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If you want to learn about Blogging, Podcasting, or anything else Media or just want to hang out and chat with people involved with the community come on out. We can help set up a blog or podcast or show you tips on how to improve. Any level of know how or experience is welcome. Bring a laptop if you have one, Molly’s has FREE Wi-Fi!

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Molly Blooms
700 Richmond St
Wed. July 2nd @ 7:30PM-whenever

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I was sent an email a while back regarding Brant Bjork making a stop in London I was offered a chance to sit down and chat but truthfully I’m not real comfortable with my interview skills and I’m not familiar with Brants work so i had to turn it down. I do want to share with you the info and tell you that if your at all interested in going to get out and see that show. It’s this Wednesday, June 11th, at 6pm at Call The Office (216 York St. @ Clarence). Titus and I will be going to the show, if you are send me a message and maybe I’ll buy some beers! Also if your interested and not familiar wiht Brant check out this video from YouTube.
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So the city of London is planning on banning new drive throughs. I’m “cross posting” this here, with some elaboration, after I submitted it as a letter to the editor of the London Free Press on the lfpress.com website. If anyone from the London Free Press or anywhere else wants to quote me here or contact me regarding this issue, or any other, I’m happy to talk, just soot me an email at bill@deys.ca

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I take exception to the comments made by the opponents of drive throughs. If you ban drive throughs stores will need biger parking lots. Land is at a premium and London is getting bigger all the time. If stores like Tim Hortons and McDonalds need more space that is going to mean less green space and less land for agriculture.

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Drive throughts keep stores smaller, make parking lots smaller and are a benefit to the environment. Banning drive throughts makes no sense. The ides was also proposed to limit the space for drive through lanes. Have to been near a Tim Hortons Drive through, who hasn’t, durring a morning rush. Even the store with large drive through capacity and lots of parking are a mess. Face it they can change traffice patterns. The Timmie in Byron has cars backed out onto the road, and blocking normal non-timmies traffic, most mornings.

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I’ve always disagreed with most governmnet intervention to the practices of business, their way of doing things is just bad business! No wonder there is so much money waste! If you want to clean up the enviroment make people feel it’s uncool to use the drive through, that’s how Drinking and Driving is looked at now!

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If you want to learn about Blogging, Podcasting, or anything else Media or just want to hang out and chat with people involved with the community come on out. We can help set up a blog or podcast or show you tips on how to improve. Any level of know how or experience is welcome. Bring a laptop if you have one, Molly’s has FREE Wi-Fi!

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From the RSVP’s I’ve already seen it’s going to be one of the biggest meetings yet, the weather should be good too so maybe we can get on the quieter patio for a bit (Wi-Fi works there too).

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Molly Blooms
700 Richmond St
Wed. June 4th @ 7:30PM-whenever

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Tomorrow, Tuesday May 13th will be our second tweetup in London. We had a great turnout last month and it would be great to see everyone again. This will also be a chance to meet in real life people you may follow through Twitter in London or area. The tweetup will start around 7:30.

The event will be held at Coffee Culture on Richmond St (map) in the back area of the coffee house.

I’d encourage anyone in the area to come out and help build the social media community in London. Follow me, or blogldn on Twitter for more information.

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If you want to learn about Blogging, Podcasting, or anything else Media or just want to hang out and chat with people involved with the community come on out. We can help set up a blog or podcast or show you tips on how to improve. Any level of know how or experience is welcome. Bring a laptop if you have one, Molly’s has FREE Wi-Fi!

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From the RSVP’s I’ve already seen it’s going to be one of the biggest meetings yet, the weather should be good too so maybe we can get on the quieter patio for a bit (Wi-Fi works there too).
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Molly Blooms
700 Richmond St
Wed. May 7th @ 7:30PM-whenever
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Tomorrow, Tuesday April 22nd, will be the first tweetup in London. This will be a chance to meet in real life people you may follow through Twitter in London or area.  The tweetup will start around 7:30.

The event will be held at Coffee Culture on Richmond St (map) in the back area of the coffee house.

I’d encourage anyone in the area to come out and help build the social media community in London.  Follow me, or blogldn on Twitter for more information.

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So my wife and I are in the market for a used car. We are looking for something along the lines of an SUV. It’s the first time I’ve been in that market, never actually bought a used car from a car lot, and I’m not tied to the idea it just seams like the best place to start looking. So my question to you guys is where are the best one’s or one in London. What or Who would you recommend seeing? Leave a comment or shoot me an email (bill@deys.ca) if you can!

