed 21 Jul 2010 at 10:55 AM
Becoming a sensation on YouTube is a lot of work but it is a passion for many and the how-to's are plentiful in that open community. Well today I came across a series of videos that are incredibly insp
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2118 #hiring#caree
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Poll: What % of mobile searches are local?
eightfold logic on Wed 21 Jul 2010 at 8:50 AM
How do you use your mobile phone for search?
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Google Market Share Up, Searches Down
Stepforth and be found on Wed 21 Jul 2010 at 6:17 AM
Google saw more searches in June than May, but also a decline in market share. According to comScore, Google has seen a small decline in its search market share for June 2010 with Yahoo and Microsoft b
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VictoriaTechjob: Experienced Quality Assurance Engineer http://www.viatec.ca/job-
Twitter on Tue 20 Jul 2010 at 3:05 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Technical Project Manager http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2116 #
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VictoriaTechjob: Entry Level Software Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/21
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links for 2010-07-20
negativespace.net by msj on Tue 20 Jul 2010 at 11:03 AM
Computer History Museum | MacPaint and QuickDraw source code
For those who want to see how it worked "under the hood", we are pleased, with the permission of Apple Inc., to make availab
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TinEye Reverse Image Search
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 20 Jul 2010 at 9:34 AM
I have not tried a search with TinEye, "a reverse image search engine. It finds out where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or if there is a higher reso
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New English language publication from the Netherlands Coalition for Digital Prese
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 20 Jul 2010 at 9:30 AM
The Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation released an English language translation of A Future for Our Digital Memory (2): Strategic Agenda for Long-term Access to Digital Resources (2010-2013
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Poll: Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Microsoft, Nokia, Best User Experience?
eightfold logic on Tue 20 Jul 2010 at 9:23 AM
Poll: Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Microsoft, Nokia, Best User Experience?
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Facebook: 1 person does not like this.
Metamend on Tue 20 Jul 2010 at 8:14 AM
I would like to say that Facebook is in the news again, but if we are honest, we should probably say that it never left.
This week the actual ownership of the Social Media giant was challenged in court
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Google Bombing of "Holy See” Upsets Vatican
Stepforth and be found on Mon 19 Jul 2010 at 4:38 PM
Remember the good old days of Google Bombing? Back when George W Bush's bio page at the White House was ranked #1 for "miserable failure”? Well, this is something we haven't seen for a while, and it
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Mobile Market Share on the Move - Is Android Superior?
eightfold logic on Mon 19 Jul 2010 at 2:50 PM
It would appear that based on data which would indicate people's habit with their mobile devices, that the Android offers a better user experience for surfing the Internet than the Google iPhone. While
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Using a 302 Redirect in Place of a 404 Error is a Bad Idea
Stepforth and be found on Mon 19 Jul 2010 at 2:43 PM
If your site is currently treating unavailable pages (404 errors) like temporary redirects (302 redirects) you may not have any problems with the search engines but your site is losing out on some impo
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VictoriaTechjob: Part-Time Administrative Assistant http://www.viatec.ca/job-boar
Twitter on Mon 19 Jul 2010 at 11:40 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Data Services Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2108 #hir
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This Week in Links - Week Ending July 16
eightfold logic on Sun 18 Jul 2010 at 1:34 PM
An Inside Look at Competitors Backlinks with Open Site Explorer
Every new seo link building campaign starts with the first step: competitive analysis. Of course, segmenting your own linkgraph and und
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DSL Bookkeeping Services
the world from my eyes on Sun 18 Jul 2010 at 6:15 AM
Another chapter in my life is now beginning. I have become my own business. Just a week and a bit ago, my boss (whom I think is great) let the staff know that she would be shutting down the base of her
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Get thee a Web 2.0 OPAC with VuFind release 1.0
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Fri 16 Jul 2010 at 1:08 PM
From the announcement on the WEB4LIB mailing list (0210 07 16): VuFind's long beta period is now over. Yesterday [02010 07 15], VuFind 1.0 was released. In addition to improved stability, the new relea
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VictoriaTechjob: Product Requirements Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/210
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Poll # 1 - Are Tweets Effective Interruption Marketing?
eightfold logic on Fri 16 Jul 2010 at 11:35 AM
If you get the irony - share the poll, please.
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VictoriaTechjob: Mission Critical Systems Administrator http://www.viatec.ca/job-
Twitter on Fri 16 Jul 2010 at 10:42 AM
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Poll #1 - Are Tweets Effective Interruption Marketing?
eightfold logic on Fri 16 Jul 2010 at 9:09 AM
Are Tweets effective Interruption Marketing?
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ACRL/IRIG Visual Literacy Standards blog
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 15 Jul 2010 at 7:31 PM
Quoting from the announcement on IMAGELIB (02010 07 15): The ACRL/IRIG Visual Literacy Standards Task Force is working on Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. We have started a bl
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July/August 02010 issue of D-Lib Magazine available
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 15 Jul 2010 at 7:24 PM
Quoting from the announcement on various mailing lists (02010 07 15): The July/August issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, an opinion piec
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Changes in Natural Linking - Death, Rebirth, or a Return to the Roots?
eightfold logic on Thu 15 Jul 2010 at 3:00 PM
When contemplating link-building strategies you need to take the user experience into account. They should look at your citations (links) as references to substantiating or relevant documents. Search
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VictoriaTechjob: Analyst, Credit Risk Management http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2
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VictoriaTechjob: Quality Assurance Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2103 #h
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VictoriaTechjob: Product Manager http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2102 #hiring#care
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Delphi Programmer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2099 #h
Twitter on Thu 15 Jul 2010 at 9:10 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Team Lead Finance Applications http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/20
Twitter on Wed 14 Jul 2010 at 10:47 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Team Lead Finance Applications http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2094 #hiring#careers#jobs
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Toyota loses TM violation appeal, so does our industry…
Metamend on Tue 13 Jul 2010 at 5:34 PM
This week Toyota lost an important intellectual property decision with regard to how trademarks are used, and in a way, we all lost some protection against the bad guys.
Recently, the U.S. Ninth Circui
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My Crappy E-Book - DELIVERED!
Paul Holmes on Tue 13 Jul 2010 at 1:38 PM
Want to get 10,000 followers on Twitter!?! No, I'm not going to charge $0.99 (or 2 for $1.97), as promised, and the first 1,000 people to retweet it will not get a free copy. This advice is free - for
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VictoriaTechjob: Marketing Research and Web Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-boar
Twitter on Tue 13 Jul 2010 at 12:17 PM
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Bryan Eisenberg & Richard Zwicky at SES Toronto
eightfold logic on Tue 13 Jul 2010 at 11:53 AM
Perhaps the most salient point from both panel and interview is that when a business is trying to understand and evaluate key metrics in online marketing they need to look through the entire value-chai
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Mechanical Engineer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2081 #
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PARSE.Insight, final symposium and digital preservation of scientific data tools
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 13 Jul 2010 at 9:15 AM
Update for 02010 07 13: Quoting from the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02010 07 13): After two years of research, the European project PARSE.Insight held its final symposium on 2
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Digitized fire insurance plans of Canadian cities at Library and Archives Canada
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 13 Jul 2010 at 8:47 AM
The Library and Archives Canada has digitized much of its Canadian fire insurance plans originating with the Charles E. Goad Company fonds. The short form of the URL that will take you to the series-le
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To Be All that You Can Be…
the world from my eyes on Mon 12 Jul 2010 at 12:25 PM
Upon saying this…I am embarking on new a new but not unfamiliar venture. When everything is in place I will write about this. Keep tuned in…maybe this is something I can help you with. Cheers
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VictoriaTechjob: Director, Technical Support Services http://www.viatec.ca/job-bo
Twitter on Mon 12 Jul 2010 at 11:14 AM
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This Week in Links - Week Ending July 9
eightfold logic on Sat 10 Jul 2010 at 2:48 PM
Case Study: I Listened to Google and Failed
We love case studies that prove conventional wisdom (or in this case possible propaganda) wrong. Graywolf's SEO Blog has a great article on why natural lin
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links for 2010-07-10
negativespace.net by msj on Sat 10 Jul 2010 at 11:01 AM
TEI by Example -- Welcome!
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Who Will Win the World Cup?
Paul Holmes on Fri 09 Jul 2010 at 5:49 PM
I'm rooting for Netherlands, but only because of that whole Spanish fishing boat thing in 1995. Go Orange! document.getElementById("post-908-blankimage").onload();Who Will Win the World Cup? is a post
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Project Manager http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2065 #hiri
Twitter on Fri 09 Jul 2010 at 11:45 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Java Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2064 #hirin
Twitter on Fri 09 Jul 2010 at 11:26 AM
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Takeaways and Q&A from "Social is the Next Search” Gigya Webinar, 02010 03 04
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Fri 09 Jul 2010 at 11:09 AM
Takeaways and Q&A from "Social is the Next Search” Webinar, March 4, 02010 Looks like some useful tips here for anyone interested in how to apply social search concepts to their online business.
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VictoriaTechjob: Merchant Support Coordinator http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2059
Twitter on Fri 09 Jul 2010 at 9:03 AM
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United States National Archives launches OurArchives, follows revolutionary trend
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Fri 09 Jul 2010 at 8:30 AM
In a bold move that follows the revolutionary trend of old mother country England, the United States National Archives officially launched on July 8, 02010, 234 years and four days after the adoption o
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If you get it, share it, but why are there no sharing tools on the Social Media C
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 08 Jul 2010 at 8:12 PM
The Social Media Club was founded in 2006 in San Francisco, California, USA, and there are now chapters around the world. The Social Media Club's tag line is "If you get it, share it.” Well, I get it
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What does Google, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and President Barack Obama have in com
Metamend on Thu 08 Jul 2010 at 1:16 PM
The answer is that they are all in the news this week around the recently beleaguered social media site;
Facebook.
The big news is that Lady Gaga passed President Barack Obama with the number of fans o
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Product Manager http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2055 #hiri
Twitter on Thu 08 Jul 2010 at 9:34 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Product Manager http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2055 #hiring#careers#jobs
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VictoriaTechjob: Account Manager - Constant Content http://www.viatec.ca/job-boar
Twitter on Wed 07 Jul 2010 at 12:48 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Account Manager - Constant Content http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2053 #hiring#careers#jobs
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Is your data readable?
www.herblainchbury.com on Wed 07 Jul 2010 at 10:52 AM
In talking with clients and colleagues about open data and open government this is the one question that comes up over and over again. The word "data” means a collection or body of facts that repres
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My Crappy E-Book
Paul Holmes on Tue 06 Jul 2010 at 11:55 PM
I'm approaching 10,000 followers on Twitter (9,546 … oh, I'm so very excited). Naturally I turned to all my loyal subjects, asking what sort of celebration I should partake in when I reach that elusi
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VictoriaTechjob: Web/Media Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2045 #hiring#c
Twitter on Tue 06 Jul 2010 at 8:53 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Web/Media Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2045 #hiring#career#jobs
Topics: hightech
Historypin to see the past through Google Maps
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 06 Jul 2010 at 8:18 AM
In partnership with Google, We Are What We Do, a social action movement based in London, England, created Historypin: a digital time machine that provides a new way for the world to see and share histo
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The Launch of Linker - SEO's Version of Matchmaking
eightfold logic on Tue 06 Jul 2010 at 2:00 AM
Ten days ago, after a long period of development followed by extensive testing during our Beta period, Linker has been launched to the public for anyone to sign up.
When the Internet started, it was dr
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DCC / DPC What's New: Issue 27
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Mon 05 Jul 2010 at 8:42 PM
The Digital Curation Centre and the Digital Preservation Coalition released What's New, Issue 27 (July 02010), on July 5, 02010.
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VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Web Designer/ Front End Developer http://www.viatec
Twitter on Mon 05 Jul 2010 at 11:05 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Web Designer/ Front End Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2041 #hiring#career#jobs
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links for 2010-07-05
negativespace.net by msj on Mon 05 Jul 2010 at 11:02 AM
Facebook | Tommy Taylor: How I Got Arrested and Abused at G20 in Toronto, Canada.
Locus Online Perspectives » Cory Doctorow: What I Do
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links for 2010-07-04
negativespace.net by msj on Sun 04 Jul 2010 at 11:01 AM
Maintenance - Succeeded in building a working webapp
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Building Cocoon and Exist
negativespace.net by msj on Sat 03 Jul 2010 at 5:49 PM
To build cocoon-2.1.11 with eXist-1.4 as a block inside cocoon, follow the instructions on the eXist site with the following exceptions:
Deactivate the Lucene block. Copy blocks.properties to local´
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This Week in Links - Week Ending July 2, 2010
eightfold logic on Sat 03 Jul 2010 at 7:58 AM
The best articles this week from around the web on SEO link building. Please feel free to comment and provide us with your feedback. Have a great July 4th holiday!
A Comprehensive Guide to Link Bui
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VictoriaTechjob: Director, Customer Solutions http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2036
Twitter on Fri 02 Jul 2010 at 12:59 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Director, Customer Solutions http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2036 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
TeXXXasSports.xxx? More likely than you may think.
Metamend on Thu 01 Jul 2010 at 8:26 AM
Porn sites will not be the only entities to register themselves under the new .xxx extension; the fortune 500
and some celebrities are looking at purchasing some of these adult themed extensions.
The n
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VictoriaTechjob: Virtual Observatory Maintainer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/20
Twitter on Wed 30 Jun 2010 at 2:33 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Virtual Observatory Maintainer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2019 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Test Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2032 #hirin
Twitter on Wed 30 Jun 2010 at 2:19 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Test Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2032 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Business Continuity Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-boar
Twitter on Wed 30 Jun 2010 at 1:57 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Business Continuity Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2028 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Software Support Specialist http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2017
Twitter on Wed 30 Jun 2010 at 9:01 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Software Support Specialist http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2017 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
This Week in Links
eightfold logic on Tue 29 Jun 2010 at 2:03 PM
With the recent launch of our new social link building marketplace; Linker, Eightfold Logic will publish a weekly roundup of the best articles on link building and link development called "This Week in
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VictoriaTechjob: Mid-Tier Systems Specialist - Application Server Administrator h
Twitter on Tue 29 Jun 2010 at 11:22 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Mid-Tier Systems Specialist - Application Server Administrator http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2016 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Marketing Executive http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2015 #hiring#
Twitter on Tue 29 Jun 2010 at 10:11 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Marketing Executive http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2015 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Imagery Viewer/Data Technician http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2
Twitter on Tue 29 Jun 2010 at 9:07 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Imagery Viewer/Data Technician http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2012 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
iPRES2010 conference, September 02010, Vienna, Austria, Europe
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Mon 28 Jun 2010 at 11:10 AM
From the call for participation announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02010 06 28) about the 7th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (IPRES 2010), September 19 to
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links for 2010-06-28
negativespace.net by msj on Mon 28 Jun 2010 at 11:03 AM
Lemmings - porting
(tags: later)
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Software Engineer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2007 #hi
Twitter on Mon 28 Jun 2010 at 9:43 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Software Engineer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2007 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Technical Administrator http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2004 #hir
Twitter on Mon 28 Jun 2010 at 9:19 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Technical Administrator http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2004 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Account Manager - Affiliates http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2003
Twitter on Mon 28 Jun 2010 at 9:05 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Account Manager - Affiliates http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2003 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
.xxx; the "red light” finally got the "green light”.
Metamend on Sat 26 Jun 2010 at 11:49 AM
Well its finally here.
The internet has finally made its own red light district.
ICANN approved the creation of a .xxx suffix. The design for websites under this extension will be those with pornograph
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Victoria British Columbia Officially Proclaims "Social Media Day”, June 30th
Paul Holmes on Fri 25 Jun 2010 at 3:36 PM
Victoria, British Columbia, the Capital city - for visitors, there are lots of great things to see and do. But did you also know it's the capital city for technology and social media? It was big news w
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Technical Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2001 #hiring#c
Twitter on Fri 25 Jun 2010 at 3:30 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Technical Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2001 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Java Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2000 #hiring#caree
Twitter on Fri 25 Jun 2010 at 11:47 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Java Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/2000 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Marketing Associate http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1998 #hiring#
Twitter on Fri 25 Jun 2010 at 11:21 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Marketing Associate http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1998 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Firmware Engineer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1994 #hiring#ca
Twitter on Fri 25 Jun 2010 at 9:10 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Firmware Engineer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1994 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
Let's get visual with metadata standards
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 24 Jun 2010 at 10:17 PM
Jenn Riley, Indiana University, has a free, terrific PDF poster called Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe, supplemented with a metadata standard glossary, also available as a fr
Topics: hightech
Go local (news) with OpenBlock
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 24 Jun 2010 at 10:08 PM
While this new open source software project, OpenBlock, is geared at the moment to news organizations and cities in the United States, here's hoping some Canadian news outlets will also pick up on this
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Programmer Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1992 #hiring#c
Twitter on Thu 24 Jun 2010 at 9:34 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Programmer Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1992 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Specialist, Web Services http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1991 #hi
Twitter on Thu 24 Jun 2010 at 9:23 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Specialist, Web Services http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1991 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Project Coordinator http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1990 #hiring
Twitter on Thu 24 Jun 2010 at 8:57 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Project Coordinator http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1990 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Electrical Engineer or Technologist http://www.viatec.ca/job-bo
Twitter on Wed 23 Jun 2010 at 3:07 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Electrical Engineer or Technologist http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1989 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
YouTube / Google beats Viacom over $1B Lawsuit
Stepforth and be found on Wed 23 Jun 2010 at 2:35 PM
Today in court Google won out over Viacom's $1 Billion lawsuit, essentially showing that the court has decided that YouTube is protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) against claims of
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Software Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1987 #h
Twitter on Wed 23 Jun 2010 at 1:51 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Software Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1987 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Marketing and Sales Support Coordinator http://www.viatec.ca/job
Twitter on Wed 23 Jun 2010 at 11:55 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Marketing and Sales Support Coordinator http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1982 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
links for 2010-06-23
negativespace.net by msj on Wed 23 Jun 2010 at 11:38 AM
How to opt out of interest-based ads from the iAd network
Topics: hightech
links for 2010-06-23
negativespace.net by msj on Wed 23 Jun 2010 at 11:10 AM
How to opt out of interest-based ads from the iAd network
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Manager, Customer Service & Quality Assurance http://www.viatec.
Twitter on Wed 23 Jun 2010 at 9:33 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Manager, Customer Service & Quality Assurance http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1979 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Receiver Clerk http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1977 #hiring#caree
Twitter on Wed 23 Jun 2010 at 9:09 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Receiver Clerk http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1977 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
OpenDataBC: Toward A Data Usability Scale
www.herblainchbury.com on Wed 23 Jun 2010 at 12:24 AM
I am currently involved in a project named OpenDataBC. OpenDataBC is an open platform for government data sets and APIs released by governments in British Columbia. It makes it easy to find dataset
Topics: hightech
NISO publishes special digital preservation issue of Information Standards Quarte
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 22 Jun 2010 at 10:18 PM
There are some free articles for downloading in a special issue on digital preservation of the Information Standards Quarterly (vol. 22, no. 2, Spring 02010) published by NISO. If you're not a NISO mem
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VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Database Administrator http://www.viatec.ca/job-boa
Twitter on Tue 22 Jun 2010 at 3:46 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Database Administrator http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1976 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Manager Software Engineering IT Infrastructure http://www.viatec
Twitter on Tue 22 Jun 2010 at 12:28 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Manager Software Engineering IT Infrastructure http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1975 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Business Analyst Team Lead http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1970 #
Twitter on Tue 22 Jun 2010 at 12:12 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Business Analyst Team Lead http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1970 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
links for 2010-06-22
negativespace.net by msj on Tue 22 Jun 2010 at 11:01 AM
jsMath: jsMath Home Page
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Software Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1967 #hiring#c
Twitter on Tue 22 Jun 2010 at 10:24 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Software Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1967 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
My Life As A Modern Rock Radio DJ, Part Deux
Paul Holmes on Mon 21 Jun 2010 at 11:26 PM
I was on The Zone @ 91.3, Victoria's finest modern rock radio station on June 4th, for a cool little Friday night segment they call My Turn. It's where they let a knob like me take over the radio (than
Topics: hightech
Google vs Bing - Notes I Promised from Today's SEO 101 Show
Stepforth and be found on Mon 21 Jun 2010 at 10:56 PM
The following are the rough Bing vs Google search engine optimization notes from the SEO 101 Internet radio show that aired today which I co-host with John Carcutt; listen to the archived show in podca
Topics: hightech
Alternative Sexy Pin-up Campaign Goes Viral
Stepforth and be found on Mon 21 Jun 2010 at 4:59 PM
Over the years I have seen many great marketing campaigns that just made me say "wow”. You know the ones, the campaigns that are so off-the-wall, yet also brilliant that you think… "why couldn't I
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Junior Programmer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1965 #hiring#ca
Twitter on Mon 21 Jun 2010 at 1:21 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Junior Programmer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1965 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
Google View on Quality Links
Stepforth and be found on Mon 21 Jun 2010 at 12:04 PM
Over at the Google Webmaster Central Blog, Kaspar Szymanski has published a post about quality links. One of the most popular questions Google tends to receive is what are the best practices for orga
Topics: hightech
What Was the Big Bing News at SMX Advanced?
Stepforth and be found on Fri 18 Jun 2010 at 9:05 PM
The last time I posted I revealed that there would be a big surprise revealed by Bing the next day… in fact just hours later when the conference commenced once more. Well, I took eons to get back to
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Project Manager/Mechanical Designer http://www.viatec.ca/job-bo
Twitter on Fri 18 Jun 2010 at 4:08 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Project Manager/Mechanical Designer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1953 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Principal Software Engineer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1950
Twitter on Fri 18 Jun 2010 at 3:39 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Principal Software Engineer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1950 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Staff Software Engineer - Java, API Server http://www.viatec.ca/
Twitter on Fri 18 Jun 2010 at 3:35 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Staff Software Engineer - Java, API Server http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1949 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Sr UI Developer - Adobe Flex http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1948
Twitter on Fri 18 Jun 2010 at 3:32 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Sr UI Developer - Adobe Flex http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1948 #hiring#careers#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Sr QA Engineer - Whitebox http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1951 #h
Twitter on Fri 18 Jun 2010 at 3:29 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Sr QA Engineer - Whitebox http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1951 #hiring#career#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Web Marketing Coordinator / Writer http://www.viatec.ca/job-boar
Twitter on Fri 18 Jun 2010 at 2:12 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Web Marketing Coordinator / Writer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1946 #hiring#career#jobs
Topics: hightech
Single Points of Failure
www.herblainchbury.com on Fri 18 Jun 2010 at 1:17 PM
As I write this in 2010, our political, economic, cultural and social systems in the western world are for the most part driven by corporations. Our art is subsidized by corporations, our charities a
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: IT Support Technician http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1943 #hirin
Twitter on Fri 18 Jun 2010 at 10:00 AM
VictoriaTechjob: IT Support Technician http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1943 #hiring#career#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Production Technologist http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1929 #hir
Twitter on Fri 18 Jun 2010 at 9:46 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Production Technologist http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1929 #hiring#career#jobs
Topics: hightech
Major Strategic Link Building Advances with Linker
eightfold logic on Thu 17 Jun 2010 at 12:25 PM
Last night we published a major update to the Beta of our forthcoming Linker product.
We want to use this opportunity to offer anyone interested one last window to reap free link-building benefits b
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Host Software Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1925 #hir
Twitter on Thu 17 Jun 2010 at 12:22 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Host Software Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1925 #hiring#career#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: IT Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1920 #hiring#career#jo
Twitter on Thu 17 Jun 2010 at 11:34 AM
VictoriaTechjob: IT Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1920 #hiring#career#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Embedded Software Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1915
Twitter on Thu 17 Jun 2010 at 9:02 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Embedded Software Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1915 #hiring#career#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Programmer - Java Oracle http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1904 #h
Twitter on Wed 16 Jun 2010 at 9:08 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Programmer - Java Oracle http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1904 #hiring#career#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Quality/Regulatory Manager http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1898 #
Twitter on Tue 15 Jun 2010 at 11:36 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Quality/Regulatory Manager http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1898 #hiring#career#jobs
Topics: hightech
links for 2010-06-15
negativespace.net by msj on Tue 15 Jun 2010 at 11:03 AM
Lifehacker Pack for Mac: Our List of the Best Free Mac Downloads
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Manufacturing Technologist http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1893
Twitter on Tue 15 Jun 2010 at 10:18 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Manufacturing Technologist http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1893 #hiring#career#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Programmer Analyst 3 - Microsoft.NET http://www.viatec.ca/job-bo
Twitter on Mon 14 Jun 2010 at 3:32 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Programmer Analyst 3 - Microsoft.NET http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1895 #hiring#career#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: UI, Interaction, Usability Designer http://www.viatec.ca/job-boa
Twitter on Mon 14 Jun 2010 at 3:00 PM
VictoriaTechjob: UI, Interaction, Usability Designer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1890 #hiring#career@jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Business Process Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1891 #hi
Twitter on Mon 14 Jun 2010 at 11:51 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Business Process Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1891 #hiring#career#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Test Analyst - IS 27 http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1885
Twitter on Mon 14 Jun 2010 at 10:41 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Test Analyst - IS 27 http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1885 #hiring#career#jobs
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Technical Service Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1879 #
Twitter on Mon 14 Jun 2010 at 10:07 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Technical Service Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1879 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Application Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1882
Twitter on Mon 14 Jun 2010 at 9:24 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Application Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1882 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
5th Annual Canary Derby Saturday June 12th @ VITP
VITP on Fri 11 Jun 2010 at 2:43 PM
The Canary Derby provides an opportunity for Vancouver Island Companies to join forces with the Canary Foundation and BC Cancer Foundation to help support early detection of cancer research within BC.
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Account Manager http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1876 #hiring#car
Twitter on Fri 11 Jun 2010 at 10:03 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Account Manager http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1876 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Strategic Marketing/Communications Specialist http://www.viatec.
Twitter on Thu 10 Jun 2010 at 3:41 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Strategic Marketing/Communications Specialist http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1865 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Project Manager http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1870 #hiring#care
Twitter on Thu 10 Jun 2010 at 3:40 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Project Manager http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1870 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Network Technician http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1874 #h
Twitter on Thu 10 Jun 2010 at 3:22 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Network Technician http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1874 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: ICT Business Development Officer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/
Twitter on Thu 10 Jun 2010 at 11:34 AM
VictoriaTechjob: ICT Business Development Officer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1866 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
links for 2010-06-10
negativespace.net by msj on Thu 10 Jun 2010 at 11:03 AM
Getting over the air (OTA) digital television (DTV) in Vancouver ? johnbollwitt.com
Safari Extensions
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Technical Support Specialist http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/185
Twitter on Thu 10 Jun 2010 at 9:59 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Technical Support Specialist http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1858 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
Are Bing and Yahoo Decaf? Google's 60+% market share has Caffeine…
Metamend on Wed 09 Jun 2010 at 3:50 PM
Google released the Caffeine Web indexing system on June 8th, which according to Google, is 50 percent fresher search results from its previous index and contains more content than ever. This developme
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Software Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1852 hiring#ca
Twitter on Wed 09 Jun 2010 at 9:50 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Software Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1852 hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
Working From Home Again
jeff.io on Wed 09 Jun 2010 at 9:00 AM
Two years have past since my last post on the topic, "Dads, Get An Office” where I explain the pros and cons of having a home office but eventually feeling the need to have a work space outside of th
Topics: hightech
Bing Has Big News to Come in Just a Few Hours
Stepforth and be found on Wed 09 Jun 2010 at 12:37 AM
I am at SMX Advanced in Seattle and today it came to my attention that Bing will be revealing some big news in just a few hours from now. So, if you are at SMX Advanced, be sure to visit the Bing spo
Topics: hightech
links for 2010-06-08
negativespace.net by msj on Tue 08 Jun 2010 at 11:03 AM
Liminal Existence: Beautiful Lines
hyphenator - Project Hosting on Google Code
Topics: hightech
links for 2010-06-07
negativespace.net by msj on Mon 07 Jun 2010 at 11:03 AM
isbndb.com - free ISBN database
Helen Bradley - Photoshop and Lightroom tips and techniques: An Adjustable Black and White Conversion
Topics: hightech
Google's Toolbar PageRank is Being Updated
Stepforth and be found on Fri 04 Jun 2010 at 11:43 AM
Thanks to confirmation from a post today by Barry Schwartz over at Search Engine Journal I can now state that what we are seeing at StepForth is not an aberration; there is a toolbar PageRank (PR) upda
Topics: hightech
MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY - My Google long tail rankings are dropping!
Metamend on Thu 03 Jun 2010 at 4:37 PM
A mayday situation is one in which a vessel, aircraft, vehicle, or person is in grave and imminent danger and requires immediate assistance. To many online entities, Google has put their long tail sear
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Software Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1823 #hiring#c
Twitter on Thu 03 Jun 2010 at 1:38 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Software Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1823 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
Bing likes Search Engine Optimization more than Google? Here are some tips to sta
Metamend on Wed 02 Jun 2010 at 3:11 PM
Google has put their search focus into real time results and while this would seem to be advantageous in most situations, it appears that in the case of Twitter and Search Engine Optimization for examp
Topics: hightech
Secure Google Search Impacts Analytics
Stepforth and be found on Wed 02 Jun 2010 at 2:37 PM
Last month Google announced the launch of a secure beta version to help all of those searchers out there who are uber-concerned with security and privacy. The secure version currently only works for st
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links for 2010-06-02
negativespace.net by msj on Wed 02 Jun 2010 at 11:02 AM
Bug 5486 - OMP Installation Issues
Bug 5485 - Javascript broken during installation
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Systems Administrator http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1817
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VictoriaTechjob: Technical Writer - Contract Position http://www.viatec.ca/job-bo
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VictoriaTechjob: Drupal PHP contractor http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1812 #hiri
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VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Application Developer (Cognos) http://www.viatec.ca
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Bioacoustician http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1785 #hirin
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Even Einstein Needed Help
VIATec Industry blog on Mon 31 May 2010 at 11:01 AM
I get to work in/for a very interesting industry. The tech sector is full of people that are willing to take entrepreneurial risks to create exciting companies that often make the world a better plac
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VictoriaTechjob: Production Technologist http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1799 #hir
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VictoriaTechjob: Junior Inventory Clerk http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1802 #hiri
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Google's Mayday Update and What to Do About It
Stepforth and be found on Sun 30 May 2010 at 9:33 PM
Today, Matt Cutts posted a new Google Webmaster Video addressing (finally!) the issues surrounding the many changes in long tail search engine results. Here is the video:To recap, the Mayday update (as
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Jane Austen fans rejoice at new, international digital collection of her fiction
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 27 May 2010 at 10:24 AM
A three-year joint project of the University of Oxford and King's College London, Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts is now thrilling her fans worldwide. According to the Web site Introduction, The focu
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links for 2010-05-26
negativespace.net by msj on Wed 26 May 2010 at 11:04 AM
Joy the Baker » Blog Archive » How to Make Butter
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My Turn!
Paul Holmes on Wed 26 May 2010 at 3:16 AM
Did I miss my calling as an ultra-hip modern rock DJ?
Yes.
Yes, I did.
Now my favourite local radio station, The Zone at 91.3 has offered me a chance to fulfill my dream, and be discovered by all those
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VictoriaTechjob: MVS Mainframe Manager http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1776 #hir
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VictoriaTechjob: Oracle / Java Development Manager http://www.viatec.ca/job-board
Twitter on Tue 25 May 2010 at 1:07 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Java Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1771 #hiring#caree
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VictoriaTechjob: Build Master http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1770 #hiring#career
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VictoriaTechjob: Oracle Application Developer (Intermediate) http://www.viatec.ca
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links for 2010-05-25
negativespace.net by msj on Tue 25 May 2010 at 11:03 AM
Linear Gradients
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VictoriaTechjob: Lead Software Developer - Windows CE http://www.viatec.ca/job-bo
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Reading the digital ocean
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Mon 24 May 2010 at 3:13 PM
According to this story from the Weekly News Digest of Information Today, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library has, through a partnership with Google, the University of California and the UC
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links for 2010-05-23
negativespace.net by msj on Sun 23 May 2010 at 11:01 AM
Amazon.com: Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games (9780883855454): Martin Gardner: Books
(tags: want)
Build Your Own Lenses | DIYPhotography.
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WordCamp Workshop - Blog Networks and Aggregators
Paul Holmes on Sat 22 May 2010 at 12:35 AM
At WordCamp Victoria on May 15, 2010, I facilitated a workshop entitled "Blog Networks and Aggregators”.
Blog Networks are sort of out of vogue these days, so I wanted to host a workshop on the topic
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Backlinking is undead!
Metamend on Fri 21 May 2010 at 4:41 PM
One thing is for sure, back-linking is perhaps one of the more misunderstood and Mal-advised tools in the SEO arsenal.
Over the past few weeks I have seen many articles giving less than accurate advice
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What is worth more; the actual car or the car's domain name?
Metamend on Fri 21 May 2010 at 11:41 AM
This week there were two auctions where top dollar was exchanged for property; one kind of property you drive in traffic, and the other kind you drive traffic to. Specifically, the Domainfest and Mecum
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UVic Tech Parks Welcomes C.S.S.F to Marine Technology Centre
VITP on Fri 21 May 2010 at 11:30 AM
The University of Victoria's Technology Parks is pleased to welcome C.S.S.F. as its newest tenant to the Marine Technology Centre.
"I would like to welcome C.S.S.F to the Marine Technology Centre,” s
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links for 2010-05-21
negativespace.net by msj on Fri 21 May 2010 at 11:02 AM
Google Earth API - Google Code
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VictoriaTechjob: Engineering Technician or Technologist http://www.viatec.ca/job-
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VictoriaTechjob: Project Officer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1764 #hiring#care
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VictoriaTechjob: Recruiter, Talent Acquisition http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/175
Twitter on Fri 21 May 2010 at 8:32 AM
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StepForth Closed on Monday, May 24
Stepforth and be found on Thu 20 May 2010 at 3:54 PM
Just a quick note to our readers, clients, & friends. StepForth will be closed on Monday May 24 for the Victoria Day, May Long Weekend.
We hope for those of you who observe this holiday that you have a
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Share Your Treasures with Canada!
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 20 May 2010 at 3:17 PM
From the announcement on the CHIN Web site about its new initiative, Canada's Got Treasures!: The Virtual Museum of Canada (VMC) at the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) launches a new inter
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OpenDataBC: Extracting Data from A4CA PDFs
www.herblainchbury.com on Thu 20 May 2010 at 2:15 PM
In this OpenDataBC series of posts, I describe how to use some of the data that is being made available by the government of British Columbia on http://data.gov.bc.ca and related web sites. In the firs
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links for 2010-05-20
negativespace.net by msj on Thu 20 May 2010 at 11:04 AM
Chromium Blog: The Chrome Web Store
Google Font Directory
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VictoriaTechjob: Powerhouse Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1699 #hiring#c
Twitter on Wed 19 May 2010 at 4:04 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Software Engineer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1738 #hiring#ca
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VictoriaTechjob: Research Theme Integrators http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1726 #
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VictoriaTechjob: Product Manager http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1690 #hiring#car
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May/June 02010 issue of D-Lib Magazine is out
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 18 May 2010 at 3:51 PM
From the announcement on DIGLIB and other mailing lists (02010 05 18): The May/June issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue is a special issue on the theme of Digita
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VictoriaTechjob: Software Developer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1707 #hiring#c
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VictoriaTechjob: SALES EXECUTIVE - IT OUTSOURCING SERVICES http://www.viatec.ca/j
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VictoriaTechjob: Administrator/ Accountant http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1711 #
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Genome BC Launches New Funding Competition, SOFi
VITP on Tue 18 May 2010 at 9:56 AM
In a move to accelerate research with strong commercialization potential in local companies, Genome BC has launched a new funding competition entitled, Strategic Opportunities Fund for Industry (SOFi
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Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography version 1 now available
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Mon 17 May 2010 at 3:57 PM
Version one of the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. http://digital-scholarship.org/dcpb/dcpb.htm This bibliography presents over 360 selected En
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VictoriaTechjob: Director, Division Information Technology Services http://www.v
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Google Local - A Bit Confused
Stepforth and be found on Mon 17 May 2010 at 2:22 PM
I found this rather interesting bug over at Google today.
When doing a search for "Victoria BC Lawyer”, in the Local Business results I found that only one of the seven results were actually for law
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VictoriaTechjob: Software Development Manager - Database Team http://www.viatec.c
Twitter on Mon 17 May 2010 at 2:00 PM
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Facebook Steps Out of the Way
www.herblainchbury.com on Mon 17 May 2010 at 1:59 PM
Like most people, I was a bit surprized with Facebook's recent changes with regard to privacy. I don't think they have done anything wrong, but as a user I allowed myself to be lulled into a false se
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links for 2010-05-17
negativespace.net by msj on Mon 17 May 2010 at 11:04 AM
ISO OOXML convener: Microsoft's format "heading for failure"
Although Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format became an ISO standard two years ago, the company still hasn't
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Keeping Research Data Safe 2 (KRDS2) final report released by JISC
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Mon 17 May 2010 at 9:59 AM
As announced on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK and elsewhere (02010 05 17): JISC is pleased to announce that the final report for Keeping Research Data Safe 2 (KRDS2) is now available from the JIS
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Version 1.0.9 beta of ICA-AtoM released
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Mon 17 May 2010 at 9:58 AM
May 17, 02010 marks the release date of version 1.0.9 beta of ICA-AtoM with a significant raft of improvements and new features.
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Thousands of historic photos, maps damaged in Parks Canada building flood, Revels
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Sun 16 May 2010 at 7:25 PM
Thousands of historic photos, maps damaged in Parks Canada building flood. This is a Vancouver Sun report about "archival” records stored by Parks Canada in Revelstoke, BC, that were damaged in a flo
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RevenueWire Inc., Emerging Tech Company of the Year, Finds New Home at VITP
VITP on Fri 14 May 2010 at 1:57 PM
The Vancouver Island Technology Park (VITP) is pleased to welcome one of Victoria's highest revenue producing hi-tech firms as its newest tenant. RevenueWire, the recipient of the 2009 VIATeC Emerging
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Web Technologist http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1688 #hir
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VictoriaTechjob: Web Technologist http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1687 #hiring#car
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VictoriaTechjob: Information Security Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1677
Twitter on Thu 13 May 2010 at 11:40 AM
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Royal British Columbia Museum official blog soft launch
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 13 May 2010 at 10:22 AM
In case you had not yet heard, the blogosphere is abuzz about the Royal BC Museum Blog hosted by Google's Blogger service. The first post by Tim Willis was on March 10, 02010 and the most recent by arc
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Privacy: too much, too little….no one is happy.
Metamend on Thu 13 May 2010 at 9:54 AM
Privacy seems to be in the news this week; whether it concerns whois data, or what you are highlighting as
in the case of Amazon's e-book.
The big controversy is over the remote functionality of Amazon
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Blogging = Social Media = Online Cocktail Party
Stepforth and be found on Wed 12 May 2010 at 2:31 PM
Blogging is like an online cocktail party where you meet people, ask and answer questions, chat and discuss what is important to you and your site.
Some of our clients query whether Blogging is a valua
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links for 2010-05-12
negativespace.net by msj on Wed 12 May 2010 at 11:03 AM
ongoing by Tim Bray · Practical Open Source
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Innovators Isolation
www.herblainchbury.com on Tue 11 May 2010 at 6:48 PM
One of the things that all innovators face at some level is a sense of isolation. By definition innovators are working on things that have never been worked on before. And they make up only about 2.
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VictoriaTechjob: Manager of Information Technolgy http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/
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VictoriaTechjob: School Technologist http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1666 #hiring#
Twitter on Tue 11 May 2010 at 5:18 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Marketing Coordinator http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1663 #hirin
Twitter on Tue 11 May 2010 at 4:46 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Software and Web Developers http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1654
Twitter on Tue 11 May 2010 at 4:07 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Technical Support Engineer http://www.viatec.ca/job-board
Twitter on Tue 11 May 2010 at 3:26 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Inside Sales http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1651 #hiring#career#
Twitter on Tue 11 May 2010 at 11:29 AM
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links for 2010-05-11
negativespace.net by msj on Tue 11 May 2010 at 11:03 AM
Market Crash - 06 May 2010 - S&P Pit : zerohedge : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
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Social Media Revolution 2
Paul Holmes on Mon 10 May 2010 at 12:45 PM
The people from Socialnomics have finally updated their now classic Social Media Revolution video, with updated stats and more:
Here's the original, for comparison:
document.getElementById("post-801-
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VictoriaTechjob: Programmer Analyst http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1638 #hiring#c
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links for 2010-05-09
negativespace.net by msj on Sun 09 May 2010 at 11:01 AM
Rob Cottingham » Northern Voice: Chris Messina on the open web - and what threatens to close it up
Provost Pictures | The Beast of Bottom
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links for 2010-05-08
negativespace.net by msj on Sat 08 May 2010 at 11:01 AM
Proper Trac Setup of Permissions - Stack Overflow
TracFineGrainedPermissions - The Trac Project
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VictoriaTechjob: Staff Software Engineer - Java, API Server http://www.viatec.ca/
Twitter on Fri 07 May 2010 at 12:06 PM
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Home Grown is the Best
VIATec Industry blog on Fri 07 May 2010 at 10:03 AM
VIATeC is a cross between an industry association and an economic development agency. We exist to help technology companies grow and that means understanding their opportunities and challenges and doin
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freedom debt and the decline of lock-in
www.herblainchbury.com on Thu 06 May 2010 at 9:41 PM
Early adopters are starting to notice there's a cost to cool when it's supplied by a single vendor. At first it's all fun and games. Then you realize that you no longer own your music collection, y
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VictoriaTechjob: Assembly/Service Technician http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1613
Twitter on Thu 06 May 2010 at 9:04 AM
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Ever heard of "complaint for declaratory relief”? You should…
Metamend on Thu 06 May 2010 at 7:49 AM
Recently Google sought a ruling against record label to squash infringement claims
by Matthew Rogers.
