Yes, boys and girls, it’s our old favorite Brian Atene back with another masterwork. This simple, thirty-second video, entitled “Do You Wish It?” may be, nay, IS, the most powerful motivational talk in all of recorded YouTube.
Pour yourself a tumbler of something bracing, keep the Kleenex handy, and set phasers to awesome!
Wordcamp Whistler is indeed live! See the stream at http://livecast.mobilemuse.ca/mobile/live/?FearlessCity. Whoops, looks like we’ve run out of storage again, we’ll be back live as soon as we register yet another user account. UPDATE: We’ve got our third account today on Livecast: http://livecast.mobilemuse.ca/mobile/live/?Fearless
(image courtesy Miss604)
April, Peter and I are up at the beautiful (no, really it is) Fairmont Chateau Whistler, preparing to livestream the presentations. You can see pictures from the unconference here on Flickr.
WordCamp Whistler is a full day of workshops about WordPress, a leading blog platform. We’re here courtesy of the organizers, Duane and Rebecca, who’ve kindly waived the registration fee. And we got some excellent swag: WordCamp Whistler toques FTW!
Tris Hussey has loaned us his flipcam, for regular video, and we’ve got an HTC Touch phone to do livestreaming, once the presentations begin.
Livestreamed video is available once now at http://livecast.mobilemuse.ca/live/?w1662 thanks to our Whistler partners, who left the phone signed in to their account!
UPDATE: our second livestream is up, here:
http://livecast.mobilemuse.ca/mobile/live/?FearlessCity
Since the internet wasn’t working for the conference room until a few minutes ago, this saved us enormous amounts of time.
If you’ve got a question for one of the WordCamp speakers, put it in the comments here:
We’ve brought a bit of the Downtown Eastside improv style with us, as you can see. Also, April used Scotch tape to connect the HTC Touch to the tripod; Lorelle complimented us on “keeping it real.”
We will be adding pictures and more video as the day goes on, so keep checking this post for updates. See you in about an hour?
Here is Rebecca’s post about our workshops today.
Right now, Lorelle is doing her presentation on power tools for WordPress. Good stuff! I wish some of this stuff worked in Drupal, too!
Lorelle’s presentation has finished, and we’re setting up for Dale’s preso next, so the livestream is interrupted because, well, nothing is going on live right now.
Oops, here we go again. Check the above link for more livestreaming.
We got a little livestream vid of Dave Olson over lunch, just as he requested. Follow the discussion live on Twitter: FearlessCity on Twitter.
Now Tris Hussey is teaching us how to build a WordPress blog in a day or less.
Now on our third user account at Livecast, we’re livestreaming a presentaton from 6s Marketing on SEO, talking about plugins and optimization.
Our own April won the WordPress tattoo contest for Most Creative Placement of a Free WordPress Tattoo. Egged on by Lorelle, who ruled out only pastie-placement, April left the competition in the dust with the triad of back of the neck, cleavage, and boobies. Yes, boobies. If there’d been three prizes, I think she would have won all three.
Hmmm, malevolent, mindless, powerful beyond the ken of mortals, gibbering incoherently in a lightless vortex of space and time…yeah, that explains a lot, actually!
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Phones for Fearless is far from finished! With all the great gifts people got over the holidays, we know there will be some used phones, cameras, and other mobile devices kicking around looking for new homes, and we stand ready to provide them!
Donate your old mobile phones to help DTES artists share stories, and tap into life, jobs & family.
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First, Gather phones!
c/o DTES CAN
PO Box 88023
418 Main St
Vancouver, BC V6A 4A4
Post a graphic on your site with this handy code snippet:
<a href=”http://www.fearlesscity.ca” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3194/3121575464_8a062db061_m_d.jpg” /></a><br />
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<a href=”http://www.fearlesscity.ca” target=”_blank”>Donate used mobile phones to help DTES residents and artists at fearlesscity.ca</a>
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