A teacher.

Actually, you all know that I live for teaching and helping people, so in all honesty I’m really a teacher all the time.

In this particular case, however, I’m talking about my Introduction to Audio and Video Podcasting class I teach through UBC Continuing Studies. Next Saturday (November 19th), I’m teaching my full-day class at how to start podcasting and video blogging which there is still time to sign up for!

What do you get for a full-day class (it’s $350 a person)?

I teach you how to get started doing audio or video podcasts with an interactive, hands-on class in the Robson Square Mac lab. This isn’t just a sit and listen to me lecture kind of class. You’ll create your own short video and audio segments. I’ll teach you good camera and mic technique, how to edit your creations, and how to add things like music and titles to give your podcasts and video blogs extra punch.

I always bring in a bunch of gear for you to check out and see how they work hands on, so by the time you leave you can start with your own projects.

Since video blogs and podcasts need homes, I’ll talk about how and where to host your new creation.

Yes, this is a complete, soup to nuts, class.

If you’re interested in the class, you can get more info and sign up through UBC Continuing Studies and I hope to see you on Saturday!

During this freelancing time, I was lucky enough to meet up with the folks at Simply.ca—thanks to Shane Gibson—and started helping them with writing their monthly newsletters and new seminars. You know the folks at Simply? No? Well, you should. The are great people and really passionate about helping people get their most out of their Macs. Oh and by the way, they are probably the largest independent Apple retailer in BC.

Anyway, the team and I really clicked and…

I started as their new Community Coordinator last week.

I’ll be managing the standard social media stuff—Twitter, Facebook, the new blog, and even Google+—as well as getting the new website up and running, doing product reviews, helping people out with their Macs, webinars … and pretty much anything else that seems to be the community kind of thing to do.

Have a Mac question? Need an accessory? Ping me on Twitter or send me an email. Who knows, you might even be able to catch me in one of the free in-store seminars.

In the meantime, you can find me at the West Broadway store if you want to swing by. I might even buy you a coffee or let you play with the iPhone-controlled helicopter.

Thinking about what +Boris Mann, +Brent Simmons, and +Nick Bradbury are saying has me pondering the role of RSS readers (the tool) and RSS readers (the people).

RSS hasn’t ever really been hip or cool. Following hundreds (thousands?) of feeds is something very few people do but … the people who do follow those feeds are the info collectors who we rely on for news, analysis, and links. Folks like Scoble, Marshall, the teams at RWW, Mashable, Techcrunch, and TNW. And while I don’t write nearly as many blog posts as I used to, I still rely on RSS through Google Reader as a connecting thread of information. I connect to GR through Reeder on my Mac and iPad. I connect to GR through Zite and other apps. Sure my “social graph” from Facebook and Twitter also powers a lot of my news finding and reading, but I think at the core is Google Reader.

Brent and Nick make good points about maybe looking for another syncing system in the future, the problem I see is that Newsgator (for whom they both worked) also did the RSS syncing structure for a long while and stopped (and I was a big fan of Newsgator). My guess is that keeping thousands of feeds straight for thousands of users is no mean feat. I’m betting it takes serious bandwidth, serious servers, and serious cash to fund that kind of infrastructure. Oh sure you can use your own RSS server like Fever (which I bought a license for), but honestly just my meagre 900 odd feed list started to put me into a class of hosting at Dreamhost that I really didn’t want to get into.

Which brings me back to Google and Google Reader.

While I can see Google sunsetting some features of GR, I think GR and all the data that it can generate is actually too valuable to Google to abandon entirely. Maybe GR stops being free (I’d pay for it). Maybe GR just goes back to a simple RSS syncing service without a web component. However Google pulls it off, I think Google needs the constant influx of not only RSS data, but what posts are read and shared to turn their back on RSS entirely.

If Google were to close down Google Reader, I think the result would be pretty messy. Lots of the connectors and pundits and writers here need that influx of data to do their jobs. Suddenly lots of people are trying to manage feeds on various devices. Did I read this already on my iPad? Or Zite? Or on my desktop? We all like the convenience of a synced service. What Google needs to find is a better way to leverage that synced service to help it meet its own goals, which are pretty clearly focused on Google+.

There are smart people at Google, I think they will find a way to solidify Google Reader’s position (official API, fully supported service) and pull the information into Google+ so everyone is happy.

At least I hope so, because I really don’t want to have to manually manage feeds on several devices ….