To paraphrase, a small record company called Blues Destiny Records sued Google,
Microsoft and Rapid
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New website for Chung Collection, Rare Books & Special Collections, UBC Library,
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Wed 05 May 2010 at 10:01 PM
As announced on various mailing lists (02010 05 05): "The Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection, a designated national treasure, has a new virtual home. The handsome website, found at http:
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Library & Archives Canada links authority data to VIAF & launches Canadiana Autho
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Wed 05 May 2010 at 9:56 PM
From an announcement on ARCAN-L (02010 05 05): The Library and Archives Canada (LAC) "signed a collaborative agreement with OCLC, the Library of Congress, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, and the Bibli
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SEO is Not Bullshit
Enquisite on Wed 05 May 2010 at 11:16 AM
Unfortunately for some, it can seem to be when you put your trust in the wrong hands. On Monday, (May 2, 2010), a well-known SEO - Rae Hoffman, also [...]
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VictoriaTechjob: Junior/Intermediate Level Programmer/Analyst http://www.viatec.c
Twitter on Wed 05 May 2010 at 10:37 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Exceptional Bookkeeper http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1605 #hiri
Twitter on Wed 05 May 2010 at 9:29 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Exceptional Bookkeeper http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1605 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Director Corporate Services http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1592
Twitter on Wed 05 May 2010 at 8:33 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Director Corporate Services http://www.viatec.ca/job-board/1592 #hiring#career#job
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Google Wants Your Opinion on Google Places
Stepforth and be found on Tue 04 May 2010 at 5:36 PM
Do you have a suggestion for Google on how to improve Google Places (once called Google Local Business Center)? If you do, then Google is asking for your suggestions and I suggest we all take advantage
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Enquisite Raises $5.2 Million in Series B Funding
Enquisite on Mon 03 May 2010 at 4:42 PM
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - May 4, 2010 - Enquisite, Inc., an innovator in marketing measurement and optimization solutions, today announced that is has closed a $5.2 million round in new financing.
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OpenDataBC #2: The A4CA Data Catalogue Transformer
www.herblainchbury.com on Sun 02 May 2010 at 9:02 AM
In the OpenDataBC series of posts I describe how to use some of the data that is being made available by the government of British Columbia on http://data.gov.bc.ca and related web sites. My goal is
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Time, Space and Google, Searcher magazine, May 02010
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Sat 01 May 2010 at 9:59 AM
My first post-retirement article for Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals was published on May 1, 02010. It's titled "Time, Space and Google: Toward a Real-Time, Synchronous, Personalized,
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Why People Aren't Listening to You Online
VIATec Industry blog on Fri 30 Apr 2010 at 2:25 PM
If you are sending bulk emails or throwing up promo messages everywhere online, nobody is listening to you. In fact, when you do have something of value to share with potential partners, customers, i
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links for 2010-04-30
negativespace.net by msj on Fri 30 Apr 2010 at 11:03 AM
Slashdot Book Reviews Story | jQuery Cookbook
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British Library LIFE3 digital preservation costs survey needs you
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Fri 30 Apr 2010 at 9:59 AM
From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02010 04 30): As part of the LIFE3 project (http://www.life.ac.uk/), we are collecting data on digital preservation storage costs. LIFE3 is
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UK Digital Preservation Coalition Digital Preservation Case Notes
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Fri 30 Apr 2010 at 9:53 AM
As announced on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (2010 04 30): The DPC, with help from the Scott Polar Research Institute, Portico and ULCC, and with funding from JISC, is pleased to announce the la
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links for 2010-04-29
negativespace.net by msj on Thu 29 Apr 2010 at 11:02 AM
HTML5 Demos and Examples
HTML 5 experimentation and demos I've hacked together. Click on the browser support icon or the technology tag to filter the demos (the filter is an OR filter).
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4th International Conference on Preservation and Conservation Issues in Digital P
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 29 Apr 2010 at 8:44 AM
Registration is open for the 4th International Conference on Preservation and Conservation Issues in Digital Printing and Digital Photography being held in London, England, UK, on May 27 and 28, 02010.
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Digital Humanities Now, a real-time, crowdsourced publication
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Wed 28 Apr 2010 at 1:23 PM
According to the About page, Digital Humanities Now "is a real-time, crowdsourced publication. It takes the pulse of the digital humanities community and tries to discern what articles, blog posts, pro
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UCL Centre for Digital Humanities official launch May 02010
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Wed 28 Apr 2010 at 9:36 AM
The UCL (University College London, England) Centre for Digital Humanities held its internal launch in February 02010 and an official, invitation-only launch will be held on May 20, 02010. The Projects
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Data is Green
www.herblainchbury.com on Wed 28 Apr 2010 at 8:05 AM
Of the three R's of responsible consumerism, I think the second R holds the most promise. The idea is that if you must buy something, then make it something durable and use it up. This appeals to me.
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Got Something to Say?
VIATec Industry blog on Tue 27 Apr 2010 at 7:32 PM
I'll be honest, I'm worried about this Blog. To make it worth visiting regularly it has to be rich with interesting content and I think it's best I ask for help. So I'm looking for guest bloggers t
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links for 2010-04-27
negativespace.net by msj on Tue 27 Apr 2010 at 11:05 AM
W3C cheatsheet
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European IMPACT (Improving Access to Text) project
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 27 Apr 2010 at 9:02 AM
According to the front page of the European IMPACT (Improving Access to Text) project, "IMPACT is a project funded by the European Commission. It aims to significantly improve access to historical text
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PLANETS End of Project Conference, May 20, 02010, Berlin, Germany, and the new Op
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 27 Apr 2010 at 8:42 AM
Registration is open for the PLANETS (Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services) End of Project Conference to be held on May 20, 02010 in Berlin, Germany. Registration closes on May
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The Next New VIATeC
VIATec Industry blog on Mon 26 Apr 2010 at 1:52 PM
In January of 2009, I was meeting with the VIATeC board for our annual review of our member survey results and strategic planning. Part of this included breaking up the 14 person board into smaller t
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The Old "New VIATeC"
VIATec Industry blog on Mon 26 Apr 2010 at 11:19 AM
In March of 2005, I was given the opportunity to run VIATeC at a time when VIATeC was faced with many challenges. This came after working at VIATeC for the previous four and a half years in a variety o
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Yahoo is Broken?
Stepforth and be found on Mon 26 Apr 2010 at 10:52 AM
Over at Yahoo they seem to be running into some technical difficulties. Regardless of the search phrase uses, organic results are not appearing and the error message "We had temporary problems searchin
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Accountant -- Schneider Electric http://www.viatec.ca/Vie
Twitter on Mon 26 Apr 2010 at 10:07 AM
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DOE Green Energy search portal
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Fri 23 Apr 2010 at 9:57 PM
According to the start page of the DOE Green Energy, it "is your gateway to green energy results from thousands of DOE-sponsored research and development projects. DOE Green Energy is a portal to infor
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VictoriaTechjob: Associate Technical Analyst -- BC Ferries http://www.viatec.ca/V
Twitter on Fri 23 Apr 2010 at 3:57 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Associate Technical Analyst -- BC Ferries http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=5000 #hiring#career#job
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PREMIS in METS Toolkit released by Library of Congress and Florida Center for Lib
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Fri 23 Apr 2010 at 2:37 PM
From the announcement on DIGLIB (2010 04 23): The Library of Congress and the Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA) are pleased to announce the availability of the PREMIS-In-METS Toolbox at http
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Russia is not LOL or JK; they take the internet seriously…
Metamend on Fri 23 Apr 2010 at 12:07 PM
In the last few years, the number of Russian Internet users has grown significantly. In 2004, according to a survey by Global Reach, there were just 22 million Russians using the Internet, while in 200
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Power to Play - The Dan and Dale Deal
VITP on Fri 23 Apr 2010 at 11:36 AM
The Dan and Dale Deal from Media One Multimedia on Vimeo.
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VictoriaTechjob: Web Application Developer -- Priority Automation http://www.viat
Twitter on Thu 22 Apr 2010 at 12:52 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Web Application Developer -- Priority Automation http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4994 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Systems Administrator -- University of Victoria (UVIC) http://ww
Twitter on Thu 22 Apr 2010 at 12:42 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Systems Administrator -- University of Victoria (UVIC) http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4992 #hiring#career#job
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Pass It On through National Preservation Week, May 9-15, 02010
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 22 Apr 2010 at 12:00 PM
Too bad this is not an International Preservation Week, but the slogan of the first National Preservation Week organized by the American Library Association is Pass It On. Events are scheduled for the
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VictoriaTechjob: Developer -- Archipelago Marine Research Ltd. http://www.viatec.
Twitter on Thu 22 Apr 2010 at 11:59 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Developer -- Archipelago Marine Research Ltd. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4988 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Service Coordinator -- Advanced Solutions, an HP Company http://
Twitter on Thu 22 Apr 2010 at 11:45 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Service Coordinator -- Advanced Solutions, an HP Company http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4986 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Support Programmer -- Camosun College http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJ
Twitter on Thu 22 Apr 2010 at 11:17 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Support Programmer -- Camosun College http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4984 #hiring#career#job
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links for 2010-04-22
negativespace.net by msj on Thu 22 Apr 2010 at 11:03 AM
CSS Is Awesome
(tags: want)
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Enquisite Suite Update - April 2010
Enquisite on Thu 22 Apr 2010 at 9:40 AM
We've put together a major update to Enquisite's reporting suite, these features are unique in the marketplace, and continue to set Enquisite apart as the market leader in Search and Social Analytics.
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VictoriaTechjob: Parts Sales Specialist -- Nicholson Manufacturing Ltd http://www
Twitter on Thu 22 Apr 2010 at 8:53 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Parts Sales Specialist -- Nicholson Manufacturing Ltd http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4982 #hiring#career#job
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Aesop on success
MetaTrev on Wed 21 Apr 2010 at 10:19 PM
The classic Aesop fable "The Tortoise and the Hare”.
A Hare one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise. The latter, laughing, said: "Though you be swift as the wind, I will beat y
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VictoriaTechjob: Technical Support Specialist http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?i
Twitter on Wed 21 Apr 2010 at 11:15 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Technical Support Specialist http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4980 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Office Administrator -- Oak Bay Consulting Inc. http://www.viate
Twitter on Wed 21 Apr 2010 at 10:59 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Office Administrator -- Oak Bay Consulting Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4978 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Programmer Analyst -- ICBC http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=
Twitter on Wed 21 Apr 2010 at 10:18 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Programmer Analyst -- ICBC http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4976 #hiring#career#job
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Give Your New WordPress Articles a PuSH
Stepforth and be found on Tue 20 Apr 2010 at 4:41 PM
If you have a blog or a website with a RSS (real simple syndication) feed and you haven't heard of the new PuSH protocol then I have a treat for you. A little while back, Google announced a new open so
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VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate PHP Developer (Facebook Games) -- Kano Applications
Twitter on Tue 20 Apr 2010 at 11:57 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate PHP Developer (Facebook Games) -- Kano Applications Inc http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4972 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Marine Systems Business Development Associate -- Axys Technologi
Twitter on Tue 20 Apr 2010 at 11:02 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Marine Systems Business Development Associate -- Axys Technologies Inc http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4968 #hiring#career#job
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Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access final repor
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 20 Apr 2010 at 7:44 AM
The final report of the international Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access is available through its Web site. Highlights from the report will be presented at the Blue R
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OpenDataBC: Accessing the A4CA Data Catalogue
www.herblainchbury.com on Mon 19 Apr 2010 at 1:18 PM
The OpenDataBC Series: In this series of posts I will describe how to use some of the data that is being made available by the government of British Columbia on http://data.gov.bc.ca and related web si
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VictoriaTechjob: Network Administrator -- Auditor General of British Columbia htt
Twitter on Mon 19 Apr 2010 at 12:40 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Network Administrator -- Auditor General of British Columbia http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4962 #hiring#career#job
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links for 2010-04-19
negativespace.net by msj on Mon 19 Apr 2010 at 11:04 AM
DIY Macro Lighting LED Ring | DIYPhotography.net
If you're gonna try this at home (which you definitely should) note that the
parts I used were selected specifically for my camera and l
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VictoriaTechjob: Director of Finance and Administration -- FTS http://www.viatec.
Twitter on Mon 19 Apr 2010 at 9:29 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Director of Finance and Administration -- FTS http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4958 #hiring#career#job
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Don't Try
MetaTrev on Sat 17 Apr 2010 at 10:42 AM
Charles Bukowski's gravestone reads "Don't Try”. It's from one of his poems, advising inspiring writers and poets about inspiration and creativity.
Somebody at one of these places [...] asked me: "Wh
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Real Time Notification System
www.herblainchbury.com on Sat 17 Apr 2010 at 8:11 AM
At OpenGovWest I had the opportunity to hear about and discuss a host of innovative ideas involving open data and open government. One of the most impressive examples that was discussed was OneBusA
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VictoriaTechjob: Systems Integration Engineer -- Ocean Networks Canada http://www
Twitter on Fri 16 Apr 2010 at 2:13 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Systems Integration Engineer -- Ocean Networks Canada http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4956 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Associate Director, Engineering -- Ocean Networks Canada http://
Twitter on Fri 16 Apr 2010 at 1:57 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Associate Director, Engineering -- Ocean Networks Canada http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4954 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Systems Analyst -- School District 61 http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJ
Twitter on Fri 16 Apr 2010 at 9:16 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Systems Analyst -- School District 61 http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4950 #hiring#career#job
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Advanced Solutions, An HP Company Recognized For Employment Practices
VITP on Thu 15 Apr 2010 at 2:05 PM
Advanced Solutions, An HP Company has received the American Psychological Association's (APA) 2010 International Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award (PHWA) at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. on Marc
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Top Search Queries Update
Metamend on Thu 15 Apr 2010 at 10:25 AM
Google has unveiled new functionality in their webmaster tools which is an update to the Top Search Queries section.
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VictoriaTechjob: Business Systems Analyst -- Beanstream Internet Commerce Inc. ht
Twitter on Thu 15 Apr 2010 at 9:31 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Business Systems Analyst -- Beanstream Internet Commerce Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4944 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Network Administrator -- Beanstream Internet Commerce Inc. http:
Twitter on Thu 15 Apr 2010 at 9:09 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Network Administrator -- Beanstream Internet Commerce Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4942 #hiring#career#job
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Library of Congress to archive Twitter tweets
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Wed 14 Apr 2010 at 9:30 PM
According to this CNN Tech story on April 14, 02010, the Library of Congress announced that it will be archiving all public tweets from Twitter. No doubt some Senators will go all Proxmire over this se
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Wrapping Recursion
MetaTrev on Wed 14 Apr 2010 at 6:54 PM
Euler problem #2 dives into the Fibonacci sequence, a place I've been before. I've decided to use recursion to solve the problem to see how it's done in Ruby. More on that tomorrow. For now, recursion.
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links for 2010-04-14
negativespace.net by msj on Wed 14 Apr 2010 at 11:03 AM
zomigi.com » Deal-breaker problems with CSS3 multi-columns
The first problem is how the browser should handle one or more extra lines of content if the amount of content cannot fill up
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I hate cilantro and you can too
MetaTrev on Wed 14 Apr 2010 at 10:27 AM
After being forced to eat cilantro this past weekend a New York Times article from yesterday justifies my response to what is possibly the only thing worse than eggplant. If Julia Child doesn't like it
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VictoriaTechjob: Electrical/Computer Engineer -- Precision MicroDynamics http://w
Twitter on Wed 14 Apr 2010 at 8:50 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Electrical/Computer Engineer -- Precision MicroDynamics http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4938 #hiring#career#job
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Project Euler Problem 1
MetaTrev on Tue 13 Apr 2010 at 11:13 PM
If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9. The sum of these multiples is 23.
Find the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 below 1000.
My ruby code:
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Real life Douglas Coupland character
MetaTrev on Tue 13 Apr 2010 at 4:08 PM
Tim Bray on life at google:
I didn't allow time for more than showering and dressing; headed out in the morning cool from the Google Apartment to pick up the early Google Bus on Mercy Street, didn't Pe
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links for 2010-04-13
negativespace.net by msj on Tue 13 Apr 2010 at 11:03 AM
robert.swain » FFmpeg x264 encoding guide
So if you wanted to encode using two-pass VBR, the command line would be something like:
ffmpeg -i INPUT -an -pass 1 -vcodec libx264 -vpre fa
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VictoriaTechjob: Technical Analyst -- BCcampus http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?
Twitter on Tue 13 Apr 2010 at 10:09 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Technical Analyst -- BCcampus http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4932 #hiring#career#job
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On Apple's SDK License Changes
www.herblainchbury.com on Tue 13 Apr 2010 at 10:00 AM
IBM used to sell mainframe computers where if you wanted more functionality, they would send an IBM technician to install a huge hardware module in your computer. It was a closed controlled system an
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VictoriaTechjob: Quality Assurance and Training Coach -- Custom House http://www.
Twitter on Tue 13 Apr 2010 at 8:46 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Quality Assurance and Training Coach -- Custom House http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4930 #hiring#career#job
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The Bigger Picture, Visual Archives and the Smithsonian blog
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 13 Apr 2010 at 8:34 AM
Thanks to Peter Kurilecz on the Yahoo! PhotoHistory group, here's the Smithsonian Institution's photography and artwork blog, The Bigger Picture, Visual Archives and the Smithsonian.
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Donald Knuth doesn't use email
MetaTrev on Mon 12 Apr 2010 at 11:09 PM
Donald Knuth is a Stanford Comp Sci prof and author of The Art of Programming (each hefty volume!).
I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address. I'd used e
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Display code in a WordPress.com blog
MetaTrev on Mon 12 Apr 2010 at 7:48 PM
Once upon a time I had figured this out. Google is not as helpful as one would expect either. With some trial and error I've found a solution.
Use the HTML option for editing. Essentially do what this
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Internet gambling sites a sure bet? I wouldn't lay odds on that.
Metamend on Mon 12 Apr 2010 at 2:17 PM
Internet gambling has been and continues to be a fantastic money making venture online.
Gambling by its very nature favors the house, so the even the Internet "house” is usually into profit from the
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Cisco Training Bootcamp Coming to VITP!
VITP on Mon 12 Apr 2010 at 11:37 AM
ARP Technologies Inc. is a worldwide leader in business information technology training for Cisco Systems products and technologies. Certified as a Cisco Learning Partner Associate (CLPA), ARP is focus
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VictoriaTechjob: Manager of Accounting & Inventory -- AML Oceanographic http://ww
Twitter on Mon 12 Apr 2010 at 11:30 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Manager of Accounting & Inventory -- AML Oceanographic http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4926 #hiring#career#job
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Don't Make Me Register
www.herblainchbury.com on Sun 11 Apr 2010 at 10:17 AM
You've worked hard to create your open data catalog and you've spent endless hours and resources creating the data that you are making available. You want to make sure your data is used appropriately
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VictoriaTechjob: Business Development Officer -- UVIc, Genome BC Proteomics Centr
Twitter on Fri 09 Apr 2010 at 3:19 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Business Development Officer -- UVIc, Genome BC Proteomics Centre http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4916 #hiring#career#job
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Twittering in the ivory tower archives Manitoba style
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Fri 09 Apr 2010 at 2:21 PM
As announced on ARCAN-L (02010 04 09):
The University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections is now on Twitter. Follow us at http://twitter.com/umarchives and receive frequent updates on new acqui
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VictoriaTechjob: Business Systems Analyst -- MAXIMUS Canada http://www.viatec.ca/
Twitter on Fri 09 Apr 2010 at 1:50 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Business Systems Analyst -- MAXIMUS Canada http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4914 #hiring#career#job
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Cybersquat in Utah? Bring your "A” game, because they are.
Metamend on Fri 09 Apr 2010 at 1:33 PM
Last month, Utah passed its own statewide anti-cybersquatting law.
This has happened in the wake of recent initiatives in the internet world where entities are trying to set jurisdiction forescalation
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VictoriaTechjob: Account Manager - Constant Content -- Revenue Wire Inc. http://w
Twitter on Fri 09 Apr 2010 at 12:51 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Account Manager - Constant Content -- Revenue Wire Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4912 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: PHP Platform Developer -- Revenue Wire Inc. http://www.viatec.ca
Twitter on Fri 09 Apr 2010 at 12:40 PM
VictoriaTechjob: PHP Platform Developer -- Revenue Wire Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4834 #hiring#career#job
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Google Incorporates Site Speed into Algorithm.
Stepforth and be found on Fri 09 Apr 2010 at 12:19 PM
Well it's official. Google is now incorporating site load speed into its ranking algorithm according to a Webmaster Central Blog post earlier this morning.
There has been chatter about this addition be
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VictoriaTechjob: Project Manager -- Archipelago Marine Research Ltd. http://www.v
Twitter on Fri 09 Apr 2010 at 11:57 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Project Manager -- Archipelago Marine Research Ltd. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4910 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior UI Developer -- Enquisite Software http://www.viatec.ca/V
Twitter on Fri 09 Apr 2010 at 11:44 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior UI Developer -- Enquisite Software http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4908 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior QA Engineer -- Enquisite Software http://www.viatec.ca/Vi
Twitter on Fri 09 Apr 2010 at 11:38 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior QA Engineer -- Enquisite Software http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4906 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Staff Software Engineer -- Enquisite Software http://www.viatec.
Twitter on Fri 09 Apr 2010 at 11:31 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Staff Software Engineer -- Enquisite Software http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4904 #hiring#career#job
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links for 2010-04-09
negativespace.net by msj on Fri 09 Apr 2010 at 11:04 AM
5 MOVIE GIMMICKS JAMES CAMERON CAN REVIVE NEXT
BC Ferries: mobile
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Technical Analyst - Monitoring -- Advanced Solutions, an
Twitter on Fri 09 Apr 2010 at 10:18 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Technical Analyst - Monitoring -- Advanced Solutions, an HP Company http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4902 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Technical Analyst -- Advanced Solutions, an HP Com
Twitter on Fri 09 Apr 2010 at 10:01 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Technical Analyst -- Advanced Solutions, an HP Company http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4900 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Technical Analyst -- Advanced Solutions, an HP Company ht
Twitter on Fri 09 Apr 2010 at 9:31 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Technical Analyst -- Advanced Solutions, an HP Company http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4898 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Developer, Mineral Oil and Gas Programs -- Advanced Solutions, a
Twitter on Fri 09 Apr 2010 at 9:15 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Developer, Mineral Oil and Gas Programs -- Advanced Solutions, an HP Company http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4896 #hiring#career#job
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Does Facebook Face Challenges Ahead?
Stepforth and be found on Thu 08 Apr 2010 at 4:56 PM
When a graph showing a increase of unique Facebook visitors (March '08 to December '08) crossed my desktop, one nagging question immediately entered my mind: Why doesn't the number of Facebook visits h
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Image Functionality to XML Sitemaps
Stepforth and be found on Thu 08 Apr 2010 at 9:46 AM
Yesterday Google announced in the Webmaster Central blog the added expansion for images within XML Sitemaps.
By expanding your XML Sitemap to include images in the new format, this will allow Google to
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Why Echofon Is The Best Twitter App Ever
Paul Holmes on Wed 07 Apr 2010 at 11:59 PM
As an iPhone enthusiast and social media enthusiast, I've downloaded pretty much every social media app known to man.
For Twitter, Tweetie 2 was good, TweetDeck was better, and HootSuite was even bette
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Smithsonian Institution Collections Blog
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Wed 07 Apr 2010 at 8:12 PM
The Smithsonian Institution has a Collections Blog using Google Blogger/Blogspot. The first post was on December 23, 02009, which was also the first and only post of 02009, and by April 5, 02010 there
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Cantest Becomes Maxxam Analytics
VITP on Wed 07 Apr 2010 at 2:07 PM
On April 1, 2010, Cantest Ltd., BC's leading environmental, food and pharmaceutical laboratory, will officially change its name to Maxxam Analytics.
The name change is the final step in a process tha
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VictoriaTechjob: Receptionist -- Daniels Electronics Ltd. http://www.viatec.ca/Vi
Twitter on Wed 07 Apr 2010 at 11:46 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Receptionist -- Daniels Electronics Ltd. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4888 #hiring#career#job
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Increasing Web Browser Productivity
Stepforth and be found on Tue 06 Apr 2010 at 2:27 PM
Although Chrome is relatively new it has become one of the easiest web browsers to interface with.
Kawsar Ali shares some of the top extensions for Google Chrome and for anyone using Chrome these are a
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links for 2010-04-06
negativespace.net by msj on Tue 06 Apr 2010 at 11:02 AM
Linear Gradients
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Recommended: VMplayer for your virtual machine appliances
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 06 Apr 2010 at 10:45 AM
I've been trying out virtual macine software that allows me to run Linux distributions on a Windows PC. I discovered that Sun VirtualBox, which was the first one I tried, does not currently support the
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Digital Curation Institute Conference, June 02010, University of Toronto, Ontario
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 06 Apr 2010 at 9:03 AM
From the announcement on ARCAN-L (02010-04-06):
Digital Curation Institute Conference
June 16th - 17th, 2010
iSchool, University of Toronto - Canada
The Digital Curation Institute at the University of
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New British Columbia Archival Network Service Coordinator and e-mail address
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 06 Apr 2010 at 8:10 AM
I was awarded the contract by the Archives Association of British Columbia as its new British Columbia Archival Network Service Coordinator effective April 1, 2010. My main work under the contract is m
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Into the Pixel, ongoing juried exhibit of video game artwork
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Mon 05 Apr 2010 at 9:52 AM
Curious about what some of the upcoming video games will look like or how some existing games differ from their original concept art? Check out Into the Pixel, an ongoing, juried exhibit of video game
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Flow, p.150
MetaTrev on Sat 03 Apr 2010 at 4:16 PM
A Taoist tale on work as flow:
Ting was cutting up an ox for Lord Wen-hui. At every touch of his hand, every weave of his shoulder, every move of his feet, every thrust of his knee - zip! zoop! He slit
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Happy Easter from StepForth
Stepforth and be found on Thu 01 Apr 2010 at 2:27 PM
In order to spend time with our families, StepForth will be closed tomorrow (Friday, April 02) for the Easter Holiday.
We hope everyone has a great long weekend, and may the Easter Bunny be good to all
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VictoriaTechjob: Project Leader -- Elevated Ventures Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/Vi
Twitter on Thu 01 Apr 2010 at 11:22 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Project Leader -- Elevated Ventures Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4874 #hiring#career#job
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links for 2010-04-01
negativespace.net by msj on Thu 01 Apr 2010 at 11:03 AM
Check My Colours - Analyse the color contrast of your web pages
GrayBit v2.0: Grayscale Conversion Contrast Accessibility Tool - Main Page
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Administrative Assistant -- StarFish Medical http://www.v
Twitter on Thu 01 Apr 2010 at 10:58 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Administrative Assistant -- StarFish Medical http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4872 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: QA/Tester -- ENKON Information Systems Inc. http://www.viatec.ca
Twitter on Thu 01 Apr 2010 at 10:44 AM
VictoriaTechjob: QA/Tester -- ENKON Information Systems Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4870 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
What's New, Issue 24 (02010)
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 01 Apr 2010 at 9:50 AM
DPC and DCC are delighted to announce the publication of 'What's New 24? http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/whats-new-issue-24.html
This latest edition marks a new initiative between the Digital Prese
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Worldwide disappearance of pixels, global emergency declared
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 01 Apr 2010 at 9:46 AM
The worldwide disappearance of pixels from computer screens everywhere, that is, on a global scale, has led to the implementation of worldwide emergency measures. If you are able to read this, then you
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X-woman, who is this new type of human?
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Wed 31 Mar 2010 at 7:34 PM
X-woman or Woman X (Denisova hominin in scientific terms) is the name given to what is reported to be a new type of human that lived among modern humans and Neanderthals. The discovery came about as th
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Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada fades to black, advocacy continues thro
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Wed 31 Mar 2010 at 7:04 PM
Another casualty of the federal Conservative government's culture wars, the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada has dissolved effective March 31, 02010. Its important advocacy work for the preser
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links for 2010-03-31
negativespace.net by msj on Wed 31 Mar 2010 at 11:04 AM
Color Scheme Designer 3
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VictoriaTechjob: Inside Sales Representative -- StarFish Medical http://www.viate
Twitter on Wed 31 Mar 2010 at 9:26 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Electronics Engineer -- Axys Technologies Inc http://www.viatec.
Twitter on Wed 31 Mar 2010 at 8:59 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: System Engineer -- Axys Technologies Inc http://www.viatec.ca/Vi
Twitter on Wed 31 Mar 2010 at 8:49 AM
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Blogger Template Designer on Blogger in Draft
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 30 Mar 2010 at 8:38 PM
Google's Blogger service has been added a number of improvements, including the Blogger Template Designer, available on the Blogger in Draft service, that I'm likely going to switch all my blogs from W
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OpenGovWest
www.herblainchbury.com on Tue 30 Mar 2010 at 6:37 PM
I attended OpenGovWest last week. Thought leaders and innovators of the western provinces of Canada and the western states of the USA came together to share ideas and collaborate around the topic of
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Why I may or may not have chosen Rails over Django, for now
MetaTrev on Tue 30 Mar 2010 at 4:28 PM
The above title is an example of my mind state over the past week
confusion, indecision
In the words of Gary V
pick one and get off the bitch train
so that's what I did, and then I picked a different o
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VictoriaTechjob: Software Developer/Engineer -- Precision MicroDynamics http://ww
Twitter on Tue 30 Mar 2010 at 11:58 AM
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links for 2010-03-30
negativespace.net by msj on Tue 30 Mar 2010 at 11:04 AM
Qt 4.3: Qt Reference Documentation (Open Source Edition)
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VictoriaTechjob: Quality Assurance Analyst -- Genologics Life Sciences Software h
Twitter on Mon 29 Mar 2010 at 11:05 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Director, Development -- Procura http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.as
Twitter on Mon 29 Mar 2010 at 9:32 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Director, Development -- Procura http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4836 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Platform Developer -- Revenue Wire Inc. http://www.viatec
Twitter on Mon 29 Mar 2010 at 9:00 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Platform Developer -- Revenue Wire Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4834 #hiring#career#job
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What is the Singularity?
MetaTrev on Sat 27 Mar 2010 at 5:24 PM
It's a term I've browsed over a number of times, without stopping to look (were talking about Technological Singularity here). Singularity is a cool idea, which many claim to be inevitable.
As per Wiki
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links for 2010-03-27
negativespace.net by msj on Sat 27 Mar 2010 at 11:02 AM
VPL Library Patron Authentication Page
City of Vancouver Archives - Search
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Your Genius, Paul Graham Interview, Flow 2.0
MetaTrev on Fri 26 Mar 2010 at 7:31 PM
Salon highlights "The Genius in All of Us” with subtle adoration
Instapaper as a cure for RSS addiction
the Marginal Revolution list their top 10 books of most influence (a hard list to make for man
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Law firms holds meetings, training in Second Life
virtualiscenter blog on Fri 26 Mar 2010 at 7:10 PM
NEW ORLEANS-Jones Walker is one of the first and few law firms to make a foray into the virtual world. In the summer of 2009, the firm developed a presence in the virtual world of Second Life, leasing
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Google Maps Now Offers Address Privacy and Increased Service Areas
Stepforth and be found on Fri 26 Mar 2010 at 4:38 PM
On the 24th of March I was in Vancouver doing some pro-bono work teaching a group of charities and non-profit organizations some of the ins-and-outs of effective web site marketing. Well, a little ways
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ICE Fund Puts $6.6M Into 'SMART' Windows, Clean Energy
VITP on Fri 26 Mar 2010 at 1:49 PM
The Province is investing $6.6 million in two cutting-edge clean technology projects - one that will create synthetic gas from waste wood to generate heat and power, and another for windows that dark
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VictoriaTechjob: Electronic Technologist -- Lojack Locator Sytems http://www.viat
Twitter on Fri 26 Mar 2010 at 11:33 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Developer -- Advanced Solutions, an HP Company http://www.viatec
Twitter on Fri 26 Mar 2010 at 10:19 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Developer -- Advanced Solutions, an HP Company http://www.viatec
Twitter on Fri 26 Mar 2010 at 9:58 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Developer -- Advanced Solutions, an HP Company http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4824 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Technical Analyst -- Advanced Solutions, an HP Company ht
Twitter on Fri 26 Mar 2010 at 9:28 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Technical Analyst -- Advanced Solutions, an HP Company http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4822 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Scientific Data Specialist -- Ocean Networks Canada http://www.v
Twitter on Fri 26 Mar 2010 at 8:51 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Scientific Data Specialist -- Ocean Networks Canada http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4820 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Internal Support Intern -- Blitware Technology http://www.viatec
Twitter on Thu 25 Mar 2010 at 12:13 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior C# Developer -- Archipelago Marine Research Ltd. http://w
Twitter on Thu 25 Mar 2010 at 11:46 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior C# Developer -- Archipelago Marine Research Ltd. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4604 #hiring#career#job
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Remember the good old days of cybersquatting and phishing?
Metamend on Thu 25 Mar 2010 at 9:59 AM
The internet is about to go through some radical change, and I wonder if anyone is prepared for what is about to happen?
The good old days of enforceable phishing, domain tasting and cybersquatting may
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VictoriaTechjob: Manufacturing Quality Engineer -- Schneider Electric http://www.
Twitter on Thu 25 Mar 2010 at 9:37 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Manufacturing Quality Engineer -- Schneider Electric http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4816 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Solutions Promotions Program Manager -- Schneider Electric http:
Twitter on Thu 25 Mar 2010 at 9:31 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Solutions Promotions Program Manager -- Schneider Electric http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4814 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Human Resources Manager -- Schneider Electric http://www.viatec.
Twitter on Thu 25 Mar 2010 at 9:15 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Human Resources Manager -- Schneider Electric http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4812 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Firmware Engineer -- Schneider Electric http://www.viatec.ca/Vie
Twitter on Thu 25 Mar 2010 at 9:01 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Firmware Engineer -- Schneider Electric http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4810 #hiring#career#job
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Going to OpenGovWest
www.herblainchbury.com on Wed 24 Mar 2010 at 6:52 PM
Heading to OpenGovWest this week. I have been working on Open Data ideas for several months and have been watching the amazing progress the Sunlight Foundation has been making over the years. Alt
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VictoriaTechjob: Office Coordinator -- Elevated Ventures Inc. http://www.viatec.c
Twitter on Wed 24 Mar 2010 at 3:42 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Office Coordinator -- Elevated Ventures Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4808 #hiring#career#job
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links for 2010-03-24
negativespace.net by msj on Wed 24 Mar 2010 at 11:03 AM
Job Scheduling in Java - O'Reilly Media
On some projects, you find you need to execute certain jobs and tasks at an exactly specified time or at regular time intervals. In this article
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VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate QA Tester -- OA Solutions http://www.viatec.ca/View
Twitter on Wed 24 Mar 2010 at 9:58 AM
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InterPARES International Symposium, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 29
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Wed 24 Mar 2010 at 9:33 AM
From the announcement on ARCAN-L and other mailing lists (02010 03 24):
The International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES) 3 Project is an international collab
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UK National Heritage Science Strategy released March 02010
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Wed 24 Mar 2010 at 9:21 AM
The United Kingdom has released its National Heritage Science Strategy as of March 02010. According to the front page of the site, "The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee inquiry on Scienc
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VictoriaTechjob: Desktop Support -- Advanced Solutions, an HP Company http://www.
Twitter on Wed 24 Mar 2010 at 9:17 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Desktop Support -- Advanced Solutions, an HP Company http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4802 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Server Administrator -- Advanced Solutions, an HP Company http:/
Twitter on Wed 24 Mar 2010 at 8:56 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Server Administrator -- Advanced Solutions, an HP Company http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4800 #hiring#career#job
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Enquisite Linker is Now Available!
Enquisite on Tue 23 Mar 2010 at 2:44 PM
Enquisite is thrilled to release our latest offering, Enquisite Linker today. We've been preparing the application for a while, and are amazed at how many people have already signed [...]
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VictoriaTechjob: Project Manager -- ACD Systems http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx
Twitter on Tue 23 Mar 2010 at 12:33 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Project Manager -- ACD Systems http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4798 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Hardware Developer -- Telocate Systems Inc. http://www.viatec.ca
Twitter on Tue 23 Mar 2010 at 10:52 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Hardware Developer -- Telocate Systems Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4796 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Software Developer -- Telocate Systems Inc. http://www.viatec.ca
Twitter on Tue 23 Mar 2010 at 10:33 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Software Developer -- Telocate Systems Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4794 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Level Programmer -- Atomic Crayon Web Development L
Twitter on Tue 23 Mar 2010 at 10:09 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Level Programmer -- Atomic Crayon Web Development Ltd. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4792 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Web Developer -- 3xLOGIC ( a subsidiary of CAMACC Systems Inc) h
Twitter on Tue 23 Mar 2010 at 9:17 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Web Developer -- 3xLOGIC ( a subsidiary of CAMACC Systems Inc) http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4788 #hiring#career#job
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Another Patent for Enquisite!
Enquisite on Tue 23 Mar 2010 at 3:58 AM
We received another patent today! - "Selection of advertisements to present on a web page or other destination based on search activities of users who selected the destination."
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Top 5 Tips For New Facebook Pages
Paul Holmes on Mon 22 Mar 2010 at 7:45 PM
1. Make your page title as generic as possible.
If you are setting up a page to promote your company brand, this may not be an option. But generic pages are far more likely to gain fans than brand page
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The Value of DMOZ (Open Directory Project-ODP)
Stepforth and be found on Mon 22 Mar 2010 at 4:16 PM
Last night StepForth hosted the 'WebMarketing Meetup' at Accent Inns, Victoria, BC and though the turnout was small, the tips offered by the participants were valuable and noteworthy.
One of my duties
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Peter Gustavson Donates $10 Million to UVic Business
VITP on Mon 22 Mar 2010 at 11:58 AM
Written by: Carla Wilson, Times Colonist Reporter, March 19, 2010
Link to video: UVic Business Video
When Victoria businessman Peter Gustavson gave $10 million to the University of Victoria's facult
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Code4Lib Journal Issue 9 now available
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Mon 22 Mar 2010 at 11:04 AM
Issue 9 of the Code4Lib Journal has at least one article of interest to the archival community, quoting from the announcement on various mailing lists (02010 03 22):
Challenges in Sustainable Open Sou
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VictoriaTechjob: Technology Transfer Officer -- University of Victoria http://www
Twitter on Mon 22 Mar 2010 at 10:10 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Technology Transfer Officer -- University of Victoria http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4784 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Sensor Assembly Specialist -- AML Oceanographic http://www.viate
Twitter on Mon 22 Mar 2010 at 9:54 AM
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New issue of Faculty of Information Quarterly, University of Toronto
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Mon 22 Mar 2010 at 9:51 AM
Volume 2, no. 2 of the Faculty of Information Quarterly from the University of Toronto is available. One of the articles is "The Librarian as Digital Humanist: The Collaborative Role of the Research Li
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VictoriaTechjob: Manager of Information Technology -- District of Saanich http://
Twitter on Mon 22 Mar 2010 at 9:40 AM
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links for 2010-03-20
negativespace.net by msj on Sat 20 Mar 2010 at 11:02 AM
LHC OP Vistars
The League of Moveable Type
Thomas Maier - web & communicati
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Gentlemen, prime your cannons, it's the War of 1812 Canadian history site
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Fri 19 Mar 2010 at 8:05 PM
1812 History is a Web site devoted to the War of 1812 that was assembled by Brock University Special Collections and Archives. Partners include a number of Ontario museums with significant collections
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Joomla and Drupal for libraries (and archives)
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Fri 19 Mar 2010 at 5:31 PM
Mark Jordan, head of library systems at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, replied to a question on the WEB4LIB mailing list about the open source content management system Joomla which led to other
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Canada150 social history archiving project for Canada's 150th in 2017
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 18 Mar 2010 at 11:13 AM
Canada will be celebrating its sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary as a nation in 2017. Canada150 "is Canada's largest history gathering project ever. It is a collaborative effort of organizations an
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Noteworthy Websites and More
Stepforth and be found on Thu 18 Mar 2010 at 10:37 AM
There are quite a few online subscriptions I read regularly and the one I read pretty much on a daily basis is 'The Best Article Every Day'. The articles tend to be short and informative.
For example,
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Manager, Branch Services - Island Savings Credit Union ht
Twitter on Thu 18 Mar 2010 at 9:27 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Manager, Branch Services - Island Savings Credit Union http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4768 #hiring#career#job
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Symbolics.canon? It could happen.
Metamend on Thu 18 Mar 2010 at 8:50 AM
The .com domain is celebrating its 25th anniversary.
With much fanfare Verisign is having a celebration to honor the most popular domain extension to date and the industry that it spawned; Bill Clinto
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Twitter is over capacity?
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Wed 17 Mar 2010 at 8:16 PM
Got this error screen upon checking my Twitter account:
A whale is a great metaphor for a sinking service.
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VictoriaTechjob: CAD/DESIGN Technologists -- Kerr Wood Leidal Associates Ltd. htt
Twitter on Wed 17 Mar 2010 at 3:46 PM
VictoriaTechjob: CAD/DESIGN Technologists -- Kerr Wood Leidal Associates Ltd. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4764 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Product Support Analyst -- Latitude Geographics http://www.viate
Twitter on Wed 17 Mar 2010 at 3:31 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Product Support Analyst -- Latitude Geographics http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4762 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Junior Inventory Clerk -- Axys Technologies Inc http://www.viate
Twitter on Wed 17 Mar 2010 at 11:03 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Junior Inventory Clerk -- Axys Technologies Inc http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4758 #hiring#career#job
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links for 2010-03-17
negativespace.net by msj on Wed 17 Mar 2010 at 11:03 AM
Coder Who Says Py: Declarative, context-dependent CSS selectors
Luckily CSS3 has some selectors that allow for context-dependence. Turns out I could style all steps following the curren
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VictoriaTechjob: Lead Business Analyst -- BC Assessment http://www.viatec.c /View
Twitter on Wed 17 Mar 2010 at 8:57 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Lead Business Analyst -- BC Assessment http://www.viatec.c /ViewJob.aspx?id=4756 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Business Analyst -- BC Assessment http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.a
Twitter on Wed 17 Mar 2010 at 8:50 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Business Analyst -- BC Assessment http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4754 #hiring#career#job
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Time Magazine 50 Best Websites and 25 Best Blogs for 02009
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Wed 17 Mar 2010 at 7:26 AM
Time magazine has issued its 50 Best Websites and 25 Best Blogs for 02009.
