Here are my weekly notes:

• Another year of the Fringe has come and gone. It was fun though!
• Twitter is getting serious about location. I’m excited for the changes. Jeff Jarvis wrote about the news: “The live web, the social web, and the geo web come together.”
• I finally picked up a book this weekend that I’ve been eyeing for a while: Jeb Brugmann’s Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing the World. Seems like my kinda book!
• From Hanselman: Top 10 Tips Working Developers Should Know about Windows 7. Also for developers: VB and C# enhancements in VS 2010.
• Techvibes has a new Community Manager for Edmonton: Doug van Spronsen. Welcome!
• This is pretty interesting: when serving financial news and information, Yahoo draws 17.5 times the traffic of Google.
• We’ve got a cause for Twestival Local in Edmonton – the Youth Emergency Shelter Society. Now we just need to find a venue!

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• Sharon and I went to see The Time Traveler’s Wife tonight. It was alright, if a little confusing at times (and no I didn’t read the book). We both wondered why it wasn’t called simply, The Time Traveler. Perhaps his wife is featured more prominently in the book?
• We also spent a bunch of time at the Fringe this weekend. Sharon wrote about the two plays we saw on Saturday here and on Sunday here.
• In case you missed it: Twitter is getting serious about retweets.
• Could you fill only one trash bin for three months? Now there’s an interesting and worthwhile challenge!
• I’m a huge fan of Paramore, can’t wait for the new album. New York Magazine asks if they are the greatest lady-fronted rock band in the USA.
• YouTube is hosting a weeklong viewing of Ghostbusters in honor of the film’s 25th anniversary. And apparently they are still working on Ghostbusters 3.
• Have you seen the scene-stealing squirrel? Search “crasher squirrel” for more awesome photos! Or look at Mashable’s list of the top ten pics.

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• Sharon and I went to see Julie & Julia last night. Her pick obviously, but I enjoyed it. Meryl Streep was amazing as usual.
• Lately I’ve been doing a lot with statistics, as I’m sure my regular readers have noticed. I rather enjoy sorting through collections of data to find trends, patterns, and other interesting tidbits. As if on cue, the New York Times ran a story this week on the Internet-age statistician.
• An interesting look at the top 5% most active users on Twitter. No big surprises. Related visualization: If Twitter was 100 people…
• Tiny Perfect Blog is no more. Dave has the details.
• I probably find this interesting because I was there last weekend: attendance at the Royal Tyrrell Museum is at a 15-year high so far this summer.
• For typeface geeks: the history of the Times New Roman typeface.
• I think this is impressive – the world’s first LEED Platinum certified data center has opened in Germany. As the article says, “that’s no small task considering the energy required to keep stacks of servers running smoothly in a climate-controlled environment.”

Hope you had a nice long weekend! Here are my weekly notes:

• Sharon and I spent the weekend in Drumheller and Calgary with her family. It was really hot both days, but was nice to get away for a bit. You can see my photos here.
• The Microsoft-Yahoo search deal finally happened this week. Sounds like a pretty big win for Microsoft. A related, good read: Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline.
• Sweet news for Blip.tv –they’ve got a distribution deal with YouTube.
• I’m sure you’ve seen the awesome wedding dance to Chris Brown’s “Forever”, and now the good news: the record label decided to make money off it instead of shutting it down.
• From Mashable: Top 15 Social Media Resources for Foodies.
• Google Reader now powers NewsGator’s RSS clients.
• A long but well-written article by Anil Dash on what he calls The Pushbutton Web.