I share files between computers. I share files back and forth to my iOS devices. I save work in progress there knowing that, in addition to Time Machine and Crashplan, Dropbox is backing up the files too (with versions!). I have shared folders with people who use Macs and PCs and maybe even some Linux folks thrown in there too. I have 50+ GB of space on Dropbox thanks to paying extra for it plus all the referral bonuses.

Yes, no question, Dropbox is essential.

Right now iCloud isn’t.

But it could be.

All Apple needs to do is offer to buy Dropbox (again). I know Apple tried to buy Dropbox before, and maybe the price and timing wasn’t right to make it come together. I think Apple should try again.

Apple is betting a lot on iCloud and while they have their sights set on Dropbox (and other services), they just can’t compete right now. Scooping up Dropbox, game over. To compete iCloud needs storage that I can get to on my Mac and iOS devices. I need to be able to share folders with other users—regardless of platform. I need apps that seamlessly sync to a Dropbox folder so I can have updated data on the go.

It will take Apple a long while for iCloud to get there. Not to mention those of us who are already invested in Dropbox aren’t going to switch overnight. Reach out to Windows users? Apple is going to have a hard time getting PC Dropbox users to iCloud—no matter how much PC users love their iPhones and iPads. The smart move is for Apple to take some of its billions in cash and gold-plated stock and woo Dropbox again. If they succeed, I think all of us are going to find that iCloud’s lining isn’t silver, but platinum.

You’d think that this would be an obvious solution, but very few iOS apps (especially iPad apps) account for the fact that lots of people share iPads and might actually want to read different things on it. Since iOS doesn’t support “users”, most apps seem to follow suit—a lacking feature I think, like who wants to come back to Angry Birds and find that someone else has beat all the levels ahead of you—but the folks at Zite saw the problem and have a simple and elegant solution.

On the Top Stories screen there is a new Profile menu and after you update the app you’ll be able to connect your current settings to a new profile or connect to an existing one. After that, everyone who uses the iPad can create their own profile and get their own profile.

I tried to go through this process and hit a couple snags.

First I tried to create a profile and it turned out I had one (under that email address) and hitting the Delete/Logout button is a little scary (even for those of us you are used to these things—I’ve spent a long time curating and teaching Zite about what I like to read), so I could then login to my existing account—since it seemed that I had one—of course I didn’t remember the password so I reset it. Armed with my new password I’ve been trying to log in, but it looks between the coverage in TNW and CNET and everyone trying to set up accounts—their servers have melted down.

I’m sure that by this afternoon things will be back to normal—come on I just want to read the news!—and things will be just ducky.

If you haven’t tried Zite for iPad you really should, I’ve found that it has reduced my need for pouring through my RSS reader by more than half. Now if they’d just make the app for iPhone (which user accounts should pave the way for) I’d be in Nerdnewsvana.

Originally posted on the Future Shop Tech Blog.

Great, overdue features that hardware can support

When you look at the features in iOS 5 some of them like wireless syncing and being able to set up and use an iOS device without a PC are overdue. Tabbed browsing in Safari, I think Apple was waiting for hardware to catch up to be able to have a good experience (somehow I think the experience on a 3GS might be less than stellar). As for iCloud (better) AirPlay mirroring, well that’s the push that shows a peek at what Apple has coming. Apple would like to make the AppleTV be something that people just want to play media through. Maybe the AppleTV will become part of even business conference room setups so presentations can be streamed straight to a screen without a projector?

Same media, lots of places

iCloud? Yeah it might be targeting DropBox (and I think Apple buying DropBox might be really great), but it’s really going for the “just turn on your Mac or iOS device and know that key files are going to be secure” replace Time Machine? No, augment it.

You know I rely on DropBox for the stuff I need to do. I share files, archive files, but you know if when I’m in a completely Mac (and running Lion, iOS 5) office and iCloud becomes the frictionless way to share and collaborate on files—what do you think I’m going to use? Right. Now DropBox (and other folks like CloudApp) well see that they can make iCloud cooler and adapt.

Looking back at the changes in iOS, OS X, and the devices then project forward what you see is a clear path towards seamless, frictionless use and access to your media and files regardless of the device you’re using. Just like Steve Jobs saw the prototype of a tablet and decided to take that and build a phone first Apple’s plan all hinges on plans, dreams, and visions that will come as the hardware becomes ready to support it.

