inCommunicado - eric eggertson

My 30 year reunion is coming up this fall, and I’ve said I’d pull together a website. Any suggestions for a good combination of web tools to help people post information, sign up for events, share photos, and generally stay informed about plans?
I’m looking at various wikis as possible platforms for most of the information. […]

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Ed Lee looks at the three options for reaching an audience with social media.
Building your own hub of activity has its risks.
The Web wasteland is strewn with ghost towns that thought they would become the next great portal.  I like Ed’s idea of experimenting before making a final decision about where you want […]

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The virtual natives are restless.  I’m waiting to see if this is an uprising of citizens for better corporate behaviour, or an effort to squash expression of opinions that don’t please some Second Life pioneers.
Residents of a portion of Second Life have voted to ban companies and agencies from their portion of the virtual world […]

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The claim that new marketing company ‘crayon’ was the first new company to launch in Second Life raised some eyebrows and hackles among the virtual world’s denizens.
The backlash against the launch was as much about a community feeling invaded by corporations that threaten to suck the creative life out of the online world as […]

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  Red Rorbu - Lofoten Islands, Norway    Originally uploaded by LeeLeFever_TwinF.
I’ve been following Lee and Sachi Lefever’s trip around the world on their The World Is Not Flat site.
Their most recent destination is Norway, with some amazing photos of the fjords and craggy cliffs that drop straight into the water.

I […]

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Dubious about the need for professional intervention among the 350,000 denizens of Second Life, Darren Barefoot ran a quickie poll of some Second Life forum members, asking them "How do you feel about PR firms in Second Life?"
Results - 25.9% thinks it’s a good idea; 74.1% think it sucks.

Okay, now we need an opinion poll […]

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  Saskboy 2006    Originally uploaded by Mutually Inclusive.
Bloggers are getting together Aug. 19 Sept. 23 in Saskatoon.  Check out the details.  There’s also talk of making the trek to Kipling the first weekend in September for the big housewarming party planned by Kyle MacDonald of OneRedPaperclip.com fame.
That’s Saskboy on the […]

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Update:  At the request of the Flickr member whose illegitimate use of others’ photos prompted this story, I’ve deleted his name from this post.  (He asked nicely.)
A short blog post by Vancouver web developer and photographer Kris Krug caught my eye back in February. He accused a fellow Flickr user [name deleted] of claiming credit […]

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Stowe Boyd has a response to established media organizations that pooh-pooh the online revolution that’s been taking place with social media in recent years:

Web culture is happening: a spontaneous global culture is emerging, and it is based on openness, inclusion, acceptance of diversity, and the desire to make the world a better place to live.
This […]

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Richard Eriksson has launched the latest social networking site.
The foot fetishists of the world, having tried 43 Things, 43 Places and whatever other variation on 43 the Robot Co-op came up with, can now visit 43 Thongs.
This parody site looks and feels like 43 Things, but thankfully doesn’t take the joke too far. I tried […]

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The Mesh conference May 15-16 in Toronto has its agenda posted.
Lots of buzz on blogs about the fact Toronto is finally having a conference about Web 2.0 and all the implications of a profoundly interactive Internet.
I’ve always wondered if Andrew Coyne is as intensely arrogant in person as he is on TV. This could be […]

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