Mobile technology can change the world - or at least help people express themselves with art and improve safety too. Raincity Studios' Support Services Coordinator and digital experimentalist, Roland Tanglao discuss an assortment of mobile-themed projects and initiatives with host DaveO including:

• Sift Tool
• Mobile Muse
• Vancouver Art Gallery Fuse night
• Homeless Nation
• Fearless City
• Phones for Fearless campaign
• Recorded with Griffin iTalk iPhone app Twitter: @griffintech run by @davedelaney (Canada's un-consular to Tennessee)

Photo by CouzinHub on Flickr

An afternoon chat with W3C TAG member Dave Orchard talking with Dave Olson about the World-Wide Web consortium (W3C), gaining consensus among companies, and the shift from information to energy and intelligence economy.

More Dave Orchard at: http://www.pacificspirit.com

Raincity Studios' Ambassador Kris Krug discusses the W2 Community Media Arts centre, part of the socially-minded Woodwards project in downtown eastside Vancouver. Built on the spot of a former department store, the new building includes a mix of social housing, market housing, an university campus, and the community media arts space.

Resources

• W2 Community Media Arts
  
• Gallery Gachet
• City of Vancouver Woodward's info
• Fearless City
• Wikipedia about Woodwards Building
• Woodwards Implosion video by Nadia Aly 
• Change Creative, Jeremy Crowle
• W Building 360 photoset by DaveO
• Woodwards tag by Roland on Flickr

 

• "W sign" Photo by Kris Krug
• Others Woodwards Building photos by Dave Olson

Note: See the old Woodwards spire in the background

 

Raincity Studios' CEO Robert Scales discusses his recent trips to DrupalCon Hungary, Drupal Camp Montreal, Blog World Expo and partnerships with Acquia, plans for Ægir mass Drupal deployment system and other big ideas for clients and content publishers.

interviewed and produced by Dave Olson for Raincity Studios.
Photo by Kris Krug, (hat by DaveO).

On a sunny Vancouver patio with beers and mussels, Dave enjoys a long conversation with Boris Mann, technology consultant, Drupal board member, noted foodie, vino-camper, and Raincity Studio's product guru (emeritus).

Mr. Mann discuss the history of Bryght, the personal motivations for the acquisition by Raincity Studios, the importance of robust hosting, the growth of Bootup Labs (a startup incubator taking companies from zero to fundable), the nuances of the Vancouver tech scene, knowledge gaps, mobile ideas and much more.

The SXSW folks are posting podcasts of the plentiful presentations including one featuring our fellow Canadians discussing the pros and cons of rolling a new media company in this culturally diverse, and geographically huge country.

Raincity Studios' Kris Krug moderates and is joined by:

• Steve Bocska Sr Dir of Gaming, Cambrian House
• Keith Clarkson Production Exec, Xenophile Media Inc
• Jennifer Ouano Pres, Elastic Entertainment
• Ron Thiele Pres, Xpan Interactive Ltd

(note, i seem to recall another panelist) ...

You are encouraged to subscribe to the SXSW podcast feed for all the presentations (but honestly the distribution scheme could use some help in general). In the interest of posterity, i am posting the unedited Blame Canada audio here so it doesn't get lost in the tubes or some forgotten silo - plus Kris' mom will want to hear his witty stand-up to kick off the spiel.

Blame Canada: 7 Ways We're Ahead in New Media

Cross-border markets, geographical challenges, and a highly ambitious and mobile workforce have forced Canadian interactive companies into thinking differently about how to conduct their business. The result is a nation of highly competitive companies with a keen awareness of global market potential, superior strategies for attracting and keeping talent, flexible and versatile outsourcing production arrangements, and a keen ability to harness the potential of broadband technologies.

SXSW podcast archives

SXSW podcast feed

Photo: Blame Canada by Dvanliet on Flickr.

With the eLiberatica conference in Bucharest, Romania {see also: eLiberatica 2008 in Romania - The benefits of Open and Free Technologies} approaching, Raincity Radio host DaveO, along with Boris Mann, sit down with two noteworthy presenters, Zak Greant and David Ascher, to discuss the importance of open source in emerging economies, various Mozilla Foundation projects (including MoFo, MoCo, MoMo), plus a casual conversation about OS community building and management, Romanian cuisine, prawn fishing, and developer culture in Europe and Vancouver.

DaveO, tired from the long haul at SXSW 2008, sits down for a chat with Kristina Grossmann from Rockforhealth.org. An organization dedicated to putting the health of the artists in the spotlight and making sure they get the attention they deserve.

Photo is courtesy of Rock for Health Flickr feed.

DaveO Speaks with Erich Weiss about the new movie he is presenting titled Horismoku Sailor Jerry. It is a documentary about Sailor Jerry who is the icon of American tattooing credited with fusing American aesthetics and Japanese techniques in the Hawaiian Islands.

Photo of DaveO and Erich Weiss at SXSW by Robert Scales on flickr

Raincity Studios CEO Robert Scales chats with The Beangrowers at Studio SX at SXSW in Austin. They discuss their band, inspirations, fave tracks, island home of Malta, meeting Kim Deal and Lou Reed, as well as the lack of barriers between fans and bands and the business part of the event.