Morning radio shows should have blogs don’t you think?  There are always funny stories, community projects, contests, something to talk about.  Well the morning show I listen to on 107.3 Kool FM here in Victoria doesn’t have one so, I sent Robin Farrell this email yesterday morning:
BTW … why don’t you guys have a morning show blog, huh?  I dare you.  I double dog dare you.  Not only that,  I’ll come in Monday morning and help you set it up on air and show you how to use it!  Come on, you’re not scared are ya ;-)?
Tris

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By luck and happenstance (love that word) I was able to go to the Victoria Entrepreneur’s Lunch yesterday.  Great time hanging out with techies for a while and talking tech.
The lunch is organized by Rian Bowden of DailySplice.  Rian said it started small and informal and is now growing every month.  There were 24 folks there yesterday.  Which means if a truck drove into that corner of the Old Spaghetti Factory, Victoria’s tech sector would be pretty much wiped out in one fell swoop!
I say that it’s luck that I went because I happened to decide that yesterday would be …read more

One of the cool things demoed at DemoCampVictoria–Success at DemoCampVictoria01–My thoughts from last night–was Joshua McKenty’s Buy it later.  Joshua developed and pushed BountyUp for a long time, but on a whim one night decided to tackle a simple problem: you want to buy something at Amazon and it’s out of stock, why do you do?  Joshua created a simple Firefox/Flock extension that let’s you click a button and have a service tell you when it’s available.  If it is available, but you just want the best price, the Buy It Later will tell you when the price changes.
So let’s …read more

After the success of Thursday’s DemoCampVictoria01 and reading Mack’s post today about getting a tweetup going in Edmonton–EdmontonTweetup anyone? at MasterMaq’s Blog–I think it’s time we have one of our own.
There are certainly enough geeks and techies in Victoria and if this Twitterlocal pull of twitter users within 20 miles of Victoria (that’s about 30 km, btw) is any indication, well I think we could have a great time.
My preference would be a good coffee place with WiFi, but hey who knows right?
Okay Victoria twitterati, let’s get this going!
BTW, I’ve also created a VictoriaTech Diigo group for us Victoria people …read more

When you launch, launch with a bang: DemoCampVictoria01 Rocked
Last night I live-blogged Victoria’s first DemoCamp and it was a huge success.  The place was packed.  We were in the presentation centre for the new Juliet condos that are going up on Blanchard Street.  The presentation centre is a lovely, lovely venue for event and thanks to Dave Chard, Wendy Pryde, and Jessica Pryde for being amazing hosts.
Mark Lise told me that he expected more than the 48 people there were chairs for and yep, that was true.  It was a packed house.  When this DemoCamp was being planned, Mark had …read more

We’ll be starting shortly here at the Juliet show-demo centre.  Geeks aplenty consuming wine and cheese…
This is, without a doubt, the swankiest location for a DemoCamp…awesome kickoff for Victoria’s first DemoCamp.
It was a great time. My Flickr photoset from Victoria’s first DemoCamp is uploading

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