Drama. It’s the name of a character on an HBO show, a class at school, and it’s the theme of this week’s FML Friday. Actually, I think it’s probably the theme of every FML Friday. But the three FMLers below had some drama that caught my eye, so I’ve decided to provide them with some [...]
Clubhouses, headlines and plagiarism | Edmonton Blog Watch
Heat came to the city last week, in more ways than one. This week’s Edmonton Blog Watch features controversial posts involving the Edmonton airport lands, Greenpeace, Ralph Klein, nerds, a Taste of Edmonton, and even the horrific triple murder at the U of A. There’s lots of excellent commentary for you to digest, maybe over [...]
Food truck bylaws, the CBC and Halifax | Edmonton Blog Watch
I don’t want to say that Edmonton’s social media mavens knocked it out of the park with interesting content last week. You’ll all accuse me of hyperbole. And you’ll do so repeatedly, because “hyperbole” is really fun to say. But trust me when I say there were more terrific posts from more terrific people that [...]
More like ‘City of Interesting’ | Edmonton Blog Watch
Edmonton is blessed with a really strong, diverse, and articulate social media community. Over the last three years, I’ve gotten to know a lot of the players involved in this community. Aside from interacting with folks daily on Twitter, many of them share their thoughts, opinions and passions on their blogs. This new weekly feature, [...]
ALEx for the masses
When TED came to Edmonton back in March, it was a very exclusive event. Because of the rules of TED, TEDx Edmonton could only have a maximum of about 100 people in attendance… Scott and I spoke with Ken Bautista in a previous episode of the Unknown Studio, and Ken told us he reason for [...]
Why I’m going to Reboot Alberta 2.0
Unless you’ve been living under a rock in the province of Alberta, you’ll know that there have been some interesting recent developments in our political landscape. I’m not going to go over a history of those developments, but you’d do best to read Dave Cournoyer’s coverage of the movement, such as it is. From my [...]