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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 [...]

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Live Music in Edmonton now at ShareEdmonton with YEG Live

May 31, 2010 at 10:00 am

It’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 [...]

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Edmonton Public Schools & Open Data

April 8, 2010 at 3:00 pm

Today 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 [...]

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Edmonton Neighbourhood Census Data

April 7, 2010 at 11:15 am

For 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 [...]

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Update on ShareEdmonton

February 2, 2010 at 12:00 pm

I’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 [...]

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What’s happening at your local library?

December 10, 2009 at 9:30 am

Ever 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 [...]

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Introducing 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Recap: DemoCampEdmonton6

March 12, 2009 at 10:19 am

Last 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 [...]

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