Dec
15
(2005)
Ted Buracas just launched a Calgary blogging site: the Blog at Calgary. It looks like a great start, with links to local media, arts, music, entertainment, etc… I’ve already found a new Jamba Juice replacement called *atomic - downtown, just north of The Bay. Next time I’m downtown, I’ll have to check it out (although that may not be for awhile - I seem to be downtown about once per season or so…)
Looking forward to watching/helping it evolve. Calgary isn’t quite as online hip as the ‘Couv, but it’s a great start! I’m subscribed to the feed from the Blog@Calgary.
I have been thinking we really need to help Calgary develop the tech community in Calgary. Like have a monthly meeting where IT people can get together to just mingle and possibly present some little blurb? Something informal.
*atomic is pretty cool. I went in there in the summer soon after it opened and asked them for whatever they thought was good… they were hesitant, we finally settled on Green Apple… Not bad, I don’t really like the “pearls” though, but each to his own I guess. On Campus, there is bubble tea or ice that you can get from the Campus Cove which is similar, they will put “pearls” in it too…
Yeh, the tapioca orbs aren’t for everyone. I love ‘em, jjust like I soaked up the bubble tea in Taiwan.
And as for a tech mtg, combine that with a bloggers group, and you got a deal. I read somewhere that bloggers are the new D&D players, back in the day. I wasn’t nerdy enough back then, but I did watch.
But there’s a part of me that’s worried that bloggers are just shut-in losers who have no life. Is that being paranoid?
Sounds like a plan, D’Arcy you want in, or are you going to wait it out?
“But there’s a part of me that’s worried that bloggers are just shut-in losers who have no life. Is that being paranoid?”
Perhaps a bit, I think we ought to prove them wrong and be the hip crowd, with goatee (check) drinking expresso (double check)
Well… I’m a parent of a 3-year-old, so I may qualify as a shut-in
Hopefully, not the loser part, though. And I do like my espresso, often leaving a caffeine mustache on my goatee as well. I did play a fair bit of D&D back in my jr. high school days, though… I still have the DM guides and paraphernalia in my basement.
There are other special interest groups for straight techno stuff (java users groups, mac users groups, etc…) so not sure if that’s a niche that needs to be filled. I’d be up for a Calgary Bloggers Meetup, though.
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Is this blog still alive? or has it been moved to somewhere else?
I believe the blog has been acquired by a local media company, and has since ceased publication…