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Update: so, yeah, if you type in JUST "Boston" into Apple's Accuweather widget, you'll get weather for Boston, Georgia. It's nice and warm there this time of year, apparently :P Turns out we're going to need to go to Target and buy some sweaters and stuff.

Here's me in a snowbank in Boston, MA and a screencap of the Boston, GA, forecast:

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Rob Lewis from Techvibes and I talk about the Strutta launch. Or at least, the super sekret alpha launch. It's been fun to see the buzz build, and start to see the first initial pieces of the Strutta story come out. I'm looking forward to the whole story being revealed.

Disclaimer: I'm an advisor to Strutta

I've now got ShoZu on my Nokia 6630 setup to easily send video to my blip.tv account*. Lots of Gnomedex video going up.

Most fun was lamenting about the lack of Nokia smartphones to buy here in North America with Bre Pettis (someone *needs* to give Bre a phone for his Phonetagger alter-ego) and Will Pate. Short story here is: Nokia, forget about buzz marketing to give away phones -- there are people that just want to *buy* your high end phones.

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And I'm going to repeat what I said to Nokia before about encouraging carriers (especially in Canada):

My top hint on what Nokia should do? Forget the free phones: continue to sell great phones, but pressure Fido and Rogers to offer a "citizen journalism" data package so people in Canada can use all the cool features. The HipTop plan from Fido is $25/month for unlimited data...I think there would be a ton of people that would pay that to be able to upload pictures to Flickr on the fly and use all of the other great features that Nokia phones can enable (*cough* ShoZu *cough*).

I'm going to be interviewed by Global TV in a few hours, talking about citizen journalism and how people in the streets of London began documenting the recent events there practically in real time, using cell phones and digital cameras.

Flickr will likely feature prominently, even though they're not technically a Vancouver company anymore. I'm going to use this post to gather links, and I did a little pre-show practice with the attached movie.

All the links after the jump. I'll update as I know more, please do send in examples of more coverage (leave a comment or just link to this post).

As mentioned in the video, this is all thanks to Eric Rice.

Links from the show:

• Podcast and Videoblog Roadshow: Vancouver Edition
• Gnomedex was great, but were really tired last night because of it
• My recent post on iTunes 4.9
• Eric's 60sec promo
• All iPods are now iPod Photos, more fuel for the iTunes Movies conspiracy