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I couldn’t find email address for some people and there is likely some people who read this who I don’t know and haven’t connected with so I’ve cut/pasted an email I sent out here.
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Hello!
Well to start out with I’ll give you some background because this email may seam a bit random. I personally, Bill, have been blogging for years and podcasting for three years at the end of this month. I do it out of total love and by no means professionally. About a year ago, after attending a few different podcasting events and hearing about all the cool meetups happening all over, I started searching for other bloggers and podcasters in and around London. I had started this site, http://blogldn.com, just shortly before to blog about London and foster a community around. I found a couple of people and we meet each other at Molly Bloom’s in London. Ever since we’ve been meeting there on the first Wednesday of every month and the dozen or so of us have gotten to know each other pretty well. This, in my opinion, is one of the coolest things I’ve been involved with and mostly at the credit of everyone else that has attended not just me!
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To get to the point, over the last month I’ve really felt the desire to make this grow even more. I’ve been searching places like twitter to find people, adding their Blogs to my reader, grabbing their (YOUR) contact info and compiling a list of people to contact. If you don’t want to participate or never want to hear about this again, please send me a quick note and I’ll remove you from the list right away. By the way I should say this is in no way an email handler or automated script, it’s just me with an email contact group set up in GMail, so if you ask to be removed and I mess it up somehow please don’t get mad just send another note and I’ll do my best! Anyways, I just want to point out a couple things to all you cool people.
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1) Out next Meet Up is Wednesday April 2 2008 at 7:30 at Molly Blooms, 700 Richmond St. N, London, Ontario.
If you want more info you can go lots of places, first I’d suggest http://blogldn.com/?p=81 where you can find links to event pages on Facebook, eventful, upcoming.org and meetup.com. Basically were just a bunch of people who love playing with or are interested in computers, blogging, podcasting and such. No knowledge or anything is required except an open attitude towards meeting new people and sharing!
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2) This weekend is the Indie Media Fair (http://londonontario.indymedia.org/?q=node/178 Saturday, March 29, from 1 - 5 pm in the Stevenson-Hunt rooms at the Central Branch of the London Public Library) and Titus (http://titusferguson.com) and I will be headed down and we’re working on getting a table there with some fliers to hand out. I’ve never been so I can’t say what it will be like but, I will be bringing my video camera to shoot some videos and maybe see if I can interview some people form London for the BlogLDN website. If your going to be there let me know and maybe we can shake hand and chat or something.
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If your interested in connecting with me I’m all over the place on just about every service and I always, except for old sites I signed up for, go by billdeys so look me up. I will link you to probably the best few ways to reach me though.
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Email: bill@deys.ca
GChat: billdeys@gmail.com
http://twitter.com/billdeys
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=514156701
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There are also a ton of other way listed on the side bar of my blog at http://deys.ca. If you are interested in posting articles to the BlogLDN website go to the site and click on register in the very top right corner, register and send me an email with your details and that your interested in blogging there and I’ll set up the rest. I’d love to get more London related content, any reviews, news, opinions or anything really is great. I do not want to edit the site, I will be reading everything and will delete and/or ban posts and people on an as needed basis but I’m pretty liberal so it probably won’t be an issue. Also if you want a link in the sidebar here to your site just send a email with the link and I’ll add it as soon as I can. I’d love to hear back from you, maybe even see you out at an event! Thanks so much for you time in reading this!

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If you want to learn about Blogging, Podcasting, or anything else Media or just want to hang out and chat with people involved with the community come on out. We can help set up a blog or podcast or show you tips on how to improve. Any level of know how or experience is welcome. Bring a laptop if you have one, Molly’s has FREE Wi-Fi!
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Molly Blooms
700 Richmond St
Wed. April 2nd @ 7:30PM-whenever
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HUGE thanks to Greg at From My Bottom Step for the tip off that London Media Fair 2008 is going down in a couple weeks. Saturday, March 29, from 1 - 5 pm in the Stevenson-Hunt rooms at the Central Branch of the London Public Library.
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“The room will be filled with people showing, selling and trading their independent media, including zines, comics, silkscreened patches, posters, literature / art / political content, local music, photography, film, and online media.”
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There is also some talks going on that sound pretty interesting so… I really want to make it out to this event, I might be able to drum up more attendees for our meetup, if you are going let me know and we can meet up there.
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