http://guinevere.ca blog and lifestream of Guinevere Orvis Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:37:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://guinevere.ca/media/technology/facebook-vanity-urls-take-two http://guinevere.ca/media/technology/facebook-vanity-urls-take-two#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:12:02 +0000 Guinevere http://guinevere.ca/?p=1585 The first round of Facebook vanity URLs proved to be a huge success. Within minutes of the feature being made available, Mashable reported that over 200,000 usernames had been registered. If you didn’t pick up a URL the first night, head over to Facebook.com/username to register one now. But what if you were trying to [...]]]> http://guinevere.ca/media/technology/facebook-vanity-urls-take-two/feed 0 http://guinevere.ca/media/internet/facebook-vanity-urls http://guinevere.ca/media/internet/facebook-vanity-urls#comments Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:19:43 +0000 Guinevere http://guinevere.ca/?p=1580 If you’re up right now, don’t forget to take advantage of the opening of Facebook Vanity URLs which changes the address of your profile from something like this: facebook.com/9581189 to this: facebook.com/your.name Not sure what to pick? Standard domain name rules apply. Pick something easy to remember, easy to spell and as short as possible. [...]]]> http://guinevere.ca/media/internet/facebook-vanity-urls/feed 2 http://guinevere.ca/media/events-life/input-roundup http://guinevere.ca/media/events-life/input-roundup#comments Thu, 21 May 2009 02:47:26 +0000 Guinevere http://guinevere.ca/?p=1572 I’m back in Canada after a week in Warsaw at the Input Conference for public broadcasters. In addition to attending, I had the opportunity to present one of the programs that I do the interactive production for. I’m really pleased that both the program and my presentation were very well received by the audience. I [...]]]> http://guinevere.ca/media/events-life/input-roundup/feed 3 http://guinevere.ca/media/internet/who-should-i-follow-on-twitter http://guinevere.ca/media/internet/who-should-i-follow-on-twitter#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:32:12 +0000 Guinevere http://aboutnewmedia.com/?p=228 I asked this question several times on Twitter over the last few weeks. I wanted to find out who Twitter users felt were the most valuable people to follow. Here are the recommendations I received: @AdeleMcAlear @audiophilia @brentspiner @charleneli @davezatz @digitalfemme @Enderle @harrymccracken @Hermida @ikepigott @jowyang @jsnell @LanceUlanoff @mashable @mayormiller @mediaphyter @michaelgeist @missrogue @MissVerna @modernmod [...]]]> http://guinevere.ca/media/internet/who-should-i-follow-on-twitter/feed 0 http://guinevere.ca/media/internet/crtc-hearings-on-new-media http://guinevere.ca/media/internet/crtc-hearings-on-new-media#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:36:23 +0000 Guinevere http://aboutnewmedia.com/?p=209 This is too important not to blog, even in my downtime. If you’re a media producer in Canada, you won’t want to miss CRTC’s hearings taking place today, tomorrow and next week. Many different interests groups are presenting their case to CRTC (similar to FCC in the U.S.) on whether the internet should be regulated [...]]]> http://guinevere.ca/media/internet/crtc-hearings-on-new-media/feed 1 http://guinevere.ca/media/internet/5-reasons-cuil-is-not-cool http://guinevere.ca/media/internet/5-reasons-cuil-is-not-cool#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:25:58 +0000 Guinevere http://aboutnewmedia.com/?p=56 Earlier this week, former Google staff announced the launch of their project that they left the mothership for — a new search engine, Cuil. The announcement garnered so much attention that the newly birthed site strained to deliver search results to thousands who flocked to try out the new service (myself included). A few days [...]]]> http://guinevere.ca/media/internet/5-reasons-cuil-is-not-cool/feed 4 http://guinevere.ca/media/broadcasting/rise-of-the-webisode http://guinevere.ca/media/broadcasting/rise-of-the-webisode#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:26:21 +0000 Guinevere http://aboutnewmedia.com/?p=35 There’s no shortage of video content online. YouTube alone has over 83.4 million videos to choose from. This enormous clip buffet keeps us on a steady viewing diet of mostly: Real-life, non-fiction video clips. Videos that originated on another platform, like television episodes and segments or movies (legal and otherwise.) Mashups of the above. However, [...]]]> http://guinevere.ca/media/broadcasting/rise-of-the-webisode/feed 1 http://guinevere.ca/media/internet/there-is-such-a-thing-as-bad-press http://guinevere.ca/media/internet/there-is-such-a-thing-as-bad-press#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:49:19 +0000 Guinevere http://aboutnewmedia.com/?p=33 In the days of traditional media, the saying that “there’s no such thing as bad press” often held true. Except in the largest of stories, a small scandal could easily fade from memory and often what we recall years later was simply the name of the company or person involved. The next time you went [...]]]> http://guinevere.ca/media/internet/there-is-such-a-thing-as-bad-press/feed 0 http://guinevere.ca/media/internet/net-neutrality-and-coronation-street http://guinevere.ca/media/internet/net-neutrality-and-coronation-street#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 02:32:57 +0000 Guinevere http://aboutnewmedia.com/?p=22 Net neutrality is the hot button internet topic in Canada lately with Bell throttling ISPs they sell bandwidth to, said ISPs appealing to CRTC, citizen rallies on parliament hill and now the promise from the NDP party that they will introduce a bill that would ensure a neutral network without ISP level hindrance. If what [...]]]> http://guinevere.ca/media/internet/net-neutrality-and-coronation-street/feed 0