No more Newtons

Great hardware is the secret to great user experience with software. Apple knows this and this is why I’m really excited for iOS 5, iCloud, and the updates to Lion next week.

Originally posted on the Future Shop Tech Blog.

Steve Jobs was dead.

And it hit me hard. At first I needed to be sure it was true. Sure the source was supposed to be the AP, but this is the Internet and Twitter after all. Then the word came in through ABC, NBC, CBC, the NYT, then the official word from Apple.

It was true, Steve Jobs had passed. And passed away at the time age my own father did. My own father who, after taking me along to look at various computers to bring home, eventually bought an Apple IIe. And that’s the start of the story.

A friend asked me last night if I had ever met Steve Jobs. No, unfortunately, I never did. But for a man who I never met, no real chance of ever meeting, his vision, his products, his companies (lest we forget Pixar and NeXT) so profoundly touched my personal and professional life that I have to pay homage to his life.

My first high school term paper was a flop. I got a D- I think. I typed it on my family’s electric typewriter. Spelled society wrong every single time. My parents were smart, and my dad techie enough, to see that maybe a computer in the house might help their oldest child in school. Sure my Dad wrote his academic papers and book chapters on the Apple IIe downstairs, but I also spent hours writing papers, learning BASIC, playing Wolfenstein, using a light pen with graphics programs. Yeah I doubt I’d have done very well in high school English if I didn’t have the easy ability write, edit, change, footnote my papers on that Apple IIe. I also learned programming, how computers worked, and not to put your floppy disks on the top of the ImageWriter I because there was a big magnet there.

When I went off to university (or college as we Americans like to call it), I got my first computer of my own—a Mac SE with the (then) ginormous 20 meg hard drive. That’s also when my dad told me those prophetic words that would set the stage for the rest of my life—Tris I won’t be there to read the manuals for you, you’ll have to do it yourself.

That advice led me to the campus computer lab and my life as a full-fledged geek. Learning the Internet (as nascent as it was between 1987–91), learning Word (1.0, btw) and what Macs could do. Helping fix disks gone bad. Recovering files, fixing documents, as well as using ResEdit to do not very nice things to people’s machines. Oh MacPuke, I so miss you sometimes—though I actually miss MacGiggle more, the version a friend of mine made with a girls giggle instead.

I wrote my masters thesis on an SE/30 and that’s when I started to learn how to Macs were different and better, and not so good, as other OSes. Getting my data and between PCs and Macs. Doing some analysis on a PC, then more on my Mac. That’s when you really start to appreciate things, and see how things could be better (I’m so glad OS X has a command line interface now).

When I learned HTML, when I learned how to create websites, it was on a Mac. I even (gasp) helped sneak Macs into entirely Windows PC departments because the job that needed to get done was done better on a Mac. Could I have done it all on a PC? Oh sure. As well? Maybe. With more style and flair and the speed to script things to run and work? Yeah, probably not.

And as I look back now, I learned that computers should be easy to use, but still powerful. I learned that creativity shouldn’t be held back by technology. Back then Macs (and clones…I still have a Mac clone in my office closet—the one I snuck into Glaxo for web development) weren’t the sexiest boxes on the desk. Now they are.

Yes I had to leave the Mac fold for a while. Yes I jealously derided Macs as being overpriced (mostly because I couldn’t afford one) for a time. But when it came time to upgrade from another failing PC laptop, I saw that Macs had the right value for the horsepower I needed. Yeah baby, I’m back.

That’s my Mac history (as I’m writing this on a MacBook Pro running Lion and listening for the bing of new mail on my iPhone and iPad and music on an older iPhone), but what about Steve Jobs?

Well, his dream and products shaped how I learned how to use technology and connect with the world. The movies that Pixar made inspired all of us and our children. The NeXT might have been a flop (I got to try one at the University of Maine), but the innovations Steve Jobs started there can be seen in today’s Macs.

I owe a lot to Steve Jobs and Apple. The dream of making affordable home computers (and computers in schools) let my dad choose an Apple IIe over the Epson model I remember us looking at. The dream of making computers easy to use and easy to mix media together profoundly influenced what I did in college, grad school, as a web designer, as a podcaster, blogger, and now as an author.

Today I continue to use his products to create things, but as Steve wanted, it’s less about the OS or device, but the experience and frictionless way I go from MacBook to iPhone to iPad. It’s about letting technology do its thing while I do mine.