Source: DIG_REF@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU, 02010 03 17
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March/April 02010 issue of D-Lib Magazine available
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 16 Mar 2010 at 4:44 PM
The March/April 02010 issue of D-Lib Magazine is available. The lineup of main articles is impressive:
Realizing and Maintaining Aggregative Digital Library Systems: D-NET Software Toolkit and OAIster
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VisibleGovernment.ca and the Open Government Data movement in Canada
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 16 Mar 2010 at 4:29 PM
According to its front page, "VisibleGovernment.ca is a Canadian non-profit that promotes online tools for government transparency.” Some interesting projects here, along with a blog and wiki.
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Multi-Regional URL Structures in SEO - the Pros and Cons
Stepforth and be found on Tue 16 Mar 2010 at 3:11 PM
When I was at SMX West 2010 in Santa Clara a couple of weeks ago, I attended a session called Technical SEO. One of the speakers was Maile Ohye (one of the best Google speakers in my opinion) who sho
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VictoriaTechjob: Web Application Developer -- Oak Bay Consulting Inc. http://www.
Twitter on Tue 16 Mar 2010 at 1:12 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Web Application Developer -- Oak Bay Consulting Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4752 #hiring#career#job
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You Suck - A Memo to Microsoft adCenter
Stepforth and be found on Tue 16 Mar 2010 at 1:04 PM
Dear Microsoft. While I value a wider selection brought on by competition, ever since you launched adCenter, your back-end has been plagued with troubles. I find it alarming that even after all this ti
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links for 2010-03-16
negativespace.net by msj on Tue 16 Mar 2010 at 11:03 AM
Qt 4.5.3: Qt Reference Documentation
Qt 4.3: Qt Tutorial 5 - Building Blocks
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VictoriaTechjob: Killer Back-End Dude/Dudette -- Flock http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJ
Twitter on Tue 16 Mar 2010 at 8:51 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Killer Back-End Dude/Dudette -- Flock http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4748 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: iPhone Developer -- HeavyLifters Network Ltd. http://www.viatec.
Twitter on Mon 15 Mar 2010 at 2:02 PM
VictoriaTechjob: iPhone Developer -- HeavyLifters Network Ltd. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4744 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Director of Business Development and Sales -- Neverblue http://w
Twitter on Mon 15 Mar 2010 at 1:33 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Director of Business Development and Sales -- Neverblue http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4742 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Information Security Specialist -- BC Pension Corporation http:/
Twitter on Mon 15 Mar 2010 at 11:43 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Information Security Specialist -- BC Pension Corporation http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4740 #hiring#career#job
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links for 2010-03-14
negativespace.net by msj on Sun 14 Mar 2010 at 11:04 AM
VanFoodies.com
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SAMOA in Surrey goes online
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Sat 13 Mar 2010 at 4:54 PM
SAMOA (Surrey Archives & Museum Online Access) is the acronym chosen by the Surrey Museum and the City of Surrey Archives for its implementation of Minisis Inc.'s MINT, M3 and M2A collections managemen
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Book: I.O.U.
www.herblainchbury.com on Sat 13 Mar 2010 at 11:03 AM
As part of my current effort to become more informed about the state of the country, economy and markets I recently finished reading I.O.U. by John Lanchester. While Life Inc. described the nature of
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VictoriaTechjob: Quality Assurance and Training Coach -- Custom House http://www.
Twitter on Fri 12 Mar 2010 at 12:00 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Quality Assurance and Training Coach -- Custom House http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4734 #hiring#career#job
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Power To Play Challenge at VITP on A Channel News
VITP on Fri 12 Mar 2010 at 10:47 AM
Check out the TD Power To Play 2010 Lauch on 'A' Channel News March 3, 2010. Featuring: Hudson Mack, Tim Cormode and Chris Chase. With guest appearances by Sarah Glenn, Carley Julien and Kevin Chapma
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Help recover stolen books and documents from western US and Canadian public and u
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Fri 12 Mar 2010 at 9:26 AM
The Denver Public Library created a Flickr page to help recover photographs stolen by convicted thief James Lyman Brubaker. The FBI release dated September 15, 02008 indicates he stole books and/or mul
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VictoriaTechjob: Experienced Bookkeeper -- Blitware Technology http://www.viatec.
Twitter on Fri 12 Mar 2010 at 9:13 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Experienced Bookkeeper -- Blitware Technology http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4732 #hiring#career#job
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Ulysses S. Grant Digital Collection, Mississippi State University
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Fri 12 Mar 2010 at 9:10 AM
From the announcement on the ARCHIVES mailing list (02010 03 11):
Mississippi State University Libraries are happy to announce that the Ulysses S. Grant collection is now available online at http://dig
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links for 2010-03-12
negativespace.net by msj on Fri 12 Mar 2010 at 9:05 AM
Signs: The most useful thing you pay no attention to. - By Julia Turner - Slate Magazine
50 Best Color Sites for Designers
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Oxford University Bodleian Library's futureArch project (02008-02011)
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 11 Mar 2010 at 4:46 PM
Oxford University's Bodleian Library is creating an electronic records and archives management system for born-digital materials called BEAM (Bodleian Electronic Archives and Manuscripts). In addition
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Center for Digital Storytelling, Berkeley, CA, USA
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 11 Mar 2010 at 3:13 PM
The Center for Digital Storytelling, based in Berkeley, CA, USA, offers workshops around the world. An upcoming three-day workshop will be held at Royal Roads University, Vancouver Island, from March 2
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Terrier wags its IR tail on verison 3
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 11 Mar 2010 at 3:01 PM
From the front page of Terrier, which is now at version 3.0 (02010 03 11):
Terrier is a highly flexible, efficient, and effective open source search engine, readily deployable on large-scale collection
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Biting the hand that feeds your tribe.
Metamend on Thu 11 Mar 2010 at 11:08 AM
Social media has been a function of college since the birth of social media.
Facebook itself started life as a college only application and many of the other now famous social media sites were dreamt o
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VictoriaTechjob: Assistant Manager, Client Services -- Custom House http://www.vi
Twitter on Thu 11 Mar 2010 at 10:53 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Assistant Manager, Client Services -- Custom House http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4726 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Consultant - GIS Web Developer -- ESRI Canada http://www.
Twitter on Thu 11 Mar 2010 at 10:14 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Consultant - GIS Web Developer -- ESRI Canada http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4724 #hiring#career#job
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LifeSciences BC Announces Recipients of the 2010 LifeSciences British Columbia Aw
VITP on Thu 11 Mar 2010 at 9:50 AM
LifeSciences British Columbia today announced the recipients of the 2010 LifeSciences British Columbia Awards. They are:
Genome BC Award for Scientific Excellence:
- Drs. Marco Marra, Rob Holt, and Ste
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VictoriaTechjob: Client Support Analyst -- BC Assessment http://www.viatec.ca/Vie
Twitter on Thu 11 Mar 2010 at 9:30 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Client Support Analyst -- BC Assessment http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4722 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Web Architect / Prime Mover -- FanTan Entertainment http://www.v
Twitter on Thu 11 Mar 2010 at 9:13 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Web Architect / Prime Mover -- FanTan Entertainment http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4718 #hiring#career#job
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links for 2010-03-11
negativespace.net by msj on Thu 11 Mar 2010 at 9:05 AM
Technology Jobs & Career Opportunities in BC - Victoria, Vancouver Island - VIATeC
Resource forks and tar
It turns out tha
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Twestival Victoria
Paul Holmes on Wed 10 Mar 2010 at 11:22 PM
Don't miss Twestival Victoria, a fantastic event organized by a great group of Twitter folks in Victoria. To participate, you don't have to love Twitter (or Facebook, or social media). You need only lo
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VictoriaTechjob: Software Support Analyst -- Municipal Software Corporation http:
Twitter on Wed 10 Mar 2010 at 4:09 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Software Support Analyst -- Municipal Software Corporation http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4716 #hiring#career#job
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Olympic Gold Medal in Energy Efficiency
VITP on Wed 10 Mar 2010 at 3:20 PM
Vancouver scored highly as an Olympic venue despite weather concerns. Equally impressive, the Winter Games also scored well in terms of their energy efficiency.
According to Pulse Energy's Venue Energ
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President & CEO of BCTIA Weighs in on 2010 Provincial and Federal Budgets
VITP on Wed 10 Mar 2010 at 2:29 PM
On March 2, the British Columbia government introduced its 2010 budget, and the federal government tabled theirs two days later. Given the economic backdrop and the debt aversion shared by both gover
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VictoriaTechjob: Adobe FLEX Developer -- Enquisite Software http://www.viatec.ca/
Twitter on Wed 10 Mar 2010 at 9:32 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Adobe FLEX Developer -- Enquisite Software http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4712 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: QA Analyst -- Enquisite Software http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.as
Twitter on Wed 10 Mar 2010 at 9:14 AM
VictoriaTechjob: QA Analyst -- Enquisite Software http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4710 #hiring#career#job
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links for 2010-03-10
negativespace.net by msj on Wed 10 Mar 2010 at 9:05 AM
How to Pop Color Selectively Using Channel Mixers and Layer Masks in Photoshop
There are literally dozens of ways to saturate your colors in Photoshop. For this post I am going to focus
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The Tectonics of Digital Curation Symposium, May 25-26, 02010, MIT, Cambridge, MA
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Wed 10 Mar 2010 at 8:11 AM
From an announcement posted to various mailing lists,
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN
THE TECTONICS OF DIGITAL CURATION:
A Symposium on the Shifting Preservation and Access Landscape
MAY 25-26, 2010
The Ray a
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Google Chrome browser extensions for search marketers
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 09 Mar 2010 at 8:37 PM
The Distilled blog has a great piece dated March 8, 02010 by Frazer Lavender titled "7 Google Chrome Extensions To Make You A More Efficient SEO” (aka search marketer).
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Oprah gets archives and goes genealogical
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 09 Mar 2010 at 8:17 PM
As noted by a BC archivist on the ARCAN-L mailing list (02010 03 09), today's Oprah Show looked at celebrities and their family histories. There are other links you can explore about some of these indi
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VictoriaTechjob: Email Marketer -- Neverblue http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id
Twitter on Tue 09 Mar 2010 at 11:38 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Email Marketer -- Neverblue http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4704 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Technical Support Specialist -- GeoMetrix Data Systems Inc. http
Twitter on Tue 09 Mar 2010 at 9:28 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Technical Support Specialist -- GeoMetrix Data Systems Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4700 #hiring#career#job
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YCombinator extension, SXSW, Dilbert
MetaTrev on Tue 09 Mar 2010 at 7:45 AM
Ten links from March 3 to March 8
YCombinator extends application deadline because "it seems too much to expect that everyone who will start a startup in June will have decided to by the beginning of M
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The Experts' Guide to Keyword Research for Social Media whitepaper from WordStrea
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Mon 08 Mar 2010 at 9:51 PM
Here's an interesting whitepaper from WordStream, a search marketing company, called The Experts' Guide to Keyword Research for Social Media.
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Google Public Data Explorer available in Google Labs
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Mon 08 Mar 2010 at 9:47 PM
The Google Public Data Explorer is now available in Google Labs. The data sources are mostly from the United States. Google is looking for feedback.
Source: "Google Adds Public Data Search Tool To Labs
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ArchivePress, a UK blog-archiving project
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Mon 08 Mar 2010 at 9:40 PM
According to its front page, ArchivePress
is a blog-archiving project being undertaken by the University of London Computer Centre and the British Library Digital Preservation department, funded by the
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VictoriaTechjob: Linux Development Engineer -- Fixstars Corporation http://www.vi
Twitter on Mon 08 Mar 2010 at 11:11 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Linux Development Engineer -- Fixstars Corporation http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4692 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Manager of Web Development -- Neverblue http://www.viatec.ca/Vie
Twitter on Mon 08 Mar 2010 at 8:56 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Manager of Web Development -- Neverblue http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4688 #hiring#career#job
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links for 2010-03-07
negativespace.net by msj on Sun 07 Mar 2010 at 9:01 AM
New! Browse the Complete PopSci Archive | Popular Science
We've partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its or
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Museum Computer Network 2010 Conference call for proposals
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Sat 06 Mar 2010 at 8:55 AM
The Museum Computer Network 2010 Conference Program Committee is delighted to announce the call for proposals for MCN's upcoming conference in Austin, Texas, Oct 27-30, 2010. We'll be accepting proposa
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VictoriaTechjob: Technical Lead -- BC Ferries http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?i
Twitter on Fri 05 Mar 2010 at 9:59 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Technical Lead -- BC Ferries http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4676 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: QC Technologist -- StarFish Medical http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob
Twitter on Fri 05 Mar 2010 at 9:37 AM
VictoriaTechjob: QC Technologist -- StarFish Medical http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4674 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Support Programmer -- Camosun College http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJ
Twitter on Fri 05 Mar 2010 at 9:14 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Support Programmer -- Camosun College http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4672 #hiring#career#job
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links for 2010-03-05
negativespace.net by msj on Fri 05 Mar 2010 at 9:03 AM
Bite-Size Edits: About Us
Bite-Size Edits connects readers and fans with writers, right in the engine room, where sentences are honed and improved. Here you can discover new writers, yo
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Royal Mail Taps eBay Data for Direct Marketing Targeting Tool
VITP on Thu 04 Mar 2010 at 11:16 AM
UK- The Royal Mail has teamed up with eBay data analysis firm Advanced E-Commerce Research Systems (AERS) to launch a new service to help direct marketers target the households likeliest to buy their p
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VictoriaTechjob: Software Engineer (.NET/C#) Developer - Marine -- Quester Tangen
Twitter on Thu 04 Mar 2010 at 11:06 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Software Engineer (.NET/C#) Developer - Marine -- Quester Tangent Corporation http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4668 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Drupal Developer and Themer -- Trapeze Communications Inc. http:
Twitter on Thu 04 Mar 2010 at 9:48 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Drupal Developer and Themer -- Trapeze Communications Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4666 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: EM Components Assembler -- Archipelago Marine Research Ltd. http
Twitter on Thu 04 Mar 2010 at 9:28 AM
VictoriaTechjob: EM Components Assembler -- Archipelago Marine Research Ltd. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4664 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Jr. Software Developer -- Edoc Systems Group Ltd http://www.viat
Twitter on Thu 04 Mar 2010 at 8:53 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Jr. Software Developer -- Edoc Systems Group Ltd http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4662 #hiring#career#job
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Flow + Attention Age = Future of Social Media
MetaTrev on Thu 04 Mar 2010 at 7:47 AM
Flow (psychology) is potentially the best entry on Wikipedia. It's based on a theory by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Coincidentally, the weekend after reading Flow on Wikipedia I happened upon his book "Fl
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Google giveth, Google taketh away SearchWiki
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Wed 03 Mar 2010 at 7:54 PM
According to this Search Engine Land item, Google's killed its SearchWiki feature that allowed signed-in Google Account users to rank and comment on Web search results. SearchWiki has been replaced by
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DENVERINTERNATIONALAIRPORTMOVIE.COM. Amazingly unsquatted.
Metamend on Wed 03 Mar 2010 at 5:15 PM
A recent study of corporate domain purchasing determined, based upon the empirical data collected, that across the board the days of massive defensive registrations are over, or at the very least in a
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VictoriaTechjob: IT Consultant -- Reboot Consulting Co. http://www.viatec.ca/View
Twitter on Wed 03 Mar 2010 at 11:53 AM
VictoriaTechjob: IT Consultant -- Reboot Consulting Co. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4196 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Director of Development & IT -- Revenue Wire Inc. http://www.via
Twitter on Wed 03 Mar 2010 at 10:32 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Director of Development & IT -- Revenue Wire Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4660 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Change Management Coordinator and Technical Writer -- BC Ferries
Twitter on Wed 03 Mar 2010 at 9:18 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Change Management Coordinator and Technical Writer -- BC Ferries http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4658 #hiring#career#job
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links for 2010-03-03
negativespace.net by msj on Wed 03 Mar 2010 at 9:03 AM
zanshin.net » Installing PostgreSQL on Mac 10.6 (Snow Leopard) » Blog Archive
These steps will install PostgreSQL in /usr/local.
LukeW |
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VictoriaTechjob: Research Administrator -- University of Victoria, Genome BC Prot
Twitter on Wed 03 Mar 2010 at 8:56 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Research Administrator -- University of Victoria, Genome BC Proteomics Centre http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4656 #hiring#career#job
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The AHA of Picnik (bought by Google March 1st)
MetaTrev on Tue 02 Mar 2010 at 9:59 PM
Picnik is an online photo editing service. It is Google's most recent acquisition. Based out of Seattle, at one point the company was nothing but a glimmer in one man's eye. John Cook at TechFlash has
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VictoriaTechjob: Imagery Viewer / Data Technician -- Archipelago Marine Research
Twitter on Tue 02 Mar 2010 at 12:24 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Imagery Viewer / Data Technician -- Archipelago Marine Research Ltd. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4650 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Java Developer -- JEA Pension System Solutions http://www.viatec
Twitter on Tue 02 Mar 2010 at 11:51 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Java Developer -- JEA Pension System Solutions http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4648 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Customer Support Rep -- Blitware Technology http://www.viatec.ca
Twitter on Tue 02 Mar 2010 at 11:37 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Customer Support Rep -- Blitware Technology http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4646 #hiring#career#job
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The end of morning meetings?
Victoria OpenCoffeec Cub on Tue 02 Mar 2010 at 11:37 AM
March 10th marks the club's first anniversary. It's been a year of learning and growth and we've attracted almost 15 people to meetings over the period.
There are Startup-minded people in Victoria.
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Digital Antiquity: Transforming Archaeological Data into Knowledge
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 02 Mar 2010 at 8:09 AM
From the front page of an international initiative to create a digital archaeological record standard (tDAR) and digital repository:
Digital Antiquity is a collaborative organization devoted to enhanci
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How I Choose Projects
jeff.io on Mon 01 Mar 2010 at 4:00 PM
My Dad once told me that at a job interview you should interview them just as much as they interview you. I think that's a sound piece of advice and it's something that I have been able to apply to my
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Vancouver Island Technology Park Speaker Series to Kick-off with Don Listwin
VITP on Mon 01 Mar 2010 at 3:56 PM
On March 4, 2010, Canary Foundation Founder Don Listwinwill speak to high-tech executives in Victoria, BC regarding current issues that face the technology sector and the incentive to adapt the industr
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Wordnik Launches Smartwords Initiative as Open Standard
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Mon 01 Mar 2010 at 10:58 AM
Wordnik Launches Smartwords Initiative as Open Standard according to this Information Today Newsbreaks from March 1, 02010. Version 1 of this standard, developed "with help from its first Smartwords pa
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VictoriaTechjob: Technical Investigator -- BC Public Service http://www.viatec.ca
Twitter on Mon 01 Mar 2010 at 10:00 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Technical Investigator -- BC Public Service http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4642 #hiring#career#job
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What's New, Issue 23 (March 02010)
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Mon 01 Mar 2010 at 9:09 AM
DPC and DCC are delighted to announce the publication of "What's New 23? http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/whats-new-issue-23.html
This latest edition marks a new initiative between the Digital Prese
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links for 2010-03-01
negativespace.net by msj on Mon 01 Mar 2010 at 9:02 AM
iFixit: Apple Mac, MacBook, iPod, and iPhone Repair Parts
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Planets Testbed (public beta) released
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Mon 01 Mar 2010 at 9:01 AM
As posted to DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK and elsewhere (02010 03 01),
The newly released Testbed (Public Beta) provides a scientifically sound environment for experiments on different methods i
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Ruby On Rails: The Technology Behind Twitter
MetaTrev on Sat 27 Feb 2010 at 1:43 PM
David Heinemeier Hansson is a partner of 37Signals and founder of the Ruby on Rails web development framework. Maybe that means nothing to you, but if you use Twitter, you use a product developed using
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links for 2010-02-27
negativespace.net by msj on Sat 27 Feb 2010 at 9:02 AM
:nth-child tester
HTML-Ipsum
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links for 2010-02-26
negativespace.net by msj on Fri 26 Feb 2010 at 9:03 AM
78 RPMs & Cylinder Recordings : Free Audio : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
Listen to this collection of 78rpm records and cylinder recordings released in the early 20th centur
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VictoriaTechjob: Software Developer -- Logicopolis Technology http://www.viatec.c
Twitter on Fri 26 Feb 2010 at 8:56 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Software Developer -- Logicopolis Technology http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4640 #hiring#career#job
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The Introverts Are Coming
MetaTrev on Thu 25 Feb 2010 at 9:57 PM
An article titled "Caring for Your Introvert” was published by The Atlantic in March 2003. I hadn't read it until yesterday, so it's new to me. As an oft-misunderstood introvert it resonated deeply.
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19th-century books from the British Library on Kindle for free
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 25 Feb 2010 at 12:35 PM
So screams the headline of Barbara Quint's Information Today Newsbreak of February 25, 02010. The Microsoft-British Library partnership to digitize 19th century books was completed last year and Micros
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VictoriaTechjob: Biomedical Staff Engineer -- StarFish Medical http://www.viatec.
Twitter on Thu 25 Feb 2010 at 11:03 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Biomedical Staff Engineer -- StarFish Medical http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4638 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Systems Engineer -- Caorda Web Solutions http://www.viatec.ca/Vi
Twitter on Thu 25 Feb 2010 at 9:42 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Systems Engineer -- Caorda Web Solutions http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4636 #hiring#career#job
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links for 2010-02-25
negativespace.net by msj on Thu 25 Feb 2010 at 9:03 AM
Sushi Cat | Armor Games
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Royal British Columbia Museum joins the sociable world of Facebook
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 25 Feb 2010 at 8:25 AM
The Royal British Columbia Museum has launched itself into the sociable world of Facebook. A YouTube channel was started in September 2008. Could a blog be next?
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Even "The Wild West” eventually just became "The West”…
Metamend on Wed 24 Feb 2010 at 11:10 PM
Are the wild west days of the Internet over?
Italy would like to think so.
This week the most serious threat to Freedom of Speech online since the internet has been in existence may be the Italian
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A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation published by the MetaArchive Cooperat
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Wed 24 Feb 2010 at 10:21 PM
Members of the MetaArchive Cooperative (Atlanta, GA, USA) wrote and published A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation as "the first of a series of volumes from the Educopia Institute describing suc
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Laptop-free Coffee Zone
MetaTrev on Wed 24 Feb 2010 at 8:57 PM
The Actual Cafe is a neighborhood coffee shop located in North Oakland. They're experimenting with a laptop-free philosophy, and getting plenty of publicity because of it.
I know where I stand. More Co
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VictoriaTechjob: Website Developer -- Azaris Studios Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/Vi
Twitter on Wed 24 Feb 2010 at 2:11 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Website Developer -- Azaris Studios Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4634 #hiring#career#job
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SL's new Viewer - Shared Media: Bringing the Web Inworld
virtualiscenter blog on Wed 24 Feb 2010 at 1:48 PM
The Viewer 2 Beta is finally here, and with it comes a whole host of amazing improvements and new features. There's so much to be excited about that it's impossible (and unnecessary!) to pick a favo
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Social Media and San Francisco
Paul Holmes on Wed 24 Feb 2010 at 1:33 PM
I started thinking about San Francisco, as I was planning to go to WordCamp San Francisco this year (and I organize WordCamp Victoria).
I have also been one of the organizers for Social Media Club Vict
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VictoriaTechjob: Online Advertising Specialist -- Blitware Technology http://www.
Twitter on Wed 24 Feb 2010 at 9:41 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Online Advertising Specialist -- Blitware Technology http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4630 #hiring#career#job
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Ice Cream Monsters
Paul Holmes on Tue 23 Feb 2010 at 11:32 PM
In case you were wondering, yes, I was making these even before I had a child of my own.
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Yahoo and Twitter Go the Distance
Stepforth and be found on Tue 23 Feb 2010 at 9:43 PM
It is all over the airwaves, er 'netwaves'… Yahoo has signed a deal with Twitter to create a relationship that rivals any other search engine's connection to the tweeting platform. I am short on time
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Create Better Product Pages and Get Tips on Using Buzz
Stepforth and be found on Tue 23 Feb 2010 at 8:48 PM
I am in the midst of a project at the moment and I got distracted by a couple of interesting articles from Google that, I expect, are well worth the read for many of you:
?25 Google Website Optimizer T
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VictoriaTechjob: Company Accountant -- Latitude Geographics http://www.viatec.ca/
Twitter on Tue 23 Feb 2010 at 3:49 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Company Accountant -- Latitude Geographics http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4626 #hiring#career#job
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Wired Magazine: How Google's Algorithm Rules the Web by Stephen Levy
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 23 Feb 2010 at 2:13 PM
From the current issue of Wired Magazine comes this great piece of field research by Stephen Levy, "How Google's Algorithm Rules the Web”.
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Talks to Resume - Google is Trying to Stay in China
Stepforth and be found on Mon 22 Feb 2010 at 11:46 PM
According to breaking news from the Wall Street Journal, Google will be resuming talks with China after the Chinese New Year holiday over the future of the company's search engine in the heavily censor
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Frustrated with Google Buzz? Google is Listening
Stepforth and be found on Mon 22 Feb 2010 at 10:25 PM
On February 14th, Danny Sullivan posted a frustrated Buzz about Google Buzz that lured me into making a few comments. Well, low and behold, but a man by the name of Josh Wills who is involved behind th
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CHIN Digital Heritage Symposium, Feburary 02010, archived
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Mon 22 Feb 2010 at 3:46 PM
The CHIN (Canadian Heritage Information Network) Digital Heritage Symposium, held February 4 and 5, 02010 at the University of British Columbia's newly renovated Museum of Anthropology (MOA), has been
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Executive -- Daily Splice Technologies http://www.viatec.
Twitter on Mon 22 Feb 2010 at 11:49 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Executive -- Daily Splice Technologies http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4612 #hiring#career#job
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Hiring - Senior Executive
dailysplice on Mon 22 Feb 2010 at 11:45 AM
Position: Senior Executive
Type: Full Time
Company: DailySplice.com
Location: Victoria (downtown)
Closing: March 17, 2010
Company Overview
DailySplice.com provides word-class podcasting applications
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VictoriaTechjob: Web Content Writer/Editor -- Victorian Epicure http://www.viatec
Twitter on Mon 22 Feb 2010 at 10:18 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Web Content Writer/Editor -- Victorian Epicure http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4610 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Web Application Developer -- Victorian Epicure http
Twitter on Mon 22 Feb 2010 at 10:09 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Web Application Developer -- Victorian Epicure http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4608 #hiring#career#job
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My Information Today Newsbreak published on Google Buzz
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Mon 22 Feb 2010 at 7:39 AM
My short article on Google Buzz was published today as one of the Information Today Newsbreaks titled "Google Gets Stung by Its Own Buzz.”
Google Buzz was launched by Google on February 9, 2010 and i
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BC Government Web site gets social (media)
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Sat 20 Feb 2010 at 5:54 PM
The main BC Government Web site is now offering social media services through the news releases and other access points. You can share the content through Facebook, Twitter (retweet it), Delicious soci
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Wikipedia Saves Public Art (WSPA): New Project to Document Public Art on a Global
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Sat 20 Feb 2010 at 9:49 AM
The ResourceShelf reported on an interesting new Wikipedia project to document public art on a global scale initiated by faculty and students at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. The I
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VictoriaTechjob: .NET (C#) Developer -- Archipelago Marine Research Ltd. http://w
Twitter on Fri 19 Feb 2010 at 3:19 PM
VictoriaTechjob: .NET (C#) Developer -- Archipelago Marine Research Ltd. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4604 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Web Developer -- Blitware Technology http://www.viatec.ca
Twitter on Fri 19 Feb 2010 at 9:01 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Web Developer -- Blitware Technology http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4598 #hiring#career#job
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Smashing Magazine and the sound of design success
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 18 Feb 2010 at 9:13 PM
I'd come across Smashing Magazine before. It was launched in September 2006 and features lots of content about Web site design and development. Consider it essential reading if you're in this field.
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Islandora.ca, another Canadian, open source digital records lifecycle system
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 18 Feb 2010 at 9:49 AM
Close on the heels of Archivematica, a digital preservation system built from open source products and created by British Columbia's Artefactual Systems, comes Islandora.ca from the Robertson Library a
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VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate UNIX Technical Analyst -- MYRA Systems Corp http://
Twitter on Thu 18 Feb 2010 at 9:08 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate UNIX Technical Analyst -- MYRA Systems Corp http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4588 #hiring#career#job
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Please Rob Me and the problem of geo-location records
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 18 Feb 2010 at 9:02 AM
Please Rob Me points out the obvious to those who have been practicing and preaching the important mantra of online privacy. Constantly broadcasting your location and activities online has the potentia
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What is Social Discovery?
Paul Holmes on Thu 18 Feb 2010 at 9:00 AM
What the heck is Social Discovery? I've seen the term thrown around here and there, but only in passing.
After a chance meeting with Dan Martell on a rainy afternoon in Las Vegas on January 17th, the
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) blogs
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Wed 17 Feb 2010 at 9:41 PM
Since I've been doing some writing about Google, real-time and social search engines, I thought I'd list some of the Search Engine Optimization blogs that offer useful content:
Distilled Blog is from
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VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Technical Analyst, Citrix -- BC Ferries http://www.
Twitter on Wed 17 Feb 2010 at 11:59 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Technical Analyst, Citrix -- BC Ferries http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4584 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Unix System Administrator -- Priority Automation http://www.viat
Twitter on Wed 17 Feb 2010 at 9:59 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Unix System Administrator -- Priority Automation http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4578 #hiring#career#job
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Is Google Buzz the Twitter Killer?
Paul Holmes on Tue 16 Feb 2010 at 5:42 PM
Some have compared it to FriendFeed, some have called it Google's answer to Facebook, and some are just annoyed and can't wait to turn it off (in GMail, you can scroll to the bottom and click on "turn
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Kevin Smith has 1.6 million Twitter followers
Metamend on Tue 16 Feb 2010 at 3:23 PM
Movie Director Kevin Smith has bought 10 tickets on Southwest over the course of the past week to go to such events as Macworld. This week he said "I'm never going on Southwest again.”
Smith had repo
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VictoriaTechjob: Customer Service Analyst -- Agresso Corporation http://www.viate
Twitter on Tue 16 Feb 2010 at 9:22 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Customer Service Analyst -- Agresso Corporation http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4564 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Business Development Representative -- Agresso Corporation http:
Twitter on Tue 16 Feb 2010 at 9:15 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Business Development Representative -- Agresso Corporation http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4562 #hiring#career#job
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links for 2010-02-16
negativespace.net by msj on Tue 16 Feb 2010 at 9:03 AM
Open-Access Journals Break Barriers to Academic Freedom - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education
"This is a strong vehicle for academic freedom," says Mr. Willinsky, whose Public K
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Martin Knelman claims Canadian audio-visual heritage at risk, but is it true?
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Mon 15 Feb 2010 at 8:59 PM
Noted Canadian film critic Martin Knelman published in his column for TheStar.com on February 15, 02010 a piece titled "Audio-visual heritage of nation at risk”.
He's responding in part to a devastat
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VictoriaTechjob: Administrative and Customer Relations Assistant -- Latitude Tech
Twitter on Mon 15 Feb 2010 at 1:13 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Administrative and Customer Relations Assistant -- Latitude Technologies Corp.http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4556 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Production Manager -- Archipelago Marine Research Ltd. http://ww
Twitter on Mon 15 Feb 2010 at 1:05 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Production Manager -- Archipelago Marine Research Ltd. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4554 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Marketing & Communications Manager -- Neverblue http://www.viate
Twitter on Mon 15 Feb 2010 at 12:15 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Java Genius (a.k.a. Software Developer) -- Genologics Life Scien
Twitter on Mon 15 Feb 2010 at 11:48 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Inside Sales Representative -- Genologics Life Sciences Software
Twitter on Mon 15 Feb 2010 at 11:38 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Product Manager -- Genologics Life Sciences Software http://www.
Twitter on Mon 15 Feb 2010 at 11:28 AM
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links for 2010-02-15
negativespace.net by msj on Mon 15 Feb 2010 at 9:04 AM
Getting Started with Rails
This Guide is based on Rails 2.3. Some of the code shown here will not work in older versions of Rails.
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TED5000-C Install
Code This on Sun 14 Feb 2010 at 5:11 PM
This post has nothing to do with software development, but I wanted a place to record my experience installing a TED5000-C from "The Energy Detective". My TED5000 just arrived the other day and I spent
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Questions and opinions from a Canadian music industry icon about Canadian archive
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Sat 13 Feb 2010 at 10:42 AM
I hope legendary Vancouver rock and roll dj Red Robinson's letter to the Times-Colonist newspaper on February 13, 02010 might provoke more public discussion about relationships and expectations between
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links for 2010-02-13
negativespace.net by msj on Sat 13 Feb 2010 at 9:04 AM
Oh Alright
Inverted index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
pkp's Profile
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VictoriaTechjob: Customer Support Representative -- Blitware Technology http://ww
Twitter on Fri 12 Feb 2010 at 9:33 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Quality Assurance Analyst -- Blitware Technology http://www.viat
Twitter on Fri 12 Feb 2010 at 9:23 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Quality Assurance Analyst -- Blitware Technology http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4532 #hiring#career#job
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links for 2010-02-12
negativespace.net by msj on Fri 12 Feb 2010 at 9:06 AM
Riding Rails: Annotated models
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VictoriaTechjob: Desktop Support Administrator -- Neverblue http://www.viatec.ca/
Twitter on Fri 12 Feb 2010 at 9:05 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Business Development Officer -- Ocean Networks Canada http://www
Twitter on Fri 12 Feb 2010 at 8:48 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Business Development Officer -- Ocean Networks Canada http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4528 #hiring#career#job
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Google Maps Labs introduced
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Fri 12 Feb 2010 at 8:42 AM
Google Maps Labs is an opt-in feature that introduces several new nifty functions and fun into Google Maps. The Google Maps Labs icon is a small green beaker in the upper right corner with the word "Ne
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Front-end Application Developer -- University of Victoria
Twitter on Thu 11 Feb 2010 at 9:18 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Front-end Application Developer -- University of Victoria (UVIC) http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4522 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Service Line Lead -- OA Solutions http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.a
Twitter on Thu 11 Feb 2010 at 9:17 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Service Line Lead -- OA Solutions http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4524 #hiring#career#job
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links for 2010-02-11
negativespace.net by msj on Thu 11 Feb 2010 at 9:04 AM
CSS2 Reference
Complete CSS2 reference. How did I live without this?
(tags: css reference webdesign html programming development css2 w3c web design tools)
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My Newsbreak article on 12sprints is now online at InformationToday.com
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Wed 10 Feb 2010 at 11:55 PM
My Newsbreak article on SAP AG's 12sprints collaborative decision-making Web application is now online at InformationToday.com.
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Vancouver
Paul Holmes on Wed 10 Feb 2010 at 3:39 PM
The Olympics gets underway in a couple days. I found this beautiful time-lapse video of Vancouver. Enjoy!
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More on Social Reporting in Enquisite
Enquisite on Wed 10 Feb 2010 at 11:18 AM
Yesterday, I posted about Enquisite adding a Social Tracking function to our reporting suite. I got quite a bit of email expressing interest in knowing more. In re-reading [...]
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links for 2010-02-10
negativespace.net by msj on Wed 10 Feb 2010 at 9:03 AM
Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of Color - Smashing Magazine
Color in design is very subjective. What evokes one reaction in one person may evoke a very different reacti
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1,519 names in one sweep…what a week.
Metamend on Tue 09 Feb 2010 at 10:29 PM
Apparently this was the week for lawsuits.
Another Toyota wrongful death lawsuit has been filed over a fatal auto accident allegedly caused by the uncontrolled, sudden acceleration of a Toyota Corolla.
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Enquisite Adds Social Reports
Enquisite on Tue 09 Feb 2010 at 6:37 PM
This evening, we're adding a new set of reports to Enquisite's Optimizer product.
Optimizer has been Enquisite's core search analytics service since launch. Late last year we added a links [...]
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Get Enhanced… Gmail with Google Buzz
Stepforth and be found on Tue 09 Feb 2010 at 3:25 PM
Just a few hours ago Google announced an enhancement to Gmail called Google Buzz that will be rolled out over the next couple of days. What is Google Buzz? Essentially, it is the incorporation of an im
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How My Cellphone Account Got Hacked - And Yours Can Too!
Paul Holmes on Tue 09 Feb 2010 at 1:21 PM
I arrived home after my family vacation to Disneyland in October. I noticed my cellphone bill was quite large, and assumed it was all the awful roaming charges Rogers (and other Canadian cellphone carr
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VictoriaTechjob: Services Liaison / Technical Services -- Comtech Systems Inc. ht
Twitter on Tue 09 Feb 2010 at 12:59 PM
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Wordle, create your own word clouds
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 09 Feb 2010 at 11:13 AM
Wordle lets you create your own word cloudes. Cute and cool tool.
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VictoriaTechjob: Junior Accountant -- ENKON Information Systems Inc. http://www.v
Twitter on Tue 09 Feb 2010 at 9:11 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Junior Accountant -- ENKON Information Systems Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4512 #hiring#career#job
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Attending OCLC WebJunction online conference, Technology Essentials 2010
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 09 Feb 2010 at 8:42 AM
I'm attending a two-day OCLC WebJunction online conference on technology essentials for libraries. The conference is being broadcast through Cisco's WebEx platform. The conference sessions will be arc
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How to find entry-level programming work
MetaTrev on Mon 08 Feb 2010 at 7:55 PM
As a computer science student, I am on the lookout for entry-level work. Last week I was made privy of a notable job-search tactic I hadn't thought of before. Possibly I shouldn't be sharing this infor
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VictoriaTechjob: Hardware Designer / Firmware Developer -- Reach Technologies Inc
Twitter on Mon 08 Feb 2010 at 3:02 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Hardware Designer / Firmware Developer -- Reach Technologies Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4510 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Lead Software Developer -- FTS http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx
Twitter on Mon 08 Feb 2010 at 11:29 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Lead Software Developer -- FTS http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4508 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Production Planner -- Schneider Electric http://www.viatec.ca/Vi
Twitter on Mon 08 Feb 2010 at 11:02 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Automated Assembly Team Lead -- Schneider Electric http://www.vi
Twitter on Mon 08 Feb 2010 at 10:55 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Automated Assembly Team Lead -- Schneider Electric http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4504 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: System Administrator -- League Assets Corp http://www.viatec.ca/
Twitter on Mon 08 Feb 2010 at 10:19 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Marketing and Communications Manager -- Agresso Corporation http
Twitter on Mon 08 Feb 2010 at 9:26 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Marketing and Communications Manager -- Agresso Corporation http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4500 #hiring#career#job
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New Addition to Victoria Blog List : The One Eyed Man
MetaTrev on Sat 06 Feb 2010 at 5:42 PM
The most recent addition to the Victoria Blog List is The One Eyed Man by John Simpson. It's a photoblog with lots of crisp Victoria images.
I love John's tagline. "Creation is the sudden cessation of
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VictoriaTechjob: Junior QA Tester -- OA Solutions http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.as
Twitter on Fri 05 Feb 2010 at 2:41 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Software/Computer/Electrical Engineer -- Precision MicroDynamics
Twitter on Fri 05 Feb 2010 at 1:59 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Software/Computer/Electrical Engineer -- Precision MicroDynamics http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4494 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Test Technologist -- Daniels Electronics Ltd. http://www.viatec.
Twitter on Fri 05 Feb 2010 at 12:26 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Test Technologist -- Daniels Electronics Ltd. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4492 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Electronics Assembler -- Daniels Electronics Ltd. http://www.via
Twitter on Fri 05 Feb 2010 at 12:20 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Electronics Assembler -- Daniels Electronics Ltd. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4490 #hiring#career#job
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Evernote.com integration with SAP 12sprints
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Fri 05 Feb 2010 at 11:14 AM
I discovered during my beta testing of SAP's 12sprints that Evernote.com's Web-based document storage service is integrated with 12sprints. According to the earliest news release from 2006 on the Evern
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links for 2010-02-05
negativespace.net by msj on Fri 05 Feb 2010 at 9:02 AM
Best Media Art Installations Coming to Vancouver 2010 CODE Live Festival » Vancouver Photographer, Web Strategist & Creative Director
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VictoriaTechjob: Observatory Data Specialist. -- Ocean Networks Canada http://www
Twitter on Thu 04 Feb 2010 at 11:14 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Observatory Data Specialist. -- Ocean Networks Canada http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4482 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Junior Support Analyst / Trainer -- Fare Logistics http://www.vi
Twitter on Thu 04 Feb 2010 at 10:50 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Junior Support Analyst / Trainer -- Fare Logistics http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4480 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Technical Product Support Specialist -- Osler System Management
Twitter on Thu 04 Feb 2010 at 10:23 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Technical Product Support Specialist -- Osler System Management Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4478 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Business Analyst -- Schneider Electric http://www.viatec.ca/View
Twitter on Thu 04 Feb 2010 at 9:04 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Business Analyst -- Schneider Electric http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4476 #hiring#career#job
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Testing 12sprints beta collaborative Web platform from SAP
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Wed 03 Feb 2010 at 7:29 PM
I am beta testing the collaborative Web platform from SAP with the codename of 12sprints. If you would like an invite to participate in an activity, I can set one up and you can contact me through the
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VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Application Developer http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob
Twitter on Wed 03 Feb 2010 at 3:17 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Application Developer http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4474 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Programmer Analyst -- School District No. 63 (Saanich) http://ww
Twitter on Wed 03 Feb 2010 at 2:52 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Programmer Analyst -- School District No. 63 (Saanich) http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4472 #hiring#career#job
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Google and Page Speed, How do I make my Website Faster?
