New Media

Shalom, y’all.

It’s about time someone did this. A Charlie Brown Heavy Metal Christmas has been up on YouTube since 2006.

The Vancouver Blogger Meetup has a stellar panel of speakers who will be sharing their experiences building an online community through blogging. Rebecca Bollwitt, Arieanna Schweber and Robert Ballantyne are our panelists for the November 2010 Vancouver Blogger Meetup.

And of course, your usual VBM rockstars will be there… like me. So come on down and I’ll introduce you to my own little online community. Whoooooaaah!!!

Actually, I don’t know what that means…

Nibbles and a drink and the panel will take place at The Network Hub (422 Richards Street, 3rd Floor, near the intersection of West Hastings and Richards in downtown Vancouver) on November 30th at 6:30pm and the panel will begin formally at 7:00pm. We expect to wrap up by 9:00pm.

My coverage of Stopwar’s George Galloway cross-Canada reak show continues in The Propagandist.

• George Galloway Hanging Around Their Necks
• Galloway Tour Organizers Don’t Like The Propagandist
• The Demagogue

I’m just really, really busy. Aside from my Vancouver SEO web copywriter work, here are a few things I’ve been doing:

• Writing a whole lot of fun political commentaries for The Propagandist
• I wrote an article for BC Homes Magazine. The article’s only in the print edition. Get a copy and read it. It’s all about home renovations. (See? Not everything I write is political).
• I wrote a story on mobile apps. Not published yet, but should be out soon.
• Thanking the Conservative and Liberal parties for finally coming to their senses and proposing that Canada remain involved in Afghanistan, since as everyone knows, the job ain’t done yet.
• Drinking coffee
• Drinking Granville Island Winter Ale
• Self-publishing a novel. It’s taking about ten times longer than I thought it would to get through the formatting and proof-printing and approval process. But I believe the end is in sight.
• Working on another novel.
• Watching hockey with my wife on the couch.
• Not spending any time on Twitter or Facebook. If you’ve been trying to contact me via either of those social networks in the past two weeks or so, you’re pretty much out of luck.
• Thinking about data visualization
• Standing for ten hours a day. Really, it’s good for me. No more Jimmy leg!

Thanks for checking in, readers! Be excellent to each other.

I’m not much of commentator on provincial politics in British Columbia. For analysis on the resignation of the most unpopular Liberal leader in the land, check out CityCaucus’ continuing coverage. I merely present an interesting commentary on what motivates people to get involved in politics, courtesy of our former premier.