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Happy Blog Day

Happy Blog Day 2008!!!
Here are 5 blogs that I love to follow and you might find interesting on this fine, sunny (in Edmonton), blog day.

1.       Metacool: Diego Rodriguez blogs about design, business and innovation.  His posts always end up having something cool and thought provoking in them.  One of my favourite posts of his was a recent one on startegy.

2.       StartupNorth: Jevon and Jonas do a great job of coving the startup scene in Canada.  Jevon recently wrote a great post (manifesto, call to arms, etc.) on how start-ups will save VC in Canada.

3.       Marc Andreessen’s Blog:  Founder of Netscape, Opsware, and recently Ning.  Marc is currently taking a break from blogging, but always writes great posts on entrepreneurship, start-ups, and life in general.

4.       Tim Ferris: The four hour work week author always has something to say about productivity, work, life, and how to learn a language in one hour.

5.       Joel on Software: Joel Spolsky blogs about coding, creating a great work environment, productivity, and all sorts of things relating to creating great software.

I hope that you find a blog on here that you haven’t heard of before.  I would love to hear what blogs you find interesting.

(I cross posted this over on TechVibes)

DemoCamp Edmonton 3

DemoCamp Edmonton 3 is ready to go.  After around 100 people came out exchanged ideas at our recent BarCamp we are looking forward to having the community together again at our third DemoCamp.

DemoCamp Edmonton 3 is slated to take place on September 17 at 6:30PM in the Engineering Teaching and Learning Complex (ETLC), room E1 017, at the University of Alberta.  You can find a map of where the building is located on campus here.   Parking is located nearby in the Windsor Parking Lot on 116 St and 92 Ave.

The second DemoCamp featured demos from companies such as Zigtag, Aviary, Boreal, and others.  Come out and find out what other projects and companies people are working on, and meet some of the other people in the Edmonton tech community.  You can find more information at www.barcamp.org/DemoCampEdmonton3

Edmonton Pecha Kucha Night Take 2

After running a very successful Pecha Kucha Night on May 1st, Edmonton NextGen is at it again.  The next installment of the Edmonton Pecha Kucha series is slated to take place on September 21, 2008.  The event location has moved from the Winspear Centre to the TransAlta Arts Barns at 10330-84 Ave.  Tickets are $5 at the door and you can RSVP your spot by emailing: nextgen@edmonton.ca

For those of you not familiar with what Pecha Kucha is I did a post a little while back about it.  Basically how it works is that there is a series of presenters each with a topic of their choosing (the last event revolved mostly around design or art projects that people were involved in).  However unlike a typical boring presentation that drags on the presenters are only allowed 20 slides and their slides are set to 20 second auto advance, thus keeping things fast paced and interesting.