Metamend on Wed 03 Feb 2010 at 10:40 AM
Page load time will become a Google ranking factor in the near future. Find out how to monitor your site's speed and what you can do to improve the load time of your web site pages for your users.
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VictoriaTechjob: B2B Marketing Associate -- Procura http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.
Twitter on Wed 03 Feb 2010 at 10:37 AM
VictoriaTechjob: B2B Marketing Associate -- Procura http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4468 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: User Interface Developer -- ITI International Technology Integra
Twitter on Wed 03 Feb 2010 at 9:48 AM
VictoriaTechjob: User Interface Developer -- ITI International Technology Integration Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4466 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Oracle Application Developer (Intermediate/Junior) -- JEA Pensio
Twitter on Wed 03 Feb 2010 at 9:08 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Oracle Application Developer (Intermediate/Junior) -- JEA Pension Sys.Sol. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4464 #hiring#career#job
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links for 2010-02-03
negativespace.net by msj on Wed 03 Feb 2010 at 9:01 AM
Correcting and Creating HDR Images in Lightroom
This tutorial will teach you how correct and produce a single RAW image into an HDR-like masterpiece using only Lightroom! That's right,
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VictoriaTechjob: Quality Assurance Analyst -- JEA Pension System Solutions http:/
Twitter on Wed 03 Feb 2010 at 8:57 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Quality Assurance Analyst -- JEA Pension System Solutions http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4462 #hiring#career#job
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How a patent came to be
Enquisite on Wed 03 Feb 2010 at 6:00 AM
Many, many years ago when I was a youngster growing up, I read lots of books about people like Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. I marveled at how [...]
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Upcoming SEO Courses from Victoria SEO at Camosun College
Stepforth and be found on Tue 02 Feb 2010 at 5:10 PM
Victoria SEO specialist, Ross Dunn ( CEO of StepForth Web Marketing Inc. ) will be teaching two web marketing courses at Victoria's Camosun College Interurban campus this February and March. The firs
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Punxsutawney Phil Needs a Trademark.
Metamend on Tue 02 Feb 2010 at 3:51 PM
Punxsutawney Phil, the world's most famous groundhog, has an online reputation management problem.
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VictoriaTechjob: Electronics Engineer -- University of Victoria http://www.viatec
Twitter on Mon 01 Feb 2010 at 9:54 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Electronics Engineer -- University of Victoria http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4446 #hiring#career#job
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Book: Life Inc.
www.herblainchbury.com on Sun 31 Jan 2010 at 12:01 AM
I have recently become more and more interested in the state of our world on a macro level and on a recent trip to Vancouver I picked up a few books on the subject in an attempt to become more informed
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Inaugural TechVibes Post, Victoria on the Rise
MetaTrev on Fri 29 Jan 2010 at 4:33 PM
This past week, I've taken on the role of Victoria Blog Contributor for TechVibes.com. I'll be covering the people, companies, and events that contribute to Victoria's growing tech community.
My inaugu
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EDS Advanced Solutions Becomes Advanced Solutions, An HP Company
VITP on Fri 29 Jan 2010 at 2:32 PM
EDS Advanced Solutions Inc (EAS), a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard (Canada) Co., announced a name change today, that EDS Advanced Solutions will become - Advanced Solutions, An HP Company.
Advanced S
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VictoriaTechjob: SR. Mechanical Engineer -- StarFish Medical http://www.viatec.ca
Twitter on Fri 29 Jan 2010 at 11:32 AM
VictoriaTechjob: SR. Mechanical Engineer -- StarFish Medical http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4442 #hiring#career#job
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Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Licenses To Second Life Museum
virtualiscenter blog on Fri 29 Jan 2010 at 10:00 AM
A Frank Lloyd Wright Museum has been in operation in Second Life for six months [SLURL]. Now, though, it's officially working in partnership with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation under the new name o
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VictoriaTechjob: Online Community Coordinator -- Revenue Wire Inc. http://www.via
Twitter on Fri 29 Jan 2010 at 9:43 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Online Community Coordinator -- Revenue Wire Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4438 #hiring#career#job
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links for 2010-01-29
negativespace.net by msj on Fri 29 Jan 2010 at 9:03 AM
Panopticlick
Panopticlick tests your browser to see how unique it is based on the information it will share with sites it visits. Click below and you will be given a uniqueness score, l
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VictoriaTechjob: JAVA Developer -- Priority Automation http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJ
Twitter on Fri 29 Jan 2010 at 9:01 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Oracle Database Developer -- Priority Automation http://www.viat
Twitter on Fri 29 Jan 2010 at 8:57 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Oracle Database Developer -- Priority Automation http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4434 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Programmer -- ProWeb Insurance Software Inc. http://www.viatec.c
Twitter on Thu 28 Jan 2010 at 12:50 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Programmer -- ProWeb Insurance Software Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4432 #hiring#career#job
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OpenSource.com launched by Red Hat
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 28 Jan 2010 at 10:23 AM
Red Hat, the purveyors of Red Hat Linux and other products, have launched OpenSource.com as a "community service.” According to the About page, "opensource.com is where we explore what happens when t
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VictoriaTechjob: Marketing / Communications Coordinator -- Advanced Economic Rese
Twitter on Thu 28 Jan 2010 at 9:12 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Marketing / Communications Coordinator -- Advanced Economic Research Systems http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4430 #hiring#career#job
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Google Social Search Goes Live (original blog post by David)
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Wed 27 Jan 2010 at 6:43 PM
According to this SearchEngineLand article by Matt McGee, Google Social Search is now live and contains more features than when it originally debuted in Google Labs in October 02009. Danny Sullivan exa
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Apple iPad meets Star Trek
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Wed 27 Jan 2010 at 3:10 PM
I swear I saw the new Apple iPad lurking in the background of the most recent Star Trek film. Apple's own advertising even displays the film being viewed on the iPad. Certainly the concept and design o
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"Yes my son, I want you to download 10 Hail Mary rev 2.3, build 7, service pack 2
Metamend on Wed 27 Jan 2010 at 11:09 AM
In recent times the Vatican has been open about their perception of how the internet fits into the scheme of things from a religious standpoint. This is not a surprise as the internet has become nearly
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VictoriaTechjob: Web Designer/Developer -- Radar Hill Technology Inc. http://www.
Twitter on Wed 27 Jan 2010 at 9:44 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Web Designer/Developer -- Radar Hill Technology Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4426 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Electrical Engineer - DSP Programmer -- IVL Audio Inc. http://ww
Twitter on Wed 27 Jan 2010 at 9:22 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Electrical Engineer - DSP Programmer -- IVL Audio Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4424 #hiring#career#job
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links for 2010-01-27
negativespace.net by msj on Wed 27 Jan 2010 at 9:02 AM
27 Resources to Open Up a Whole New Photography 2.0 World
Ok, so you own a digital camera and you've taken more shots then you can count, and you've filled up more space on your hard dr
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VictoriaTechjob: Software Support Analyst -- Municipal Software Corporation http:
Twitter on Tue 26 Jan 2010 at 1:37 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Software Support Analyst -- Municipal Software Corporation http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4422 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Technical Product Manager -- ParetoLogic Inc http://www.viatec.c
Twitter on Tue 26 Jan 2010 at 10:33 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Technical Product Manager -- ParetoLogic Inc http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4420 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Customer Service Representative - Web-based Products -- AERS htt
Twitter on Tue 26 Jan 2010 at 9:48 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Customer Service Representative - Web-based Products -- AERS http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4416 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Assistant for Communications & Engagement -- Ocean Networks Cana
Twitter on Tue 26 Jan 2010 at 9:08 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Assistant for Communications & Engagement -- Ocean Networks Canada http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4414 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Project Manager -- ACD Systems http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx
Twitter on Mon 25 Jan 2010 at 7:33 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Project Manager -- ACD Systems http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4410 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: German / English Language Support Liaison -- ACD Systems http://
Twitter on Mon 25 Jan 2010 at 7:18 PM
VictoriaTechjob: German / English Language Support Liaison -- ACD Systems http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4408 #hiring#career#job
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SEO Enterprise Level Outsourcing - Why This Makes Sense in This Economy?
Metamend on Mon 25 Jan 2010 at 6:01 PM
A skilled SEO company is your best and most cost effective option to handle the daunting task of continuously growing relevant and converting search engine traffic.
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VictoriaTechjob: Quality Assurance Specialist -- Viking Air Limited http://www.vi
Twitter on Mon 25 Jan 2010 at 5:03 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Quality Assurance Specialist -- Viking Air Limited http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4406 #hiring#career#job
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links for 2010-01-25
negativespace.net by msj on Mon 25 Jan 2010 at 5:02 PM
The Setup
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EDS Advanced Solutions Becomes Advanced Solutions, An HP Company
VITP on Mon 25 Jan 2010 at 4:35 PM
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Touch the burner. C'mon, do it!
MetaTrev on Sat 23 Jan 2010 at 7:27 PM
On Thursday, Chris Whiteley made a great post about attending a presentation made by the co-author of "Trust Agents", Julien Smith. The Victoria Social Media Club hosted the event. I was also lucky en
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links for 2010-01-23
negativespace.net by msj on Sat 23 Jan 2010 at 5:02 PM
The 'true story' of how Dr. King kept Uhura on Star Trek | SCI FI Wire
Nichelle, for the first time, not only our little children and people can look on and see themselves, but people w
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VictoriaTechjob: Product Manager -- Neverblue http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?i
Twitter on Fri 22 Jan 2010 at 5:27 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Product Manager -- Neverblue http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4404 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
OCLC WebJunction group Google Wave for Libraries
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Fri 22 Jan 2010 at 5:21 PM
I set up an OCLC WebJunction group called Google Wave for Libraries on January 21, 02010.
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Roundup of real-time search engines
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Fri 22 Jan 2010 at 5:36 AM
In my latest submission on January 15, 2010 to Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals I briefly looked at work Google is doing with real-time search. Since the whole article was about a numb
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Leading Software - a book in progress
Code This on Fri 22 Jan 2010 at 2:37 AM
I am writing a book.This book is about being an effective Software Development Manager. It's not about how to follow a particular process. It's not about how to build great teams. It's not about how to
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Increase Your Links With Google Webmaster Tools
Stepforth and be found on Thu 21 Jan 2010 at 11:46 PM
Google Webmaster Tools is very useful for a number of things, but this article will focus on improving your inbound links and on site Page Rank.
Even the best webmasters sometimes have broken links on
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VictoriaTechjob: Oracle / Java/ Aion Developer -- MAXIMUS Canada http://www.viate
Twitter on Thu 21 Jan 2010 at 10:34 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Oracle / Java/ Aion Developer -- MAXIMUS Canada http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4402 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Program / Project Manager -- MAXIMUS Canada http://www.viatec.ca
Twitter on Thu 21 Jan 2010 at 10:10 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Program / Project Manager -- MAXIMUS Canada http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4400 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Business Systems Analyst -- MAXIMUS Canada http://www.viatec.ca/
Twitter on Thu 21 Jan 2010 at 9:58 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Business Systems Analyst -- MAXIMUS Canada http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4398 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: MVS Developer -- MAXIMUS Canada http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.asp
Twitter on Thu 21 Jan 2010 at 9:49 PM
VictoriaTechjob: MVS Developer -- MAXIMUS Canada http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4396 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Technical Analyst Maintenance & Supply Chain Applications
Twitter on Thu 21 Jan 2010 at 6:48 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Technical Analyst Maintenance & Supply Chain Applications -- BC Ferries http://bit.ly/8yDbEx #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Creative Designer/Developer -- Neverblue http://www.viatec.ca/Vi
Twitter on Thu 21 Jan 2010 at 5:02 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Creative Designer/Developer -- Neverblue http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4388 #hiring#career#job
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links for 2010-01-21
negativespace.net by msj on Thu 21 Jan 2010 at 5:02 PM
CoffeeGeek - Using a Siphon Coffee Maker
A vacuum coffee maker works on the principle of expansion and contraction of gases - actually one gas, water vapour - is what allows the device
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Google Does Great in 2009 But Will it Do Well in 2010?
Stepforth and be found on Thu 21 Jan 2010 at 7:51 AM
On Thursday, Jan 21st, Google will be releasing its fourth-quarter earnings and stockholders are likely to be very happy with the results. That said, what will happen in 2010?
Google's 4th Quarter Resu
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MetaTrev's Victoria Blog List Vol 1
MetaTrev on Wed 20 Jan 2010 at 10:39 PM
Leave a comment if you'd like your blog added, or if you know of any local Victoria blogs not on the list (I'm sure you do!). The list is updated regularly. Inactive blogs are deleted.
Chris Whiteley
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This is not good code
negativespace.net by msj on Wed 20 Jan 2010 at 10:10 PM
$frequencyIndicator = ($resultCount * $count) + $i++;
Quick: does $i++ return $i before or after incrementing? You shouldn't need to look crap like that up while reading code. Also, does ++ have a hig
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ICA-AtoM virtual appliance
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Wed 20 Jan 2010 at 8:52 PM
Artefactual Systems of New Westminster, BC, Canada, the company developing the ICA-AtoM archival management system on behalf of the International Council of Archives has released the ICA-AtoM virtual a
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50 Cool Search Engines for Serious Readers
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Wed 20 Jan 2010 at 7:58 PM
50 Cool Search Engines for Serious Readers is an annotated listing of specialized search engines broken down into five categories: eBooks; Books to Swap, Sell and Buy; Rare Books; Book Reviews and Comm
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Yaletown Street Lights Shine Green for 2010
VITP on Wed 20 Jan 2010 at 7:13 PM
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The Little Things Add up with SEO
Stepforth and be found on Wed 20 Jan 2010 at 5:56 PM
Let me give this analogy a try; It takes 100 pennies to make a dollar. If you are happy and content with having just 90 cents, then that's okay, but if you demand the full dollar, you can't ignore a fe
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VictoriaTechjob: Technical Support Representative -- Vancouver Island University
Twitter on Wed 20 Jan 2010 at 5:42 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Technical Support Representative -- Vancouver Island University http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4386 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
links for 2010-01-20
negativespace.net by msj on Wed 20 Jan 2010 at 5:03 PM
innerHTML for Mozilla (WebFX)
Javascript properties | accessors | getter / setter « The Unwashed Meme
Getter and setter f
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VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate/Senior Oracle DBA -- MYRA Systems Corp http://www.v
Twitter on Wed 20 Jan 2010 at 4:56 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate/Senior Oracle DBA -- MYRA Systems Corp http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4384 #hiring#career#job
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Privacy - A thing of the past? That's just Blippy…
Metamend on Tue 19 Jan 2010 at 11:22 PM
As I was working on a client's social media build the other day, it occurred to me that suddenly, we as people, have voluntarily surrendered most all of our privacy and anonymity. This idea took hol
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Struggles of a general blogger
MetaTrev on Tue 19 Jan 2010 at 10:56 PM
I wrote this post a couple of months ago, without posting it:
General blogging is a struggle. How do you keep the motivation to post when you're not sure if anyone is reading? What will bring readers t
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VictoriaTechjob: Business Development Director -- Schneider Electric http://www.v
Twitter on Tue 19 Jan 2010 at 9:46 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Business Development Director -- Schneider Electric http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4382 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: EEM Competency Center Director -- Schneider Electric http://www.
Twitter on Tue 19 Jan 2010 at 9:30 PM
VictoriaTechjob: EEM Competency Center Director -- Schneider Electric http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4380 #hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Business Analyst -- JEA Pension System Solutions http://w
Twitter on Tue 19 Jan 2010 at 6:03 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Business Analyst -- JEA Pension System Solutions http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4378 #hiring#career#job
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British Columbia 1885 photo mystery: O.C. Hastings & G.M. Dawson photos
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 19 Jan 2010 at 9:54 AM
Posted the following on the Yahoo! Groups PhotoHistory this morning (January 19, 2010), as well as to my David Mattison blog and this blog:
I was sent two scans from a UK individual that are most intri
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Vancouver 2010: You Gotta Be Here - Super Natural British Columbia
VITP on Tue 19 Jan 2010 at 12:18 AM
Check out why Michael J. Fox, Kim Cattrall, Ryan Reynolds, Erick McCormack, Steve Nash and Sarah McLachlan say You Gotta Be Here in 2010.
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VictoriaTechjob: Product Manager -- Revenue Wire Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJo
Twitter on Mon 18 Jan 2010 at 8:48 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Product Manager -- Revenue Wire Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4374 #hiring#career#job
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Vancouver 2010: You Gotta Be Here - Super Natural British Columbia
VITP on Mon 18 Jan 2010 at 8:38 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Talent & Culture Manager -- Revenue Wire Inc. http://www.viatec.
Twitter on Mon 18 Jan 2010 at 8:37 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Talent & Culture Manager -- Revenue Wire Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4372 #hiring#career#jo
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VictoriaTechjob: Director, Product Management -- Carbonetworks http://www.viatec.
Twitter on Mon 18 Jan 2010 at 5:37 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Director, Product Management -- Carbonetworks http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4370 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
links for 2010-01-18
negativespace.net by msj on Mon 18 Jan 2010 at 5:01 PM
Welcome to Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages
On these pages, I present solid information on (currently) 117 different spice plants. Emphasis is on their usage in ethnic cuisines, particularly
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BC Cancer Agency Lymphoma Discovery
VITP on Mon 18 Jan 2010 at 3:34 PM
Researchers at the BC Cancer Agency have identified a never before
seen mutation (or DNA spelling mistake), in the two most common types
of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. No other types of lymphoma or other
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Review of the Year 2009 and Trends Watch, Information Today
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Mon 18 Jan 2010 at 10:56 AM
Information Today, the publishing company that issues Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals, which I've been extremely fortunate to have published with since May 2002, offers its insights i
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WebWise 02010 Conference, Denver, CO, March 3 to 5, 02010
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Sun 17 Jan 2010 at 9:16 PM
The WebWise 02010 conference for libraries and museums is coming to Denver, Colorado, USA, from March 3 to 5, 02010. The conference theme is "Imagining the Digital Future.”
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links for 2010-01-17
negativespace.net by msj on Sun 17 Jan 2010 at 5:01 PM
Three Plants that Give You Better Indoor Air - Plants - Lifehacker
Kamal Meattle used three just three indoor plant species to increase oxygen, filter air, and boost general health at a
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Weigh In…
the world from my eyes on Sun 17 Jan 2010 at 6:28 AM
I am back in business and ready to tackle a very weighty subject. No pun intended as weight loss and your health are serious topics nowadays.
I am making this site about me and my weightloss plus my
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links for 2010-01-16
negativespace.net by msj on Sat 16 Jan 2010 at 5:03 PM
First Day with Ubuntu at the Office | gaarai.com
SSH Tutorial for Ubuntu Linux | gaarai.com
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VictoriaTechjob: German / English Technical Support Analyst -- ACD Systems http:/
Twitter on Fri 15 Jan 2010 at 5:16 PM
VictoriaTechjob: German / English Technical Support Analyst -- ACD Systems http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4368 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
links for 2010-01-15
negativespace.net by msj on Fri 15 Jan 2010 at 5:04 PM
jQuery 1.4 Released - The 14 Days of jQuery
In celebration of jQuery's 4th birthday, the jQuery team is pleased to release the latest major release of the jQuery JavaScript library! A l
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Choose Relevant Keyword Targets
Metamend on Thu 14 Jan 2010 at 11:44 PM
Ad Hoc Keyword Research is Dead - Determining an optimal keyword list can be a very involved process and is always considered the lynchpin of any successful search marketing campaign.
Topics: hightech
links for 2010-01-14
negativespace.net by msj on Thu 14 Jan 2010 at 5:03 PM
YouTube - Volodos plays Turkish March?Mozart,trans.by Volodos?
Arcadi Volodos plays his own famous transcription of Mozart's Turkish March~from documentary DVD?
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VictoriaTechjob: Network/System Administrator -- ParetoLogic Inc http://www.viate
Twitter on Thu 14 Jan 2010 at 4:56 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Network/System Administrator -- ParetoLogic Inc http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4362 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
Science Park Legislation Introduced in House Today
VITP on Thu 14 Jan 2010 at 3:25 PM
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MMM Tasty
Mark Lise on Thu 14 Jan 2010 at 5:35 AM
I love cooking, and some of the simplest most rewarding items to make of savory goodness is Hummus and Gnocchi (pronounced N-Yo-key).
The hummus is red because I roasted some sweet long red peppers
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Cyber Attacks May Mean the End of Google China
Metamend on Wed 13 Jan 2010 at 11:12 PM
Until a final decision by the powers that be at Google and the Chinese Government the verdict is still out on how this may affect the search engine marketing world.
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Programmer Analyst -- Island Savings Credit Union http://www.via
Twitter on Wed 13 Jan 2010 at 6:48 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Programmer Analyst -- Island Savings Credit Union http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4360 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Chief Architect -- Schneider Electric http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJ
Twitter on Wed 13 Jan 2010 at 5:49 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Chief Architect -- Schneider Electric http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4358 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
links for 2010-01-13
negativespace.net by msj on Wed 13 Jan 2010 at 5:03 PM
Alex Waterhouse-Hayward
Official Google Blog: A new approach to China
These attacks and the surveillance they have uncover
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Electrical/Computer Engineer -- Precision MicroDynamics http://w
Twitter on Wed 13 Jan 2010 at 5:02 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Electrical/Computer Engineer -- Precision MicroDynamics http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4354 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
Free Apps or Free Domains?
Metamend on Wed 13 Jan 2010 at 1:53 AM
Some recent articles credit "APP"s for mobile phones and devices as the death of websites, and that may or may not be true. However, if registry behavior is any indication, there may be something to th
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Preserving the Memory of the World International Symposium, UBC, Vancouver, BC, M
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 12 Jan 2010 at 8:55 PM
From the announcement on the ARCAN-L mailing list (02010 01 12):
Following the great success of last year International Symposium, the University of British Columbia Student Chapter of the Association
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VictoriaTechjob: Experienced PHP Programmer -- Kano Applications Inc http://www.v
Twitter on Tue 12 Jan 2010 at 5:27 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Experienced PHP Programmer -- Kano Applications Inc http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4348 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
Science World Comes to Vancouver Island
VITP on Tue 12 Jan 2010 at 3:20 PM
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E-mail Scams to Watch For
Stepforth and be found on Mon 11 Jan 2010 at 5:52 PM
Remember the Nigerian scam messages way back when? Perhaps not so much way back when but quite awhile ago and still on occasion coming into my junk mail folder.
Scams are annoying, fear mongering, and
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Assurers Of Qualities -- Flock http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx
Twitter on Mon 11 Jan 2010 at 5:04 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Assurers Of Qualities -- Flock http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4344 #hiring#career#job
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LifeSciences BC is pleased to welcome Minister Kevin Falcon
VITP on Mon 11 Jan 2010 at 3:16 PM
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links for 2010-01-10
negativespace.net by msj on Sun 10 Jan 2010 at 5:01 PM
Title Tag Crucial in Boosting your Search Rankings | Business Blogs
"The title tag of your webpage is the one major on-page element that can really make a difference to your search engi
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links for 2010-01-09
negativespace.net by msj on Sat 09 Jan 2010 at 5:02 PM
The Brick Testament
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VictoriaTechjob: Developer -- EDS Canada Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?i
Twitter on Fri 08 Jan 2010 at 7:01 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Developer -- EDS Canada Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4342 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Software Developer -- CAMACC Systems Inc http://www.viatec.ca/Vi
Twitter on Fri 08 Jan 2010 at 6:33 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Software Developer -- CAMACC Systems Inc http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4340 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Business Analyst -- MYRA Systems Corp http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJ
Twitter on Fri 08 Jan 2010 at 5:06 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Business Analyst -- MYRA Systems Corp http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4338 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
Google Real Time Search - 6 Minute Reaction Time for Earthquake
Stepforth and be found on Fri 08 Jan 2010 at 12:10 AM
Google is changing, and becoming far more effective than ever before. With personal and universal search we have seen results and information more relevant to our searches. Now with the relatively new
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Data.gov
www.herblainchbury.com on Thu 07 Jan 2010 at 7:09 PM
I have been checking out the US Federal Government's open data site lately. Imagine a country where citizens vote and elect a party to run the country. Now imagine that the party decides where to s
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links for 2010-01-07
negativespace.net by msj on Thu 07 Jan 2010 at 5:03 PM
37 Fresh jQuery Image And Gallery Display Solutions | NETTED IT! - The Net's Best In One Place
Topics: hightech
Digitized British Admiralty Charts of Canadian Waters at Library and Archives Can
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Thu 07 Jan 2010 at 4:51 PM
The Library and Archives Canada announced the release of a tremendous new resource, digitized British Admiralty charts of Canadian waters: "The 3,400 documents, which cover a 150-year period ending in
Topics: hightech
Nexus One; Smart-Phone. The Online Strategy, Well…
Metamend on Thu 07 Jan 2010 at 4:06 PM
Google's Nexus One product hit the market this week which marked Google's surprising entry into the smartphone market.
Topics: hightech
Wordpress SEO Theme
Metamend on Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 11:05 PM
Stop searching around for the right plugins to use with Wordpress. Try our Wordpress SEO Theme Bundle and save time.
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Web Developer -- ExcelSystems Software http://www.viatec.ca/Vie
Twitter on Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 7:43 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Web Developer -- ExcelSystems Software http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4332 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
Microsoft adCenter - A Little Beef
Stepforth and be found on Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 7:02 PM
It is not rare for me to come across issues when working with PPC platforms that really bug me, but usually I just keep to my self.
There is one design flaw in particular at Microsoft adCenter however,
Topics: hightech
What's wrong with Enterprise Customers
Code This on Tue 05 Jan 2010 at 8:31 PM
I've been thinking about Tim Bray's recent article on what's wrong with enterprise software development. Tim compares the world of agile, iterative, rapid Web 2.0 development to the slow, document-heav
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links for 2010-01-05
negativespace.net by msj on Tue 05 Jan 2010 at 5:03 PM
Lightening Backgrounds in Lightroom
Tracy Chapman - Official Website
Tracy Chapman's website - the splash page is a giant
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VictoriaTechjob: Office Administrator -- Agresso Corporation http://www.viatec.ca
Twitter on Tue 05 Jan 2010 at 4:48 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Office Administrator -- Agresso Corporation http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4326 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Research Assistant -- Kinsol Research Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/
Twitter on Mon 04 Jan 2010 at 10:47 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Research Assistant -- Kinsol Research Inc. http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4324 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: RF Circuit Design Engineers -- Vecima Networks Inc http://www.vi
Twitter on Mon 04 Jan 2010 at 8:06 PM
VictoriaTechjob: RF Circuit Design Engineers -- Vecima Networks Inc http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4302 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Technical Support Analyst -- ACD Systems http://www.viatec.ca/Vi
Twitter on Mon 04 Jan 2010 at 8:04 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Technical Support Analyst -- ACD Systems http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4292 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Java Developer -- Ocean Networks Canada http://www.
Twitter on Mon 04 Jan 2010 at 8:03 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Java Developer -- Ocean Networks Canada http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4306 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Java Developer -- Ocean Networks Canada http://www.viatec
Twitter on Mon 04 Jan 2010 at 8:01 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Java Developer -- Ocean Networks Canada http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4304 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Sales Operations Manager -- Agresso Corporation http://www.viate
Twitter on Mon 04 Jan 2010 at 8:00 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Sales Operations Manager -- Agresso Corporation http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4308 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Test Engineer -- Reliable Controls Corporation http://www
Twitter on Mon 04 Jan 2010 at 7:59 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Test Engineer -- Reliable Controls Corporation http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4312 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: System Administrator -- Revenue Wire Inc http://www.viatec.ca/Vi
Twitter on Mon 04 Jan 2010 at 7:58 PM
VictoriaTechjob: System Administrator -- Revenue Wire Inc http://www.viatec.ca/ViewJob.aspx?id=4310 #hiring#career#job
Topics: hightech
links for 2010-01-04
negativespace.net by msj on Mon 04 Jan 2010 at 5:03 PM
Elliott Kember dot Com
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EDS Advanced Solutions Named One of Victoria's Top Technology Companies
VITP on Mon 04 Jan 2010 at 2:31 PM
EDS Advanced
Solutions Inc (EAS), a subsidiary of EDS Canada Corp., a member of HP
Enterprise Services, today announced it has been selected as one of the
region’s top tech companies by the Victoria
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Blogging from an iPhone
negativespace.net by msj on Sun 03 Jan 2010 at 9:32 PM
This sucks. When you start typing into a textarea field Safari automatically zooms into the field, obscuring everything else. And it displays the textarea field too wide, so the text is constantly scro
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Play Cloud in Virtual Box
negativespace.net by msj on Sat 02 Jan 2010 at 9:50 PM
Cloud is an acclaimed action flight game that allows players to realize their life long dreams of imaginative flight, manipulating clouds and creating weather. "A childhood dream simulator" is how many
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Stuff Stolen on December 27th
negativespace.net by msj on Fri 01 Jan 2010 at 9:33 PM
Blue marble mortar and pestle
iPhone programming book
Black pants I bought for my mother's funeral on the 29th
Photo album
Super Mario Wii
Bill Bisset book
Wii classic controller
Chocolates
Young Aveng
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Top 7 Decades of Recorded Music
Paul Holmes on Thu 31 Dec 2009 at 9:03 AM
What was your favourite decade for recorded music? I have ranked the last 7 based on my highly biased and unscientific methodology.
#7 - The 1990's - This was the absolute worst decade of recorded mu
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Goodbye First Decade of the 21st Century. Still No Flying Cars.
Metamend on Wed 30 Dec 2009 at 7:21 PM
With the end of the year nearing, it is just sinking in to me that we are also closing a decade.
Topics: hightech
Getting Groovy
Code This on Wed 30 Dec 2009 at 3:18 AM
I bought a new book just before Christmas: "Grails. A quick-start guide" by Dave Klein. It's only a basic introduction to Grails development, but it covers enough material to give you a good idea of wh
Topics: hightech
Holiday Lawsuits for Google, Yahoo and Microsoft
Stepforth and be found on Tue 29 Dec 2009 at 7:31 PM
This time of year, there are often few big stories to report on, but that does not mean there isn't some interesting search engine news happening out in the world!
It seems that there is no escaping th
Topics: hightech
Happy Holidays from StepForth
Stepforth and be found on Wed 23 Dec 2009 at 5:56 PM
Happy Holidays to all our friends, clients, colleagues, family, and everyone we know!
In order to spend some quality time with our families this holiday season, StepForth will be closed on Thursday Dec
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Happy Holidays from UVic's Technology Parks
VITP on Wed 23 Dec 2009 at 3:51 PM
On behalf of Dale Gann, Nikki de Goey, Glynn Jones, Av Hundle, Bonny Brewer, Greg Sikora, Uwe Bartley, Darwin Fritz and Barry McLean we wish you and yours a happy holiday season and a prosperous new ye
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Enquisite Suite Update - December 2009
Enquisite on Wed 23 Dec 2009 at 10:59 AM
To end 2009 we've updated and added to Enquisite's Suite of products.
Topics: hightech
Search engines, and the Lawyers who love them.
Metamend on Tue 22 Dec 2009 at 8:55 PM
Recently, a Microsoft disclosure states that a Chinese contract developer working for MSN China was developing "Juku" a micro-blogging site similar to Plurk.
Topics: hightech
Web Archives Registry launched by IIPC
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 22 Dec 2009 at 3:26 PM
From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02009 12 22):
The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) has launched a new registry (http://netpreserve.org/about/archiveLi
Topics: hightech
Fedora 3.3 available as of 02009 12 21
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 22 Dec 2009 at 9:21 AM
From the announcement on DIGLIB (02009 12 22),
Today [02009 12 21], the DuraSpace not-for-profit organization and the Fedora digital repository project announced the release of Fedora 3.3 (http://fedo
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Journal of Digital Information special issue on Information Access to Cultural He
The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Tue 22 Dec 2009 at 9:17 AM
The Journal of Digital Information has published a special issue on Information Access to Cultural Heritage, vol. 10, no. 6 (2009). JoDI is a peer-reviewed Web journal supported by Texas A&M University
Topics: hightech
Search Engine Market Share by Click Through Activity - December 2009
Enquisite on Mon 21 Dec 2009 at 4:27 PM
A search engine market share update as it relates to the change in activity over the last month. Bing continues to show strong forward momentum, and Yahoo continues to fade away. Sad, really. Google's
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New Tool for SME's to Navigate Government Funding Sources - GFUNDS ONLINE
VITP on Fri 18 Dec 2009 at 7:09 PM
We are now three clicks away from funding sources. GFunds Online
is an SME community toolkit that allows you to quickly and simply
navigate all 530 Federal and Provincial technology funding support
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Is Longer Better? What the Best Length for a Query?
Enquisite on Thu 17 Dec 2009 at 3:05 PM
One would assume that a more specific query would result in longer time on site and pages viewed. Surprisingly, That's not the case. In fact it appears that the more specific a query, the more a sear
Topics: hightech
Government of Canada Invests in Canadian Universities to Attract and Retain Top R
VITP on Wed 16 Dec 2009 at 2:23 PM
The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and
Technology), and the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) today
announced $59 million in support for 262 projects in 40 Canadian
research
Topics: hightech
North face with a South butt? It's fair use, BUT is it really?
Metamend on Wed 16 Dec 2009 at 12:12 AM
The North Face Apparel Corporation is suing a small suburban St. Louis-area company called The South Butt.
Topics: hightech
Stick your IT in the cloud!
Code This on Tue 15 Dec 2009 at 9:03 PM
In addition to managing the software development team at GenoLogics, I am also the manager for IT. When I accepted that responsibility, I knew I wasn't going to be able to do things the "traditional" w
Topics: hightech
Never heard of Zhu Zhu pets? Your kids probably have, and so have Sponsored links
Metamend on Tue 15 Dec 2009 at 8:14 PM
Back in the early days of Twitter, also known as the ancient times of 2006, sharing links on Twitter was a huge problem.
Topics: hightech
Why Zope won't Zip
Code This on Tue 15 Dec 2009 at 4:27 AM
I really wanted to like Zope. So much, in fact, that I had one of my developers spend nearly three weeks preparing a case for why it was the proper platform for a new product we are creating. Imagine m
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Prepping goodies for employees
Code This on Sat 12 Dec 2009 at 11:17 PM
Posted via email from Cliff's posterous site
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Oh man is this ever freaky.
Code This on Sat 12 Dec 2009 at 8:12 PM
via tweetie Posted via web from Cliff's posterous site
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Google Penalties - Questions and Answers by Ross Dunn
Stepforth and be found on Thu 10 Dec 2009 at 5:27 PM
Search Engine Guide kindly republished my article called "How a Google Penalty Can Make Your Site Stronger” which prompted some great questions from readers which I have reformatted and posted here f
Topics: hightech
Which Mobile Browsers have the Most Sophisticated Users?
Enquisite on Thu 10 Dec 2009 at 1:45 PM
Looks like Blackberry users view the least pages per mobile browser sessions (that's me), and surprisingly, Palm Pre users are the fastest browsers. On the whole, not a lot of difference across the br
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Browser Share Report and More…
Enquisite on Thu 10 Dec 2009 at 1:16 PM
Last week I posted some information about user behavior in relation to depth of visit. This week I'm going to share some data regarding how different browsers result in varying user behavior.
Are M
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Times Colonist Reports: "Data start flowing from deep ocean"
VITP on Wed 09 Dec 2009 at 3:19 PM
Written by: Judith Lavoie
With the flick of a switch yesterday, the international spotlight
focused on the mysterious world of the deep ocean off the coast of B.C.
After
a decade of planning, resea
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Victoria solar company and First Nations community awarded for BC's largest solar
VITP on Wed 09 Dec 2009 at 2:43 PM
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Twitt.er, Twe.et or Tw.it?
Metamend on Wed 09 Dec 2009 at 12:18 AM
Back in the early days of Twitter, also known as the ancient times of 2006, sharing links on Twitter was a huge problem.
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How Google Real-Time Results are Ranked - The First Draft
Stepforth and be found on Tue 08 Dec 2009 at 6:47 PM
How does Google determine which real-time results will appear? They have to filter through an unimaginable volume of information and make a decision in mere seconds. This is a billion dollar question t
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Google Real-Time Search Intro Plus Q&A
Stepforth and be found on Tue 08 Dec 2009 at 6:08 PM
Yesterday Google unveiled real-time search which has brought with it a great many new marketing techniques and possibilities for web traffic. Want to learn more? Here is how to see real-time search in
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Nyah doing her best Coraline impression
Code This on Tue 08 Dec 2009 at 3:06 PM
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Bludolph the Shriner reindeer (you can tell by his Fez).
Code This on Tue 08 Dec 2009 at 4:20 AM
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Ice at the Tech Park! First sign of winter arrives in Victoria.
Code This on Mon 07 Dec 2009 at 9:39 PM
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Karimah Es Sabar to Transition from LifeSciences British Columbia to the Centre f
VITP on Sun 06 Dec 2009 at 2:40 PM
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And we're headed back to Serious Coffee
Victoria OpenCoffeec Cub on Fri 04 Dec 2009 at 6:04 AM
Serious Coffee at 1280 Broad Street is back open, under new management. The back room has even returned to the great layout from last winter, with the sofas around the fire place. We'll be there at
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Makin pizza with the church youth group.
Code This on Thu 03 Dec 2009 at 3:59 AM
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Top 10 Social Media
Paul Holmes on Wed 02 Dec 2009 at 12:39 AM
I have written various articles on social media in the past, and a few people have asked what my favourites are. The following list is not "the best”, nor specifically "the best for application X”
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I'm a Nanowrimo winner! 50,314 words in 30 days. Too bad my book still needs 50k
Code This on Tue 01 Dec 2009 at 3:27 AM
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So sick today. Skipped church and stayed home to sleep. Haven't done that in a l
Code This on Mon 30 Nov 2009 at 3:56 AM
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Ran the Gunner Shaw 10k despite feeling really awful. Unofficial time: 58:30.
Code This on Sat 28 Nov 2009 at 10:52 PM
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What exactly is Stanfield's selling here?!?
Code This on Fri 27 Nov 2009 at 2:10 AM
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This "puddle" is part of the 10k course I am supposed to run on Saturday. Can't w
Code This on Thu 26 Nov 2009 at 9:44 PM
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Free Advertising in Times Square for Everyone
Stepforth and be found on Thu 26 Nov 2009 at 7:37 PM
Yes, I am serious! Here is the website announcing the big Droid/Google advertising event on Black Friday. Here's the deal: just conduct a Google voice search by calling 888-376-4336 and your results
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Social and Search News at a Glance - Nov 24, 2009
Stepforth and be found on Tue 24 Nov 2009 at 8:38 PM
Hello everyone, this post is a quick overview of the stories of interest in the realm of search engines and related news over the past few days. I am sorry I can't provide more detail on each of these
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How to lose and possibly win an argument online
MetaTrev on Tue 24 Nov 2009 at 6:44 PM
Seth Godin lists eight ways to lose an argument online. I totally agree with his first point that having an argument online means you automatically lose. I agree with it so much I could have stopped re
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College Breaks Ground for $28M Centre of Excellence
VITP on Mon 23 Nov 2009 at 2:52 PM
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Away-from vs Towards Motivation
MetaTrev on Mon 23 Nov 2009 at 2:41 PM
Motivation is the reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way. My dictionary's example is that escape can be a strong motivation for travel. Similarly, in Charles Faulkner's bo
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Got a new rug. Now the dog has a new place to sleep.
Code This on Mon 23 Nov 2009 at 5:55 AM
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Literary Kicks with Levi Asher
MetaTrev on Sun 22 Nov 2009 at 8:48 PM
Literary Kicks was founded in July 1994 by Levi Asher. It's a website/blog about literature and more specifically the beat generation. Levi now has a memoir in progress section posted to the site which
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My 9yr old daughter says "don't be mad, this is funny." I'm not so sure.
Code This on Sun 22 Nov 2009 at 5:05 AM
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How to be Silicon Valley
MetaTrev on Sat 21 Nov 2009 at 9:33 PM
Paul Graham is an essayist, programmer, and programming language designer. He is a partner of Y Combinator. Y Combinator hosts one of my favorite news sites, Hacker News. I came across all this after r
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Just entered the 25th Annual Harriers Gunner Shaw Memorial 10K Cross Country Cla
Code This on Sat 21 Nov 2009 at 2:50 AM
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SecondLife.com Launched in 3 New Languages, Local Currency Payments Coming Soon
virtualiscenter blog on Sat 21 Nov 2009 at 1:04 AM
Hola! Ciao! Boas Tardes!
With roughly 60% of Residents based outside of the United States, localizing the Second Life experience is an important area of focus for us, so we're pleased to share two piec
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New Changes to Come
the world from my eyes on Fri 20 Nov 2009 at 10:26 PM
I am in the process of revamping this site and my content. Please continue to view previous postings and make comments as you may.
Thank you for following and I hope you will continue to follow once c
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Dammit LinkedIn, I'm a college dropout!
Paul Holmes on Fri 20 Nov 2009 at 10:16 PM
My LinkedIn profile is 85% complete. It has been since I first signed up, and probably will be in 5 years. Why? Because I have not included my education. Here's my recent correspondence with Linked
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Social Media tools for the rest of us
MetaTrev on Fri 20 Nov 2009 at 7:52 PM
A list of social media tools from this past weekend:
Alltop.com - all the top news stories, aggregated
GoogleTrends - the latest search engine trends
GoogleReader - your customized news aggregator (a
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Vancouver Cleantech company celebrates rapid growth
VITP on Fri 20 Nov 2009 at 3:49 PM
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9 hour management meeting followed by dinner at Canoe.
Code This on Fri 20 Nov 2009 at 2:34 AM
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Coastal America Spirit Award to Coastal & Ocean Resources Inc.
VITP on Thu 19 Nov 2009 at 7:50 PM
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Improving the Local Creative/Technical Community
MetaTrev on Thu 19 Nov 2009 at 4:23 PM
Derek Neighbors started the Gangplank collaborative incubator in Phoenix, Arizona because all local start-ups were moving to Silicon Valley. The Gangplank Collaborative offers FREE coworking space. Der
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Just picked up my daughter from the Kelly Clarkson concert
Code This on Thu 19 Nov 2009 at 7:03 AM
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Icey cold morning. Sure grateful for my treadmill.
