Category Archives: Blogging

Fearless City Mobile at the Heart of the City and mobile online!

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cross-posted from FearlessCity, just so you know what I’ve been doing with all my copious spare time recently. And a damn good thing, too, because with all the extra exposure that site is up and down like a toilet seat.

As most of our readers know, Fearless City Mobile was all over the Heart of the City Festival this past weekend, streaming live video interviews and interacting with people all over the Downtown Eastside, incorporating their texted questions into the interviews as they came in.

As some of you also know, interest in our coverage of the closing gala was so intense that it temporarily overwhelmed our servers and our site had to go for a little “time out.” While that’s flattering, it’s also a bit of a problem.

Fortunately, because the internet IS, in fact, a web and not just a series of straight lines, we were able to work around it.

I was at home on Twitter, bouncing between the FearlessCity account and my own (because I have no life) and Irwin was in Ottawa and on Facebook when the site went down.

Irwin had used his phone to take a video of OUR streaming videos on his laptop, and he posted it to Facebook and put that news out on his Twitter stream.

I saw that and immediately emailed him, telling him to put it on YouTube (yes, I know the quality sucks, but at least YouTube is wide open to the public, whereas Facebook is restricted). He did, and once it was posted I put the news out on the Fearless City Twitter stream. Then I signed out, signed into my raincoaster Twitter stream, and re-tweeted it (don’t laugh, that’s what it’s called!) and Irwin put the news out on his stream as well. That makes a total of about 400 people who got the news within a half-hour of the whole thing happening.

The video became, if memory serves, the 68th most viewed Canadian video in the Arts & Activism category, but it only has two comments, so what are you waiting for?

And here it is:

Three scenes captured with Nokia N77 mobile devices streaming to the Mobile Muse 3 platform and projected on a live screen at the Closing Gala of the Heart of the City Festival in the Downtown Eastside. Also streamed to http://live.fearlessmedia.ca/ and archived on fearlesscity.ca.
At the live screen people were able to send txt msgs to the 3 interviewed subjects.
(The audio on this video switches between all three channels.)
Nov 9, 2008

Does this make my ass look fat?

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Does this make my ass look fat?

The secret is contouring, darlings.

In totally unrelated news, I started a new job last week (Yay! CeleBitchy is one of the very top gossip blogs in the world!) currently on the very leanest kind of part-time because my computer is so crashy and I’m so crushed for time. At last count I was actually working SEVEN part-time jobs, all to get enough money for a laptop, since some of the funding I was counting on to make that happen has failed to materialize. It’s only till the end of the month, but the odds that I will snap and commit recreational homicide are increasing by the day, particularly in relation to those who text me more than five times per day, or telephone me more than twice per day or at all before nine in the morning.

In related news, there are some consolations. Here’s a picture from the inaugural (and highly respectful) post I did for CeleBitchy, Prince Harry remembers on the 5th of November.

Prince Hot Ginge in uniform

Quiz: does your blog own you?

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I don’t understand this quiz: they say it like it’s a BAD thing!

68.75 %

My weblog owns 68.75 % of me.
Does your weblog own you?

Souls Mobile – Live | Fearless City

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Here is the live streaming video from Mobile Souls at the Parade of Lost Souls. No idea if this UStream video will work, but what the hell, I’ll give it a shot.

Vodpod videos no longer available.

more about “Souls Mobile – Live | Fearless City“, posted with vodpod

UPDATE: okay, screw that. Go here on Fearless for the actual streaming video we remixed for Mobile Souls, plus the Digital Shrine video immediately below.

Technical Difficulties of the Third Kind

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Tonight my computer actually made me cry.

Does anyone have a secondhand laptop with decent speed? I’m definitely buying.

I hope I may be forgiven a rant under the circumstances. If that’s not what you want to read, click here for the raincoaster randomizer and have fun.

Moving on…

I’ve been sick since the end of August, nearly got sent to the hospital for it, am trying eight different ways to get the mold situation in my apartment dealt with, got a super new currently-undiagnosed thing that could be nothing or could be a big deal, we will have to wait and see, started two new jobs this month neither of which I have been able to do well enough at in my opinion, my grandmother is in the hospital and barely hanging on, I have worked about 60 hours in the last four days, quite a lot of it on my feet, and the computer is so slow that in order to move the cursor you click where you want it to go and walk away, wash a couple of mugs and start the tea brewing, come back and watch it appear.

Tomorrow I am trucking out to Surrey (two hours on transit each way) to cover for a friend who has to leave a conference early. Then, after about an hour and a half, I am trucking all the way back to downtown to meet with some blogging clients and teach them all about WordPress (if I can talk past all the coughing). Then I am coming home and posting on TeenyManolo and Ayyy and, if tomorrow is anything like today, that will take me till about three in the morning. Then I will think about posting to raincoaster, realize I haven’t done the affiliate links for the Manolosphere, sigh and think about crying again, and then go do the damn links.

And the day after that I’m in for about twelve hours of work outdoors and three miles of walking, minimum, and hopefully it won’t rain because I’m supposed to be liveblogging. IF they have a computer for me, which they probably won’t. I don’t get the impression it’s considered a priority. Mind you, if they don’t have one the one I have certainly won’t be able to handle liveblogging, so I can just turn around and come home. And get a reputation as someone who doesn’t do her work.

Swell.

Got to go, got six affiliate links to do…

UPDATE: and the post for Ayyyy. The Teenymanolo one took me five hours or so, thanks to this computer and the fact that the version of WordPress we’ve got doesn’t seem to work properly. If I collapse at the conference I hope they take me to the hospital in New West, not the one in Surrey.

UPDATE 2.5 hours later: Ayyyy post done. On to affiliate linking. There is now no possibility of my getting eight hours of sleep.