Monday, February 23rd, 2009...12:33 pm
Vancouver tech posts of the week
Coming of a noisy and buzzworthy Northern Voice, here are two powerful posts, both must-reads for the Vancouver tech community:
Miss 604: Northern Voice 2009 Citizen Media and the Olympics Robert Scales and Andy Miah
This liveblogged entry from Northern Voice captured the energy and quick pace of the presentation by Robert Scales and friends on social media during the Olympics. Speaker DaveO says, “we’re not here to live stream the women’s figure skating in prime time… We own as much of the culture about the olympics as the IOC does… People are coming and i plan to welcome them and make cool stuff.”
Citizen media, or “ambush media,” will undoubtedly become a significant part of future Olympic coverage. Will it happen in Vancouver?
Tris Hussey: Coping Digitially hits and hurts the mark:NorthernVoice 2009
This is a very powerful post at the intersection of technology and reality. Kudos for Tris for a breath of honesty in space clouded by technology and fancy tools for accessing and spreading information. To learn more about this initiative, read Mental Health Camp 2009 - A proposal, on Hummingbird604’s blog.
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February 23rd, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Thank you so much for linking to my post Mental Health Camp. It’s a very important topic, and one in which I think the Vancouver tech community can help a lot dispel the myth of mental illness as “being crazy”.
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