Code This on Wed 18 Nov 2009 at 3:33 PM
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Times Colonist Reports: Rix was a giant in life sciences
VITP on Wed 18 Nov 2009 at 2:41 PM
Dr. Donald Rix will be remembered today as a giant in British
Columbia's life sciences field and a major force who helped to
establish the core of businesses at the Vancouver Island Technology
Park in
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Cleaning Up The…(Part 1)
the world from my eyes on Tue 17 Nov 2009 at 7:54 PM
Have you ever gone through your life thinking that "This is all you are meant to be” or "How can I make a change in my life to get ahead”. First things first, you need to clear your space whether
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Times Colonist Reports: Victoria's high-tech revenue hits $1.95 billion
VITP on Mon 16 Nov 2009 at 4:21 PM
Total annual revenues for Victoria's high-tech community are at
$1.95 billion and the total economic impact of the sector is in excess
of $2.6 billion, according to a new economic-impact study to be
re
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WordCamp Victoria 2009 - Domain Name Acquisition
Paul Holmes on Mon 16 Nov 2009 at 6:51 AM
I gave a presentation at WordCamp Victoria 2009 on Domain Name Acquisition. I rambled a bit, but people seemed to find it useful. If you love .BIZ domain names, I apologize in advance (I don't).
[See
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This is supposed to smell nice. The label seems to disagree.
Code This on Fri 13 Nov 2009 at 10:00 PM
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Couch? Or a collection of brown marshmellows?
Code This on Fri 13 Nov 2009 at 9:42 PM
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Lobby of the Ocean Point Hotel. What a great place to work on my book for #nanowr
Code This on Fri 13 Nov 2009 at 2:14 AM
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Wish I was in the hand sanitizer business right now.
Code This on Thu 12 Nov 2009 at 10:02 PM
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U.S. Military Veterans Center in Second Life
virtualiscenter blog on Wed 11 Nov 2009 at 9:22 PM
Tomb of the Unknown in Second Life
"It is important to note that the US military does not just go to war … we also provide support for others in the form of protection & aid when it is asked for or n
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GfK Conducts Research in Virtual Bucharest
virtualiscenter blog on Wed 11 Nov 2009 at 9:16 PM
GfK Romania has conducted a research project on tourism web site Virtual Bucharest, using the Second Life social networking platform.
Second Life research participantsThe firm set up first focus group
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November 11, 2009 Horoscope!!! WOW!
the world from my eyes on Wed 11 Nov 2009 at 5:02 PM
Today, I opened up and read my horoscope and low and behold it has been true to a fault today!!! All I could say is "OMG WOW”. It is that on the mark. Cheers!! <3
Dee
Sun Sign: Libra
October 4
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Happy 5th Birthday Firefox!
Paul Holmes on Wed 11 Nov 2009 at 9:26 AM
The Mozilla Firefox browser is 5 years old! Now that Internet Explorer isn't nearly as awful as it once was, and Google Chrome has started to raise some eyebrows, we often forget the effect Firefox ha
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WOW - Incredible letter from ACRM - Great Event in Virtualis!
virtualiscenter blog on Tue 10 Nov 2009 at 7:13 PM
Special Thanks to Dr. Lisa Hannold, PhD, Dr. Margaret Steinman, Dr. Margaret Nosek, and Gigi Gernard of ACRM for the opportunity to show off what we could do. It was truly an honor to be of assistance
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Island Tech 2009
Paul Holmes on Mon 09 Nov 2009 at 9:04 PM
Be sure to check out VIATeC's Island Tech event this Friday!
Also, VIATeC has kindly extended free registration to the talks to members of Social Media Club Victoria.
There will also be a Tweetup at 5p
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Our meeting location has changed for November 10
Victoria OpenCoffeec Cub on Sun 08 Nov 2009 at 8:52 PM
Due to the closure of Broad Street's Serious Coffee, we are forced to locate a new place to meet next Tuesday. I asked for feedback on Twitter for a good place to meet and absent any good/bad feeling
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WordCamp Victoria 2009
Paul Holmes on Thu 05 Nov 2009 at 1:01 AM
After attending WordCamp in Surrey recently, I decided it was time to organize one in Victoria.
And what a HUGE response there has been! We already have over 60 people signed up, have 7 sponsors, and
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Death of the Handshake
Paul Holmes on Tue 03 Nov 2009 at 11:44 PM
Shaken hands with somebody you've met recently? I have.
But I seem to be doing it a whole lot less than I used to. Every time you touch the hand opposite, your mind zooms in on the hands, and you see
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Podcasting: When To Use Audio or Video for Law Enforcement.
dailysplice on Thu 29 Oct 2009 at 10:37 PM
The technology behind podcasting has some great features like easy subscription, automatic delivery, aggregation, other benefits of RSS, etc… But simply put, podcasting is just the sharing of audio a
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Continuance…
the world from my eyes on Sat 24 Oct 2009 at 6:07 PM
Just a quick update on the weight loss and body toning…body toning working out well. Picking up an exercise ball next payday. I found doing ab crunches and body stretching worked really well on the
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Law Enforcement 2.0 Podcast - Social Media @Large
dailysplice on Thu 22 Oct 2009 at 5:09 PM
A while ago, I was talking to someone about what we do at DailySplice. I explained what podcasting is, how our podcasting service was unique compared to others, and how I'm surprised more people or bus
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AURP Conference 2009
Paul Holmes on Tue 20 Oct 2009 at 9:29 PM
I am delighted to be speaking at the AURP Conference in Vancouver tomorrow, on the topic of using Social Media in the promotion of technology parks.
I was actually a bit surprised that social media was
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How Police Can Use Twitter.
dailysplice on Fri 16 Oct 2009 at 5:45 PM
This blog post is one in a series that describes some of best and most interesting ways police use social media. This post is limited to Law Enforcement's use of Twitter.
Twitter is a micro-blogging se
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Will Social Media Replace E-Mail?
Paul Holmes on Wed 14 Oct 2009 at 10:36 PM
I tend to think not, but here are two very good articles making the case either way.
Why Email No Longer Rules…
Why Social Media is not going to replace Email Marketing
What do you think?
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Decision on What to Write About…
the world from my eyes on Wed 14 Oct 2009 at 6:20 AM
I have been trying to decide on what to write about. Originally, when I first started out on Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed etc…, I started out telling about my weight loss. With major thought abo
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Building Your Brand in an Increasingly Digital World, Is Podcasting the Answer?
dailysplice on Thu 08 Oct 2009 at 9:23 PM
I came across this speech a few days ago when a colleague recommended I watch it and that it would "really speak to me.” He was right. As a social media enthusiast and keen follower of online media a
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Generation 2.0 Powerpoint
CFAX Online on Sat 03 Oct 2009 at 2:29 PM
Here is the Generation 2.0 Powerpoint presentation as presented to Crimestoppers Vancouver Island on October 3 2009.
Click here for PDF
Click here for Powerpoint
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A Place to Learn and Discuss the Role of Social Media in Police: Law Enforcement
dailysplice on Wed 23 Sep 2009 at 9:49 PM
About a month ago I started a group on LinkedIn called Law Enforcement 2.0. This group was created to facilitate ideas and discussion on the topic of social media and its role the in law enforcement in
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Malicious posts can creep up everywhere
CFAX Online on Sat 19 Sep 2009 at 11:34 PM
On our website someone posted a malicious link on an old post dedicated to Steve Jobs . The post has been deleted as has other malicious posts.
Thanks to an alert reader/listener for catching it.
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Unbelievable Past Few Months…
the world from my eyes on Fri 18 Sep 2009 at 6:20 AM
Over the past few months I have had a wealth of things happen and in the end all things turned out to be good things.
The first thing was moving out of a good friends place and moving into the wonderfu
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StorySomething Demo'd at TechCrunch50
jeff.io on Thu 17 Sep 2009 at 7:44 PM
I'm pleased to announce that StorySomething had the honour of being demo'd at the TechCrunch50.
My company was the lead development firm for StorySomething and we're very proud that this project has be
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Podcast September 12 2009: The Twestival edition
CFAX Online on Mon 14 Sep 2009 at 7:47 PM
Download audio file (02-20090912-140758-cfax-am.mp3)
Click here to download
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Podcast September 5 2009: The Bromance edition
CFAX Online on Mon 14 Sep 2009 at 5:14 PM
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Podcast August 29 2009: The back to the grindstone edition
CFAX Online on Mon 14 Sep 2009 at 4:22 PM
Download audio file (computer-show-august-29th-2009-2p-3p.mp3)
click here to download
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VictoriaTechjob: Computer Operator (1 year contract) -- Coast Capital Savings htt
Twitter on Mon 14 Sep 2009 at 8:35 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Computer Operator (1 year contract) -- Coast Capital Savings http://bit.ly/yB6Gi
#hiring#career#job
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Best Ways Police Use Social Media
dailysplice on Fri 11 Sep 2009 at 12:07 PM
A recent discussion in the group Law Enforcement 2.0 (LinkedIn) has sparked my interest on the subject of police education and social media. This discussion began addressing resource constraints many P
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VictoriaTechjob: Technician/Technologist -- Fare Logistics http://bit.ly/HItyr
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Twitter on Fri 11 Sep 2009 at 11:43 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Technician/Technologist -- Fare Logistics http://bit.ly/HItyr
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VictoriaTechjob: Web Developer/Designer -- Coastal Clicks Media Inc. http://bit.l
Twitter on Fri 11 Sep 2009 at 11:43 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Web Developer/Designer -- Coastal Clicks Media Inc. http://bit.ly/y7Mks
#hiring#career#job
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Google Underwhelms with Interface Change
Stepforth and be found on Fri 11 Sep 2009 at 11:36 AM
Google made a minor change to its interface on Wednesday which is notable only because, well, it is Google. What did they do? Well they stretched the home page search box and increased the size of the
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AXYS Receives $1.8 Million Loan
VITP on Fri 11 Sep 2009 at 10:47 AM
Written by: Judith Lavoie
A Sidney company has received a loan of $1.8 million from the
federal government to work on a high-tech project that will collect
information through buoys and surveillance
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VictoriaTechjob: Web Programmer/Analyst -- Vancouver Island University
http://bi
Twitter on Thu 10 Sep 2009 at 11:59 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Web Programmer/Analyst -- Vancouver Island University
http://bit.ly/4xtfw
#hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Director of Customer Support -- ParetoLogic Inc http://bit.ly/3p
Twitter on Thu 10 Sep 2009 at 11:43 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Director of Customer Support -- ParetoLogic Inc http://bit.ly/3pWREa
#hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Project Leader- PL/SQL Development -- BC Assessment
http://bit.
Twitter on Thu 10 Sep 2009 at 10:17 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Project Leader- PL/SQL Development -- BC Assessment
http://bit.ly/FiqRG
#hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Project Manager -- Schneider Electric
http://bit.ly/zHzr9
#hir
Twitter on Thu 10 Sep 2009 at 10:00 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Project Manager -- Schneider Electric
http://bit.ly/zHzr9
#hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Human Resources Manager -- MAXIMUS Canada http://bit.ly/5XTVE
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Twitter on Wed 09 Sep 2009 at 2:47 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Human Resources Manager -- MAXIMUS Canada http://bit.ly/5XTVE
#hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Java Specialist -- UVic, Department of Physics and Astronomy
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Twitter on Wed 09 Sep 2009 at 2:28 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Java Specialist -- UVic, Department of Physics and Astronomy
http://bit.ly/OB82t
#hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Office and Administration Manager -- Genologics Life Sciences So
Twitter on Wed 09 Sep 2009 at 9:09 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Office and Administration Manager -- Genologics Life Sciences Software http://bit.ly/FJTwp
#hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Web/Graphic Designer -- Caorda Web Solutions http://bit.ly/pU6Hb
Twitter on Wed 09 Sep 2009 at 9:08 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Web/Graphic Designer -- Caorda Web Solutions http://bit.ly/pU6Hb
#hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: User Interface Designer -- Flock http://bit.ly/2oTrHW
#hiring#c
Twitter on Tue 08 Sep 2009 at 9:30 AM
VictoriaTechjob: User Interface Designer -- Flock http://bit.ly/2oTrHW
#hiring#career#job
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Expanding Horizons: Painting and Photography of American and Canadian Landscapes
David Mattison on Tue 08 Sep 2009 at 6:58 AM
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts' exhibition Expanding Horizons: Painting and Photography of American and Canadian Landscape 1860-1918, which will be travelling to the Vancouver Art Gallery, is a spect
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Twestival Victoria - September 11, 2009
Paul Holmes on Mon 07 Sep 2009 at 9:02 PM
Are you still on the fence? What the heck is a Twestival? Is it going to be a bunch of computer geeks sitting around staring at their iPhones?
No, actually - it's going to be an exciting evening filled
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Sounding off archivally at the British Library
David Mattison on Mon 07 Sep 2009 at 8:58 PM
The British Library has launched an online archives of 28,000 sound recordings (2,000 hours) that date back to 1898 when wax cylinders were all the rage. According to the library's announcement of 2009
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Twitterfountain
virtualiscenter blog on Mon 07 Sep 2009 at 5:02 AM
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Social Media's Role in National Preparedness Month.
dailysplice on Fri 04 Sep 2009 at 5:24 PM
September is National Preparedness Month in the US.
During this time governments and other public safety authorities will be disseminating a ton of information regarding emergency preparedness and res
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New Facility to Train Hundreds More Pharmacists for BC
VITP on Fri 04 Sep 2009 at 12:52 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Network Administrator -- AbeBooks.com http://bit.ly/z7FtZ
#hiri
Twitter on Fri 04 Sep 2009 at 12:05 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Network Administrator -- AbeBooks.com http://bit.ly/z7FtZ
#hiring#career#job
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Victoria Shipyards Wins Coast Guard Contract
VITP on Thu 03 Sep 2009 at 7:07 AM
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Mike Vallez Launches DailySplice PodcastStation for "social media's impact on Law
dailysplice on Wed 02 Sep 2009 at 2:31 PM
Mike Vallez has launched his very own DailySplice PodcastStation for his social media blog called: "social media's impact on Law Enforcement and National Security.” Vallez's expert opinion is now ava
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VictoriaTechjob: Technical Program Manager -- AbeBooks.com http://bit.ly/Rrirg
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Twitter on Wed 02 Sep 2009 at 10:31 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Technical Program Manager -- AbeBooks.com http://bit.ly/Rrirg
#hiring#career#job
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Gmail Service Outage
Stepforth and be found on Tue 01 Sep 2009 at 2:29 PM
Google spent much of the day today fighting problems over at Gmail, noting a service outage. As of the time of this writing Gmail was still down, and had been for several hours.
On their apps status da
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VictoriaTechjob: Merchant Support Manager -- Revenue Wire Inc http://bit.ly/WbNiL
Twitter on Tue 01 Sep 2009 at 11:07 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Merchant Support Manager -- Revenue Wire Inc http://bit.ly/WbNiL
#hiring@career@job
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VictoriaTechjob: Merchant Support Coordinator -- Revenue Wire Inc.
http://bit.ly/
Twitter on Tue 01 Sep 2009 at 11:06 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Merchant Support Coordinator -- Revenue Wire Inc.
http://bit.ly/ut868
#hiring#career#job
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Community
Victoria OpenCoffeec Cub on Mon 31 Aug 2009 at 7:31 PM
All members of the Victoria Open Coffee Club are encouraged to create an account on this site (there should be a "e;sign-up"e; link to the lower right of the main home page). These accounts wi
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Android Bruises Apple in China
Stepforth and be found on Mon 31 Aug 2009 at 3:21 PM
On Friday the Wall Street Journal broke the news that Apple signed a lucrative deal in China with China Unicom to sell (what I call) a censored version of the iPhone (it has WiFi removed for "security
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VictoriaTechjob: Middleware Administrator -- EDS Advanced Solutions http://bit.ly
Twitter on Mon 31 Aug 2009 at 2:26 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Middleware Administrator -- EDS Advanced Solutions http://bit.ly/10249h
#hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Server Administrator -- EDS Advanced Solutions http://bit
Twitter on Mon 31 Aug 2009 at 2:25 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Server Administrator -- EDS Advanced Solutions http://bit.ly/c3XBr
#hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Service Coordinator -- Hardwire Telecom http://bit.ly/JXIM6
#hi
Twitter on Mon 31 Aug 2009 at 2:25 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Service Coordinator -- Hardwire Telecom http://bit.ly/JXIM6
#hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Server Administrator -- EDS Advanced Solutions http
Twitter on Mon 31 Aug 2009 at 2:24 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Server Administrator -- EDS Advanced Solutions http://bit.ly/MTfpU
#hiring#career#job
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Dutch national digital preservation survey summary published in English
David Mattison on Mon 31 Aug 2009 at 2:12 PM
The Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation published an English summary of its 1 July 02009 report, A Future for Our Digital Memory: Permanent Access to Information in the Netherlands: Interim
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Podcast August 22 2009: Cabin 12 and Virtuality edition
CFAX Online on Mon 31 Aug 2009 at 11:52 AM
Also our inaugural edition of "High Tech/Low Class”!
Download audio file (computer-show-august-22nd-2009-2p-3p.mp3)
Click here to download
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VictoriaTechjob: Systems Administrator (San/Storage) -- BC Pension Corporation ht
Twitter on Mon 31 Aug 2009 at 10:12 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Systems Administrator (San/Storage) -- BC Pension Corporation http://bit.ly/1DIIwv
#hiring#career#job
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VictoriaTechjob: Middleware Administrator -- EDS Advanced Solutions http://bit.ly
Twitter on Mon 31 Aug 2009 at 10:11 AM
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Yoonifi Introduction
The Official Yoonifi Blog on Fri 28 Aug 2009 at 6:05 PM
In the past little bit, we've talking a little more publically about Yoonifi as we get things in the product a little more tight and usable. This post is intended to provide a tiny introduction to wha
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WordPress Hack Update (Google Reader)
www.herblainchbury.com on Fri 28 Aug 2009 at 2:38 PM
As promised, I am sharing a remedy that I found this post in the wordpress.org site describing the problem I was having with WordPress. I have to say though, it frankly amazes me that WordPress is bei
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The Overwhelming Potential of Online Social Media
Stepforth and be found on Fri 28 Aug 2009 at 10:43 AM
Anyone, even someone 100% immersed in online social media is likely to have moments where they just feel so overwhelmed they need to sit down and shut down their mind for a while. I can't say I am even
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VictoriaTechjob: Software Test Designer -- Schneider Electric http://bit.ly/12ZTe
Twitter on Thu 27 Aug 2009 at 11:58 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Graphic Designer -- Blitware Technology Inc http://bit.ly/12cThu
Twitter on Thu 27 Aug 2009 at 11:57 AM
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Inventing the digital dark ages one encryption key at a time
David Mattison on Wed 26 Aug 2009 at 8:21 PM
Computer scientists at the University of Washington, according to this New York Times story, "New Technology to Make Digital Data Self-Destruct” (02009 07 20), have invented a method for letting digi
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Kids and Teens Are Embracing Twitter Says comScore
Stepforth and be found on Wed 26 Aug 2009 at 4:35 PM
comScore's latest intelligence shows that "teens” between 12 and 24 have dramatically increased their use of the popular microblogging tool Twitter and the kids between 2 and 11 are increasing as wel
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(too) OpenID
www.herblainchbury.com on Wed 26 Aug 2009 at 3:48 PM
Since I am getting totally into identity tech these days I figured it was about time to set up my OpenID and start using it myself. Being a Gmail user it seemed a no brainer to use my Google OpenID as
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Camosun College Hires New Dean of School of Business
VITP on Wed 26 Aug 2009 at 1:06 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Technical Analyst (Citrix) -British Columbia Investment Manageme
Twitter on Wed 26 Aug 2009 at 10:04 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Victoria-Junior GIS Technician -- ENKON Information Systems Inc.
Twitter on Wed 26 Aug 2009 at 10:01 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Victoria-Junior GIS Technician -- ENKON Information Systems Inc. http://bit.ly/19rUPI
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Library à la Carte, a free content management system for libraries
David Mattison on Wed 26 Aug 2009 at 7:00 AM
Oregon State University's free content management system for libraries, Library à la Carte, looks like a real winner. System and technical requirements are
* Ruby
* MySQL Database
* Apach
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The New Second Life Website…a Sneak Peek!
virtualiscenter blog on Tue 25 Aug 2009 at 8:18 PM
Highlights of the new secondlife.com from Torley on Vimeo.
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New Look for Yahoo Homepage
Stepforth and be found on Tue 25 Aug 2009 at 12:29 PM
Yahoo search may soon be just an extension of Bing - this is not a given as of yet, but something that is looking very likely. All that said Yahoo is also not giving up.
Yahoo has recently launched a n
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Web Developer http://bit.ly/pdmKk
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Twitter on Tue 25 Aug 2009 at 12:27 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Developer -- Neverblue
http://bit.ly/pdmKk
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Twitter on Tue 25 Aug 2009 at 9:31 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Developer -- Neverblue
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Mike Vallez - Policeman Turned Social Media Guy Brings His Passions Together.
dailysplice on Mon 24 Aug 2009 at 4:46 PM
In the realm of new social media and law enforcement what makes a person a thought leader? Is it an officer who totally understands social media, or is it a social media expert who done extensive work
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Process Development Engineer -- Redlen Technologies Inc.
Twitter on Mon 24 Aug 2009 at 12:51 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Mid - Tier Systems Specialist (MMA) -- BC Pension Corporation ht
Twitter on Mon 24 Aug 2009 at 11:52 AM
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Share on Tumblr
Paul Holmes on Sat 22 Aug 2009 at 1:05 PM
I've been playing with Tumblr for awhile. It's really cool, and the interface is amazingly simple, but I could never quite figure out exactly what to do with it.
Then I went to WordCamp in Surrey and
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How to Identify a Google Penalty
Stepforth and be found on Thu 20 Aug 2009 at 5:07 PM
Last week I wrote a story called "How a Google Penalty Can Make Your Site Stronger” and since then I have received a lot of inquiries about how to identify if a site has been penalized. Instead of an
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ConnectedCops.net - A New Social Media Blog for Police Departments.
dailysplice on Thu 20 Aug 2009 at 4:19 PM
Another great resource for law enforcement and web 2.0 - ConnectedCops.net. This website is a forum of rich and relevant content for policing, its use of social media, and all of the discussion surro
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Freeporn.com is not free; it's $4 million.
Metamend on Thu 20 Aug 2009 at 4:18 PM
In this age of failing banks and lenders, foreclosures, bankruptcies and socialized car companies, it seems that the good old days of the .com boom are behind us. I admit that the idea of prolific IPO
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Guest Blogging 101
Paul Holmes on Thu 20 Aug 2009 at 1:54 PM
I was recently invited to submit to another blog, to blog on the topic of blogging. This practice has been around for ages, and is generally referred to as Guest Blogging.
I wrote a short article abou
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YikeSite Graphic Facilitation
jeff.io on Thu 20 Aug 2009 at 7:00 AM
Here is a timelapse video of a graphic facilitation session I did with Susan Low from pictureyourmeeting.com. We talked about the YikeSite Reseller Program and the upcoming revamp of the messaging/posi
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Is Social Media a Fad?
Paul Holmes on Wed 19 Aug 2009 at 6:49 PM
Another fantastic socialnomics video!
Is Social Media a Fad? You decide.
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VictoriaTechjob: Sales Coordinator -- ShipConstructor Software Inc. http://bit.ly
Twitter on Wed 19 Aug 2009 at 12:13 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Network Administrator -- ParetoLogic Inc http://www.viatec.ca/Vi
Twitter on Wed 19 Aug 2009 at 11:53 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Edit Database Developer -- AbeBooks.com http://bit.ly/TsGRr
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Twitter on Wed 19 Aug 2009 at 11:51 AM
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VIRTUALIS IN THE Wall Street Journal! - "A Second Chance for Second Life”
virtualiscenter blog on Tue 18 Aug 2009 at 7:07 PM
Northrop, IBM Use Virtual World as Setting for Training, Employee Meetings
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United States National Archives goes Web 2.0 bigtime
David Mattison on Mon 17 Aug 2009 at 8:51 PM
The United States National Archives and Records Administration, NARA for short, has gone Web 2.0 bigtime: a new blog NARAtions was launched in August 02009 and they are also accessible through YouTube,
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Podcast August 15, 2009: The monthly Mac edition
CFAX Online on Mon 17 Aug 2009 at 8:35 PM
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Google Leads in Mobile Search
Stepforth and be found on Mon 17 Aug 2009 at 4:15 PM
In today's daily chart from the Silicon Insider we get to see how well the top search properties are doing on PCs in contrast to Mobile. It probably won't come as much of a surprise that Google has the
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The Prodigy Group
Paul Holmes on Mon 17 Aug 2009 at 1:22 AM
The Prodigy Group is a fantastic group of young entrepreneurs in Victoria, British Columbia with over 200 members.
This video is from the last mingle, held on Thursday, August 13, 2009 at the Canoe Bre
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Canadian Forces and social media make interesting bedfellows
CFAX Online on Sat 15 Aug 2009 at 12:48 PM
Twittering in the military.
The problems is obvious; Twitter even greets you with the friendly statement "what are you doing right now?”. A phrase most members of the military shouldn't answer a grea
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PhotoBlaster 3000
Paul Holmes on Fri 14 Aug 2009 at 5:18 PM
Sometimes I take a photo on my iPhone that I want the whole world to see!
Do I really want to upload it 7 different times using a bunch of clunky apps, redefine the tags and so forth? No, my short term
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Google's AdWords Bid Simulator
Metamend on Fri 14 Aug 2009 at 2:53 PM
As one can imagine creating, managing and maintaining a successful set of Google AdWords campaigns can be a daunting task on some occasions.
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CrimeReports.com - A Smart Web Technology to Combat Crime in Your Neighboorhood.
dailysplice on Fri 14 Aug 2009 at 2:22 PM
Ever wonder where or when the most crimes in your city, town or neighborhood take place? Or what types of crimes are most prevalent in your community? This information is undoubtedly of value for law e
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Caffeine Update Affects Local Organic Results
Stepforth and be found on Fri 14 Aug 2009 at 1:17 AM
It seems Google's Caffeine update includes some significant alterations in their local search organic ranking algorithm.
I whipped up this screenshot side-by-side comparison for you to see the differen
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Google Caffeine Update to be Given in Measured Doses
Stepforth and be found on Fri 14 Aug 2009 at 1:05 AM
On Monday Google did something out of character by announcing a pre-release viewing of a major update to their algorithm they nicknamed Caffeine:
For the last several months, a large team of Googlers h
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"What do you mean my rent is due? I thought I paid that last month?”
Metamend on Thu 13 Aug 2009 at 6:50 PM
Recently a client had taken a similar attitude towards domain name annual renewals. As puzzling as it was for me, I had taken for granted that not everyone understands how domain names actually work! T
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Bing / Yahoo Deal's Impact on your SEO
Stepforth and be found on Thu 13 Aug 2009 at 12:45 PM
With the recent deal made between Bing and Yahoo one must ask them selves, what impact will this have on my search rankings. In this case, it may have a significant impact - at least eventually.
Let's
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VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate ASP.NET/C# Developer -- Udutu http://bit.ly/DSRNU
Twitter on Thu 13 Aug 2009 at 8:56 AM
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Nature Magazine Reports: BC Taking Charge in Clean Energy
VITP on Thu 13 Aug 2009 at 5:56 AM
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Design Timelapse for Morinville.ca
jeff.io on Thu 13 Aug 2009 at 3:00 AM
I recorded the entire design session for the Morinville.ca website redesign. Morinville is a town near Edmonton, AB and they hired us to redevelop their website look & feel.
We implemented their design
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Social Media Interview with Michael Allison
Paul Holmes on Thu 13 Aug 2009 at 12:35 AM
I had the pleasure of lunch today with my old friend and social media connoisseur, Michael Allison.
Michael had the idea of interviewing me for his blog, and I thought that sounded like a great idea, s
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Social Media for Emergency and Disaster Management: A Crash Course
dailysplice on Wed 12 Aug 2009 at 11:46 AM
New social media is bringing people and communities together faster than any communication medium in history. Although, many citizens are tied into social media, those who serve and protect our communi
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The Healthcare Fix For veterans, a virtual world of support
virtualiscenter blog on Wed 12 Aug 2009 at 10:26 AM
The Department of Defense is reaching out to military service members in a virtual world project called "Coming Home.” Tapping into the popular online community of Second Life, already used by the Ar
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Platform Developer -- Revenue Wire Inc. http://bit.ly/q9v
Twitter on Wed 12 Aug 2009 at 9:38 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Human Resources Representative -- Schneider Electric http://bit.
Twitter on Tue 11 Aug 2009 at 4:36 PM
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From Shirts to Suits for Immuno-Precise President
VITP on Tue 11 Aug 2009 at 10:53 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Payroll Generalist -- Custom House http://bit.ly/GT2Rt
#hiring
Twitter on Tue 11 Aug 2009 at 9:42 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Payroll Generalist -- Custom House http://bit.ly/GT2Rt
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How a Google Penalty Can Make Your Site Stronger
Stepforth and be found on Tue 11 Aug 2009 at 6:02 AM
Over the past 12 years consulting on web marketing I have answered countless questions but one question I receive often stands out from all; how to remove a Google penalty. The following is an exampl
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Podcast August 1 2009: The truth will set you free, the iPhone apps edition
CFAX Online on Mon 10 Aug 2009 at 10:43 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Bookkeeper -- ParetoLogic Inc http://bit.ly/11CUG
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Twitter on Mon 10 Aug 2009 at 9:09 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Marketing Communications Specialist -- Carmanah Technologies Cor
Twitter on Fri 07 Aug 2009 at 3:21 PM
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That sucked
negativespace.net by msj on Fri 07 Aug 2009 at 1:48 PM
Attempted to upgrade to MovableType 4.3 this morning: FAIL.
Turns out that MT4 isn't compatible with MySQL 3. The script that checks for compatibility doesn't check for that specific issue, so it hose
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Dr. Tom Pederson Appointed Director of Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions
VITP on Fri 07 Aug 2009 at 1:09 PM
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Google Reader Spam
www.herblainchbury.com on Fri 07 Aug 2009 at 12:29 PM
Ugh! If you're using Google Reader to read this - well - you may not be able to read this because somehow some clever (but annoying) spammer has figured out how to inject spam into my posts for people
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VictoriaTechjob: Developer -- Caorda Web Solutions http://bit.ly/pAUxO
#hiring
Twitter on Fri 07 Aug 2009 at 11:40 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Member Services Liaison -- Comtech Systems Inc. http://bit.ly/4F
Twitter on Fri 07 Aug 2009 at 11:00 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: System Administrator -- Jasco Research http://bit.ly/2ExN9r
#h
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Thunderbird Sculpture
jeff.io on Fri 07 Aug 2009 at 4:45 AM
I've been into rock carving for years but recently I've picked it back up again. It's a good creative outlet that is physical and provides a good venue to get some thinking done.
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New Zealand launches digital continuity action plan
David Mattison on Thu 06 Aug 2009 at 8:57 PM
The government of New Zealand launched its digital continuity action plan on August 6, 02009. According to the announcement, "the Digital Continuity Action Plan was the first government-mandated public
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VictoriaTechjob: Manager of Communication and Engagement -- Ocean Networks Canada
Twitter on Thu 06 Aug 2009 at 11:15 AM
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When exercising your first, maybe you should take the fifth?
Metamend on Wed 05 Aug 2009 at 8:49 PM
I wrote about Twitter in my last blog enty, and I explained how twitter may or may not have what it takes to survive. I wrote that entry before some recent legal cases happened regarding free speech, T
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VictoriaTechjob: Technical Product Manager -- ParetoLogic Inc http://bit.ly/BqN9J
Twitter on Wed 05 Aug 2009 at 1:56 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Technical Product Manager -- ParetoLogic Inc http://bit.ly/BqN9J
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VictoriaTechjob: Accounting Specialist -- ParetoLogic Inc http://bit.ly/11CUG
#h
Twitter on Wed 05 Aug 2009 at 1:48 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Communications Manager -- Custom House http://bit.ly/JYWd4
#hi
Twitter on Wed 05 Aug 2009 at 1:32 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Communications Manager -- Custom House http://bit.ly/JYWd4
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Accountant -- Schneider Electric http://bit.ly/lGW2J
#hi
Twitter on Wed 05 Aug 2009 at 12:56 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Accountant -- Schneider Electric http://bit.ly/lGW2J
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Upgrading my WP Site
www.herblainchbury.com on Wed 05 Aug 2009 at 12:56 PM
I was recently hit with spam on this site so have finally upgraded to the latest and greatest version of WordPress.... it cost me nothing and I learned a cool technique for checking for blog spam... if
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VictoriaTechjob: Games Programmer -- Tobyn Manthorpe Consulting http://bit.ly/PQW
Twitter on Wed 05 Aug 2009 at 12:42 PM
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How to find an RSS Feed.
dailysplice on Wed 05 Aug 2009 at 12:32 PM
If you want to subscribe to a podcast, you're going to need the RSS feed. This is the hyperlink that provides your RSS reader with all the latest episodes from a podcast.
You can find an RSS Feed on a
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VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate or Senior .NET Win32 Programmer -- VIATeC Member ht
Twitter on Wed 05 Aug 2009 at 12:19 PM
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Virtual Worlds May Be the Future Setting of Scientific Collaboration
virtualiscenter blog on Wed 05 Aug 2009 at 9:39 AM
(PhysOrg.com) - Normally, virtual worlds are the setting of many online games and entertainment applications, but now they're becoming a place for scientific collaboration and outreach, as well. A team
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The Globe and Mail Reports: Industry awaits Ottawa's high-tech plan
VITP on Wed 05 Aug 2009 at 6:17 AM
On a mid-May evening, Prime Minister Stephen Harper joined Industry
Minister Tony Clement and 15 chief executives from Canada's largest
technology companies for dinner in a private room of the 6th-floo
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New Blog
jennlog.com on Tue 04 Aug 2009 at 5:01 PM
I've recently moved to jenn.com for my "online presence.”
For a while (read 12 years), I've let jenn.com sit with the idea that I'd eventually turn it into an online Web referrer + Email host + OpenI
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When it comes to our Prime Minister Google has spoken
CFAX Online on Tue 04 Aug 2009 at 3:39 PM
Usually with Google suggestions there is more than one option. Not when it comes to Prime Minister Harper.
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Podcast August 1 2009: The hot edition
CFAX Online on Tue 04 Aug 2009 at 2:46 PM
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VITP embarks on new BC Hydro program
VITP on Tue 04 Aug 2009 at 7:17 AM
The Vancouver Island Technology Park (VITP) will utilize real-time energy monitoring to increase its energy efficiency thanks to BC Hydro’s new Continuous Optimization program. The energy management
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VITP Welcomes International Hydropower Company
VITP on Tue 04 Aug 2009 at 5:03 AM
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Want a thinner body in real life? Design a slim, trim avatar in Second Life
virtualiscenter blog on Mon 03 Aug 2009 at 9:39 AM
LOL - I sure WISH I could be in the same shape as my avatar!
By Local Tech Wire
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - Creators of slim, trim, athletic avatars in the 3D online world of Second Life are likely
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My new blog, The Doomsday Blog
David Mattison on Sat 01 Aug 2009 at 11:50 AM
I've been thinking about all the hype around the end of the world that's scheduled for December 21, 2012. Now if the ancient Mayans had somehow synchronized their timekeeping efforts with the Western w
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Sneak Preview: Interview with JCL the issues of heat and computers.
CFAX Online on Fri 31 Jul 2009 at 5:22 PM
This interview will be played as part of our heat edition of CFAX Online on August 1 2009.
Download audio file (jci-interview-edited.mp3)
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Cops2.0.com - Bringing Together New Social Media and Public Safety.
dailysplice on Fri 31 Jul 2009 at 2:31 PM
At cops2point0.com, you can read everything Law Enforcement - social media - oriented. It really merges the gap between Web 2.0 technologies and the Emergency Services industry.
Topics: hightech
VictoriaTechjob: Marketing and Sales Support Coordinator -- Agresso Corporation h
Twitter on Fri 31 Jul 2009 at 9:59 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Enterprise Architect/Development Manager -- MAXIMUS Canada http:
Twitter on Fri 31 Jul 2009 at 9:44 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Enterprise Architect/Development Manager -- MAXIMUS Canada http://bit.ly/NqJP1
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Trainer -- MAXIMUS Canada http://bit.ly/456R5k
#hiring #
Twitter on Fri 31 Jul 2009 at 9:33 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Trainer -- MAXIMUS Canada http://bit.ly/456R5k
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Want to try a cloud computing OS now?
David Mattison on Fri 31 Jul 2009 at 7:01 AM
If you're itching to try an open source cloud computing operating system now a la Google OS, take a look at eyeOS, which appears to be a fully functional Web-based operating system. A public server is
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YaBING! Is Official - Microsoft and Yahoo Sign 10 Year Deal
Stepforth and be found on Wed 29 Jul 2009 at 3:20 PM
This morning Yahoo gave up the ghost on search and signed a 10 year deal adopting Microsoft's Bing search platform as its primary search technology. In the agreement, Microsoft will be the leading sear
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The New Definition of Networking (Featuring Mark Kingdon from Linden Lab)
virtualiscenter blog on Wed 29 Jul 2009 at 2:44 PM
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The New Definition of Networking (Featuring Mark Kingdon from Linden Lab)
virtualiscenter blog on Wed 29 Jul 2009 at 2:44 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Quality Assurance Analyst -- ACD Systems http://bit.ly/m4kvZ
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Twitter on Wed 29 Jul 2009 at 12:28 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Junior/Middleweight Graphic Designer -- ACD Systems http://bit.l
Twitter on Wed 29 Jul 2009 at 12:18 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Junior/Middleweight Graphic Designer -- ACD Systems http://bit.ly/TRBeC
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YaBING! Big News Expected Tomorrow
Stepforth and be found on Tue 28 Jul 2009 at 5:26 PM
Today AdAge reported that there is some big news expected from Yahoo and Microsoft tomorrow.
The gossip has been here and there but AdAge has lent some credibility to it all - Yahoo is going to partner
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VictoriaTechjob: National Sales Representative -- VMAC http://bit.ly/BnDL8
#hiri
Twitter on Tue 28 Jul 2009 at 2:07 PM
VictoriaTechjob: National Sales Representative -- VMAC http://bit.ly/BnDL8
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Podcast July 25 2009: Watching the Barwatch edition
CFAX Online on Tue 28 Jul 2009 at 11:30 AM
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Podcast July 18 2009 the Apple edition
CFAX Online on Tue 28 Jul 2009 at 11:14 AM
Our monthly Mac special
Download audio file (computer-show-july-18th-2009-2p-3p.mp3)
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Accidents this Summer!
the world from my eyes on Mon 27 Jul 2009 at 3:48 PM
I have noticed that lately I am seeing a lot more vehicle accidents happening while I am out and about driving. Yesterday (Sunday July26), I saw 1 - 4 car accidents, and 1 - 2 car accident plus the po
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How to Subscribe to Podcasts
dailysplice on Mon 27 Jul 2009 at 11:27 AM
Simple steps for downloading podcasts using iTunes, Micrsoft Outlook 2007, and iGoogle.
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Twitter and Rat rods
Metamend on Mon 27 Jul 2009 at 10:01 AM
Twitter appears to be everywhere these days and it seems, from a social media standpoint, that Twitter is the way to let everyone know what is going on with you right now. Twitter has an a huge Hollywo
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VictoriaTechjob: Computer Engineer -- Quester Tangent Corporation http://bit.ly/a
Twitter on Mon 27 Jul 2009 at 9:40 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Computer Engineer -- Quester Tangent Corporation http://bit.ly/ayERC
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Center of Oral History & Digital Storytelling, Concordia University, Canada
David Mattison on Mon 27 Jul 2009 at 7:02 AM
Since I started my archival career in part as an oral historian, I'm delighted to see a revitalization of this important tool through examples at and a software application under development by the Cen
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CFAX Online exclusive: Interview with the creators of the Barwatch software.
CFAX Online on Fri 24 Jul 2009 at 6:36 PM
Owen Cameron of Treoscope, the creators of the highly controversial Barwatch software, talked to us today about the specifics of their software and hardware as well as their plans for the future.
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Interviews with the Twitterati
Stepforth and be found on Fri 24 Jul 2009 at 12:54 PM
Late last year I interviewed several of Twitter's Twitterati (Barry Schwartz - @rustybrick, Darren Rowse - @problogger, Justine Ezarik - @ijustine, Steve Rubel - @steverubel) for an article in the Fa
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Microsoft Working on "Advertiser-Generated Avatars”
virtualiscenter blog on Thu 23 Jul 2009 at 3:52 PM
Updated records of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office have revealed recent Microsoft patent applications that expose the company's plans to take over the online world. As we expected, the Avatar Mark
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The Jeffio Progeny
jeff.io on Wed 22 Jul 2009 at 1:00 PM
Today we announce the birth of the latest addition to our family, Everin! Pictured here being held by his big brother, Anim! Aren't they cute? Kids are awesome.
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Virtual Meetings On The Upswing
virtualiscenter blog on Tue 21 Jul 2009 at 8:45 PM
Inxpo recently pulled together four studies pertaining to travel, budgets, and virtual meetings, noting that in each study, virtual meeting methods are, or will in the future, experience a marked incre
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A great analogy for SEO
Stepforth and be found on Tue 21 Jul 2009 at 3:38 PM
SEO is like gardening. You plant the seeds and hope that you achieve a good harvest within a few months. If the conditions are just right, planting the seeds will bring you results without much trouble
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Bing up by a Hair in June Search Figures
Stepforth and be found on Tue 21 Jul 2009 at 8:53 AM
Its been nearly 2 months since the launch of Microsoft's highly advertised and anticipated Bing, and the market share figures for the first full calendar month since its launch are in. Microsoft is lik
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Portal of Architectural Image-based Modeling
David Mattison on Mon 20 Jul 2009 at 8:01 PM
This is really cool, a portal devoted to 2D and 3D modeling of architectural works. The site contains articles, tutorials, experiences, resources and a gallery of images, videos and 3D models. User sub
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Celebrating UH in Second Life
virtualiscenter blog on Mon 20 Jul 2009 at 5:18 PM
Congratulations UH!!
