The International Digital Media Arts Association Conference 2010 (iDMAa 2010) is happening November 4 - 6 at Emily Carr University. This year’s conference will focus on the subject of The Digital Narrative: Pushing scholarship, creativity and imagination....
The second BookCamp Vancouver is this Friday, October 1. BookCamp is a conference that brings together 250 members from the technology and publishing industries to talk about digital aspects of book publishing and how online media is changing the game. The early days...
This month, the CBC Book Club is exploring the future of reading. Here’s an interesting interview with Benjamin Rivers - an independent game developer, comic artist and web designer - that looks at the interactive and cross-media opportunities that are now...
Chapters Indigo has a really neat eReading app on their Facebook Page that we haven’t seen done yet anywhere else. If you click on the eReading tab on their Facebook Page, this is what you see: Why We Like The eReading App It encourages avid readers to explore...
Last week Google announced the launch of its new search function, Google Instant. It is currently only available in the US but will be added to international searches within the next few weeks. Google Instant’s features include predictive text and streaming...
Starting Friday, I’m teaching at Simon Fraser University. PUB 355-4 explores online promotion and marketing in the creative economy with a focus on publishers. Students will learn about the formulation and analysis of marketing strategy, approaches to...
Facebook Places Facebook Places was announced August 19th and is currently only available in the US. Similar to Foursquare and Gowilla, you share your location by checking in to where you are by using your smartphone. What’s All the Excitement Over...
In the last month Facebook has released two new features - Questions and Places. Questions lets you post queries to the Facebook community and Places allows you to share your location with your Facebook friends. While neither of these functions are new to the web,...
You can ignore this message. I’m testing the schedule post function because there seems to be a conflict with the server time and the localization settings. Dreary, I know. Skip down and enjoy the AT&T post instead.