Thank you Steve and Apple for helping to shape my life.

Think Different.

Originally posted on the Future Shop Tech Blog.

You can poo-poo this tactic by Google and suggest that it’s just another flash (in the traffic) pan on G+ (especially since the traffic jump after Google opened up Google Plus to everyone), but Google Plus is slowly by surely growing in dominance as a social network in its own right. So much so that I think that Twitter needs to up its game to keep from being eclipsed in the next year.

Psst Twitter, see that red light flashing in the corner of your eye…

Right now the gap between the number of people who follow me on Twitter versus Google Plus is a meager 1400 people. That’s it 1400. If the pace of people adding me on Google Plus keeps up (I don’t expect it to realistically) I make up the 1400 gap in a day, maybe less. Why does this matter? Because it’s all about attention and reach. When Google launches brand pages on Google Plus, don’t you think brands are going to want to know how it stacks up against Twitter and Facebook? I wondered that, and posed the question last night on G+. I got more than 20 comments on that question last night and a few more today. Could I have had a similar response on Twitter? Sure, but I’d be hard pressed to give you a link to the entire conversation. This is where G+ is going to eat Twitter’s lunch. Twitter is great from sharing links and breaking news, conversations? Something that can easily be archived and shared later? Not so much. Twitter needs to figure out how it is going to adapt to a social media world where G+ isn’t just an upstart but now an upstager.

And figure it out fast.

Not that there aren’t criticisms about Google Plus…

Just for geeks? Maybe that’s okay.

Right now, I think it’s pretty safe to say that Google+ isn’t close to mainstream attention or use—yet. I think that’s okay, probably even for the best. Most of (maybe all) of the innovations we take for granted on Twitter (@ replies and hashtags are the best known) came into being during the time when Twitter was predominately a geek tool. We geeks don’t really like to hit boundaries or walls when using something. If we don’t like the way something is, we try to tweak, tune, rebuild or just generally futz with it until we do like it. Right now Google needs us geeks to push the boundaries create the kludgey hacks and all the things needed to make G+ awesome.

Facewho?

Trying to push Facebook out of the way, isn’t a task that Google (or any single company) is up for. Facebook is a huge marketing and traffic empire, but Facebook too will have to adapt to the Google Plus world. Maybe Facebook will become (essentially) the virtual clubhouse and social spot and Google Plus the information exchange (the library versus the student center). You need both, but some folks are always going to prefer one over the other.

That’s okay with me too. I always kinda liked the library.

Originally posted on the Future Shop Tech Blog.

I first saw this on Mashable and I thought at first blush, “oh cool another smart feature from Kobo”, but reading the Mashable post and then Kobo’s own post open my eyes to what I think Kobo is really on to here. Sure, connecting with Facebook creeps my out a little, but I’m willing to ignore that for the potential of being able to share the experience of reading a book with other people—ostensibly my friends. However, that’s just the most boring implementation of Kobo Pulse. The exciting stuff will come when it can be applied to the classroom.

Book clubs are fun, but come on folks, book clubs are more leisure activities. If you miss something for book club you don’t flunk. On the other hand, reading in class…

Since we’re starting to see evidence that tablets (in this case iPads specifically) help kids learn better, what if kids were given Kobo-powered tablets for their text books and with a school-friendly version of Kobo Pulse allow teachers and students to connect together in a whole new way? That makes things interesting and exciting. Not to mention all of these things support my stance that 2011 is the breakout school year for tablets in class.

Originally posted on the Future Shop Tech Blog.

IK makes a lot of pro-level gear (and apps!) for iOS users that doesn’t break the bank. Oh and sounds really awesome too. IK sent me an iRig Mic (you might have seen the iRig amplitude devices before for hooking up guitars and basses to an iOS device), promo codes for iRig Recorder (free or $5 for the full version—well worth the price IMHO) and VocaLive (free or $20 for the version with all filters), as well as another goodie I’ll talk about in another post. I gave the iRig Mic (and apps) a whirl yesterday as Social Media Week Vancouver wrapped up yesterday and, yeah, I was impressed. Very impressed.

The iRig Mic itself is very clever. You plug it into the headphone jack of your iOS device and … that’s it for the mic part. No batteries needed. There are three (yeah three) gain settings for soft, normal, and loud sounds (so like a distance speech, normal interview, and a singer) and even a nice no latency headphone jack for a pair of headphones so you can hear how the recording is going live. The mic feels pro and solid (nice aluminum body and the heft that means it has some great stuff packed inside) but is still really easy to hold. The mic cord is long enough that you don’t have to be right with your iOS device to make the recording so you could easily do a video recording using the iRig Mic for the audio portion.

