The NV edublogger crew had all drifted off from Van Rock City by midday Sunday, and I confess to something that felt like empty nest syndrome. Bereft, with a massive sleep debt, a few cold frosty beverages, a back deck, blazing Vancouver sunshine(!) and a huge amount of information to process. My spirits were lifted […]

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Scott Reads RSS Poetry, originally uploaded by cogdogblog. Scott Leslie (whose own Northern Voice reflection is a must-read) had an awful slot for the Friday night Wiki-Tiki party open mic. He was something like the fifteenth speaker (seemed like the fiftieth), he came on after a break and the energy of the party was waning […]

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It seems that every year I sit down to write the post-mortem for Northern Voice and find myself at an absolute loss. This event is such a toxic cocktail of ideas, energy, urgency, depravity, laughter, logistics, friendship, and chronic sleep-deprivation that (my) words simply fail me. So I’m telling myself that over the next couple […]

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } NV08 Keynote, originally uploaded by mastermaq. … cuz I’m too busy grooving on Northern Voice. The story is emerging on the blogs, and on the Flickr stream. Tag: northernvoice

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UBC Library book retrieval system, originally uploaded by stodmyk. This nifty Creative Commons-licensed photo is of UBC Library’s Automated Storage and Retrieval System. It’s part of the newly rebuilt Main Library at UBC. From what I understand, I’ll be moving my base of operations for professional misconduct back to this building next month as the […]

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