Meet University of Hawaii Second Life users (students and faculty) from various departments and see their island, which replicates part of the Manoa campus and is used for classes
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WordPress Plugins, Widgets and Must-Dos (Part 2)
Paul Holmes on Mon 20 Jul 2009 at 12:38 PM
Back in April, I wrote an article with the same title.
Since then, we have moved along to WordPress 2.8.2. If WordPress was amazing in April, it's phenomenal in July! You are now able to update WordP
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WordPress Plugins, Widgets and Must-Dos (Part 2)
Paul Holmes on Mon 20 Jul 2009 at 12:38 PM
Back in April, I wrote an article with the same title.
Since then, we have moved along to WordPress 2.8.2. If WordPress was amazing in April, it's phenomenal in July! You are now able to update WordP
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VictoriaTechjob: PC Support / LAN Administrator - Temporary -- City of Port Alber
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New York State Archives launches RSS news feed
David Mattison on Thu 16 Jul 2009 at 7:14 AM
I'm not sure why it is that some government jurisdictions, especially at the state or provincial level, have been slow to adopt RSS as a publicity and outreach tool, so it's good to see that the New Yo
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Design for Social Media: Best Practices
Paul Holmes on Thu 16 Jul 2009 at 12:35 AM
Just wrote an essay on the best practices for skinning social media sites on the IdeaZone.ca blog - file formats, sizes, tricks and so forth.
Enjoy!
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Add Sugar and All Is Well…not Always!!!
the world from my eyes on Wed 15 Jul 2009 at 7:16 PM
I have noticed as of late that some things I am doing are causing havoc in the daily life of some. One of them is my moving at the end of this month. Over the last two and a bit years, I have moved
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D-Lib Magazine July/August 02009 issue is out
David Mattison on Wed 15 Jul 2009 at 8:11 AM
From the announcement on various mailing lists (02009 07 15):
The July/August 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available.
This issue contains three articles, seven conference
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PREMIS Implementation Fair, San Francisco, USA, October 02009
David Mattison on Wed 15 Jul 2009 at 8:06 AM
On October 7, 2009, the PREMIS Editorial Committee will sponsor a free, one-day PREMIS Implementation Fair at the Presidio's Officers' Club in San Francisco. The PREMIS Implementation Fair immediately
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Submit a Podcast - Top 30 Podcast Directories on the Web.
dailysplice on Tue 14 Jul 2009 at 11:16 AM
Top 30 websites that accept podcast submissions. These websites have be tested and confirmed for quality. Submit a podcast by clicking on the "Submit" link.
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Posterous Questions Answered
Stepforth and be found on Tue 14 Jul 2009 at 6:06 AM
On Today's SEO 101 Internet radio show on WebmasterRadio.FM my co-host John Carcutt and I discussed how SEO relates to social media optimization (SMO). Near the end of the show I brought up Posterous a
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July 11 2009: Bing and Kaspersky edition
CFAX Online on Mon 13 Jul 2009 at 8:22 PM
Guests:
Roel Schouwenberg from Kaspersky Labs
and
Stacey Jarvis from Microsoft Canada
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Podcast: July 6 2009: The Flash mob edition
CFAX Online on Mon 13 Jul 2009 at 12:19 PM
Guest List:
Atomic Vaudeville
Ludwig from Wireless Light and Power
Thanks to http://injodiesbrain.com/ for helping make this show happen.
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Credit for Clunkers!
CFAX Online on Mon 13 Jul 2009 at 11:53 AM
Sneakers Computers wants your old computers. $50.00 credit towards a new system with the trade in of old computer!
$100.00 credit with the exchange of of an old laptop
Phone 250-385-3425 today
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EmeraldView, open-source PHP frontend for the Greenstone digital library system
David Mattison on Fri 10 Jul 2009 at 9:21 PM
From the announcement to the WEB4LIB mailing list (02009 07 10)”
"The systems team at Touro College Libraries is pleased to announce the beta release of EmeraldView, a new open-source PHP frontend fo
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The Five Most Popular Social Media Tools for Fire Departments
dailysplice on Fri 10 Jul 2009 at 12:16 PM
Social Media has exploded on the internet yet emergency responders have been slow to adopt this new media. What are the tools that Fire departments can use to get the message out during an emergency e
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Second international m-Libraries Conference (July 02009) presentations available
David Mattison on Thu 09 Jul 2009 at 8:58 PM
According to this blog post from the University of British Columbia's Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, presentations are now available from "The second international m-Libraries Conference, held and s
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Chrome OS from Google, is it truly time for the Net as the Computer?
David Mattison on Thu 09 Jul 2009 at 8:28 PM
I'm very skeptical myself given issues around computer security and sustainability of cloud computing resources of Google's announcement of its Chrome Operating System that will turn the Net into a Com
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VictoriaTechjob: Software Developer -- Latitude Geographics Group Ltd http://bit.
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VictoriaTechjob: Oracle Database Administrator -- MAXIMUS BC Health Inc http://bi
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VictoriaTechjob: Technical Writer, Application Specialist -- Reliable Controls Co
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Photographing the American Dream: the Maynard L. Parker Collection, Huntington Li
David Mattison on Wed 08 Jul 2009 at 8:33 PM
As announced on the ARCHIVES AND ARCHIVISTS mailing list (02009 07 07), the Maynard L. Parker Collection at the Huntington Library in California is now accessible online:
"The archive of noted architec
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VictoriaTechjob: Firmware Developer -- Telocate Systems Inc. http://bit.ly/101TPQ
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VictoriaTechjob: User Support Professional -- Long View Systems http://bit.ly/rRh
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Illinois shoulders ATLAS (Alliance's Trail to Learning-casts and Syndicated Sites
David Mattison on Tue 07 Jul 2009 at 8:07 PM
Illinois, long a leader in the digital world, has put together another fascinating tool called ATLAS (Alliance's Trail to Learning-casts and Syndicated Sites). A project of the Alliance Library System
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Collaborative Electronic Records Project (CERP) email preservation parser availab
David Mattison on Tue 07 Jul 2009 at 7:57 PM
The Collaborative Electronic Records Project (CERP), a partnership of the Smithsonian Institution Archives and the Rockefeller Archive Center that wrapped up in December 02008, has released its CERP Em
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Google Strips Beta Label!
Stepforth and be found on Tue 07 Jul 2009 at 11:53 AM
It was bound to happen sooner or later - mind you I suspected it may be many decades away. The use of the "beta” label has been stripped from many of Google's properties!
Gmail has been around now f
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Posterous is an Intelligent Social Media Posting Tool
Stepforth and be found on Mon 06 Jul 2009 at 6:09 AM
I recently wrote a half-teasing post about a branding issue Posterous appears to be having but I also noted that it is looking like another emerging winner in online social media and the reason is simp
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Canada Day, 2009
Chris Campbell on Mon 06 Jul 2009 at 12:28 AM
Blogged with the Flock Browser
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Green moth on green door, evolution in action?
David Mattison on Sun 05 Jul 2009 at 10:41 PM
For several years I've been watching the colors of moths outside my front door on the yellow wall of my house. Although I did not photograph it, one day in June 02009 I saw a distinctive yellow moth un
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Upcoming Event: ADMIRE'09, a gathering of SL musicians in the Netherlands and in
virtualiscenter blog on Sun 05 Jul 2009 at 4:02 PM
With over 25 musicians to create music all weekend and a large open jam/collaborative session on Saturday 1st August from 9pm-midnight - this promises to be a carnival of music. The weekend theme is
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July 4th celebrations across Second Life®
virtualiscenter blog on Sun 05 Jul 2009 at 3:46 PM
Fireworks, BBQs, and parties celebrating Independence Day were not confined to the physical world. Events and great music were abundant across the Second Life® grid.
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Posterous' Unfortunate Problem With Its Posterior
Stepforth and be found on Fri 03 Jul 2009 at 12:22 PM
Today I became aware of a very unfortunate branding issue with a new social media platform called Posterous (pronounced Post-Er-Us). First of all, you should know that Posterous is a killer application
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VictoriaTechjob: Sales Training & Resources Project Manager -- Schneider Electric
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VictoriaTechjob: Web Developer -- Hot House Marketing http://bit.ly/N8Nr4
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Second Life seeks to mix the real and virtual worlds
virtualiscenter blog on Thu 02 Jul 2009 at 7:27 PM
Linden Lab unveils plans to integrate with social networks and online services
Ian Williams
V3.co.uk, 02 Jul 2009
Linden Lab's Second Life virtual universe continues to prosper and grow despite the glo
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Government of Canada invests in upgrading the Institute of Ocean Sciences in Sidn
VITP on Thu 02 Jul 2009 at 11:36 AM
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Happy Independence Day!
Stepforth and be found on Thu 02 Jul 2009 at 10:59 AM
Happy Independence Day to all our American friends, clients, and readers!
We will be open, business as usual, on Friday July 3 & Monday July 6 for those of you not taking a long weekend.
From all of us
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Soapbox derby at Vancouver Island Technology Park boosts B.C. Cancer Foundation
VITP on Thu 02 Jul 2009 at 6:40 AM
It has a black nose, four wheels and yellow feathers. Oh yes, and it used to go by the name “Batmobile.”
Camosun
College's “canary-themed” soapbox derby car was just one of
13 stylish compet
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A Huge Upgrade for Firefox is Out BUT
Stepforth and be found on Tue 30 Jun 2009 at 10:18 AM
The Internet is a-buzz with the latest offering from Firefox - the best browser available in my opinion - and the upgrades look absolutely tantalizing:
It is twice as fast as Firefox 3: an impressive
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VictoriaTechjob: Java Specialist -- UVic, Department of Physics and Astronomy htt
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Juicing Up Your Google Local Listing
Stepforth and be found on Mon 29 Jun 2009 at 6:02 AM
While doing some local search marketing for a client of mine last Friday I took a moment to watch the introductory video at the Google Local Business Center and I was impressed on how well it got the m
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Hitting a Facebook Moving Target
Paul Holmes on Sun 28 Jun 2009 at 6:13 PM
Facebook vanity URLs are now available for pages between 100 and 999 fans. Hip, hip hooray.
Only problem is, at first it was all pages, then it was pages with 25 fans on Saturday night, now it's pages
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Bing's Local Listing Center Lacks Forethought
Stepforth and be found on Fri 26 Jun 2009 at 3:31 PM
If you don't know already it is very important to setup your local business listing on local and mainstream search engines. Well since Bing came out I thought I would go there and get StepForth's listi
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VictoriaTechjob: Production Technologist -- Quester Tangent Corporation http://bi
Twitter on Fri 26 Jun 2009 at 1:13 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Technical Analyst (Citrix) -- bcIMC http://bit.ly/3Eultx
Twitter on Fri 26 Jun 2009 at 8:57 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Technical Analyst (Citrix) -- bcIMC http://bit.ly/3Eultx
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Twitter Abuse
MappingTheWeb by Aidan Henry on Thu 25 Jun 2009 at 2:23 PM
Twitter abuse is now a pandemic - at least in my mind. People are recklessly using of this micro-blogging application, often without a purpose or goal in mind. This is one of the main reason I don't us
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VictoriaTechjob: Database Administrator -- Carbonetworks http://bit.ly/15puSF
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Twitter on Wed 24 Jun 2009 at 8:48 AM
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Shiny and New
Victoria OpenCoffeec Cub on Tue 23 Jun 2009 at 3:58 PM
This morning was our first VICOCC meeting downtown at Serious Coffee (1280 Broad Street). Piers suggests that this location used to be a restaurant named "Eugene's” and thusly might best be refer
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VictoriaTechjob: Product Support Specialist -- Osler System Management Inc. http:
Twitter on Tue 23 Jun 2009 at 2:06 PM
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How do I add an employee to my Company Profile on LinkedIn?
Paul Holmes on Tue 23 Jun 2009 at 11:18 AM
Finally LinkedIn is allowing anyone to create a company profile. Adding a company is easy.
However, when we created a company profile for IdeaZone.ca, it wasn't obvious how to add all the staff to th
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Why I've switched to using Flock (and maybe you should too)
CFAX Online on Tue 23 Jun 2009 at 12:06 AM
FLOCK
There are many web browsers out there all vying for your attention. The most popular ones have either carved out their niches by providing unique features (like Opera), becoming the de facto stan
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Future…Revisiting My Thoughts :-)
the world from my eyes on Mon 22 Jun 2009 at 3:33 PM
Thinking about my life lately and where I would like to see myself in the future. The "What would I like to do with my spare time”. Well here are my thoughts on this.
I would like a house that I
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VictoriaTechjob: Customer Service Manager -- Revenue Wire Inc. http://bit.ly/w9kv
Twitter on Mon 22 Jun 2009 at 1:40 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Research Administrator -- University of Victoria, Genome BC Prot
Twitter on Mon 22 Jun 2009 at 12:59 PM
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Its Only a C and D - Don’t Panic!
Metamend on Mon 22 Jun 2009 at 9:06 AM
I have been sending and enforcing Cease and Desist letters for a while now and I have observed that people can be really emotional when you let them know they may be doing something wrong. I will share
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RODA open source digital repository software archives from Portugal
David Mattison on Mon 22 Jun 2009 at 6:47 AM
From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02009 06 21):
RODA is an open source digital repository specially designed for archives, with long-term preservation and authenticity as it
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HeadSpace Drops rel=Follow Attribute
Stepforth and be found on Sun 21 Jun 2009 at 11:00 PM
Good news fellow Wordpress junkies! John Godley at Urban Giraffe has kindly updated HeadSpace 2 so the rel=”follow” attribute is no longer implemented! I don't know about you but having that made-u
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HeadSpace Drops rel=Follow Attribute
Stepforth and be found on Sun 21 Jun 2009 at 11:00 PM
Good news fellow Wordpress junkies! John Godley at Urban Giraffe has kindly updated HeadSpace 2 so the rel=follow attribute is no longer implemented! I dont know about you but having that made-up attri
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The Affirmation Society in the Information Age
Paul Holmes on Sun 21 Jun 2009 at 4:31 PM
Can millions of young fans be wrong when they declare that the Jonas Brothers are the greatest music group in the history of the universe?
Of course they can. But they won't believe you.
Why? Because
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Role Model Award
jeff.io on Sun 21 Jun 2009 at 3:47 PM
I am very excited to announce that I have received a National Aboriginal Role Model award from the National Aboriginal Health Organization.
I am looking forward to visiting communities across Canada th
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Second Life May Impact First Life Someday?
virtualiscenter blog on Sat 20 Jun 2009 at 9:02 PM
http://www.blogula-rasa.com/2009/06/20/second-life-may-impact-first-life-someday/
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We're Moving Downtown
Victoria OpenCoffeec Cub on Thu 18 Jun 2009 at 4:37 PM
The first meeting of the Summer is next week and we're moving downtown.
Ogden Point Cafe was kind to allow us to get our feet wet - sometimes literally - and begin our local OpenCoffee Club. As we e
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VictoriaTechjob: Accounting Clerk -- AXYS Technologies http://bit.ly/Hbs8d
#hiri
Twitter on Thu 18 Jun 2009 at 1:27 PM
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Beautiful Visions beyond Sight: Guide Dogs and Helen Keller Day in Second Life
virtualiscenter blog on Thu 18 Jun 2009 at 10:21 AM
A REALLY wonderful post from Pathfinder Linden - Click here
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American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life
virtualiscenter blog on Wed 17 Jun 2009 at 7:05 PM
Don a snail avatar and race against other snails to fight cancer? Yes, thats one of the ways you can contribute in Second Life to the fight against cancer.
http://www.examiner.com/x-4734-Second-Life-Ex
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Business Systems Analyst -- BC Pension Corporation http:/
Twitter on Wed 17 Jun 2009 at 1:03 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: CNC Technologist - 5-Axis -- Camosun College http://www.viatec.c
Twitter on Wed 17 Jun 2009 at 12:40 PM
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Facebook Pages and RSS – A Step-By-Step Guide
Paul Holmes on Tue 16 Jun 2009 at 5:31 PM
The most annoying thing about a Facebook Page is that it is called Facebook Page. A page is not the same as your Facebook Profile, it is a separate feature that allows you to build a fan base to prom
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VictoriaTechjob: Business Development Analyst -- MAXIMUS BC Health Inc http://bit
Twitter on Tue 16 Jun 2009 at 3:59 PM
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MySpace Loses (to) Face (book)
Stepforth and be found on Tue 16 Jun 2009 at 2:37 PM
Sillicon Alley Insider just released this insightful set of charts illustrating the "horrendous” drop in user engagement MySpace has experienced in the last 12 months.
Averag Stay per Visit (in minut
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Google Search Share Drops for 3rd Month in a Row
Stepforth and be found on Tue 16 Jun 2009 at 11:12 AM
Earlier today Nielsen Online (pdf) released the latest search share rankings. Figures are pretty much what one would expect, Google far in the lead followed by Yahoo and MSN, but this past month Google
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Page Rank Sculpting - Dead or Alive? Blah Blah!
Stepforth and be found on Tue 16 Jun 2009 at 1:13 AM
At SMX Advanced a couple weeks ago there was a huge hullabaloo about Matt Cutt's saying that PageRank Sculpting using nofollow tags is no longer effective and it should no longer be used. I haven't pos
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Page Rank Sculpting - Dead or Alive? Blah Blah!
Stepforth and be found on Tue 16 Jun 2009 at 1:13 AM
At SMX Advanced a couple weeks ago there was a huge hullabaloo about Matt Cutts saying that PageRank Sculpting using nofollow tags is no longer effective and it should no longer be used. I havent poste
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Facebook URL Antics – Dude, where’s my username?
Paul Holmes on Fri 12 Jun 2009 at 10:30 PM
Dude, wheres my username? Hes not Ashton Kutcher at facebook.com/aplusk. Get used to hearing the name Benjamin Standefer for awhile. Id be willing to bet this holds I dont suspect Mr. Kutcher owns a
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VictoriaTechjob: Executive Assistant/Office Manager -- Custom House http://bit.ly
Twitter on Fri 12 Jun 2009 at 3:38 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Project Manager -- Custom House http://bit.ly/qwrsL
#hiring #ca
Twitter on Fri 12 Jun 2009 at 3:35 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Application Support Specialist -- Custom House http://bit.ly/15F
Twitter on Fri 12 Jun 2009 at 3:32 PM
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Update at Google Webmaster Tools
Stepforth and be found on Fri 12 Jun 2009 at 3:04 PM
Google Webmaster Tools has recently seen a few updates. Posted on the Google Webmaster Central blog yesterday, here is a summary of some of the changes.
The vast majority of users will not be affected
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Smart Business Things To Do On LinkedIn
Paul Holmes on Fri 12 Jun 2009 at 12:57 PM
Are you serious about business, and not on LinkedIn? I don't think that's possible. Get on it!
Once you get on, here's what you need to do:
Upload your photo. Nothing better than a face to confirm y
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Smart Business Things To Do On LinkedIn
Paul Holmes on Fri 12 Jun 2009 at 12:57 PM
Are you serious about business, and not on LinkedIn? I dont think thats possible. Get on it!
Once you get on, heres what you need to do:
Upload your photo. Nothing better than a face to confirm you
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MS Increase in Search Share thanks to Bing
Stepforth and be found on Fri 12 Jun 2009 at 10:32 AM
Bing is out of the gates and running. The new search platform from Microsoft was reported to have seen approximately 11.1% search share for its first week out. This compares to the previous week at 9.1
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Celebrate 200 Years of Darwin with Amazon.com
David Mattison on Fri 12 Jun 2009 at 6:39 AM
Amazon.com jumped on the Darwin twin anniversary bandwagon with this page of books by and about Darwin and his radical theory of biological evolution published in his 1859 bestselling book On the Origi
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VictoriaTechjob: Direct Marketing Associate -- Custom House http://bit.ly/Fr4ND
Twitter on Thu 11 Jun 2009 at 1:45 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Direct Marketing Associate -- Custom House http://bit.ly/Fr4ND
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Online Reputation Management Pitfalls
Metamend on Thu 11 Jun 2009 at 10:09 AM
Do-it-yourself is fine for adding a deck or setting tile, but it can be hazardous to your online reputation.
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VictoriaTechjob: Assembly/Service Technician -- StarFish Medical http://bit.ly/8S
Twitter on Thu 11 Jun 2009 at 9:31 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Assembly/Service Technician -- StarFish Medical http://bit.ly/8SdAo
#hiring #career #job
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Second Life to show Confed sessions
virtualiscenter blog on Wed 10 Jun 2009 at 6:56 PM
Members of Second Life will be able to view sessions from the annual NHS Confederation conference live online tomorrow.
For the first time, three key sessions from the conference will be accessible to
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VictoriaTechjob: Customer Support Specialist -- Revenue Wire Inc.http://bit.ly/px
Twitter on Wed 10 Jun 2009 at 11:22 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Customer Support Specialist -- Revenue Wire Inc.http://bit.ly/pxXFZ
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Dale Gann Appointed President of UVic's Technology Parks
VITP on Wed 10 Jun 2009 at 9:55 AM
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Facebook URLs available this Saturday at 12:01am
Paul Holmes on Tue 09 Jun 2009 at 2:22 PM
Did you hear? TechCrunch has the scoop, here.
Rules for pages: Page set up before May 31, 2009, and had 1,000 fans or more on May 31, 2009.
Best I can tell, you cannot get a URL for your group.
In the
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Nonprofits Blaze Virtual Trails in Second Life Mixed Reality Lounge
virtualiscenter blog on Tue 09 Jun 2009 at 11:43 AM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-tenby/nonprofits-blaze-virtual_b_212810.html
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Podcast June 6 2009: The bestest and funnest of Cfax Online
CFAX Online on Mon 08 Jun 2009 at 10:14 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Systems Administrator -- Victoria Airport Authority http://bit.l
Twitter on Mon 08 Jun 2009 at 2:42 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Systems Administrator -- Victoria Airport Authority http://bit.ly/2C6074
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VictoriaTechjob: Web Programmer/Analyst -- Vancouver Island University http://bit
Twitter on Mon 08 Jun 2009 at 1:09 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Web Programmer/Analyst -- Vancouver Island University http://bit.ly/5rnuq
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StepForth Tweet Update - May 5th, 2009
Stepforth and be found on Fri 05 Jun 2009 at 11:24 PM
So much of what I discover on a given day in the search marketing industry is via Twitter. When I find interesting and occasionally hot stories I note them on our @stepforth account and/or my @rossdunn
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Grow Your Online Business with Social Media
Stepforth and be found on Fri 05 Jun 2009 at 3:16 PM
When it comes to operating a successful online business these days the key is traffic to your website. In order to generate traffic there are a number of sources one can tackle. The first and most obvi
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VictoriaTechjob: Situation Manager -- EDS Advanced Solutions http://bit.ly/Egu57
Twitter on Fri 05 Jun 2009 at 2:51 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Situation Manager -- EDS Advanced Solutions http://bit.ly/Egu57
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Systems Database Analyst -- EDS Advanced Solutions http:/
Twitter on Fri 05 Jun 2009 at 2:42 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Business Analyst -- EDS Advanced Solutions http://bit.ly/nbAJp
Twitter on Fri 05 Jun 2009 at 2:33 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Business Analyst -- EDS Advanced Solutions http://bit.ly/nbAJp
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VictoriaTechjob: Technical Analyst -- EDS Advanced Solutions http://bit.ly/F9cTO
Twitter on Fri 05 Jun 2009 at 2:24 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Technical Analyst -- EDS Advanced Solutions http://bit.ly/F9cTO
#hiring #career #job
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VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Database Administrator -- BC Ferries http://bit.ly/
Twitter on Fri 05 Jun 2009 at 10:02 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Intermediate Database Administrator -- BC Ferries http://bit.ly/3I7pns
#hiring #career #job
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BusinessWeek Runs Special Report on Research and Technology Parks
VITP on Fri 05 Jun 2009 at 6:42 AM
By Pete Engardio
Read the BusinessWeek Special Report on Research and Technology Parks here.
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Economic Stimulus and Canada - An Idea
Paul Holmes on Thu 04 Jun 2009 at 9:51 PM
I have an idea to help solve a bunch of Canadas problems.
Here are a list of the problems:
One of the largest media companies in the country, CanWest, is (apparently) hovering on the brink of bankrupt
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VictoriaTechjob: Sr. Network Security Analyst -- University of Victoria (UVIC) ht
Twitter on Thu 04 Jun 2009 at 3:37 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Sr. Network Security Analyst -- University of Victoria (UVIC) http://bit.ly/14p1Z6
#hiring #career #job
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A clip of Jim Carroll in the morning is good for my Business Soul…
virtualiscenter blog on Thu 04 Jun 2009 at 11:08 AM
Just finished watching one of Jim Carrolls clips.
It is just amazing how that every time I listen to this man speak, I end up having 30 ideas right after. Seriously, hes like a verbal RED BULL for me.
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VictoriaTechjob: Marketing Coordinator -- Daily Splice Technologies http://bit.ly
Twitter on Thu 04 Jun 2009 at 9:44 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Marketing Coordinator -- Daily Splice Technologies http://bit.ly/bvJLU
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VictoriaTechjob: Banking Clerk -- Custom House http://bit.ly/PNee9
#hiring #care
Twitter on Thu 04 Jun 2009 at 8:55 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Banking Clerk -- Custom House http://bit.ly/PNee9
#hiring #career #job
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Google Wave generating a tsunami of interest
David Mattison on Wed 03 Jun 2009 at 5:28 PM
I guess you saw that one coming. Check out the official Google Wave preview. Lots of hype that you can read about through this Google search. Since its dependent on this protocol, dont forget to go ove
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Scoopler (beta) real-time search results
David Mattison on Wed 03 Jun 2009 at 3:52 PM
Heres an impressive looking proof-of-concept undergoing beta testing: Scoopler, a search engine that gives you real-time search results. This is a screenshot:
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Block Your Competitors from Using IIS SEO Toolkit
Stepforth and be found on Wed 03 Jun 2009 at 12:35 PM
I was just reading more about the IIS SEO Toolkit when I came across the following interesting tutorial on how to block competitors from running the IIS SEO Toolkit on your servers. If you have an asp-
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VictoriaTechjob: QA Manager -- Enquisite Software http://bit.ly/dZHdt
#hiring #c
Twitter on Wed 03 Jun 2009 at 9:59 AM
VictoriaTechjob: QA Manager -- Enquisite Software http://bit.ly/dZHdt
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VictoriaTechjob: Procura Application Support Specialist L1 -- Procura http://bit.
Twitter on Wed 03 Jun 2009 at 9:21 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Procura Application Support Specialist L1 -- Procura http://bit.ly/JPGSd
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Avison to Leave the Research Universities' Council of British Columbia
VITP on Wed 03 Jun 2009 at 7:08 AM
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WARC file format published as an international standard
David Mattison on Wed 03 Jun 2009 at 7:00 AM
The big news today in the Web preservation world is the publication of the WARC file format as an international standard. Heres most of the announcement as circulated to various mailing lists:
The Inte
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Bing IIS Plugin On the Way
Stepforth and be found on Wed 03 Jun 2009 at 1:51 AM
In my discussion with Rajesh Srivastava today on day 1 of SMX Advanced he mentioned there will be a plugin released (no mention of how soon) for IIS that will interface directly with Bings Webmaster
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Finally Bing Will Be The Sole Brand
Stepforth and be found on Tue 02 Jun 2009 at 8:32 PM
I am at SMX Advanced in Seattle this week and I was fortunate to have a one-on-one lunch with one of the Bing engineers from Microsoft. After complimenting him and his team for finally pulling off what
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Javascript Linking Not So Bad Anymore
Stepforth and be found on Tue 02 Jun 2009 at 2:32 PM
If your site utilizes Javascript based navigation, you are in for a treat. Google is now able to craw links embedded in JavaScript onclick() events. These links will not only be followed by Google but
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VictoriaTechjob: VIATeC is repping Vic's Tech sector in the working.com Virtual C
Twitter on Tue 02 Jun 2009 at 2:20 PM
VictoriaTechjob: VIATeC is repping Vic's Tech sector in the working.com Virtual Career Fair. All jobs on our job board are incl: http://tinyurl.com/nbupgb
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The Bing Bling – Microsoft Kills Live
Metamend on Tue 02 Jun 2009 at 11:12 AM
Microsoft axes the LIVE engine and delivers the goods with Bing.com
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VictoriaTechjob: International Business Development Coordinator -- Neverblue http
Twitter on Tue 02 Jun 2009 at 9:31 AM
VictoriaTechjob: International Business Development Coordinator -- Neverblue http://bit.ly/yMRRO
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VictoriaTechjob: Online Marketer -- AbeBooks.com http://bit.ly/Rcv17
#hiring #ca
Twitter on Tue 02 Jun 2009 at 9:19 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Online Marketer -- AbeBooks.com http://bit.ly/Rcv17
#hiring #career #job
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VictoriaTechjob: Payroll Specialist -- Custom House http://bit.ly/dy9ic
#hiring
Twitter on Tue 02 Jun 2009 at 9:07 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Payroll Specialist -- Custom House http://bit.ly/dy9ic
#hiring #career #job
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Podcast May 30 2009: The I can kill you from space edition
CFAX Online on Tue 02 Jun 2009 at 7:41 AM
Download audio file (a> 3p.mp3)
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AURP Canada Releases Inaugral Issue of CanadaNOW Magazine
VITP on Mon 01 Jun 2009 at 12:53 PM
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VictoriaTechjob: Systems Analyst -- Etraffic Solutions, Inc http://bit.ly/KmDhX
Twitter on Mon 01 Jun 2009 at 9:00 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Systems Analyst -- Etraffic Solutions, Inc http://bit.ly/KmDhX
#hiring #career #job
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Bing Bing Bing! The Search Foe is Online
Stepforth and be found on Mon 01 Jun 2009 at 12:29 AM
Bing is online a full 3 days before the scheduled launch date; a surprise leap of faith very uncharacteristic of Microsoft. That said, the search engine is in Preview mode at www.Bing.com and Live.com
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Virtual Victory: It is Happening All Around Us
virtualiscenter blog on Sun 31 May 2009 at 11:15 PM
http://www.urockcliffe.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=132Itemid=177
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A Vision of the future with ishades?
virtualiscenter blog on Sun 31 May 2009 at 12:11 PM
http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/virtual-reality/get-ready-ishades-5g
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The Animikii Logo: From Beads To Bezier Curves
jeff.io on Sat 30 May 2009 at 5:35 PM
This is the story about how the Animikii logo came to be. Animikii is a web development firm I founded in 2003 and the logo holds a special meaning for me. And now, 6 years later, Id like to share this
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Video of Google Wave in Action
Stepforth and be found on Fri 29 May 2009 at 4:17 PM
Yesterday Google Wave was announced at Google I/O 2009 and a preview of the collaborative concept was provided to developers. The following is the full 1h 20 min live video from the developer preview.
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VictoriaTechjob: Quality Assurance Consultant -- Quester Tangent Corporation http
Twitter on Fri 29 May 2009 at 10:31 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Quality Assurance Consultant -- Quester Tangent Corporation http://bit.ly/b7Q02
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VictoriaTechjob: Information Technology Team -- Aviawest Resorts http://bit.ly/zD
Twitter on Fri 29 May 2009 at 10:01 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Information Technology Team -- Aviawest Resorts http://bit.ly/zDJ74
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AdWords Editor 7.5.1
Metamend on Fri 29 May 2009 at 9:45 AM
Google AdWords releases another time saver for Pay Per Click Managers
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Google I/O day 2
Mark Lise on Thu 28 May 2009 at 11:47 PM
Wow x2. Yes, thats Google I/O day two = wow x2. Vic Gundotra wasnt kidding when he had some more surprises up his sleeve at Google I/O 2009. Wave was amazing to say the least.
Normally in these p
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Google Announces Google Wave
Stepforth and be found on Thu 28 May 2009 at 2:03 PM
Google Wave is on the lips of countless Google watchers today as the search monopoly announced a unique concept for online interaction. Created by the two brothers that brought Google Maps to our deskt
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Bing is Microsoft’s Latest Name for Search
Stepforth and be found on Thu 28 May 2009 at 12:52 PM
Bing, as announced today, is Microsofts latest variation of its search platform. The search engine is supposed to marry a myriad of search verticals to create a one-stop-shop for netizens. For example,
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StudioPress Increases SEO with Joost
Stepforth and be found on Thu 28 May 2009 at 12:03 PM
Congratulations to my friend Joost de Valk and his new business ally Brian Gardner of StudioPress Development. The two Wordpress gurus have joined forces to build Wordpress themes with SEO essentials b
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Streetlight Intelligence Inc. Wins BC Hydro Powersmart Excellence Award
VITP on Thu 28 May 2009 at 12:01 PM
As their name suggests, Streetlight Intelligence is a leader in
developing new technology for adaptive street lighting. Streetlight
Intelligences innovative Lumen IQ streetlight optimization system can
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VictoriaTechjob: Facilities Technologist -- North Island College http://bit.ly/6E
Twitter on Thu 28 May 2009 at 11:12 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Facilities Technologist -- North Island College http://bit.ly/6EAp6
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VictoriaTechjob: Buyer, New Product Introduction (NPI) -- Carmanah Technologies C
Twitter on Thu 28 May 2009 at 9:00 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Buyer, New Product Introduction (NPI) -- Carmanah Technologies Corp. http://bit.ly/532J7
#hiring #career #job
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Google I/O day 1
Mark Lise on Wed 27 May 2009 at 11:36 PM
So Ive finished my first day at Google I/O. Man, what a day it was. The keynote was great and I actually got to sit front row. To see Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google no more than 20ft away was pretty
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VictoriaTechjob: Developer -- Neverblue http://bit.ly/TzQL3
#hiring #career #job
Twitter on Wed 27 May 2009 at 4:29 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Developer -- Neverblue http://bit.ly/TzQL3
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VictoriaTechjob: Junior/Intermediate QA Tester -- OA Solutions http://bit.ly/8qrt
Twitter on Wed 27 May 2009 at 4:29 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Junior/Intermediate QA Tester -- OA Solutions http://bit.ly/8qrtG
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VictoriaTechjob: Business Analyst -- Emergency and Health Services Commission htt
Twitter on Wed 27 May 2009 at 4:28 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Business Analyst -- Emergency and Health Services Commission http://bit.ly/2Qv9b
#hiring #career #job
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VictoriaTechjob: Project Manager -- Municipal Software Corporation http://bit.ly/
Twitter on Wed 27 May 2009 at 4:28 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Project Manager -- Municipal Software Corporation http://bit.ly/91UCa
#hiring #career #job
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VictoriaTechjob: Java Developer - Intermediate / Senior -- Carbonetworks http://b
Twitter on Wed 27 May 2009 at 4:27 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Java Developer - Intermediate / Senior -- Carbonetworks http://bit.ly/5s769
#hiring #career #job
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VictoriaTechjob: Project Manager -- Quester Tangent Corporation http://bit.ly/7AC
Twitter on Wed 27 May 2009 at 4:26 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Project Manager -- Quester Tangent Corporation http://bit.ly/7ACNf
#hiring #career #job
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VictoriaTechjob: QA Analysts -- Carbonetworks http://bit.ly/Qhb4j
#hiring #care
Twitter on Wed 27 May 2009 at 4:26 PM
VictoriaTechjob: QA Analysts -- Carbonetworks http://bit.ly/Qhb4j
#hiring #career #job
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VictoriaTechjob: Sales Engineer -- Quester Tangent Corporation http://bit.ly/347I
Twitter on Wed 27 May 2009 at 4:25 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Sales Engineer -- Quester Tangent Corporation http://bit.ly/347ICX
#hiring #career #job
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Technical Analyst -- EDS Advanced Solutions http://bit.ly
Twitter on Wed 27 May 2009 at 4:25 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Technical Analyst -- EDS Advanced Solutions http://bit.ly/RmczO
#hiring #career #job
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VictoriaTechjob: Financial Analyst -- Carmanah Technologies Corp. http://bit.ly/b
Twitter on Wed 27 May 2009 at 4:24 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Financial Analyst -- Carmanah Technologies Corp. http://bit.ly/bY2LH
#hiring #career #job
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VictoriaTechjob: Online Marketing Specialist -- Custom House http://bit.ly/uxE2A
Twitter on Wed 27 May 2009 at 4:24 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Online Marketing Specialist -- Custom House http://bit.ly/uxE2A
#hiring #career #job
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Platform Developer -- Revenue Wire Inc.http://bit.ly/3NOT
Twitter on Wed 27 May 2009 at 4:23 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Platform Developer -- Revenue Wire Inc.http://bit.ly/3NOTrF
#hiring #career #job
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VictoriaTechjob: Opto-Electronics Engineer -- Carmanah Technologies Corp.http://b
Twitter on Wed 27 May 2009 at 4:23 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Opto-Electronics Engineer -- Carmanah Technologies Corp.http://bit.ly/CTSl3
#hiring #career #job
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VictoriaTechjob: Junior Mechanical Engineer/Technologist -- Quester Tangent Corpo
Twitter on Wed 27 May 2009 at 4:22 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Junior Mechanical Engineer/Technologist -- Quester Tangent Corporation http://bit.ly/L6Fz4
#hiring #career #job
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VictoriaTechjob: Technical Writer - Agresso Corporation http://bit.ly/2mq77
#hir
Twitter on Wed 27 May 2009 at 4:22 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Technical Writer - Agresso Corporation http://bit.ly/2mq77
#hiring #career #job
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VictoriaTechjob: Business Development Analyst -- Quester Tangent Corporation http
Twitter on Wed 27 May 2009 at 4:21 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Business Development Analyst -- Quester Tangent Corporation http://bit.ly/apMWs
#hiring #career #job
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Application Developer -- Emergency and Health Services Co
Twitter on Wed 27 May 2009 at 4:21 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Application Developer -- Emergency and Health Services Commission http://bit.ly/1Hksts
#hiring #career #job
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VictoriaTechjob: Electronics Technician -- AXYS Technologies Inc.http://bit.ly/UK
Twitter on Wed 27 May 2009 at 4:20 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Electronics Technician -- AXYS Technologies Inc.http://bit.ly/UKrCf
#hiring #career #job
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VictoriaTechjob: ERP Project Manager -- Agresso Corporation http://bit.ly/14E1RR
Twitter on Wed 27 May 2009 at 4:19 PM
VictoriaTechjob: ERP Project Manager -- Agresso Corporation http://bit.ly/14E1RR
#hiring #career #job
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VictoriaTechjob: Electrical Engineer/Technologist -- Quester Tangent Corporation
Twitter on Wed 27 May 2009 at 4:19 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Electrical Engineer/Technologist -- Quester Tangent Corporation http://bit.ly/b0GLV
#hiring #career #job
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Virtualis is selected as a GOLD SOLUTION PROVIDER for Hosting Meetings and Events
virtualiscenter blog on Wed 27 May 2009 at 9:37 AM
Linden Labs International Program Identifies 31 Firms with Proven Success
Helping Organizations with Projects in the Virtual World. Virtualis Convention and Learning Center selected as a GOLD SOLUTION
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Social Media Newsmakers - May 26, 2009
Stepforth and be found on Tue 26 May 2009 at 9:20 PM
The following are some social media newsmakers I came across today:
Digg Joins the Twitter and Facebook Party
Digg jumped on the bandwagon and added the ability for visitors to easily share stories on
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Blogging Your Way to the Top
Stepforth and be found on Tue 26 May 2009 at 3:05 PM
It is no real secret that a well written topical blog can significantly help out your website – so why aren’t you doing it?
The most common reasons I hear for not starting a blog involve a lack of
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Times Colonist Reports: High-tech sector's awards gala kicks off with comeback ex
VITP on Tue 26 May 2009 at 12:18 PM
By Andrew Duffy
Its
been used to rally hockey teams from third-period deficits and to spur
baseball teams to victory late in the season, and now the local
high-tech sector is backing a simple white t
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Tech Tips Audio spots for your listening pleasure
CFAX Online on Mon 25 May 2009 at 8:40 PM
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Tech Tips: It is easy to forget, but critical updates are important
CFAX Online on Mon 25 May 2009 at 8:25 PM
Every second Tuesday Microsoft releases updates for Windows. These update make your system faster, more stable and more secure.
For XP users these will appear as a yellow shield in the bottom right co
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Tech Tips: Need An Online Virus Scanner? Click here
CFAX Online on Mon 25 May 2009 at 8:21 PM
This is an online scanner using Java, it's free, easy to use and effective:
Tech Tips: Need An Online Virus Scanner? Click here
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Tech Tips: Best Backup for most users
CFAX Online on Mon 25 May 2009 at 8:14 PM
Backup.
We all know backup is important, but when life gets busy, its easy to forget. Unfortunately, thats usually when disaster strikes.
There are many backup options available : CDs, DVDs, USB Keys ,
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Podcast May 23 2009: The Champions edition
CFAX Online on Mon 25 May 2009 at 8:03 PM
Congratulations to all winners of the VIATEC awards.
Click here to download
Download audio file (computer-show-february-21st-2009-2p-3p.mp3)
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Podcast May 16 2009: YAMS
CFAX Online on Mon 25 May 2009 at 6:32 PM
That's Yet Another Mac Show
Download audio file (computer-show-may-16th-2009-2p-3p.mp3)
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Technology Gone Awry: The TP edition
CFAX Online on Mon 25 May 2009 at 6:09 PM
icarta, TP dock, boxers with a pocket and ibreath. Yes it's a collection of the weird and wacky things you can plug into your iPod.
Click here to download
Download audio file (tga-may-23-2009.mp3)
For
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VictoriaTechjob: QA Analysts -- Carbonetworks http://bit.ly/Qhb4j
Twitter on Mon 25 May 2009 at 5:21 PM
VictoriaTechjob: QA Analysts -- Carbonetworks http://bit.ly/Qhb4j
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adCenter Springs a New Bag of Tricks
Stepforth and be found on Mon 25 May 2009 at 3:21 PM
Last week Microsoft announced a few updates to adCenter that anyone doing pay-per-click advertising should take a look at. Here is a quick summary created with snippets from the announcement:
Better
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Twitterlebrities I don’t understand
Paul Holmes on Fri 22 May 2009 at 2:45 PM
So Oprah and Ashton Kutcher are big celebrities, and they go on Twitter, and tah-dah, they are Twitterlebrities.