As for recording quality, it’s exactly what you’d expect from a mic in its price range. Solid, clean and pro. For my recordings I used the iRig Recorder app (the paid version so it comes with nice filters…very nice actually) and here is what you’d get if you downloaded the free version of iRig Recorder (because the free version doesn’t have post-processing):

Shane Gibson, Social Media Week (unedited) by trishussey

I think the quality is great and I would be cool with uploading that as is for an on the go podcast. However, because I was able to tap into the post-processing filters (which are non-destructive, hence how I have an unedited version of the track), I did a little volume optimization, clarity and clean up on the track:

Shane Gibson: Social Media Week Vancouver by trishussey

Yeah, noticeable difference. I didn’t play around with the app and processing settings much. There is a preview button and a slider to apply more or less of the filter, so you can really play with the recording to give it extra polish. One piece of advice is to disable the built-in mic when editing. I found it hard to tell sometimes how things were improved until I wasn’t hearing what was coming through the mic on my iPhone.

Bottom line, this is a solid portable mic. If you have a mic stand, it comes with a mic clip (if you don’t have one…I didn’t so I appreciated it) and a carrying case for the whole package. I’m really looking forward to using this mic more for interviews and podcasts on the go. No, it doesn’t replace my Yeti for screencasts, because the iRig Mic is for my iPhone and iPad, not my Mac, however if I just feel like recording something I might just hook it up for a quick podcast. You never know.

Originally posted on the Future Shop Tech Blog.

I was not a happy camper.

Then I learned that it would only be $20 (50% off).

Then I learned that buying 3.9 at 50% also got me a free update to the forthcoming 1Password 4.0.

My tuned changed, I bought the update and, man, I’m glad I did.

First off, 1Password 3.9 is only for Lion (and above), so if you’re still holding out on Snow Leopard (which I don’t understand, but some folks don’t want to be a part of the pride—yes I mean you Tod Maffin), version 3.8.5 is the version for you. And, from what I gather, that’s going to be as high as the app is going to go for you.

For those of us using Lion, 1Password 3.9 taps into more of Lion’s features (like full screen, which I don’t get, but okay), app sandboxing (better security to prevent apps from going rogue on your Mac), and better overall security. The great folks at Agile Bits have a blog post that explains the ins, outs, and reasons for their switch. Might customers be pissed? Yeah, maybe. Was I pissed? Yeah, a little. Then after reading, saw the sense in making the jump to an easier way for them to sell software and enticing loyal fans to switch with a tasty 50% discount (which includes a free update to 4.0) was fine with me.

Is the Mac App Store perfect? Not by a long shot. Do I still like picking up apps from it? Oh you bet I do. Easy, peasy. Self installing, fast, and if I get a new machine or if by some miracle I manage to pull off getting and iMac and a MacBook Air, I can quickly get a bunch of my apps pushed over to it. Yeah, I’m willing to live with Apple working out the kinks within the Mac App Store for the longer-term benefit I’m sure I’ll see down the road.

Originally posted on the Future Shop Tech Blog.

Around here, I might be the most active of the FS bloggers on Google+, but that doesn’t mean we don’t keep tabs on it. Like when Google announced (to much cheering) that they were starting to open up their Google+ API to developers. This might just sound like something that only geeks could get into, and in part you’re right, but in reality it is the ability to tap into a web-based application from within another application or website that powers what we do day to day online.

Yeah HootSuite, Facebook Like buttons, Tweet this post tools, these are all powered by the APIs from those sites. If Web 2.0 was about interaction, Web 2.5 (3.0) is about the API. So Empire Avenue starting to hook up to the G+ API is big news for both Empire Ave and Google. We’ve been clamoring for a G+ API not only for tools like HootSuite (it looks like the first release from Google won’t help HootSuite much), but also reputation/influencer sites like Empire Ave and Klout. As companies and advertisers more and more use external tools to help judge how influential a person is on social media, it’s essential that those tools connect with as many social media touch points as possible to get the most complete picture possible.

This is why it was important for Empire Ave to be fast out of the gate. Establish a foothold and show they are solidly in the game. Now, I have to see if Brad can hook me up with early access to G+ on Empire Ave.

