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.
