#MackAttack
Edmonton’s dean of the Twittersphere, Mack D. Male, celebrates 5 years of tweeting today.
Five years ago most of us probably didn’t even know about Twitter. Heck, some of us might not have known about Facebook yet. But Mack was one of the first people – in the world – to be on Twitter.
From the use of #yeg as an Edmonton identifier to talking up all of our technology, a lot of the Twitter conversation has been shaped by Mack. That he helps raise money through events like Twestival and organized What The Truck?! are just two more feathers for his digital cap.
So, today, we tip our Internet hats to Mr. Male, and will include the hashtag #MackAttack in all of our tweets in the hope of making him a nation-wide trending topic. It’s the least we can do. (It really is, we didn’t even get him a cake.)
While we’re talking about Mack’s accomplishments, you might be interested to know:
Mack was a world-class bodybuilder until he and Chuck Norris teamed up to invent social media.
Mack carries each fail whale to safety. With his mind.
Mack invented sleeping.
In some parts of Eastern Europe, the Internet is known simply as “Mack.”
This, That, and Edmonton
Good morning, Edmonton. How’s the return to cold been for you?
Just because it isn’t snowing doesn’t mean your work is done. You’ve got make sure sidewalks at your home or business are ice-free. If you get a ticket, maybe just tell the City you’re dealing with a once-every-two-decade winter and will need a little longer.
The Mayor has launched his neighbourhood revitalization task force. The group has the rest of the year to look at how to keep our older, core neighbourhoods in the best shape possible and make them places people continually live in. The biggest challenge, after you look at the basics like streets and sidewalks, is going to be dealing with a public school board that is closing schools in the same communities.
Alright, enough about snow and streets… (more…)
Get your Twestival on
Tonight is Twestival Local!
Don’t have any idea of the gibberish I’m talking about? Check this.
Now that you’ve got some idea of what it is (a get together of Twitter folk, to raise money for a local cause) you’ll know tonight’s event is a fundraiser for the Youth Emergency Shelter Society, as voted by Edmonton tweeters. This is a local version of Twitter’s fundraiser for charity: water from earlier this year, which was a world-wide effort.
Buy your tickets in advance here. You can also get in at the door, and you can also donate more money if you’d like.
For all of Edmonton’s Tweetups, follow the edmontontweetup account on Twitter.
Interview with CBC Radio
G’morning, team. If you were up at the crack of dawn like I was (I went to the Starbucks on Whyte at 6 a.m. and I’m pretty sure the barista was trying to kill me, but that’s a story for another day), then you may have caught our man Jeff and Twitter-hero Mack D. Male on CBC Radio, discussing the phased closure of the City Centre airport, and the role that social networking played in the debate.
If you didn’t, GUESS WHAT?! I have an audio recording of TERRIBLE quality that you can listen to right here. I’m deeply sorry that it’s stupid quiet, but I hope you’ll understand that I have been up since 5 a.m. and have second degree coffee burns all over my hands so I was a little ALL OVER THE PLACE.
**Thanks to @Derjis for cleaning up the original god-awful mp3 we had.
F.Y.I.: Edmonton’s king o’ twitter, Mack D. Male (@mastermaq, for all you twatters), has graciously broken down the province’s new report on the potential for high speed rail between Edmonton and Calgary so that we can all enjoy it. Very much worth reading. Go read it.
…it’s okay; I’ll wait.
