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Your Guide to Summer Festivals in Edmonton!
June 1, 2010 at 11:00 am With dozens of festivals happening throughout the year, Edmonton is rightly known as Canada’s Festival City. During the summer in particular, it seems as though there’s a festival of some sort happening every day. I guess that’s because there is!
Here’s a list of 25 festivals you can look forward to over the next three [...]
Live Music in Edmonton now at ShareEdmonton with YEG Live
May 31, 2010 at 10:00 amIt’s difficult but not impossible to discover all of the events that happen in Edmonton, and I’m continually working to improve the listings at ShareEdmonton. One of the ways I’m doing that is by working with others who already have large, accurate collections of events. The latest such example is YEG Live, Edmonton’s source [...]
Tags: edmonton, events, live music, music, Paramagnus, ShareEdmonton, yeg live, yegliveEdmonton Public Schools & Open Data
April 8, 2010 at 3:00 pmToday I’m very excited to announce that Edmonton Public Schools has taken a big step into the world of open data by releasing a data set containing information on all of their schools, including the six opening later this year. I understand the data will be made available in the City of Edmonton’s Open [...]
Tags: edmonton, edmonton public schools, education, epsb, open data, schools, yegdataEdmonton Neighbourhood Census Data
April 7, 2010 at 11:15 amFor a long time I’ve wanted to get the City of Edmonton’s neighbourhood census data in CSV format (or really any usable format other than PDF). Recently, with the help of Laura (and Sandra) at the City’s Election & Census Services department, who I met at the Open City Workshop, I finally got it. And [...]
Tags: apps4edmonton, census, community, data, edmonton, neighbourhoods, open data, population, ShareEdmonton, statistics, yegdataUpdate on ShareEdmonton
February 2, 2010 at 12:00 pmI’m still working on improving ShareEdmonton, slowly but surely, and I wanted to provide a brief update on my progress. Over the last couple of weeks, my primary focus has been on improving the event calendar. Making it faster, more complete, and easier to browse. There’s still a lot of work to do, but [...]
Tags: edmonton, events, Paramagnus, ShareEdmontonWhat’s happening at your local library?
December 10, 2009 at 9:30 amEver wonder what’s happening at your local Edmonton Public Library branch? Today, finding out becomes easier than ever! I’m excited to announce that ShareEdmonton now contains all EPL events, with new events being continuously added. The events will show up in all the usual spots, but there are a few sections of the website [...]
Tags: edmonton, edmonton public library, epl, events, library, ShareEdmontonIntroducing ShareEdmonton
October 20, 2009 at 10:00 am Today I’m excited to launch ShareEdmonton, a local aggregation platform for Edmonton and area. With it, I want to redefine local media and improve Edmonton by embracing the fact that communication is increasingly taking place online.
You can think of ShareEdmonton as an events calendar, at least right now. It certainly has that functionality, and [...]
Tech stuff I’ve been learning about lately
April 28, 2009 at 3:00 pm I haven’t done one of these lists in quite a while, so I figured it was time for an update. Here are some of the geeky tech things I’m currently playing with/learning more about:
Facebook Connect
I’ve added support for Facebook Connect to ShareEdmonton, and was surprised at how straightforward it was. Little bit of a [...]
Recap: DemoCampEdmonton6
March 12, 2009 at 10:19 amLast night was our sixth DemoCamp here in Edmonton, and I think it was probably our best yet. We had around 140 people in attendance, which isn’t much different than DCE4 but it somehow seemed bigger. Maybe it was all the cameras and video cameras? We had Peter Urban and the Smibs TV team record [...]
Tags: democamp, democampedmonton, democampyeg, edmonton, events, ShareEdmonton, technologyUps and Downs for Podcast Hosting in 2008
December 29, 2008 at 6:42 pm Back in October, Dickson and I announced that we were shutting down our hosting service Podcast Spot. At the end of November, we disabled uploading and are now in the final transition phase for downloads and RSS feeds. In February 2009, the site will be taken offline completely.
We’re not the only podcast hosting service [...]
Podcast Spot: What would I have done differently?
October 23, 2008 at 11:06 pmLast night I presented in the VenturePrize Seminar Series with James Matsuba of IdleTime. The seminars are meant as a primer for this year’s competitors on business plans, building a company, and pitching ideas to investors (and judges). When I attended the seminars back in 2006, I found the most useful part was getting [...]
Tags: branding, business, entrepreneurship, idletime, marketing, Paramagnus, podcast spot, podcasting, ventureprizePodcast Spot is shutting down
October 3, 2008 at 5:33 pm As some of you undoubtedly know by now, Dickson and I recently made the decision to take Podcast Spot offline. We started notifying our users a couple weeks ago, and today made it public on the website. Here’s our message to users:
We regret to inform you that after two years of helping you share [...]
All Macked Out – Unlimited Magazine
March 3, 2008 at 5:00 pm No, I didn’t come up with the title. But it’s sorta catchy, no? Anyway, that’s the title of an article in this month’s issue of Unlimited Magazine, part of a column called Look Who’s Teching. The column takes a look at the “wired west” and the growing number of individuals dabbling in technology here:
There’s [...]
So long 712!
November 30, 2007 at 11:20 pmAs you may know, for the last few weeks Dickson and I have been moving out of the office. It was early 2005 that we decided we needed a central place to setup shop and started looking around for one. We ended up at the Empire Building on 101st Street and Jasper Avenue, a building [...]
Tags: business, downtown, edmonton, empire building, office, ParamagnusHappy Birthday Podcast Spot!
September 25, 2007 at 10:23 pmThe big news today of course is the launch of Halo 3, but it’s also important to me for another reason. It’s kind of hard to believe, but it was on this day a year ago that we launched Podcast Spot. We had no idea what to expect for our first year, but I think [...]
Tags: internet, media, Paramagnus, podcast spot, podcasting
