Vancouver Tech

Here again are the top posts of the week, according to Vancouver Tech:

Northern Voice Presentation + Bongo Preview by Giant Ant Media is a beautiful, visual post about Giant Ant’s presentation at Northern Voice. The post is also a sneak preview to their upcoming documentary Bongo, covering a bunch of Dar es Salaam streetboys record a hip hop album. Be sure to watch the sneak peak video.

@Bell Canada backpedals, Twitter SMS now — almost — free, well from Engadget, is not Vancouver-centric exactly, but responds to the noise last week about the Bell Canada and Twitter deal to bring back Twitter text messaging to Bell Canada customers. What was originally to be a no-added-cost service, ended up being a disappointing “premium” service. However, it turns out that all the complaining has paid off, and… Twitter is now free for these Bell Canada customers. It turns out complaining, moaning, and groaning does seem to do the trick in the backwards telecom market of Canada. See also how iPhone pricing eventually gave Canadians the 6GB data plan, and newly added incoming SMS fees were erased (well, not yet).

We Saw Darcy Hordichuk at the Airport by Darren Barefoot is a simple, ad hoc, on the fly blog post, which shows the beauty of blogging — its immediacy and capacity for social ambush — in order to capture the sighting of a Canucks fourth-line enforcer.

And, up at Whistler, according to the great Whistler Blackcomb Snow Report blog, there is So much Snow ! I can vouch for that, after my big days up there on Thursday and Friday.