Originally posted on the Future Shop Tech Blog.

I had been thinking, as I would get distracted by HootSuite on my MacBook screen or fussing with getting my MacBook positioned to be able to have its screen in the right position, that maybe I was doing it all wrong. Yeah, yeah all the cool kids have their big primary monitor and laptop secondary or just have two huge screens hooked up to a desktop. However, I think our push to see everything at once might just be keeping us from seeing the big picture.

I haven’t delved into my RSS reader for a long while (with the exception of checking a few search-related feeds), have been using Zite and Summify to keep up (I don’t think I’ve missed anything huge).

I’m writing this post in Byword (my new favorite general-purpose writing tool—Scrivener still wins for big projects like books) previewed in Marked, and while I can see Chrome in the background and I know that HootSuite is still there—I’m focused on writing this post. I can see if there are emails waiting, but I also get a notification of the sender and subject when they come in (thank you Growl), so I know what’s important and what I can safely ignore.

Not that going from two displays to one isn’t without its frustrations. I’m used to moving Chrome to another display to have Byword and Chrome side-by-side for copying and pasting URLs. I’m also used to being able to have ancillary things of to the side that I can pull to my attention when I need them.

But today hasn’t been a productivity disaster.

I check HootSuite and Google+ when I naturally pause or need to change gears. I read email when there is something I need to read comes in and then I clear out the less important stuff.

So, a single display might be just right for me…at least for a while.

Originally posted on the Future Shop Tech Blog.

Yes, the job hunt is continuing unabated. Summer isn’t the best time to try to look for a new gig, but, hey, you play the cards you’re dealt, right?

Rather than posting my resume here, my LinkedIn profile and Google+ profile are the best ways to learn about the professional side of me. As you can tell from my background and experience, jobs having to do with technology, writing, web design and development, social media, and communications are ones I’m well suited for. The bigger question is what kind of job I’m looking for.

I can sum it up in two words:

• Permanence
• Stability

Yes, I know that these two aspects are rather hard to find in today’s economy, but let me elaborate a bit. What I really mean is that I am looking for a job I can sink my teeth into, I can challenge myself, and be at for a good long while.

I want to contribute to something bigger and be able to reap those rewards.

If you’re interested, or know someone who might be, let me know. While I love Vancouver, I haven’t ruled out moving somewhere else (and as a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada I have a lot of flexibility in that regard)—for the right opportunity I would certainly move.

There you have it. Simple as that, I’m available for hire and interested in what people have out there as my next big challenge.

Social Media Week is, as expected, coming to (celebrated in?) Vancouver September 19th–23rd and recently organizer Shane Gibson sent out an email asking some Vancouver bloggers if they would participate in the Blogging Summit portion of the week on Monday morning.

Well, not that I’m a morning person by any stretch of the imagination, I still wanted to be a part of this great event and share some of my experiences of the course of blogging for 7+ years now, so I pitched a couple ideas to Shane and here is what we came up with…

Overcoming Blogging Fear: Letting go to tell your story

The one of the biggest barriers to people blogging and being “successful bloggers” (how ever you define success) is fear. Long-time blogger, writer, and author Tris Hussey will talk about how he has worked to overcome fear in his writing and blogging and how you can do the same. Real life advice on how to let go and publish what you want when you want. Because blogging is about telling your own story, in your own words, we can be our own worst enemies. Let’s banish fear and be better bloggers.

Tris Hussey started blogging in 2004 and was Canada’s first professional blogger. He has written three social media books: Create Your Own Blog, Using WordPress, and Sam’s Teach Yourself Foursquare in 10 Minutes and well as WordPress Essentials Video Lessons. Tris contributes to the Future Shop Technology Blog and his own blog TrisHusseyDotCom.

Blogging Summit: Technology Panel

In the beginning there was Blogger. Today Blogger might not be cutting edge, but it’s still going strong, but Blogger isn’t alone in the blogging technology world. So what do you choose? Blogger? WordPress? WordPress.com? Typepad? Drupal? Tumblr? Posterous? Google+? Bringing together Vancouver’s leading bloggers we hash out the pros and cons of the major platforms and maybe a little prognosticating about the future of blogging tech.

The rest of the panel members are TBD (read they haven’t been volunteered yet), but I’m sure we’ll have those folks corralled in short order.

For more info check out the Blogging Summit event page (it’s free to go).