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Turn On to Bryght

Posted by garym on Tue, 09/21/2004 - 15:52

Thinking of a community-of-interest web portal or even just a personal or small business information space where you can show your wares and blog your thoughts but don't want all the headaches of keeping your own server up, running and updated? Vancouver's new drupal-hosting service Bryght may be just what you're looking for, on the right road and going in the right direction ...

We believe in open formats and standards, and our team is actively involved in the community. Through our development efforts and partnership agreements, our goal is to continue to provide innovative solutions that help people with their content, communities, and communication.

Bryght is an all-star team of prominent minds in blog tech both here in Canada and abroad who have pooled their talents to take Drupal and state-of-the-art weblog infoware out into the mainstream. And they're going at this in a big way, rolling out well-executed pilot sites like the music portal Sudden Thoughts and community portal Urban Vancouver -- if you pay for your hosting, you might want to give these people a closer look.

Not to draw too many parallels, but you could think of Bryght as TypePad++ in the free world, all the joys of easy weblogging without the closed-source headaches.

[ Source: About Bryght : Bryght ]

Urban Vancouver

Posted by garym on Fri, 07/23/2004 - 15:04

An excellent example of the free-software community plumbing from Drupal.org being applied as situated software in a regional weblog.

Urban Vancouver is a production of Roland Tanglao, Boris Mann, Richard Eriksson and co, with fresh new webdesign by Bright Creative's Dave Shea, and pulling together a full tour of the Drupal features to tell the real-time story of Vancouver.

[ Source: Urban Vancouver ]

Venture Capital Blogging

Posted by garym on Thu, 08/14/2003 - 14:11

John Robb has posted a beginner's guide to Venture Capital bloggers, a genre that's really a glove-like fit to social software: VC's have vested interest in knowing what's new and what's promising, and also have a pressing need to introduce themselves to the up-and-coming promising talents, up-coming talents are attracted by news of what others are doing, and especial what it might be the VC's are buying. Perfect symbiosis.

To extend John's list, and for those who'd rather get their VC op-eds in one easy package, Teledynamics now offers the Venture Capital Blogging Channel on our industry news page.

[ Source: John Robb\'s Weblog ]

Blogging for Development

Posted by garym on Wed, 08/13/2003 - 07:20

WorldBank consultant John Daly's recent Development Gateway remarks on blogging are targetted to an audience in ICT for developing nations, his observations are just as apropos for any regional development project:

The potential of blogs for sustainable development has scarcely been tapped. Blogs provide a means by which individual citizens can speak out about what is happening in their countries, and with their governments. Blogging would seem to be a great tool for development project monitoring, helping to promote transparency in that process. Multi-user blogs would seem a great vehicle for e-learning, and for communities of practice to formulate and document their ideas.

The Development Gateway is also hosting a discussion forum on applications of social software to the DG projects.

[ Source: Blogging Feature (John Daly) ]

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