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As Paul Weller sings, "Time Passes". I feel like yesterday was 1999 December and I had just started my Manila Blog, dreadnet.editthispage.com. I feel like it's yesterday that I first met the Northern Voice Organizers but that was back in 2004. 6 years! Incredible. Thanks for the great memories to each and every Northern Voice participant and organizer past present and future!

I was right about flickr (80000 photos in 2 flickr accounts and growing!) and blogging (Countless folks told me as late as 2003 that blogging would die and they couldn't see the ROI :-) )

I did not foresee micro-blogging and twitter and the rise of the 21st century walled gardens like Facebook. I figured that we had learned our walled garden lesson with RSS and blogging and had left walled gardens behind with AOL and Geocities!

I thought we'd have usable video calling and multi-party video conferencing and ubiquitous 10MB/s bidirectional access Canada-wide. Wrong.

I didn't foresee Apple's iPhone. I thought and I still think that Nokia could and would get software. Unfortunately it looks like the big N is pulling an IBM instead of an Apple but I remain hopeful :-) !

See you tomorrow at Northern Voice 2010!

My two cents: Blogging Has Gone Nuts because people have tried to game it and make money through SEO rather than passion and knowledge!

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There is a reason that I've been missing for awhile. Blogging has gone nuts. Is it me, or has it lost its meaning and importance?

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Really looking forward to our 4th annual Northern Voice! And to some great ideas and speaker submissions!
From Northern Voice 2008:

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The Moose is Loose in 2008!

Want to speak or lead a discussion? Then fill out the speaker submission form (speaker submissions close Monday December 10).

Got an idea for a topic or discussion but don't feel like speaking on it or leading a discussion? Then check out our Call for Ideas (we've seeded the list with two initial ideas: microblogging and mobile blogging but these are just examples!) and add your own idea and rate others' ideas!

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I like my friend Robin's take and the replacement of 'Constantly' with Consistently. I need to follow my own advice and blog more consistently!

FROM I'm walking among giants... ! Consistent blogger needed here. (Yap 3.0):

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My friend, David Peralty, recently posted the pro's and con's of being a problogger. In interviewing bloggers, execs and colleagues for a chapter I was writing on Leveraging Corporate Blogging for Training for a book sponsored by Simon Fraser, I wanted to refer to Bryght's Chief Blogger, Roland Tanglao's comment on the need for creating compelling content constantly. Two points are key from this quote: Compelling Content and Constant (or to me, that would be Consistent; a bit of a nuance change there).

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I worked for over 10 years at Nortel and in 2000 started their first internal blog using Radio Userland. Glad to see that they finally made the leap to public blogging!
FROM John Roese’s Blog » Blog Archive » Introduction to my blog:

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It is with great pleasure that I begin my official weblog at Nortel. Because it is my first, I thought I’d take a bit of space to introduce myself and my philosophy and perspective in general as a way to kick off what I hope will be an on-going dialog related to technology, the telecom industry, Nortel and other assorted items of interest that I hope to share with you through this medium.

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