Here are my weekly notes:

• YEG Swap was lots of fun! I’m sure the League of Extraordinary Media will be blogging about it, but you can check out my photos here.
• Lots of chatter about being fat this week in the VC/startup world. Not physically, but financially.
• I like this chart: Ad Spending By Media Type: 2009 vs. 2009
• I think Microsoft Tag has great potential. I had no idea that they partnered with Foursquare for SXSW.
• Here’s Bill Buxton on making user interfaces “natural”.
• Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application using Silverlight. Yes, I want one.

Here are my weekly notes:

• I want my hour back!
• I had a busy week last week, preparing stuff for the 2010 Questionmark Users Conference.
• And a busy weekend, with both TEDxEdmonton and the Grilled Cheese Olympics!
• Tomorrow, March 15, will mark 25 years of .com domain names.
• This is so true: the 3 key parts of news stories you usually don’t get.
• Sharon and I watched The Cove this weekend. I thought it was really well done, not to mention shocking!

Feeling very behind at the moment. Here are my weekly notes:

• Here are the top 25 technology predictions from futurist Dave Evans.
• Wired on Google’s algorithm and how it rules the web.
• This is a neat visualization: The Human Body as a Subway Map.
• Paula Simons on the Tim Horton’s immigrant ad that ran during the Olympics.
• Interesting post: Moving the Cow Path.
• Joel Spolsky, author of the popular blog Joel on Software, is quitting the blogosphere.

I’ve been feeling a little under the weather lately, but I still made it out to Kananaskis this weekend for Reboot Alberta. Hopefully I didn’t get anyone else sick! I decided to just go to bed last night, so here are my weekly notes:

• The Winter Olympics wrapped up yesterday, and the big news is that Canada broke the record for the most gold medals at a single Winter Olympics with 14. Okay, maybe the big news was that Canada won gold in the hockey game, defeating the USA 3-2 in overtime! Either way, it was a great day for Canada.
• Some new Blue Marble photos from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
• Very interesting read – MySQL and Memcached: End of an Era?
• Also for geeks – Key Software Development Trends. Cloud Computing and Parallel Computing are probably the two I’m most interested in at the moment.
• Homeless people have favorite Oscar picks, but for different reasons than the average person: “I hope ‘Avatar’ wins so they keep it in theaters longer," he said. "It’s three hours long, so you get more time to sleep.”
• Another awesome infographic: Number of People to Have Lived versus Been Killed.

Despite the head cold, it was still great to spend a few hours in the mountains:

Busy week ahead for me. Here are my weekly notes:

• I’m off to Reboot Alberta on Friday. Should be good, especially with the recent Renew-Alberta-Party merger.
• I really enjoyed this post from Dave Winer: What we don’t understand. Helps to put things back in perspective every now and again.
• As I mentioned, I was impressed by the Vancouver 2010 opening ceremonies. There are some great photos of that evening at The Big Picture blog.
• More Vancouver stuff: Inside the Social Media Strategy of the Winter Olympic Games.
• Twitter’s Plan to Analyze 100 Billion Tweets. They questions listed in that post seem rather…simplistic. Just think of all the information you could obtain from that many tweets!
• Here’s a great TED Talk with Bill Gates on energy called Innovating to zero! And here’s a related post I stumbled upon after watching: GE Hitachi Plans to Turn Nuclear Waste into Fuel.
• I wonder how reliable the estimates are, but apparently we’ll see 5 billion cell phone subscriptions worldwide this year. Pretty amazing.
• Overcoming Creative Block. I like to read, write, and maybe go for a walk.

Hope you had a nice long weekend, celebrating Chinese New Year, Valentine’s Day, and Family Day! Here are my weekly notes:

• The opening ceremonies for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics on Friday night were pretty impressive! I’ve been enjoying some of the Olympics so far. Can’t wait for more hockey.
• Sharon and I went to see Valentine’s Day on 2/14. It wasn’t the greatest movie ever, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as we had braced ourselves for either. Sharon wrote more about our Valentine’s Day here, including photos of the loaf of bread I baked for her!
• Is 2010 the year of the neighbourhood? I’m excited about some new stuff at ShareEdmonton related to this.
• A couple of food related things: Jamie Oliver’s TED Talk, which is definitely worth watching, and Why Most Food Could Never Be “Local”.
• This is interesting: students at Calgary public schools will be able to use their own Wi-Fi network starting this fall. Apparently Facebook and Twitter will be blocked. Again, this seems like an exercise in futility when every child has a cell phone with Internet capabilities!
• Though I don’t use it as much anymore, I have been a Windows Live Messenger user since day one, so I really enjoyed this history of the service.
• I finally registered for Reboot Alberta this week. Looking forward to it!

Didn’t get around to this yesterday, so here we go, my weekly notes Monday edition!

• I think my panel on Saturday with Karen and Colby at MacEwan’s Future of Story conference went very well. The rest of the conference was also really interesting, and gave me much to think about.
• From CBC: Arctic ice melting faster than feared.
• Sharon and I watched Up in the Air this weekend, which I thought was great! Somewhat odd ending, but overall, very good.
• Cool new feature from Google Maps: Nearby places you might like.
• A little geeky, but fascinating read: Recent evidence of horizontal gene transfer has some scientists thinking that the dominant form of evolution for most of the Earth’s history was between non-related organisms and not among ancestors.
• Saw this on Twitter: San Francisco’s Answer to Westboro Baptist Church. Priceless.
• Nice visualization of the size of Facebook.

Here are my weekly notes:

• I was mostly underwhelmed by the iPad announcement this week, and I think Mathew Ingram is right: Will the iPad Help Media? Possibly. Save Media? No.
• Great post from Dave on the sudden interest in Albertan politics by the Ontario-based media.
• If you’re in Vancouver, you could win a ticket to see Malcolm Gladwell at the F5 Expo just by leaving a comment on this Techvibes post. I’d love to see Malcolm Gladwell speak!
• Very handy feature on Google Reader: Follow changes to any website.
• From the NYTimes: Smart Dust? No Quite, but We’re Getting There.
• Chirp is the official Twitter developer conference! Wish I could go.
• Sharon and I went to the AGA Grand Opening today at 5pm. The exhibits were all great, but deserve a longer visit. I was also really happy to see the LRT entrance:

Here are my weekly notes:

• This is interesting: What makes a successful online dating photo? See also: The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures.
• What happened with the Internet in 2009? Pingdom attempts some answers in this round-up post.
• This is a pretty amazing story: “Alone in the darkness beneath layers of rubble, Dan Woolley felt blood streaming from his head and leg. Then he remembered — he had an app for that.”
• Apparently people have been trying to fix the English language’s illogical system of spelling for quite some time, without any success. Then came text messages.
• This probably should have happened sooner: CBC Radio’s live streams are now MP3 streams.
• New data from TeleGeography show that Skype is now the largest provider of cross border communications in the world.
• Apple was responsible for 99.4% of mobile app sales in 2009. Incredible. Can’t wait to see what they launch on Wednesday.

Here are my weekly notes:

• Good recap from Nieman Journalism Lab: Who’s responsible for local news, and Google plays hardball with China.
• CBC Television Strategy to Focus on Entertainment, Expands Feature Film Initiative.
• This is pretty interesting, but not altogether surprising I suppose: The US government has dozens of chicken farms producing eggs for the swine flu vaccine that are classified as part of the country’s critical infrastructure.
• Some pretty fascinating and scary information on Facebook in this interview.
• From Gene Smith: Five User Experience Trends I’ll be Watching in 2010.
• This is pretty interesting. There’s a new $1.8 billion eco city being planned on newly annexed land in St. Albert.