Then we have the Robert Scobles and the Guy Kawasakis - the technical wizards, self-help
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Times Colonist Reports: UVic Entrepreneur Award goes to High-Tech Knight
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Creating Search Engine Friendly URLS in PHP and MySQL
Carl Constantine on Mon 18 May 2009 at 11:30 PM
So, Ive been playing around a lot with Search Engine Optimization for the website that I maintain at http://advicescene.com/. We have a directory of lawyers that is slowing being updated to include 700
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Star Trek Boldly Goes
Carl Constantine on Sat 16 May 2009 at 3:04 PM
So some friends of mine and I went to see the new Star Trek film. Weve heard from all sources that it was a great film and we had been chomping at the bit to go. You see, one friend of mine and I are p
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May15, 2008 Horoscope
the world from my eyes on Fri 15 May 2009 at 10:38 AM
For me, I like to look at a horoscope reading to see how true to word they are to what is happening in my life on this day. I do not follow what is laid out in the write up but continue on with my da
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Cisco Networkers Solutions Forum 2009 at the Vancouver Island Technology Park
VITP on Fri 15 May 2009 at 7:52 AM
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Centre for Drug Research and Development CEO Wins National Award for Biotech Indu
VITP on Thu 14 May 2009 at 6:58 AM
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Thoughts on BC-STV referendum
Chris Campbell on Wed 13 May 2009 at 1:53 PM
I have voted in every federal and provincial election for which Ive been eligible. Each time I have voted for the same respective parties. And my vote has NEVER resulted in a seat being won, or had any
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Carmanah Reports Q1 2009 Results Support Strategic Focus
VITP on Wed 13 May 2009 at 7:37 AM
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VictoriaTechjob: Thanks for following our job board feed.Twitter is replacing lin
Twitter on Tue 12 May 2009 at 8:13 PM
VictoriaTechjob: Thanks for following our job board feed.Twitter is replacing links to specific jobs with a link to the job page, waiting for supports reply
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Click Fraud Measurement Guidelines Finalized by IAB
Stepforth and be found on Tue 12 May 2009 at 1:02 PM
Today the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) released version 1.0 of the guidelines for measuring click fraud. The guidelines were created with the aid of Yahoo, Microsoft and Google in order to ensure
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DemoCampVictoria #3 update
Mark Lise on Tue 12 May 2009 at 11:39 AM
So I have a scheduling conflict. Ill be heading down to SF on May 26th for GoogleIO. Its Googles largest developer gathering so it should be pretty exciting! Unfortunately that means I cant run D
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Google Approaches 73% Market Share
Stepforth and be found on Tue 12 May 2009 at 9:54 AM
According to the latest figures over at Hitwise, Googles market share is inching closer to the 73% mark, that’s up 0.35% since last month, and up nearly 5% compared to April of 2008.
When compared to
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Podcast May 9 2009: In memorium for the 100,000 fallen
CFAX Online on Mon 11 May 2009 at 10:39 PM
Click here to download our latest podcast
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Swan Lake
Paul Holmes on Mon 11 May 2009 at 11:17 AM
One of the most beautiful places in the world is Swan Lake. It is an amazing urban ecological reserve right in the heart of Saanich, the most populous municipality in Greater Victoria.
I had the privil
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CNBC Video: Conferences Go Virtual
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Mother’s Day…
the world from my eyes on Mon 11 May 2009 at 5:10 AM
Yesterday was Mothers DayI miss my Mom alot. And my Dad too.
May is always a tough month for me. And ironically, my maiden name is May. For me, both my Mom and Dad passed away in May. Momfour year
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VictoriaTechjob: Senior Electronics Technician -- GeoDigital International Inc.;
Twitter on Sat 09 May 2009 at 10:28 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Senior Electronics Technician -- GeoDigital International Inc.; http://bit.ly/Ri3ZG
#hiring #career #job
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VictoriaTechjob: Application Consultant -- Procura; http://bit.ly/BcHsj
#hiring
Twitter on Sat 09 May 2009 at 10:27 AM
VictoriaTechjob: Application Consultant -- Procura; http://bit.ly/BcHsj
#hiring #career #job
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Journal of Information Architecture inaugural issue, Spring 02009, is out
David Mattison on Fri 08 May 2009 at 9:57 PM
The Journal of Information Architecture inaugural issue, Volume 1, issue 1, Spring 02009, is now available online at http://journalofia.org/. According to an announcement I received,
The Call for Paper
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The Signs of Fan Tan Alley
Paul Holmes on Fri 08 May 2009 at 2:40 PM
Signs for some of the businesses in Fan Tan Alley, a fantastic little gem found in Chinatown, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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Harmonized Sales Tax and Selling Online
Paul Holmes on Fri 08 May 2009 at 9:19 AM
The debate about internet sales taxes is raging in the United States.
When I started selling things online 9 years ago, one of the first revelations that hit me was my competitive disadvantage vis-a-vi
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Virtualis Convention and Learning Center Video
virtualiscenter blog on Fri 08 May 2009 at 6:33 AM
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Second Life: Engaging Virtual Campuses
virtualiscenter blog on Fri 08 May 2009 at 5:34 AM
This is another great article in a series: http://tinyurl.com/cloqa5
Here is the first article in the series: Real-Life Teaching in a Virtual World - http://campustechnology.com/articles/2009/02/18/r
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Find out “How Meeting In Second Life Transformed IBM’s Technology Elite Into
virtualiscenter blog on Fri 08 May 2009 at 5:34 AM
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Global Energy Industry Gets Help From Virtual Worlds
virtualiscenter blog on Fri 08 May 2009 at 5:33 AM
Just when you thought virtual worlds could not be taken anywhere else you can find them in the oil and gas industries. Thanks to a company called Second Places a simulation tool has been developed to h
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Growth predicted in virtual events for enterprise
virtualiscenter blog on Fri 08 May 2009 at 5:32 AM
A survey released a couple of weeks back by virtual event solutions provider, ON24, shows again the momentum in virtual worlds for enterprise.
ON24 provides four key results from their survey on trends
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The Changing Job Market is Going Virtual To Find Jobs
virtualiscenter blog on Fri 08 May 2009 at 5:32 AM
Several years ago a buddy of mine talked about how he had to do a phone interview. He was quite upset about it because he does not like talking on the phone. We talked and helped him get ready. Today h
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Virtual worlds offer business applications and gaming fun
virtualiscenter blog on Fri 08 May 2009 at 5:31 AM
Everyone has heard of Second Life by now and it is just one of the many virtual worlds that are available to people. If you havent seen any of them it is a good idea to take a look because they can be
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Virtual Meetings Will Erase Face to Face?
virtualiscenter blog on Fri 08 May 2009 at 5:29 AM
Forget hauling your briefcase on a no-frills airline flight to attend a stuffy convention. Online events are the best, most cost-effective places to exchange information and meet and greet. Pro or con?
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Domain Names, Branding and BC Political Parties
Paul Holmes on Wed 06 May 2009 at 10:48 AM
Who does the online marketing for political parties?
I have been in the domain name business for 9 years, and marketing for even longer than that. There are smart domain names for business, and I usua
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DCC Digital Curation Manual: call for authors and topics
David Mattison on Tue 05 May 2009 at 9:56 PM
The UKs Digital Curation Centre is looking for topics and authors for its collaborative Digital Curation Manual. According to the announcement on various digital preservation mailing lists (02009 05 05
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DigitalPreservation Europe joins YouTube
David Mattison on Tue 05 May 2009 at 9:42 PM
From the announcement on various digital preservation mailing lists (02009 05 05):
As many of you will know DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) are committed to making digital preservation materials availa
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SEO eBook
MappingTheWeb by Aidan Henry on Tue 05 May 2009 at 11:47 AM
[SEO eBook] - Although I havent been blogging much recently, Ive been busy consulting and crafting an SEO eBook entitled the SEO Quick Fix eBook. The 26-page guide promises to significantly increase yo
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How To Optimize for Google - Questions Answered
Stepforth and be found on Tue 05 May 2009 at 2:30 AM
My 3 part series on how to optimize for google (part 1, part 2, part 3) were recently published over at SiteProNews, and I have been seeing a number of people commenting and asking questions. Here is a
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Free Hosting and How to Deal With the GeoCities Closure
Stepforth and be found on Mon 04 May 2009 at 2:20 PM
On May 1st I wrote about the close of GeoCities and how all accounts with GeoCities will soon be deleted permanently. I wanted to take the time to discuss the importance of having your website hosted o
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And The Winner Is….
the world from my eyes on Mon 04 May 2009 at 12:07 AM
We would like to congratulate Rachel from Victoria, BC for winning the Help Us Help You contest we had on.
We truly appreciate all of the help that everyone gave us. It was really helpful and we wil
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Twitter Radio Interview
Paul Holmes on Sun 03 May 2009 at 10:00 AM
I was interviewed yesterday on the weekly technology program for a local news radio station, regarding Twitter.
It has certainly been awhile since I was on the radio. Lots of fun, and some super guys r
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Yahoo to Close Geocities
Stepforth and be found on Fri 01 May 2009 at 11:45 AM
If you need another reason to always host your websites at your own top level domain (TLD) the recent announcement of Yahoo permanently closing GeoCities should be enough to convince you.
At the end of
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Yahoo to Close Geocities
Stepforth and be found on Fri 01 May 2009 at 11:45 AM
If you need another reason to always host your websites at your own top level domain (TLD) the recent announcement of Yahoo permanently closing GeoCities should be enough to convince you.
At the end of
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Celebrating Evolution the Web Way, Searcher magazine, May 02009
David Mattison on Fri 01 May 2009 at 7:03 AM
My most recent article for Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals was published today. Its titled Celebrating Evolution the Web Way and commemorates the 200th anniversary of naturalist Charl
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SEO eBook
Mark Lise on Thu 30 Apr 2009 at 9:35 PM
Ive wanted to learn more about SEO and how it can help drive traffic. Ive managed to get my hands on the following SEO eBook. I was expecting a lot of complicated details which were difficult to fi
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DemoCampVictoria #3
Mark Lise on Thu 30 Apr 2009 at 4:39 PM
Hey everyone, thats right. We got another democampvictoria coming up May 29th, 2009! Weve got some really interesting demos in the pipe so Im really looking forward to this one. Its at the Canadi
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Thoughts on Twitter Followers
Paul Holmes on Thu 30 Apr 2009 at 4:21 AM
Want to get 17,537 followers on Twitter in 90 days?
Umm sure, if 17,537 people are truly interested in what I have to say.
Otherwise, whats the point? Ego?
Im sure some genius out there has been track
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Times Colonist Reports: Local high-tech sector weathering the storm
VITP on Wed 29 Apr 2009 at 10:28 AM
Written by Andrew Duffy
In sync with the global economic downturn, dark clouds have rumbled
over most of this regions economic drivers, but one industry believes
it may just be creeping out from und
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WordPress Plugins, Widgets and Must-Dos
Paul Holmes on Mon 27 Apr 2009 at 5:01 AM
Now that I have so many websites running on WordPress (I count 27, but I might be missing some), and have played around with so many plug-ins, widgets and features, I figured Id write a little article
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ICA-AtoM (MemoryBC) workshop at AABC Conference
David Mattison on Sat 25 Apr 2009 at 8:09 PM
Two of the crew from Artefactual Systems, the boss himself Peter van Garderen and systems archivist/analyst and consultant Evelyn McLellan, along with AABC education coordinator Kelly Stewart, presente
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Web 2.0 workshop at the AABC Conference
David Mattison on Fri 24 Apr 2009 at 7:49 PM
Thanks to a retired archivist from UBC Library, I was able to borrow a laptop to use in a Web 2.0 workshop at the Archives Association of British Columbia Conference on April 24, 02009 at UBC. A laptop
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Help Us Help You!!!
the world from my eyes on Fri 24 Apr 2009 at 12:15 AM
HeyEd and I are asking our friends/readers for help. In return we will put your name in a draw for your choice of a t- shirt or hoody from small to 4xlarge with a design of your choice! We have f
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Is This Link Any Good?
Stepforth and be found on Thu 23 Apr 2009 at 9:16 AM
One question that I hear fairly often is not, how to get links, but rather, “How can I tell if a link will be any good?”
Obtaining links from other sites has two main purposes. The first is “link
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A FaceBook Etiquette Video
Paul Holmes on Wed 22 Apr 2009 at 1:47 PM
YourTango.com produced this clever video all about FaceBook manners.
Im fairly certain I have broken all of these rules.
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I-CHORA 5: Fifth International Conference on the History of Records and Archives,
David Mattison on Wed 22 Apr 2009 at 7:01 AM
The Fifth International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (I-CHORA 5) will be held in London, UK, between July 1 and 3, 02010. The title of the conference is Records, archives and techn
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Top Posts on Tips
Stepforth and be found on Tue 21 Apr 2009 at 5:20 PM
Here are the top posts on “Tips” from the old StepForth SEO Blog.
The Ten Minute Optimization REDUX - A SEO Tips White Paper
A 10 minute process to optimize a web page for top search engine ranking
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Top Posts on Social
Stepforth and be found on Tue 21 Apr 2009 at 5:14 PM
Here are the top posts on Social from the old StepForth SEO Blog.
Two Great Tips for Optimizing Your LinkedIn Account
LinkedIn SEO must haves
Do it Yourself Social Media Marketing - A StepForth White
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Top Posts on Search
Stepforth and be found on Tue 21 Apr 2009 at 5:09 PM
Here are the top posts on Search from the old StepForth SEO Blog.
Ins and Outs of Local Search
Submission to local search based engines is becoming more and more important for any sites servicing a loc
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Top Posts on Links
Stepforth and be found on Tue 21 Apr 2009 at 4:55 PM
Today is the launch of our new website. Unfortunately the majority of our blog content still resides on news.stepforth.com while we deal with transition issues so here are the top posts on Links from t
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Metrocascade blog now at blog.metrocascade.com
MetroCascade on Tue 21 Apr 2009 at 2:39 PM
We moved our company blog to blog.metrocascade.com. It was actually very easy once we had a DNS CNAME set up.
All to make us move visible on the web. The next steps will be to look into SEO now that we
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Netbooks + Easy Peasy = win
Mark Lise on Tue 21 Apr 2009 at 1:01 PM
In the search for E.T. life, and a linux distro that works *well* on the eee pc, Ive found Easy Peasy. My first thoughts were With a name like that, its a joke right?. My experience with lame-named
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Zhongguancun Life Science Park Visits Vancouver Island Technology Park
VITP on Mon 20 Apr 2009 at 12:38 PM
Today members from the Zhongguancun Life Science Park from Bejing, China paid a visit to the Vancouver Island Technology Park in hopes to create partnerships with VITP and its companies within. The gro
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The Digital Dilemma report, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
David Mattison on Sun 19 Apr 2009 at 9:10 AM
Id been curious about The Digital Dilemma: Strategic Issues in Archiving and Accessing Digital Motion Picture Materials report, published in November 02007, from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
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LIve Blog Wrap-Up
VITP on Sun 19 Apr 2009 at 8:23 AM
Wow - what a day it was yesterday!
Wed like to thank all the teams, companies and participants for all their hard work.
Also, we were supported on the day by professional photographers from E/A Pho
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Fun in the Mud
VITP on Sun 19 Apr 2009 at 8:16 AM
Nothing like a day crawling through the mud followed up by jumping in the..... mud.
Check out our Youtube MUD playlist, including shots of the mudjumpers whos participation was auctioned off at the e
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Quality is…
the world from my eyes on Sat 18 Apr 2009 at 10:14 PM
To finish the title, quality is a home built to how you would like it, involving you in the designing and building stages, quality products used with professionals taking your vision and bringing your
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Power to Play Team-Building Photos
VITP on Sat 18 Apr 2009 at 12:18 PM
The day proved to be a tough challenge, but teamwork and determination prevailed. Participants worked together to overcome the obstacles and finish the difficult course. Check out the action shots!
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Team Spirit....
VITP on Sat 18 Apr 2009 at 11:30 AM
The scary-looking Genologics crew below. Have a look at all the photos on Flickr!
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Power to Play Kickoff
VITP on Sat 18 Apr 2009 at 9:48 AM
Before the horn sounded, the organizers of Power to Play had a few things to say to the participants, volunteers, and spectators.
Check out the kickoff video below:
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Power to Play 2009 at Vancouver Island Tech Park Greetings from the Tech Park.
VITP on Sat 18 Apr 2009 at 9:24 AM
Greetings from the Tech Park.
The Power to Play event is kicking off as we speak.
Heres a couple photos from the registration:
Check out our complete Flickr account to see all the photos.
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Power to Play 2009 at Vancouver Island Tech Park Greetings from the Tech Park.
VITP on Sat 18 Apr 2009 at 9:24 AM
Greetings from the Tech Park.
The Power to Play event is kicking off as we speak.
Heres a couple photos from the registration:
Check out our complete Flickr account to see all the photos.
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Power to Play 2009 at Vancouver Island Tech Park Greetings from the Tech Park.
VITP on Sat 18 Apr 2009 at 9:24 AM
Greetings from the Tech Park,
The Power to Play event is kicking off as we speak. Heres a couple photos from the registration:
Check out our complete Flickr account to see all the photos.
Ch
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More People Working at Saskatchewan's Research Parks
VITP on Fri 17 Apr 2009 at 6:47 AM
The clients at the three Innovation Place locations in Saskatoon, Regina and Prince Albert contributed more than $647 million to the provincial economy in 2008 according to an economic impact study. Th
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Start Your Soapbox Car Now for the 4th Annual Canary Derby in Victoria June 28th
VITP on Fri 17 Apr 2009 at 6:41 AM
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Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training eBook
David Mattison on Thu 16 Apr 2009 at 8:45 PM
Athabasca University Press has published a paperback and eBook editions of Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training, edited by Mohamed Ally. According to the AU Press blurb,
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Society of American Archivists ePublications
David Mattison on Thu 16 Apr 2009 at 8:36 PM
The Society of American Archivists has a growing list of ePublications, edited monographs, case studies, and formal papers that have gone through a review process. These professional publications are a
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Governance and Recordkeeping Around The World newsletter debuts from the Library
David Mattison on Thu 16 Apr 2009 at 8:29 PM
From the announcement on the ARCAN-L mailing list (2009 04 15):
Library and Archives Canada is pleased to announce the debut of our online newsletter entitled Governance and Recordkeeping Around the Wo
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Graphics Atlas available from the Image Permanence Institute, Rochester Institute
David Mattison on Thu 16 Apr 2009 at 8:20 PM
The Image Permanence Institute at the Rochester Institute of Technology has released its Graphics Atlas Web application. According to an announcement on the Archives Archivists (AA) List (02009 04 15)
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SEO eBook
dailysplice on Thu 16 Apr 2009 at 12:57 PM
SEO eBook, SEO Quick Fix eBook
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The Road to Area 51 - Los Angeles Times
David Mattison on Wed 15 Apr 2009 at 9:22 AM
The Road to Area 51 - Los Angeles Times
Posted using ShareThis
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In’s and Out’s of Local Search
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Tue 14 Apr 2009 at 2:21 PM
As the population with internet access explodes, and more and more people are using search engines to find what they need, the usage of local search also continues to rise. For any sites servicing a lo
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Ins and Outs of Local Search
Stepforth and be found on Tue 14 Apr 2009 at 1:48 PM
As the population with internet access explodes, and more and more people are using search engines to find what they need, the usage of local search also continues to rise. For any sites servicing a lo
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The Ultimate Social Media Mashup
Paul Holmes on Tue 14 Apr 2009 at 12:40 PM
Sent by a good friend incredible music from the most eclectic international orchestra Ive ever seen.
Stand By Me from David Johnson on Vimeo.
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Power To Play feature on A-Channel News
VITP on Tue 14 Apr 2009 at 10:33 AM
On Saturday April 18th, 2009, 22 teams of 4 will spend roughly 4
hours running, crawling, sliding, jumping, pushing and challenging
themselves and their teammates through stations of mud, water, bush,
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New Stuff Happening for Me!
the world from my eyes on Sat 11 Apr 2009 at 11:51 AM
Well, as most of you already know, I am working in the accounting field again (Details Bookkeeping Services) and loving it. I had a lot of anxious moments getting back into this line of work as I l
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Digital Document Quarterly vol. 8, no. 1 (1Q2009) available
David Mattison on Fri 10 Apr 2009 at 8:17 PM
H.M. Gladneys Digital Document Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 1 (1Q2009) is available.
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My Latest Twitter Applications
Paul Holmes on Fri 10 Apr 2009 at 6:04 PM
After using Twitter for 28 days, I wrote an article about all the cool stuff I did with it. Since then, well, I went a little crazy.
For the Victoria Flower Count, we set up the website so that it wo
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Two Great Tips for Optimizing Your Linkedin Account
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Fri 10 Apr 2009 at 1:33 PM
I came across a video on Twitter yesterday (thanks to user @mypluginplay) and after watching it I learned a few things about LinkedIn (a property where I have a profile but I haven't researched yet) th
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William Mumler the spirit photographer
David Mattison on Thu 09 Apr 2009 at 7:06 PM
Though I havent seen this book, it looks like a great contribution to the literature of ghost photography: The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer by Louis Kaplan, University of Minneso
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Link Building Tips with Loren Baker - from SEO 101 on WebmasterRadio.FM
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Thu 09 Apr 2009 at 5:19 PM
This week's SEO 101 on WebmasterRadio.FM featured Search Engine Journal owner Loren Baker as our guest to discuss the ins-and-outs of Link Building.Above is a recording of the show courtesy of Webmast
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Is Online Advertising the Bastion of Hope During this Downturn?
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Thu 09 Apr 2009 at 3:56 PM
I was doing some of my daily news digging when I came across the following chart on MarketingCharts.com showing the Share of Ad Spending by Medium as of September 2008. With all of the discussion these
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Okanagan Research & Innovation Centre (ORIC) Officially Opens in Kelowna
VITP on Thu 09 Apr 2009 at 12:40 PM
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Times Colonist Reports: Developing Our Economy
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Times Colonist Reports: Power to Play
VITP on Thu 09 Apr 2009 at 12:31 PM
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Why Darwin Matters to Creationists
David Mattison on Thu 09 Apr 2009 at 9:20 AM
Professor skeptic Michael Shermer blogs about a presentation he gave at the University of California at San Diego Biological Science Symposium on April 2, 02009 based on his book Why Darwin Matters and
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UVic Honours its top researchers for 2009
VITP on Wed 08 Apr 2009 at 12:24 PM
A mechanical engineer, an English scholar, an expert in European
studies, an advocate for Aboriginal child health, and a university-wide
team that assists people with special needs are winners of the
U
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Abstracted Daffodil #2
negativespace.net by msj on Tue 07 Apr 2009 at 11:48 PM
Abstracted Daffodil #2, originally uploaded by ubermichael.
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World Digital Library to launch on April 21, 02009
David Mattison on Tue 07 Apr 2009 at 9:38 PM
According to this blurb on its site, The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the wor
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SPER (System or Preservation of Electronic Resources) digital preservation testbe
David Mattison on Tue 07 Apr 2009 at 7:00 AM
From the overview of SPER (System or Preservation of Electronic Resources) is a digital preservation testbed created at the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Libr
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Museums and the Web 2009 papers online
David Mattison on Tue 07 Apr 2009 at 6:41 AM
Papers and demos from the Museums and the Web 2009 conference being held April 15 to 18, 02009 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, are online. Another great roundup of fascinating museuological practices, c
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Art talk: Curators in Context
David Mattison on Mon 06 Apr 2009 at 7:58 PM
Curators in Context is a project of the Ontario Association of Art Galleries and the Artist-Run Centres Collectives of Ontario to publish Canadian visual art curators talking about their work. The ta
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VoiceThread: please leave a message about this document, video or image
David Mattison on Mon 06 Apr 2009 at 7:44 PM
VoiceThread is an interesting free and premium (user-pay) service that lets users comment on videos, documents or images. I came across it in the April 02009 issue of the Canadian Heritage Information
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Virtual Reference Bibliography Online launched by Rutgers University
David Mattison on Mon 06 Apr 2009 at 7:32 PM
Rutgers Universitys School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies has launched an online version of a digital reference services bibliography originally maintained by Bernie Sloan between 2
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Celebrating Ottawa's millions for IQC
VITP on Mon 06 Apr 2009 at 12:33 PM
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Presentations from Strategies for Multimedia Archives Conference, Belgium, Februa
David Mattison on Sun 05 Apr 2009 at 6:54 PM
BOM-vl, a research project and consortium supported by the Flemish Government, organized a one-day conference called Strategies for Multimedia Archives: Funds, Users and Context for the Digital Archive
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Long Term Development Plans for Knowledge Park Projected to Have Far Reaching Imp
VITP on Fri 03 Apr 2009 at 7:27 AM
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Say Hello to MIKE 2.0 (Method for an Integrated Knowledge Environment)
David Mattison on Fri 03 Apr 2009 at 7:05 AM
According to its front page,
MIKE2.0 (Method for an Integrated Knowledge Environment) is an Open Source methodology for Enterprise Information Management that provides a framework for Information Deve
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Times Colonist Reports: EAS, B.C. sign deal worth $586 million
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IMAP Preservation 101 and EAI Online Resource Guide for Exhibiting, Collecting an
David Mattison on Fri 03 Apr 2009 at 6:57 AM
The Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP), founded in New York State in 1999, has general information on media preservation in the Preservation 101 section. More specific information, created with
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Social Media Club, Victoria
Paul Holmes on Thu 02 Apr 2009 at 4:58 PM
On March 31, 2009, Catherine Novak and I helped to organize an inaugural meeting for Social Media Club in Victoria. We met at the University of Victoria, Faculty of Business.
Thank you to Herman Thoe
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EDS Advanced Solutions Signs $586 Million Agreement to Improve British Columbia G
VITP on Thu 02 Apr 2009 at 7:04 AM
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Long-term preservation of Open Access Journals secured
David Mattison on Wed 01 Apr 2009 at 8:13 PM
From the announcement on DIGLIB and other mailing lists (02009 04 01):
The Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ) - Lund University Libraries and the e-Depot of the National Library of the Netherlands
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Google Sells Organic, Prepares for Acquisition
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Wed 01 Apr 2009 at 6:25 AM
For years now, Google and Yahoo have been making a significant portion of their income on the paid sponsored ads to the right of the search listings, and that is about to expand. Google has recently di
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Spring Winds, Discussion and Hot Coffee
Victoria OpenCoffeec Cub on Tue 31 Mar 2009 at 4:51 PM
Six seems to be our magic number for the first couple of meetings. Six of us met this morning for the second Victoria OpenCoffee Club, including two new members:
Annalea Krebs (@AnnaleaKrebs), fou
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A Movable Past: the Inernet Archive Gets Boxed
David Mattison on Tue 31 Mar 2009 at 6:54 AM
Sun Microsystems has set up the Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine, founded by Brewster Kahle, in a datacenter thats self-contained within a shipping container. This Ars Technica story (02009 03
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Twitter 101 on SearchEngineWatch.com
David Mattison on Mon 30 Mar 2009 at 5:13 PM
Ron Jones is writing a multi-part article on one of the most popular social media tools that he calls Twitter 101. Part 1 appeared on March 30, 02009.
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Skype for iPhone
Paul Holmes on Mon 30 Mar 2009 at 3:39 AM
Holy freaking crap, Skype for iPhone appears ready to launch.
Why does this matter? Well, if you are one of those I dont even have a home phone anymore types, this means you could use your iPhone on
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Social Networking Primer - Social Bookmarking
Paul Holmes on Sat 28 Mar 2009 at 4:15 AM
On February 4th, I commited to writing some of my experiences on Social Bookmarking.
At a lecture at the last AffiliateSummit in Las Vegas, I recall the speaker suggesting that people pick one social b
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Web Position Gold and the Keyword Visibility Index
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Fri 27 Mar 2009 at 3:16 PM
As many of our readers know, Web Position Gold (WPG) is a tool used to check search engine rankings. It does other things, but its reporting feature is all we use. It does a good job of managing multip
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Best of Victoria Contest
MetroCascade on Fri 27 Mar 2009 at 11:04 AM
While there isnt yet an opportunity to vote for best local news and blogs aggregators, heres a great opportunity for people in Victoria to have their say about what they like best in the city: the Best
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VITP introduces first of its kind Corporate Challenge
VITP on Fri 27 Mar 2009 at 6:18 AM
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MetroCascade now has RSS
MetroCascade on Thu 26 Mar 2009 at 2:37 PM
You can now subscribe to MetroCascades main page with RSS, with whatever feed reader you use for your other online sites! (Yay!)
As we continue to refine the site, well eventually add a separate RSS f
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Troy Griffiths Named Business in Vancouver's Top 40 Under 40
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Smartest Twitter Spam Ever
Paul Holmes on Wed 25 Mar 2009 at 8:05 PM
Weve all had spam followers on Twitter. Presumably this is done to promote websites and products. Most of it is idiotic, and the accounts get closed pretty quickly. I just discovered one, however
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Google Implements Two New Improvements
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Wed 25 Mar 2009 at 10:31 AM
Google announced yesterday morning over at the two improvements they have made to the search results. These improvements include more refined results for specific searches, and longer snippets for lon
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Financial Times Launches Newssift - a New Seach Engine
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Tue 24 Mar 2009 at 12:38 PM
A new search engine, Newssift beta was recently launched by the Financial Times Group in an attempt to attract business users to search. It allows users to build incredibly specific queries to help ret
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Just had to write…
the world from my eyes on Fri 20 Mar 2009 at 7:11 PM
Have you just wanted to tell the world how you feel about things in generalabout life, love, people you know, where you see your life heading, etc. It would take way to long to list everything.
The int
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MetroCascade maintenance Sun. 3/22
MetroCascade on Fri 20 Mar 2009 at 2:58 PM
Just a quick heads-up that MetroCascade will be unavailable on Sunday March 22 between 4 pm PST to 6 pm PST due to maintenance. Our ISP will conduct a test of their Uninterruptable Power Supply. Thank
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What Is Your Gift?
jeff.io on Thu 19 Mar 2009 at 1:00 AM
Writing down and recognizing your gifts is just as important as writing down your goals. Goals can change over time and so can your gifts but what successful individuals have in common is that they foc
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Yahoo allows video embedding in Search Results
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Wed 18 Mar 2009 at 1:19 PM
Thursday, Yahoo announced a new Search Monkey feature that allows Flash video and documents to be embedded right on the search page. What does this do that’s out of the ordinary? It allows searchers
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“It’s the latest social networking micro-bloggy thingy.”
Paul Holmes on Tue 17 Mar 2009 at 10:31 PM
Anyone whos used or heard of Twitter must watch this video. Its absolutely hilarious.
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Inaugural Victoria OpenCoffee Club Meeting
Victoria OpenCoffeec Cub on Tue 17 Mar 2009 at 1:35 PM
This morning, six of us braved the freezing rain to meet at the Ogden Point Cafe.
In attendance:
Yule Heibel (@yuleheibel) and Werner Bahlke (@wernerbahlke) from MetroCascade
MCM (@1889ca) - software
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Government of Canada announces new ocean research and commercialization centre in
VITP on Tue 17 Mar 2009 at 6:29 AM
Andrew Saxton, MP for North Vancouver and Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Treasury Board, on behalf of the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology) today ann
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Social Media Binge Article 2: Social Networks
Paul Holmes on Tue 17 Mar 2009 at 3:05 AM
What's out there beyond FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace?
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I made stuff!
negativespace.net by msj on Mon 16 Mar 2009 at 10:38 PM
I love tumbling through Tumblr.com looking at all the crazy stuff people post (and the smut -- I'll admit it) but I don't like their navigation.
I'm a keyboard user: hate the mouse, despise the track
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March/April 02009 issue of D-Lib Magazine is out
David Mattison on Mon 16 Mar 2009 at 8:46 PM
From the announcement on the DIGLIB mailing list (02009 03 16):
The March/April 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available.
This issue contains five articles, an opinion piece
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RedZee Complaints Pile Up - Read This Before Using RedZee!
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Mon 16 Mar 2009 at 8:15 PM
From what I can gather RedZee should change their mascot to an animal more identified with shiftiness than a cute Zebra. Ever since I wrote "Seeing Red - Search Engine RedZee Reviewed" I have lost coun
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Seattle Post Intelligencer Going Web Only
negativespace.net by msj on Mon 16 Mar 2009 at 8:06 PM
From Stop the presses: Seattle Post-Intelligencer to publish on web only
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a newspaper that dates back to the city's frontier days, will issue its final print edition Tue
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Blogs, WordPress and Google
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Mon 16 Mar 2009 at 9:05 AM
It's no secret that a continually updated website with new content being added regularly stands a good chance of doing well in Google. One of the long standing methods to regularly expand a site's cont
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Toronto Star Reports: (Editorial) Research Funds Need a Second Look
VITP on Sun 15 Mar 2009 at 8:33 AM
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How Google's Interest Based Ads Work
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Sat 14 Mar 2009 at 4:09 PM
In the following video Google's "Business Product Manager for Trust and Safety" (phew what a title) Shuman Ghosemajumder discusses Google's interest-based advertising, how to opt-out of it and some of
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Social Media Binge Article 1: Micro-Blogging Sites
Paul Holmes on Sat 14 Mar 2009 at 2:09 PM
I went on a Social Media binge the other day, as I wanted to see what else was out there other than the usual suspects (FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace).
(My opinions on these are well document
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I Hate Hulu.com
Paul Holmes on Sat 14 Mar 2009 at 12:31 AM
I live in Canada.
If I try to load a video from Hulu.com, the following message appears:
Were sorry, currently our video library can only be streamed within the United States. For more information on
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Globe and Mail Reports: Time to keep pace with Obama
VITP on Thu 12 Mar 2009 at 8:27 AM
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SyncWave Systems Project Receives CAN $2.7M in Funding
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The Changing Landscape of Language
Metamend on Wed 11 Mar 2009 at 7:56 AM
How bursts of attention can threaten your delicate keywords.
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Website Rule #1: No information is much better than wrong information.
Paul Holmes on Wed 11 Mar 2009 at 1:37 AM
When I talk to people about building websites, I tell them that most people use them to get information, and that if you can provide that information, it builds confidence in your business.
One very ob
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LifeSciences BC Announces Recipients of the 2009 LifeSciences British Columbia Aw
VITP on Mon 09 Mar 2009 at 9:05 AM
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Daddy Knows Best
Metamend on Mon 09 Mar 2009 at 8:54 AM
Will the new semantic search tools developed by Ask.com save the day for the struggling search engine? That's the burning question.
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Session videos from The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication in the Digi
David Mattison on Mon 09 Mar 2009 at 7:00 AM
Videos of sessions from The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication in the Digital Age, a symposium at Texas AM University, February 11 to 13, 02009, are available.
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Bye, Tech: Dealing With Data Rot
David Mattison on Mon 09 Mar 2009 at 6:55 AM
CBS News ran this story from contributor David Pogue, Bye, Tech: Dealing With Data Rot, on March 1, 02009 that looks at migration issues for audio, video and electronic records as the only solution for
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Google Interview on Charlie Rose
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Fri 06 Mar 2009 at 5:53 PM
Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Product and User Experience at Google was interviewed by Charlie Rose this week.In the interview Charlie Rose got Marissa to discuss the expected advancements Go
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Do You Knol?
Metamend on Fri 06 Mar 2009 at 7:22 AM
Check out the hot beta cooked up by the gang at Google.
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Freeze Frame and East London Theatre Archive digital collections from the UK JIC
David Mattison on Thu 05 Mar 2009 at 8:22 PM
From the announcement on DIGLIB (02009 03 05):
The UKs JISC Digitisation Programme is delighted to announce that another two of its digitisation projects are online and available open access.
Freeze Fr
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Interesting conundrum
MetroCascade on Thu 05 Mar 2009 at 4:04 PM
Looking through Twitter Elite in Victoria, I came across bonspiel creation. Bonspiel (Ellen) has an Etsy store through which she sells fabulous leather creations - bags, purses, cuffs - silkscreened wi
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YVR Visitors to Recieve Olympic Welcome
VITP on Thu 05 Mar 2009 at 8:14 AM
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Digital Advertising: Cashing In On Efficiency
Metamend on Wed 04 Mar 2009 at 7:20 AM
In the wake of the economic downturn ("recession"), marketers are rushing to digital advertising - imagine that.
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Archiving 2009 preliminary program, Crystal City, Virginia, USA, May 02009
David Mattison on Wed 04 Mar 2009 at 6:58 AM
From the announcement on DIGLIB (02009 03 03):
IST is pleased to announce that the Archiving 2009 Preliminary Program, including the conference registration and hotel information, is available at http:
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California Digital Library announces self-guided tutorial for the eXtensible Text
David Mattison on Wed 04 Mar 2009 at 6:53 AM
From the announcement on DIGLIB (02009 03 03):
The California Digital Library (CDL) is pleased to announce the availability of an extensive self-guided tutorial for its eXtensible Text Framework (XTF)
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Categories
MetroCascade on Tue 03 Mar 2009 at 10:59 AM
Were still working out categories. I originally conceived of the site as tri-partite below the (shorter) cascade. The three columns would have been modeled on three major silos in Victoria (Technology,
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Taste The Rainbow of API Timeouts!
Paul Holmes on Mon 02 Mar 2009 at 9:03 AM
We have traditional media stunts, so why not social media stunts?
We saw an example of this today from Skittles - the chewy candy - where they essentially replaced their www.skittles.com website with a
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I Was Here: Social Bookmarking
Metamend on Mon 02 Mar 2009 at 7:57 AM
How social bookmarking can add to your SEO efforts.
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Lemon8-XML version 1.0 released
David Mattison on Sat 28 Feb 2009 at 11:52 AM
The open source Web application Lemon8-XML version 1.0 was released on February 27, 2009. This tool is a document conversion utility that reformats documents created in, for example, Microsoft Word, in
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Go Organic
Metamend on Fri 27 Feb 2009 at 9:30 AM
Pick the organic search results if you want to find what you're looking for. Not all search results are created the same.
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The Real Value of Twitter: Three Predictions for 2012
Paul Holmes on Thu 26 Feb 2009 at 3:49 PM
People who enjoy micro-blogging on Twitter include a group Ive already pretty clearly identified.
Computer Geeks
Marketing Types
Egomaniacs
Social Butterflies
(Id include myself in all 4 to varying d
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Press Release - Ross Dunn, Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Thu 26 Feb 2009 at 2:24 PM
StepForth Web Marketing is excited and proud to announce that on Tuesday, Ross Dunn, StepForth Web Marketing CEO/Founder was named as one of two finalists in the 2009 Greater Victoria Chamber of Commer
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GenoLogics Completes Additional Financing to Accelerate Translational Research In
VITP on Thu 26 Feb 2009 at 8:22 AM
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The definitive iPhone strategy for iGoogle users
Paul Holmes on Wed 25 Feb 2009 at 1:27 PM
So youre thinking about an iPhone?
I am a heavy user of iGoogle (e-mail, calendar, RSS reader, bookmarks, movies, weather, shared documents, stock market, etc.). I went out and bought an iPhone to re
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Submission: An Extension of the Human Touch
Metamend on Wed 25 Feb 2009 at 7:42 AM
Automatic or manual submission - which is better?
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Danny Boy
Paul Holmes on Wed 25 Feb 2009 at 6:57 AM
I didnt know you were allowed to spoof this song. Another brilliant Jim Henson moment.
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Mind and Consciousness: Is it possible to design a machine with mental capacities
Chris Campbell on Tue 24 Feb 2009 at 2:21 PM
I wrote this essay in December 1998 for PHIL342a: Minds and Machines, an excellent course taught by Prof. Charles Morgan that I took as part of my undergraduate degree. Im now blogging it for posterit
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Matt Cutts Explains Canonical Tags on Video
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Tue 24 Feb 2009 at 2:07 PM
A big thanks to the wonderful Abby Prince from WebProNews for interviewing Matt Cutts explaining what the new Canonical tag is for and why it was created.Here is a link to the Matt Cutts video shown ab
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More updates coming
MetroCascade on Mon 23 Feb 2009 at 10:42 PM
Two-thirds of the MetroCascade team (Yule Werner) were at NorthernVoice 2009 this past weekend, where we enjoyed a flood of presentations and sessions about blogging and social media (and someone sage
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Exclaiming the Truth about Account Optimizations
Metamend on Mon 23 Feb 2009 at 9:30 AM
What's all the hot fuss about YSM and their new and improved account optimization service?
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http://www.negativespace.net/msj/2009/02/rss_hits_the_big_time.html
negativespace.net by msj on Sat 21 Feb 2009 at 10:22 AM
RSS Hits the Big Time (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
As chaunceyt pointed out, the new stimulus bill’s implementation instructions require that each government agency report the money it gives out in
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Hello World
Published on Sat 21 Feb 2009 at 12:15 AM
Its been so long since my last post and with the move and all, it might be time for a new beginning.
So, hello there. Im Jenn and Im still alive.
Its been a rather hectic past few months, but there ha
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Variations digital music library system open source software from Indiana Univers
David Mattison on Fri 20 Feb 2009 at 6:39 PM
Indiana University released open source software system, Variations, for managing a digital music library. The software not only provides online access to streaming audio and scanned score images in su
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One Month of Twitter
Paul Holmes on Fri 20 Feb 2009 at 6:35 PM
Its been one month since I skeptically started using Twitter.
Wow.
Im convinced that every marketing person, Internet geek, computer programmer, opportunistic, or egomaniac should be using Twitter!
Her
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Social Networking - MySpace
Paul Holmes on Fri 20 Feb 2009 at 5:37 PM
Q: What does MySpace have going for it?
A: It is well established, as the first-to-market social network. It has hundreds of thousands of users. It is owned by News Corporation, which (in normal ec
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Articulate: Article Marketing
Metamend on Fri 20 Feb 2009 at 7:37 AM
How writing articles can market your body of knowledge.
