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Geek It Happened to Me

Today on "Global Nerdy"

George Scriban and Joey deVilla
George was the Best Man at my wedding; this is us at my wedding rehearsal dinner.

Pictured above is the writing team at the new techie blog Global Nerdy. On the left is my buddy George Scriban, whom I met back at Crazy Go Nuts University. He’s a research director at a New York-based private think tank serving senior technology executives from the Global 200. The handsome dude on the right is Yours Truly, and I’m Technical Evangelist for Tucows, a Toronto-based supplier of Internet services and download libraries with a global distribution network of 6,000 service providers.

Together, we write a techie blog with both our perspectives , with George as the “top-down” enterprise computing guy and me as the “bottom-up” web developer, and I think the combination will be a potent one. Go check it out at www.GlobalNerdy.com!

Articles on Global Nerdy thus far:

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www.GlobalNerdy.com

Guitar Hero controllerThere are still some rough edges (well, actually a lot), but what the hey: Global Nerdy, a new tech news/editorial blog created by my pal George Scriban and me, is up and running. Go give it a peek, watch it evolve, and expect great things.

(In case you’re wondering about the guitar pictured to the left, that’s today’s first story on Global Nerdy: the tracklist for the upcoming videogame, Guitar Hero II).

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Geek Toronto (a.k.a. Accordion City)

Meeting with ICT Toronto on Thursday

As I mentioned in an earlier entry, a number of prominent Toronto tech bloggers and I will be meeting with the people from ICT Toronto to provide suggestions on how they can do a better job reaching out to and support Toronto’s tech community. If you have any suggestions or ideas, please leave them in the comments!

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Geek Toronto (a.k.a. Accordion City)

Meeting with ICT Toronto

Squeaky wheel, meet grease!

In response to my last article on ICT Toronto, in which I cast some serious doubt on the efficacy of the initiative to boost Accordion City’s profile as a high-tech hub, a meeting has been called. I was contacted by local techie consultant and DemoCamp regular Mark “Remarkk!” Kuznicki, who was contacted by ICT Toronto’s project manager, Alicia Bulwik. He told me that she’d proposed a meeting with prominent Accordion City tech bloggers to solicit our input on what’s really necessary to support a vibrant and world-leading tech industry cluster in Toronto. Among those invited:

The meeting will take place on Thursday, October 5th, and we’ve all agreed that in the interest of transparency to the local tech community whom we claim to represent, we’ll blog our thoughts and the ideas that we’re going to take to the meeting. I look forward to this meeting and the chance to meet with the people from ICT Toronto — and if we’re very lucky, make the first steps towards realizing their stated goal.

Over the next few days, I’ll do just that. I also want your input — if you’ve got a stake in the local tech community, whether you’re a programmer, engineer, marketer, business development type, entrepreneur or even just someone who wants to contribute to a vital sphere within this city, please let me know what you think, either via email or in the comments!

In case you’re looking for articles I’ve written about ICT Toronto, here they are.

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It’s .mobi Time!

Moby vs .mobi

Over at the Tucows Blog, I talk about these new .mobi domains.

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Recently in the Tucows Blog…

Here’s a quick run-down of articles that have recently appeared in the Tucows Blog:

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RSS, Explained Oprah-Style

RSS, explained Oprah-style.

If you’re a reader of blogs and keep seeing references to “RSS” but never quite get what it’s all about, you’re in luck. This explanation is probably the most layperson-friendly article describing what RSS is and what it’s for.

(I also covered this article in the Tucows Blog.)