Month: June 2008

It’s Time for Another DemoCamp!

We’ve all been busy for the past few months, but DemoCamp — the show-and-tell networking event for Toronto’s high-tech and startup community — is coming back on Tuesday, July 15th and it’s going to take place in Kensington Market at the restaurant/club Supermarket!

Here are the details:

• When: Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 from 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
• Where: Supermarket, 268 Augusta Avenue, Toronto.
• Where do I sign up / get tickets? At democamp.eventbrite.com.
• What’s the admission? It depends. There are:
  • 200 “general” tickets that are free
  • 50 “community supporter” tickets going for $5.00 (plus a 99 cent processing fee)
  • 25 “community all-star” tickets going for $10.00 (plus a 99 cent processing fee)
  • 5 “sponsor” tickets going for $200.00 (plus a $5 processing fee)

Want to Present at DemoCamp?

DemoCamp isn’t DemoCamp without presenters! We have two kind of presentations:

1. Demos: Demonstrations of one of your projects in action. You’re not allowed to use slideware like PowerPoint or Keynote — all we want to see on the big projection screen is your project, doing what it does!
2. Ignite Presentations: A slideware presentation with a time-limit twist — you can use only 20 slides, and they automatically advance every 15 seconds. Is your presentation-fu up to the task?

If you want to present at DemoCamp, you can apply here.

If you want to see what Toronto’s tech community is up to, don’t miss DemoCamp!

I don’t think she’d look as happy if it was John McCain scrubbing…

Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

…but I think McCain’s image, at best, is more along these lines:

Image courtesy of The Triumph of Bullshit.

I’m having fun with Wordle, a web app that takes text you give it and turns it into gorgeous word clouds, where the size of the word is based on its frequency. Since talking about pretty pictures is akin to dancing about architecture, let me just show you some of Wordle’s output based on some of my favourite blog entries.

Here’s the Wordle-generated word cloud for my blog entry titled Worst Date Ever, Part 5:

With a change of font, Wordle created a very nice cloud for the story about Julie and Amanda, A Craigslist Wedding:

And finally, here’s the Wordle-generated cloud for Assrockets and Opportunities, the essay behind my decision to leave a comfy job and go work at a startup:

If you’ve got some text, go give Wordle a try!

Photo courtesy of Ryland (who has the best sign generator site) and Miss Fipi Lele.

Update: Even more wrong — Hannah Montana Gummi Guitars. What were they thinking?

They should turn this into a greeting card that you could give to Catholic kids for their First Communion:

Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

It was a more innocent time…

Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.