Month: February 2008

The Tiki Room at Northern Voice 2008

The official opening of Northern Voice 2008 took place this evening at the Tiki Room, in the Waldorf Hotel in Vancouver. Good food, good friends, and some wonderful new colleagues made for a wonderful evening. I expect to have a lot of more specific blogging, as well as a health share of liveblogging (come see my presentation on Friday!), over the next few days.

I uploaded the pictures I took to Flickr for all to enjoy and share.

Northern Voice 2008

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Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-02-21

  • I forgot how much I do not like red eye flights, especially as I am arriving in the middle of the night. #
  • @mashable Welcome to NY! #
  • Just ate McDonald’s at JFK. The side of the bag states i’m lovin’ it in different languages. #
  • I like the one in French: c’est ca que j’m. #
  • @nancywhite At least you had time to wash clothes before trekking to Vancouver! #
  • Just got on the Cathay Pacific plane. Is a B747-400. Huge. Goodnight Twitterverse. Next stop, Vancouver’s Northern Voice. #
  • Just got on the Cathay Pacific plane. Is a B747-400. Huge. Goodnight Twitterverse. Next stop, Vancouver’s Northern Voice. #
  • Drinking my first Slurpee. Ever. #
  • What a beautiful morning in Vancouver. What a switch from last year. #
  • @kanter Congrats! What a job you did drumming up support, Beth. Let that be a lesson to us all. #

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Beth Kantor Wins America’s Giving Challenge

Beth Kantor, who blogged and Tweeted incessantly to raise awareness and donations for the America’s Giving Challenge on behalf of poverty among Cambodian children, helped to bring a win for the Global Cause Champion.

I think Beth has taught a lesson here. She worked tirelessly for this cause, and in the process raised many small donations that in turn made a larger financial impact. She did this electronically, using the power of social media and new technology to help fight a very physical problem in a land so distant that many could easily overlook it as “out of sight, out of mind.”

Technology can certainly be used to help those who do not have access to it, and I think global giving and social awareness will only increase as successes like this provide evidence. Who would have thought, in the early days of the Internet, that social responsibility itself could be furthered through such electronic means?

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-02-20

  • What a long day. Just left the office. Northern Voice, here I come! #
  • Just ordered burgers to go again from Corner Bistro. What a line here, even for a Tuesday night. #
  • @pinoyboy What is that? #
  • Just finished tweaking my presentation for Northern Voice. #
  • @Currie Wonderful! Will be great to see you again. #
  • Backed up my computer for the trip. #
  • Took the A train to Howard Beach for the Airtrain the JFK. Have never taken this way to the airport. $7 in total. Stood most of the way. #

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Blogging from the Airport

I wonder why airports, which are generally public institutions, still charge for wireless Internet access? I suppose it is still not seen as part of the public good to have such access.

It is nice that British Airways at terminal 7 allows for broadband, but not a person in the terminal was using this “complementary” access. After all, who carries around the wires to plug-in anymore?

Terminal 7 Internet Access, JFK

Given that I am typing this and will publish it to the Web once I DO have wireless access again (without paying a full day for it though I am only here for less than an hour), I will maintain the original date and time of this post.