The Black Press is pretty sure you can’t troll them if you have to use Facebook to comment on their stories. Visiting any of their paper’s websites this morning, you will see that comments are closed as they prepare to make the switchover. This affects a number of Black Press-owned publications in northern B.C., including […]
Prince George has a new mayor, and a mix of old and new on city council. As has become customary for election campaigns over the past few years, there were a number of candidates running on the idea of re-connecting with voters, being more accessible and transparent, and having a two-way conversation with citizens. I’m […]
I’ve written before about the Mr. PG fanpage. For a quick recap, Mr. PG is Prince George’s roadside mascot, a tall, faux-wood lumberjack character that has been a symbol of the city since 1960. Some years ago, I made a Facebook fan page for the guy, and it’s become pretty popular. As far as I […]
Originally posted on Google+. —- tl;dr: I’m not going to be posting anything on G+ for the foreseeable future. Follow me on Twitter. The subtitle of this is “for now” because I’m not going to rule out Google+ ever being used. But I’ve been in for over a month, and I’ve posted very infrequently, and […]
This is a post written out of selfishness. Every day on Facebook, Twitter (and now Google+) I see people posting their “song of the day” or week or moment. And often these are people whose music tastes I like. But more often than not, their linking to a YouTube page or some other independent website, […]
Thesis: Google+ comments are primarily noise, Twitter’s lack of “comments” are a built in filter. I feel like I’ve written about internet things too much lately, and I actually had something else queued up, but this is frankly more interesting to me right now. It’s also timely. It’s about Google+. Feel free to leave if […]
Earlier this week, I was doing a story on a “Tweet Up.” That’s when a bunch of Twitter users who may have never met each other in person get together for face-to-face conversations. They’ve been around for a while but are new to Prince George (this was the second one as far as anyone seems […]
I haven’t used Google+ yet. It’s a new social network created by Google. There are a wide variety of reasons Google wants to do this, which you can find using a quick Google search (ha!) but suffice it to say they are at least somewhat threatened by the success of Twitter, Tumblr, and especially Facebook […]
In yesterday’s edition of the Prince George Free Press the opinions page had a section called “Tweets in P.G.” (I’d link but there doesn’t appear to be a digital version). They reprinted some of their favourite Tweets on a variety of subjects affecting Prince George. It’s a fun idea, and one I’d actually like to […]
Peter Mansbridge joined Twitter recently. It caused a minor tizzy in the Canadian Twittersphere, as people speculated over whether or not this was the real thing. Hesitation to believe was particularly high as we’d been down this road before– a fake Mansbridge account had fooled people back in 2009. You know what would have helped? […]
I’m excited to see that Tourism Prince George seems to be joining the Foursquare game. About a year ago, I wrote about how the Regional District of Fraser Fort George should be using Foursquare in conjunction with their Golden Raven branding. At the time, I suggested they focus on taking their Golden Raven slots and […]
Why is sharing non-music audio still a novelty?
Check out #tweettheresults for what will probably be the highest concentration of illegal tweets you’ll get to see on twitter ever. — Brock Warner (@brockwarner) May 3, 2011 I am not going to opine on the election results beyond what I said last night. But, after the fact, I would like to comment on […]
It was Foursquare Day (really) over the weekend, so I’m going to jot down some quick thoughts on what has fully emerged as the dominant player in geolocation– and why I’m still using it. It’s not about mayors and badges anymore: A large part of Foursquare’s early hook was the game aspect. If you checked-in […]
I’ve mentioned ambient awareness before. It’s a concept used by social scientists to describe the phenomena of obtaining peripheral knowledge. It’s usually used to the describe the process of sort of knowing what’s going on in people’s lives without necessarily engaging directly with them by getting information via things like Twitter, Facebook, etc. I think […]
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