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Dr. Don Rix Visits Vancouver Island Technology Park
VITP on Fri 20 Feb 2009 at 7:04 AM
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Avoiding Domain Name and Web Hosting Scams
Paul Holmes on Thu 19 Feb 2009 at 1:47 AM
I wrote this in response to a local Better Business Bureau warning about a web hosting invoicing scam.
As somebody who has been in the domain name and web hosting business for 8 years, I hope to provid
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Referential Integrity - Not just for children
negativespace.net by msj on Wed 18 Feb 2009 at 3:27 PM
I'm inheriting a crazy Ruby-on-Rails web application in my new job. It's the kind of system that has grown organically over time, with little bits being added or changed over the years to meet the dema
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Twitter Name Change
Paul Holmes on Wed 18 Feb 2009 at 1:37 PM
I was pretty excited to read that you could change your name on Twitter when there are inactive accounts that use your preferred name (I found out from an old friend of mine that actually did it, when
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Conversion Junction Part 2
Metamend on Wed 18 Feb 2009 at 8:27 AM
Understanding the limits of software in establishing solid conversion rates.
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FaceBook TOS Fiasco!
Paul Holmes on Tue 17 Feb 2009 at 11:24 PM
Does this qualify as the biggest corporate about face in history?
Just got this note on FaceBook (emphasis mine):
Terms of Use Update
A couple of weeks ago, we posted an update to our Terms of Use that
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AURP Canada Applauds British Columbia's 2009 Budget
VITP on Tue 17 Feb 2009 at 2:05 PM
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BC Budget 2009 Builds Stability, Confidence For the Future
VITP on Tue 17 Feb 2009 at 1:58 PM
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Feed me serendipity
MetroCascade on Tue 17 Feb 2009 at 12:34 PM
When I first thought of starting MetroCascade, I was spurred by the information I gained serving as a volunteer grants adjudicator on the CRDs Arts Advisory Council. Even though I grew up in Victoria (
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Batch image scaling with Gimp
Chris Campbell on Mon 16 Feb 2009 at 11:56 AM
Im currently working on a portfolio website for my dads paintings. He gave me a ton of hi-res images that I needed to scale down to a maximum dimension of 400px. I wrote this Gimp script to help au
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Air Miles Offered for Yahoo Searches
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Mon 16 Feb 2009 at 9:01 AM
For all our Canadian readers out there, if you find yourself collecting Air Miles, searching Yahoo may help you get that free flight just a little bit quicker.The Air Miles Yahoo Toolbar was recently l
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Google PowerMeter
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Mon 16 Feb 2009 at 8:54 AM
Google is developing a service to try and impact electrical energy consumption by allowing users to easily track their energy usage.PowerMeter software will tap into the information provided by "smart
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Conversion Junction Part 1
Metamend on Mon 16 Feb 2009 at 7:39 AM
Discover the journey from surfer to buyer.
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Social Media for Business - LinkedIn Wins!
Paul Holmes on Mon 16 Feb 2009 at 2:18 AM
It seems some prettier graphics were done recently to graphically show a demographic study on social media from July 29, 2008.
While these stats are a little dated, they strongly reinforce what I was s
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Birthday Presents
negativespace.net by msj on Sun 15 Feb 2009 at 7:43 PM
20090215-143317-0500, originally uploaded by ubermichael.
My friends gave me a gift card for my birthday. I bought an 8X neutral density filter with it, so I could take long exposure photos during the
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Won't be staying there much longer
negativespace.net by msj on Sun 15 Feb 2009 at 5:42 PM
Facebook's New Terms Of Service: We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever.
Facebook's terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they
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This is why I quit my job
negativespace.net by msj on Sat 14 Feb 2009 at 5:29 PM
Paul Osman | Thoughts on Software and Various Miscellany
Derick Rethans has a post about PHP's "shut-up" operator (@) and why it should be avoided. He outlines a fairly common debugging scenario and g
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Using Diigo as a “feed”
MetroCascade on Fri 13 Feb 2009 at 10:37 PM
In a previous post I mentioned that we eliminated the feed (via ca.yahoo.com) for Victorias daily newspaper, the Times-Colonist, because a) that feed contained too many non-Victoria/ non-local items, a
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You Tube yanks audio
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Fri 13 Feb 2009 at 11:17 AM
Last night I was looking through some of my favourite You Tube videos and stumbled across something of which I was completely unaware. You Tube is muting sound from a lot of user’s videos.I am a huge
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Camosun College Radio interviews Dale Gann
VITP on Fri 13 Feb 2009 at 9:15 AM
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THe Age of Reputation Management Part 3
Metamend on Fri 13 Feb 2009 at 7:48 AM
Who should get some reputation management?
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www.staticimage.ca
the world from my eyes on Thu 12 Feb 2009 at 11:47 PM
STATIC IMAGE
Lately I have been involved in the process of setting up an image transfer business. Loving this BTW. Static Image will host many products that can have image transfers placed on the
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Semantic Web in Action
David Mattison on Thu 12 Feb 2009 at 9:41 PM
According to the Librarians Internet Index, the Semantic Web in Action article (originally published in December 2007 and re-featured in January 2009) reviews progress towards the idea of a Semantic W
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Back in the daily grind of things…
the world from my eyes on Thu 12 Feb 2009 at 9:39 PM
And loving it. I have gone back into the accounting field again and realized finally that this is the work I love and am meant to do in life. I have had little stress since getting back into it and l
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“The Globe and Mail Test”
Paul Holmes on Thu 12 Feb 2009 at 4:08 PM
In politics I have developed messaging plans, formulated targetted advertising, conducted web campaigns, been responsible for media relations, and managed local campaigns of all kinds. In my business
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The Big 3 Search Engines Announce Helpful New Tag
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Thu 12 Feb 2009 at 3:30 PM
Today at the SMX West conference, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft just announced a new tag that will have a major impact on reducing the amount of duplicate content issues found online and it will help web
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Don’t Click on Twitter Explained (sorta)
Mark Lise on Thu 12 Feb 2009 at 10:46 AM
So if you are on twitter and youve seen the Dont Click: http://tinyurl.com/amgzs6 status message, seriously. Just dont click it. @apeatling was first on my list to state that it was a bad thing to
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Carmanah Partners With Shine Micro to Combine Solar-Powered Marine Lanterns With
VITP on Thu 12 Feb 2009 at 6:40 AM
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Landmarks: Public Art in the Capital Region of Victoria, BC, Canada
David Mattison on Wed 11 Feb 2009 at 10:34 PM
The Capital Regional District of Victoria, BC, Canada and three of its municipalities have assembled a terrific site called Landmarks: Public Art in the Capital Region. You can search for public art in
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The Age of Reputation Management Part 2
Metamend on Wed 11 Feb 2009 at 8:36 PM
Further defining reputation management and identifying examples.
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Census of Canada, 1891, database with digitized census schedules released
David Mattison on Wed 11 Feb 2009 at 8:35 PM
On February 10, 02009 the Library and Archives Canada announced the release of the Census of Canada, 1891, the last of the publicly available census schedules. You can search this database by personal
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UVic Student finds dream job working for BMW in Germany
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UVic Co-op student supports BC Transit’s move towards sustainable fleet
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UVic Engineering Co-op Student Earns job with NASA
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Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, BC, Canada, June 020
David Mattison on Wed 11 Feb 2009 at 6:59 AM
The 2009 Digital Humanities Summer Institute being held at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, from June 8 to 12, 02009 is now open for registration.
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Social Network Usage Stats
Paul Holmes on Wed 11 Feb 2009 at 12:33 AM
I was tweeted a fantastic article about social network stats released by compete.com.
There were a few non-surprises in it, however.
First thing, FaceBook has now surpassed MySpace in the U.S. as the
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More Live.com Grief
Paul Holmes on Tue 10 Feb 2009 at 8:25 PM
So I went to delete my old Live.com account. After struggling to find the option, I finally found it, and closed the account almost.
It came up with an error message reading:
One or more paid servi
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Recylcing Woes
Mark Lise on Tue 10 Feb 2009 at 8:02 PM
I just read a blog post about recycling entitled: We Cant Go On Like This. It talks a particular event arising at the recycling depot in Oak Bay. The writer goes on about some people who came to re
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About the blur…
MetroCascade on Tue 10 Feb 2009 at 5:27 PM
In the previous entry I noted that we were carrying out all sorts of behind-the-scenes work, which is still ongoing - and will be for a long while.
But its a learning curve for us to see how quickly we
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SEO Answers: How a Search Engine Ranking is Created
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Tue 10 Feb 2009 at 3:32 PM
At least a few times a month I get asked various questions about why a search engine ranking looks the way it does.For example, someone might ask me how they can influence the description and/or title
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Knowledge Park Launches First Long-Term Strategic Development Plan
VITP on Tue 10 Feb 2009 at 11:29 AM
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Enquisite, Inc. Secures $8 Million in Series B Funding Led by Castile Ventures an
VITP on Tue 10 Feb 2009 at 6:31 AM
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 10, 2009 -- Enquisite, Inc.,
a leading provider of search marketing automation and monetization
solutions, today announced that it has secured $8 million in Series B
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Live.com / Microsoft Social Networking
Paul Holmes on Tue 10 Feb 2009 at 12:27 AM
We all know that Microsoft wants desperately to get into the game on Social Networking (I suspect that, one day, they will buy FaceBook or LinkedIn - maybe both). Anyway, they have been doing similar
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For The Love Of…
the world from my eyes on Mon 09 Feb 2009 at 7:26 PM
With Valentines Day upon us, many may be thinking What or how can I show him/her how much I care and love them? People, please dont forget the saying Its the thought that counts. This has been forg
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The Preservation Challenge training workshop, Barcelona, Spain, March 02009
David Mattison on Mon 09 Feb 2009 at 6:53 PM
From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02009 02 09) and other mailing lists:
DPE/Planets/CASPAR/nestor Joint Training Event: The Preservation challenge: basic concepts and pract
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Multiple goodness, not blurs
MetroCascade on Mon 09 Feb 2009 at 6:22 PM
Werner and Helmut have been working behind the scenes all day today, and while its not yet visible on MetroCascades public page, by tomorrow you should see many more blogs and news sources aggregated.
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The Age of Reputation Management Part 1
Metamend on Mon 09 Feb 2009 at 11:46 AM
The bodyguard for the reputation - managing your reputation in a hostile environment.
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Thereness is a people thing
MetroCascade on Mon 09 Feb 2009 at 10:51 AM
After I tweeted and facebooked my note about MetroCascade being live with its new design, Vikki Flawith signed up with us. That was a really nice gesture, especially since at this point we havent (yet!
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CDRD Recieves Additional $2 Million in Funding from Pfizer
VITP on Mon 09 Feb 2009 at 7:33 AM
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Times Colonist: Technology park seeks building cash from federal coffers
VITP on Mon 09 Feb 2009 at 7:23 AM
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Interesting How Time Flies…
the world from my eyes on Mon 09 Feb 2009 at 12:38 AM
It seems like only a few days ago it was Christmas time and New Years was fast approaching. Wellit is here and already into February 2009!!! Valentines Day is just a few days away. Where did the tim
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Google Latitude
Mark Lise on Sat 07 Feb 2009 at 12:39 PM
Now if there was a feature that would make me go out and buy something, its GPS-aware devices. My Wife recently hooked herself up with a Blackberry Storm. A timely purchase as Google this week releas
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Metrocascade is live, has a new look
MetroCascade on Sat 07 Feb 2009 at 2:13 AM
Whoa, its up!
MetroCascade, the local news aggregator for Victoria, BC, is up and ready to go!
Weve been online for while now, but not till yesterday did we get our great new look. Now we feel ready to
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Google Latitude Adds More Social to Mobile
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Fri 06 Feb 2009 at 9:44 AM
This week Google announced the addition of a new feature for its Google Mobile Maps application called Google Latitude. The enhancement allows people to share their location via GPS, cellular tower tri
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King John
negativespace.net by msj on Fri 06 Feb 2009 at 9:00 AM
I'm reading King John for a friend, and loving it.
Plays aren't something I would normally read. You should hear them spoken by actors who care and understand what they're doing. The change of voices
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VITP Installs Leading Edge Backup Power Generator to Site
VITP on Fri 06 Feb 2009 at 8:39 AM
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Metamend and The Aberdeen Group Part 3
Metamend on Fri 06 Feb 2009 at 7:52 AM
What's the bottom line? (Hint - coffee is for closers)
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DISSCO, open source Records Management System with document management
David Mattison on Fri 06 Feb 2009 at 6:49 AM
From the announcement on various mailing lists between 02009 01 22 and 02009 02 04:
DISSCO was developed in 2000-2007 by a collaboration of the Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War a
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What Is New in Digital Preservation, Issue no. 19 (September-December 02008) avai
David Mattison on Wed 04 Feb 2009 at 8:04 PM
As announced on (02009 02 04):
Issue no. 19 (September - December 2008) of the DPC Whats New in Digital Preservation? bulletin is now available from the Digital Preservation Coalition Web site and the
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Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce: Infrastructure Projects Should Build Future
VITP on Wed 04 Feb 2009 at 1:03 PM
Proposals for infrastructure investments across
the Capital Region are missing the mark according to the Greater
Victoria Chamber of Commerce.
Construction funded through economic stimulus
investment
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Metamend and The Aberdeen Group Part 2
Metamend on Wed 04 Feb 2009 at 9:13 AM
What drives the marketing efforts at best-in-class organizations.
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Just answer the question
negativespace.net by msj on Wed 04 Feb 2009 at 9:00 AM
I'll admit it. I use Stack Overflow from time to time.
It has a few good points: I like the wiki/blog/q+a combination. The answers are usually pretty good, although sometimes it's idiots leading idiot
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Need help “Understanding Premis” now available
David Mattison on Tue 03 Feb 2009 at 9:04 PM
From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK and other mailing lists (02009 02 03):
Understanding PREMIS is now available from the PREMIS Maintenance Activity website. This document is
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Getting Started with Ruby
negativespace.net by msj on Tue 03 Feb 2009 at 9:00 AM
Something the books seem to have missed in the Installing Ruby on Rails chapters is that installing rails as a gem on the command line gem install rails doesn't install sqlite3-ruby.
It took me about
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VideoSurf video search engine
David Mattison on Tue 03 Feb 2009 at 6:58 AM
Heres what VideoSurf, a video search engine, has to say about itself:
VideoSurf has created a better way for users to search, discover and watch online videos.
Using a unique combination of new compute
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New Style
negativespace.net by msj on Mon 02 Feb 2009 at 8:56 PM
Negativespace.net has a new style and layout. I like the way it looks, but I welcome feedback on it.
On the right hand side, you will see a list of all the blogs on the site, and the four most recent
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UK Archives Hub celebrates 150th anniversary of evolutionary scientist Charles Da
David Mattison on Mon 02 Feb 2009 at 8:07 PM
The UK Archives Hub is commemorating for the month of February 02009 the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwins seminal book On the Origin of Species:
Collections of the Month: Charles
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Hello World
negativespace.net by msj on Mon 02 Feb 2009 at 8:01 PM
Welcome to my new blog.
Inbetween will be going away soon. All the pages there will be gone. It's time to say good by to that mess, and dedicate some time to doing actual blogging on the things I'm d
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Metamend and The Aberdeen Group
Metamend on Mon 02 Feb 2009 at 8:27 AM
What we learned from participating in an SEM study conducted by The Aberdeen Group.
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Liberal MP Hon. Keith Martin (Esquimalt - Juan de Fuca) talks technology parks in
VITP on Mon 02 Feb 2009 at 8:06 AM
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SEO and the Green Movement
Metamend on Fri 30 Jan 2009 at 7:57 AM
How the green movement is making a difference in the SEO world.
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CFAX 1070 Murray Langdon discusses the upcoming 2009 Canadian Federal Budget with
VITP on Thu 29 Jan 2009 at 7:18 AM
Watch videoWatch video
CFAX 1070s own Murray Langdon sat down with Dale Gann - acting president of the Vancouver Island Technology Park president of AURP Canada to discuss the upcoming release of th
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Google and Yahoo - Q4 Financial Results
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Wed 28 Jan 2009 at 10:11 AM
Fourth quarter financial results for 2008 are in at both Yahoo (pdf) and Google, and while Google still showed a sizable profit, the numbers show that 2009 may be a tough year for both search giants.Ya
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The Importance of This Page: Part 2
Metamend on Wed 28 Jan 2009 at 8:01 AM
Explore the various types of links and how they can affect your PageRank.
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Times Colonist Reports: Construction industry cheers billions in federal spending
VITP on Wed 28 Jan 2009 at 7:35 AM
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MSNBC runs "Canadian Association of University Research Parks Applauds Infrastruc
VITP on Wed 28 Jan 2009 at 7:23 AM
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AURP Canada President Applauds Infrastructure Funding
VITP on Tue 27 Jan 2009 at 12:22 PM
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The Importance of This Page: Part 1
Metamend on Mon 26 Jan 2009 at 1:03 PM
What is behind the green bar - the notion of PageRank.
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Infrastructure Investment and Economic Stimulus - Thinking outside the Bricks and
VITP on Mon 26 Jan 2009 at 6:42 AM
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SEO and the Prescription of Patience
Metamend on Sat 24 Jan 2009 at 2:52 PM
The main ingredient after site launch.
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SEO Results Take Time
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Fri 23 Jan 2009 at 12:15 PM
There is one important factor to remember whenever you are involved in improving the organic rankings of a website, and that factor is time. One of the most common questions I receive as an SEO is “H
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Yahoo Partners with Abaca to Reduce SPAM
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Fri 23 Jan 2009 at 10:11 AM
If you find that your Yahoo email account is being hit with too much spam, all that junk may be significantly cut back in the very near future.On Jan 20th, it was announced that Yahoo will begin using
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Google Market Share Down for Dec 2008
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Thu 22 Jan 2009 at 9:46 AM
Google market share is down – or level, depending on who you trust most. The December numbers are in over at both Nielsen and Comscore, and while both agencies are reporting very similar figures for
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How to Create High Conversion Lead Generating Content - A Recommended Webinar
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Wed 21 Jan 2009 at 9:12 PM
On January 29th Marketing Sherpa is presenting a webinar that we strongly recommend to all of StepForth's readers called:"How to Create High Conversion Lead Generating Content."The webinar is 90 minute
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Tag Nab-it: Part 2
Metamend on Wed 21 Jan 2009 at 6:49 AM
How your visible text copy can be your guide to better title tags.
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The Wow Factor: A Good Example
jeff.io on Tue 20 Jan 2009 at 2:50 PM
Where Ive Travelled In 2008
This morning when I got into work I was surprised to get an email from Dopplr with a link to download a fancy pants PDF summarizing all of my travels in 2008.
If youre curi
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W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking
Chris Campbell on Tue 20 Jan 2009 at 11:50 AM
Last week Flock sponsored the W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking in Barcelona, and I had the honour of attending on behalf of the company. The purpose of the 2-day workshop was to help det
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Tag Nab-it: Part 1
Metamend on Mon 19 Jan 2009 at 7:51 PM
The importance of nailing your title tags.
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IDC names President & CEO
VITP on Mon 19 Jan 2009 at 7:30 AM
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Pay Per Click: Part 3
Metamend on Fri 16 Jan 2009 at 4:35 PM
The final installment in the Pay Per Click series that examines what the user can do to safeguard against click fraud.
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VITP to Host Internationally Acclaimed Conference
VITP on Fri 16 Jan 2009 at 7:56 AM
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Pay-Per-Click: Part 2
Metamend on Wed 14 Jan 2009 at 4:23 PM
The origins of click fraud and the battle with confidence.
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Pay Per Click: Part 1
Metamend on Wed 14 Jan 2009 at 2:52 PM
Pay Per Click is a big hairy beast in the Search Engine Optimization business. It’s known by other
names – Pay Per Placement, Pay Per Ranking, Pay Per Position, or Cost Per Click – but a rose is
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Oh Horoscope, Lead The Way…
the world from my eyes on Wed 14 Jan 2009 at 2:50 PM
Today I read my horoscope early thinking that it may provide me with some insight to things I have been going through lately. I dont normally write down my dreamsI go with the flow of how I am feeling
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Protox announces initiation of placebo controlled Phase 2 BPH study
VITP on Mon 12 Jan 2009 at 6:41 AM
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The Foundation Series: Part 3
Metamend on Fri 09 Jan 2009 at 11:59 AM
The final post in a series on the examination of SEO basics and the interplay between keywords and phrases.
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VITP profiled in US Magazine - Site Selection Online
VITP on Fri 09 Jan 2009 at 6:18 AM
E
veryone wants LEED. But which jurisdictions attract the cream of the crop?
Since the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
(LEED) certification program was formally implemented a decade
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It’s A New Year!!!
the world from my eyes on Thu 08 Jan 2009 at 12:21 PM
It is now the year 2009 and I am working on New Years resolutions I have thought about for myself. Here is my list.
To finish losing the weight I started out as my original goal last year.
To take
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VITP selected to join Microsoft BizSpark Program
VITP on Thu 08 Jan 2009 at 9:04 AM
The Vancouver Island Technology Park today
announced that it has been selected to join the Microsoft BizSpark Program as a
Network Partner. The BizSpark Program is a new global program designed to
a
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The Foundation Series: Part 2
Metamend on Wed 07 Jan 2009 at 10:09 AM
The foundation of SEO is built with keywords that should be vital to website creation.
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Big Brother’s Internet
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Tue 06 Jan 2009 at 4:20 PM
Whether it is for spreading propaganda to a nation’s populous - or suppressing it - governments have always sought to control new forms of media. From the printing press to the radio and the televisi
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The Foundation Series: Part 1
Metamend on Mon 05 Jan 2009 at 3:57 PM
An examination of the ground beneath our feet as we solidify our position in a murky outlook.
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Batch processing video frames with Gimp: A Scanner Gimply
Chris Campbell on Mon 05 Jan 2009 at 9:47 AM
This weekend I got the latest version of Gimp running on my Mac, and started playing with some of the artistic filters.
I came across a combination that results in a look somewhat reminiscent of look o
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2009 - Peering Past the Post Part 2 - The Good Stuff
Metamend on Sun 04 Jan 2009 at 1:29 PM
Difficult economic times prompt change. That simple and obvious fact provides a dozen or more rays of hope on the horizon for those who want to see them. It also provides dozens of opportunities for th
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Playing with Gimp 2.6
Chris Campbell on Sun 04 Jan 2009 at 11:08 AM
I upgraded to the latest version of Gimp yesterday, and started playing with some of the artistic filters. Here are the results of some messing around with Cubistic, GIMPressionist and edge detection
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Happy New Year!
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Wed 31 Dec 2008 at 12:05 PM
Well, another year has come and gone, seems like only yesterday we rolled over to 2008 and now it’s just about to end.A lot happened in 2008. Here at StepForth we have expanded our families both on b
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2009: Peering Past the Post
Metamend on Tue 30 Dec 2008 at 4:37 PM
24 hours from now most North Americans will be tipping glasses in high hopes of a prosperous new year. Before arriving at any of the parties however, many of us are already feeling somewhat hungover. R
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Reviewing a Perilous Transition - The News of March 2008
Metamend on Tue 23 Dec 2008 at 3:57 PM
behold the biggest or most interesting stories I found in March 2008. March was an interesting month full of debate, controversy and the first inklings that something wicked was coming this way...
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STOP using your credit cards online — secure websites are no longer secure as o
Chris Campbell on Tue 23 Dec 2008 at 9:34 AM
Until today, doing online banking or using your credit card to make purchases online was generally safe as long as you made sure that the website was using https (rather than just http) and you knew a
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Predict That - Reviewing my 2008 Precitions
Metamend on Mon 22 Dec 2008 at 2:58 PM
Taking a step away from reviewing the major news stories of the year, I thought I would take a look at the predictions I made for 2008 at this time last year.
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A White Almost-Christmas
Chris Campbell on Sun 21 Dec 2008 at 9:01 AM
Blogged with the Flock Browser
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Search Engine Market Share for November 2008
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Fri 19 Dec 2008 at 2:24 PM
The latest figures are in over at Comscore, and as far as search market share is concerned, Google continues to increase its lead.It is never a surprise to see Google leading the pack, its been this wa
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Reviewing a Perilous Transition - The News of February 2008
Metamend on Fri 19 Dec 2008 at 11:47 AM
In February 2008, the search and Internet world changed profoundly as a simple but terribly threatening phone call led us to the series of margin calls we're witnessing today.
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Keeping Busy the Key to My Well Being!!!
the world from my eyes on Sat 13 Dec 2008 at 1:07 PM
In the past, I have always had multiple things on the go and have made it a point to go the extra mile when doing anything. Since I moved to Victoria and have been taking some breathing time to get b
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Horoscope for Today - December 11, 2008
the world from my eyes on Thu 11 Dec 2008 at 11:53 AM
I opened up my MSN mail today and this is what my horoscope read. This comes from MSN Astrology - Astrocentre. Very interesting how their take on how this day should be is in conjunction with how my
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How I am Feeling…
the world from my eyes on Wed 10 Dec 2008 at 3:49 PM
Today was a day of revelation in my life on some things and has also put me into a bit of a depression in others.
I realized that I am the maker of all good and bad that happens in my life. I have al
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Increased San Francisco Flight Frequency
VITP on Wed 10 Dec 2008 at 1:27 PM
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StepForth to Offer Free PPC Account Review
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Tue 09 Dec 2008 at 12:42 PM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDecember 9, 2008StepForth Web Marketing Announces Limited Time Offer for Free PPC Account ReviewSave time and money with a FREE assessment of your Pay Per Click campaigns. Our PPC
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Green Government Facility Named Canada's Solar Project of the Year
VITP on Mon 08 Dec 2008 at 1:20 PM
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Human breast stem cells that regrow mammary tissue: BC Cancer Agency discovery
VITP on Tue 02 Dec 2008 at 9:07 AM
A
team of scientists at the BC Cancer Agency in Vancouver have made an
important advance for breast cancer. Published this week in the leading
medical journal, Nature Medicine, their exciting study sho
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North West Mozilla Development Camp
Mark Lise on Mon 01 Dec 2008 at 10:51 AM
This past weekend was the NorthWestMozDev meetup. What is that you say? Well, the group provides a simple mechanism for developers in the North West
(US/Canada) using Mozilla related technologies to co
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Wed 26 Nov 2008 at 9:31 PM
From all of us at StepForth, we would like to wish all of our American friends and clients a happy Thanksgiving!StepForth will also be closing early Thursday Nov 27 at 3:00pm (PST), for our annual Chri
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Feeling As of Late…
the world from my eyes on Wed 26 Nov 2008 at 1:06 PM
Just a little update. I have been on the band wagon for losing weight and trying to eat better. Late June-early July 2008, I was in emergency due to having problems with my gallbladder. It was a
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iPhone Developer Meetup
Mark Lise on Tue 25 Nov 2008 at 10:21 PM
Well, I just got back from the event and Im now Im sitting on my couch about to sum it all up.
About 14 people showed up to the event and everyone was contributing and the discussion never got stale. W
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GPhotospace Leverages Gmail to Create Firefox Add-On for Free Private Photo Shari
VITP on Tue 25 Nov 2008 at 12:33 PM
GPhotospace.com announced today the launch of PC and Mac versions of the
GPhotospace Add-on for Firefox and Flock. Leveraging the Gmail platform, the
GPhotospace Add-on shares albums online many time
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Is Google Under Attack?
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Mon 24 Nov 2008 at 9:25 AM
It's 9:20 am PST on Monday November 24th, and access to Both Google AdWords Postini, appear to be down. It seems strange that both Google services would be down without any formal notice stating a mai
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DivX Files Lawsuit Against Yahoo
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Mon 24 Nov 2008 at 8:33 AM
As if Yahoo doesn’t have enough financial troubles. San Diego based DivX is suing Yahoo for $25 million in damages. Allegedly Yahoo had breached an advertising agreement with DivX accounting for more
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Floogle
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Fri 21 Nov 2008 at 3:14 PM
A lot of people are unaware of Google.org, the philanthropic wing of Google. Since its inception, Google.org has been involved in a variety of initiatives covering such global issues as health and dise
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Google's Market Share Keeps on Rising
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Fri 21 Nov 2008 at 12:35 PM
The figures from Nielsen Netratings and comScore are not in as of yet, but Hitwise has posted their latest numbers for October, and they show Google closing in on the 72% mark.According to Hitwise, Goo
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Google Book Search Settlement
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Fri 21 Nov 2008 at 9:30 AM
Google has now made one big step forward in its initiative to have out-of-print books online. Tuesday, Judge John Sprizzo approved a lawsuit settlement between Google and numerous authors and publisher
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Google Lively Not Lively For Long
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Thu 20 Nov 2008 at 11:49 AM
Last night in a blog post at the Official Google Blog, Google announced that one of its Google Labs projects, Lively.com, will see its doors closed forever.After only a few short months, Google has dec
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Another couple of beauties. Let me know if this gets boring…
Chris Campbell on Thu 20 Nov 2008 at 10:30 AM
Blogged with the Flock Browser
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LifeSciences British Columbia Recognizes Dr. Michael Hayden, Named Canada’s Hea
VITP on Thu 20 Nov 2008 at 10:10 AM
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iPhone Development + Barcamp + Victoria = fun for developers
Mark Lise on Wed 19 Nov 2008 at 1:37 PM
Anyone in Victoria looking to learn about developing applications on the iPhone should definitely come to this event!
Barcamp Wiki: http://barcamp.org/iPhoneDevCampVictoria
Upcoming: http://upcomin
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Bariven S.A. Upgrades Venezuela's Airport De Guiria With Solar-Powered Aviation L
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ICE Fund Backs Unique Biomass Technology
VITP on Wed 19 Nov 2008 at 6:59 AM
With support from the provincial governments Innovative Clean Energy (ICE)
Fund, Nexterra Energy Corp. is implementing an alternative energy system that
will cut operating costs for a Lower Mainland in
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Yahoo Shares Drop to Lowest in 5 Years
Stepforth SEO News Blog on Fri 14 Nov 2008 at 9:09 AM
It sounds more and more like Yahoo should have taken the Microsoft buy-out offer at $31 a share back in February. Since then Yahoo shares have been up and down, but as of today, they are hovering aroun
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Protox reports 2008 third quarter results
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Carmanah Q3 2008 Delivers Sustained Growth and Profitability
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Two Out Of Three Florida Top Principals Use Victoria-based Etraffic's SnapShot Da
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GenoLogics Signs Global Agreement with Pfizer to provide Informatics Solutions to
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Zymeworks Appoints Noel Hall to Its Board of Directors
VITP on Mon 10 Nov 2008 at 6:51 AM
Zymeworks Inc., a privately held computational biotechnology company, today announced the appointment of Noel Hall to its board of directors. Mr. Halls extensive knowledge of the biotechnology industry
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…And updated once again
Published on Mon 03 Nov 2008 at 7:39 PM
Hmm, this is the second post regarding a major upgrade of Wordpress in a row without any substantive posts made since forever.
Im writing this from the Bay Area, where Ive been visiting friends and re
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Happy Halloween!
Chris Campbell on Fri 31 Oct 2008 at 11:30 AM
Blogged with the Flock Browser
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Winter daylight
Chris Campbell on Thu 30 Oct 2008 at 2:03 PM
One advantage of our shortened winter days in the Great White North, I get to be awake for some spectacular sunrises
Blogged with the Flock Browser
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Mac Battery Life
Mark Lise on Thu 16 Oct 2008 at 1:20 PM
I was suggested to try out this program to determine my battery life on my MBP. Its quite cool! I am looking for something similar for Linux/Win but nothing very interesting yet.
Excerpt from http:
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Telus & Bell Move to 4G GSM Networks. iPhone Inevitable.
jeff.io on Fri 10 Oct 2008 at 9:00 AM
In Canada, we have a few mobile phone companies and only one of them uses GSM technology. For us iPhone lovers, our only choice was to go with Rogers.
This morning, news of a joint effort by Bell and T
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How To Get Traffic From TechCrunch
jeff.io on Fri 10 Oct 2008 at 8:00 AM
Theres a simple way to get traffic from the popular websites out there:
Leave a comment.
At one point I was looking at my statistics across all of my various projects and got a little excited when I st
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DemoCamp Victoria 02!
Mark Lise on Wed 08 Oct 2008 at 10:36 AM
Thats right were firing it up again!! Check out the facebook group and wiki page here:
http://barcamp.org/DemoCampVictoria02
http://www.facebook.com/wall.php?id=29708379117#/group.php?gid=22375720391
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DailySplice new Site and Splice Stations Launch Today
dailysplice on Tue 16 Sep 2008 at 8:01 PM
Hello everyone, it's been a while since we posted in this category… but today you get to see what's been keeping us busy all summer. We have a new site and something called "Splice Stations” that l
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How To Recognize "Found Time"
jeff.io on Fri 05 Sep 2008 at 4:00 PM
How can I find time to?
If I could just find some time to?
Could you find time to?
Expressions like these are commonplace in todays busy world. The frustrating part is not the actual doing of the thing
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New York Times Book Review
dailysplice on Thu 04 Sep 2008 at 12:00 PM
One of the client companies that work with us has mentioned that this podcast is absolutly amazing, but points out that they don't advertise their amazingness… Instead of going by the title "New York
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Google Chrome
Mark Lise on Wed 03 Sep 2008 at 12:00 PM
So I tried out Google Chrome yesterday along with the rest of the 2-3% internet traffic of the day. My initial impressions were clean, snappy, and very beta as far as features go, but a solid experienc
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IndieFeed Performance Poetry
dailysplice on Tue 02 Sep 2008 at 12:00 PM
I was at the fringe festival in Victoria and I couldn't help but think about this podcast as I sit there in my fold-out chair in a black-painted room decorated with masquing tape remants listening to g
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YikeSite: A Year in Pictures
jeff.io on Sat 30 Aug 2008 at 3:58 AM
We put together a quick video to commemorate YikeSites first year. Have a look!
And the official entry in the YikeSite blog.
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Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders
dailysplice on Thu 28 Aug 2008 at 12:26 PM
This is one of the podcasts that has been in my list forever. I remember one of the first episodes featured this kid named Marc Zuckerburg who no one had ever really heard of. He had this thing called
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Announcing "The Jeffio Show"
jeff.io on Tue 26 Aug 2008 at 5:33 PM
The Jeffio Show will be a short-format video podcast (under 5 minutes) featuring 3-4 guests per episode all answering the same 2-3 questions with responses taking no longer than 30 seconds for each res
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IndieFeed Electronica
dailysplice on Tue 26 Aug 2008 at 12:00 PM
Last week I revealed that once upon a time I was a filmmaker (or at least I wanted to be)… this week I'll tell you that in yet another life I was a raver. Those who know me now would refuse to beleiv
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Indy Mogul
dailysplice on Wed 20 Aug 2008 at 12:00 PM
It's a little known fact these days, but I used to be big into the indy filmmaking thing. I used to make little films every summer, and even almost took it pro at one point when I dropped 10 grand on f
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PRI's the World - Geo Quiz
dailysplice on Tue 19 Aug 2008 at 12:00 PM
If you really like traveling or are crazy about geography, this will be one of the most fun podcasts you've ever subscribed to. It starts off with some little hints about a place they are talking about
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Walt Mossberg on Flock
Mark Lise on Thu 07 Aug 2008 at 12:31 PM
Well Flock has been reviewed by Walt Mossberg at the Wall Street Journal, and thats huge. Hes one of the most influential technology critics out there and hes taken out some time to give us our repor
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AbeBooks + Amazon + Victoria
jeff.io on Fri 01 Aug 2008 at 10:00 AM
Congrats to our friends at AbeBooks! Getting acquired by Amazon ups the ante for start-ups in Victoria and shines the spotlight (at least for a little bit) on where I call home, Vancouver Island. The t
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I totally got a 3G bPhone!
jeff.io on Tue 15 Jul 2008 at 5:00 AM
3G iPhone? Who needs it. I just picked me up a sweet 3G bPhone!
I encourage you to post your own videos of YOUR 3G bPhone!
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Sketches, Wireframes & CSS
jeff.io on Wed 18 Jun 2008 at 5:00 AM
It seems that I keep refining my interface design process for each new project that I work on.
In this article Id like to share with you my process of designing a user interface from sketch through to
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I totally built a Micro-App!
jeff.io on Mon 16 Jun 2008 at 7:00 AM
Im really loving the whole notion around Micro-Apps. Theres something about the idea of sitting down for a short period of time and just launching something that really gets me excited.
Some define cha
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Testing testing, is this thing on?
Published on Wed 11 Jun 2008 at 5:08 PM
My blog software (Wordpress) was full of well known holes and it was well past the time I should have updated my installation.
After reading that scammers have started to exploit these holes, I decided
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A Video Welcome To Jeffio Blog
jeff.io on Mon 09 Jun 2008 at 7:00 AM
Thought Id introduce you to my 3-year-old son Anim. He is the funniest kid I know.
Maybe Ill try dropping the odd video here and there to see if we can make it work. This one was sure fun to make. Enjo
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Apricado Music Sneak Preview
jeff.io on Fri 06 Jun 2008 at 1:00 AM
Apricado is a great way for independent artists to sell their music online. In this video Ill show you how easy it is to set up an Apricado store if youre an indie musician. This is the sneak preview.
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Conference Dating 101
jeff.io on Tue 03 Jun 2008 at 11:00 AM
Every conference I attend I have a real hard time going outside of my personal comfort zone and actively trying to meet people. As an entrepreneur Ive learned time and time again that the broader your
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Photos of the Day
Published on Mon 02 Jun 2008 at 7:52 PM
I saw this out of my home office window tonight and had to grab a camera and get a clearer look.
Amazingly lit clouds 1
Amazingly lit clouds 2
Im guessing that the sun light is blocked from below by th
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Taos & Santa Fe
Published on Sun 01 Jun 2008 at 2:09 PM
My mother and I did our annual trip to New Mexico a couple of weeks ago. Though our trips are always relaxing, our primary interest is in visiting all the galleries we can fit into our time there and
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Bolder Boulder #1 — 1:43:21.78
Published on Sat 31 May 2008 at 12:14 PM
Ive been living in Boulder since early 1999 and every year since, as Memorial Day approaches, Ive thought that doing the Bolder Boulder 10K Race would be a cool Bouldery thing to do.
Waiting for the r
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Yallery Progress too.
Published on Sat 31 May 2008 at 9:45 AM
Yallery.com is still softlaunched meaning that were not officially promoting our services while we work through some important issues and implement remaining features.
That said, early this month,
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Founders and Funders
Mark Lise on Fri 30 May 2008 at 2:39 PM
If youre looking to meet other entrepreneurs, youll definitely want to check this out. David Crow and Jevon MacDonald put together the inaugural event in Toronto in 2007. The whole point is to meet
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Asus EEE PC love
Mark Lise on Thu 22 May 2008 at 11:01 AM
Rumor has it that Asus is going to release the EEE PC Desktop. Some may think, WHY.. the EEE PC is an ultra portable laptop, why would we need something similar in the desktop space?
Id say for those
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The Amazing 5 Day Work Week
jeff.io on Mon 05 May 2008 at 1:00 PM
There are a few folks out there extolling the virtues of a 4 day work week. Personally I think it’s the ideal scenario. But for us service-based companies who whose time-worked is proportional to gen
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iPhone in Canada
Mark Lise on Tue 29 Apr 2008 at 3:02 PM
So theres been a lot of talk on twitter and other blogs about the iPhone finally coming to Canada via Rogers. At least in an official sense. Lots of people already have the iPhone in Canada, but th
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The Whuffie Index
jeff.io on Mon 28 Apr 2008 at 9:00 AM
Whuffie is a new term we’re about to hear a lot of with regards to social media, online communities and internet presence.
I believe the term was originally coined in the sci-fi novel Down and Out in
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Dads, Get An Office
jeff.io on Mon 14 Apr 2008 at 8:00 AM
People considering working at home generally weigh the benefits and challenges but opt for the home office anyways. My guess however is that over time a lot of people will eventually find the opposite
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Wear Clothes At Home
jeff.io on Fri 11 Apr 2008 at 10:00 AM
People who work from home get a pretty sweet deal: Pants are optional.
When I first started working from home, I’d brag that I could sit in my underwear while taking a client call or wake up by noon
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Allow Myself To Introduce Myself
jeff.io on Mon 07 Apr 2008 at 7:00 AM
Hey there, my name is Jeff Ward and you have reached my very first blog entry. Ive procrastinated starting this blog for a lot of reasons. But I finally did start this blog for the following reasons:
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Jennlog is one year old
Published on Sat 05 Apr 2008 at 4:33 PM
While exploring the hammockverse earlier today, I decided to interrupt my laptop reading to look over some of my older blog posts. It seems that my first blog post was made on Thursday April 5, 2007
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In the meantime…
Published on Thu 27 Mar 2008 at 9:29 AM
Wow, so this is my first post in March. Ive been meaning to post but Ive been busy with Statuspalooza and a number of other things this month.
I ended last month in California, working on a contract i
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Virgin Galactic? No thanks, I’ve been higher on Frontier
Published on Wed 27 Feb 2008 at 4:33 AM
Last night, as we crossed from Nevada to California, I noticed Frontiers map go a little twilight zone-ish.
going 0mph 881,089 ft above california
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Events in Victoria
09 Sep 2010
Brent Jarvis Showcase/Jam/Fundraiser at Hermann's Jazz Club
NYPD - NOT YOUR PARENTS DISCO with DJ Kenzie Clarke, DJ Kenzie Clarke, DJ Trevor at Lucky Bar
8:00 PM
GALEN HARTLEY AND SARA MARREIROS at The Superior
10 Sep 2010
sub|division SLUGABED, ILLUM SPHERE, BLUE DAISY at Lucky Bar
The Paperboys at Hermann's Jazz Club
8:00 PM
KEN HALL "SAFFRON" at The Superior
11 Sep 2010
Yiddish Columbia State Orchestra at Hermann's Jazz Club
7:30 PM
Arise with a twee bit of reggae spins to start at Black Stilt Coffee Lounge on Hillside
