NorthernVoice Additions

 Conference  No Responses »
Jan 292007
 

The Van­couver North­ern­Voice blog­ging con­fer­ence is in its third year now, and each year has brought some­thing new. Last year it was the uncon­fer­ence day (which we’re doing again this year, check out the cur­rent list of top­ics); this year it’s the Thursday even­ing din­ner + talk with more details and thoughts on the wiki page (so you can add your own com­ments and ideas) as well as the travel bursary.

The idea behind the bursary is to help people come to North­ern­Voice who might not oth­er­wise be able to; you just have to post some­thing on your own blog about why you want to attend NV to be eli­gible. OK, you also have to let us know. The clos­ing date is this Fri­day, so you don’t have all that long to craft those entries! 

I’m look­ing for­ward to this year’s con­fer­ence; NV is an ener­giz­ing small con­fer­ence with lots of people talk­ing about inter­est­ing things you’ve nev­er heard of before. And at $50 for two days, it’s cheap.

They’re Back!

 General, Technology  No Responses »
Jan 292007
 

The aff people, that is. I am too, after some time spent in Aus­tralia with little access to the inter­net. Enough to notice my stats, but I had no inclin­a­tion to actu­ally do any­thing about them.

Look­ing at the logs, the aff people went away on Decem­ber 18 and star­ted send­ing refer­rers my way again on Decem­ber 23. Noth­ing seems to have changed about what they’re doing, and the explan­a­tion put forth by com­menters to the ori­gin­al post that it’s likely an attempt to scam the affil­i­ate pro­gram of an adult site seems the most likely explan­a­tion. I’m still not sure what (if any­thing) to do about this; if the band­width usage becomes excess­ive I’ll use one of the meth­ods sug­ges­ted by the com­menters to my ori­gin­al post. 

In the mean­time, I guess I’d bet­ter post some more inter­est­ing content…

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