What an incredibly hot weekend here in Edmonton, plus 30 degrees both days. Here are my weekly notes:

• I finally bought a new TV today. I have been looking for a while, and decided on the LG 42CL40, which is a 42” HD 1080p LCD with 120Hz technology. Picked it up at Costco where it was on sale! Looks great.
• Both surprising and not at the same time: an app called Offender Location, which shows you where registered sex offenders live, was among the most popular apps on the iPhone recently.
• Computer scientists are debating whether there should be limits on research that could potentially cause us to lose control over our machines. In 1975, a group of scientists met at the same place to discuss a similar issue related to genetics research.
• Signs of a business model: Twitter 101. Also, did the White House ban Twitter?
• Here are Canada’s leading Web 2.0 pioneers, as chosen by Backbone Magazine. You’ll note the lack of companies from locations other than Vancouver and Toronto.
• What is the CBC’s social networking strategy? Part 1, Part 2.
• The Rise of the Open City: the current state of affairs

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• Great post on the Digg blog about what to do with IE6 users. They suggest most users who use IE6 are stuck with it, so giving them a prompt to upgrade is “not only pointless; it’s sadistic.”
• Another essay by Clay Shirky on the future of journalism. Worth a read.
• Apparently there’s a trend back to blogging? Well, some of us never quit in the first place!
• Wal-Mart as the champion of sustainability? It could happen.
• I’ve heard of the author Nora Roberts, but I’ve never read any of her books, and I certainly didn’t know how successful she is! Fascinating!
• This is awesome: Esquire sent a journalist to interview Gerard Butler, and he had no idea who Gerard Butler was.
• I knew it! Swearing mitigates pain.

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• I totally agree with this post at the Bits blog – Online Backups Could Use Google’s Expertise. Enough with the Chrome OS smoke and mirrors, give us something useful!
• The OECD Factbook eXplorer is neat Flash tool for analyzing statistics about countries.
• CodePlex recently passed the 10,000 hosted projects mark! Impressive.
• Silverlight 3 has been released. Now I’m three versions behind, yay!
• I’ve been playing around with Lucene.Net recently. Though it seems like the project isn’t very active anymore, it’s still pretty useful.
• I haven’t used FriendFeed much lately, instead I spend most of my time on Twitter and Facebook. Scoble outlines why FriendFeed is failing to take off.
• I’ve got a few more things to say on the City Centre Airport this week, but then I think it’ll be time for a break, at least until the issue comes before Council again in the fall. Frankly, I’m surprised I haven’t received more comments like this one.

Can you believe July is nearly half gone!?

Here are my weekly notes:

• Sharon and I went to see Up in 3D this weekend. I really enjoyed it! Makes me want to watch G-Force (the guinea pig one) in 3D now too. Oh, and Toy Story 3!
• I’ve written about bit.ly before, so it was no surprise to me to hear that they’re working on some impressive things.
• From Darren: The First Ever Video on YouTube.
• Flickr announced integration with Twitter earlier this week. I like their short URL: http://www.flic.kr.
• The two top teams joined forces and have won the Netflix Prize! Cool!
• My favorite website monitoring service, Pingdom, has added a free account level!
• Must-read at BoingBoing: Michael Jackson and the “Zombieconomy”
• Twitter has finally applied for a trademark on the term “tweet”.

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• The big news this week was the death of Michael Jackson. I’ve always been a fan of his music.
• Went to see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen last night. It was pretty much as I expected: over the top but enjoyable!
• This could be interesting: Microsoft Hohm. It’s energy management software for you house.
• Yes, yes, yes: Statistics Canada data should be freely available.
• Sharon and I cleaned the house pretty much top to bottom this weekend. We also finally turned the spare bedroom into an office. I want to put a few things up on the well then I’ll post some pictures!

Happy Father’s Day! Here are my weekly notes:

• Had a great dinner at my sister Kim’s house tonight. Her new puppy Kali is so cute!
• Happiness in Business.
• Microsoft’s BizSpark program has had 15,000 startups join so far. Not bad!
• Vancouver ChangeCamp took place yesterday. I’m curious to learn how it went. We need to get the ball rolling again here in Edmonton.
• Would we really be in trouble without the NYTimes Baghdad bureau? Jeff Jarvis thinks the current Iran debacle is making the answer a clear no. Speaking of Iran, Chris has some good thoughts on the Twitter-mania taking place.
• I was kinda hoping that Jenson Button could win his home race, the British Grand Prix, today. It wasn’t meant to be – instead, Red Bull are trying to make the season interesting! Good thing too, it might be F1’s last.