Join Robert W. Gehl @rwg author of Move Slowly and Build Bridges, for his talk on February 12 from 1:00-2:00 PM in 2-20 B (Multipurpose Room) in the Digital Scholarship Centre in the U of Alberta library. The book examines #Mastodon, the #fediverse, and broader efforts to build #decentralized alternatives to corporate social media.
#yeg
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/media-technology-studies/about-us/news/2026/january/february-12-book-talk-move-slowly-and-build-bridges.html
Join Robert W. Gehl @rwg author of Move Slowly and Build Bridges, for his talk on February 12 from 1:00-2:00 PM in 2-20 B (Multipurpose Room) in the Digital Scholarship Centre in the U of Alberta library. The book examines #Mastodon, the #fediverse, and broader efforts to build #decentralized alternatives to corporate social media.
#yeg
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/media-technology-studies/about-us/news/2026/january/february-12-book-talk-move-slowly-and-build-bridges.html
i can’t believe how quick and pleasant Audrey’s Books was when it came to carrying Mages & Modems in-store.
huge thank you to their bookwizard Levi who walked me through the local author consignment program.
also: couldn’t have asked for a better spot beside alan siegel’s (far better) simpsons book 😆
if you’d like to support Audrey’s: https://audreys.ca
there is no bookstore more relaxing to visit in alberta.
i can’t believe how quick and pleasant Audrey’s Books was when it came to carrying Mages & Modems in-store.
huge thank you to their bookwizard Levi who walked me through the local author consignment program.
also: couldn’t have asked for a better spot beside alan siegel’s (far better) simpsons book 😆
if you’d like to support Audrey’s: https://audreys.ca
there is no bookstore more relaxing to visit in alberta.
I'm thrilled and humbled to have been invited to join a panel at MacEwan University on February 11, discussing Dr. @rwg 's latest book "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media" with the author himself.
Get your tickets here: https://libcal.macewan.ca/calendar/library/RobertGehl
Thanks to @KarenKeiller for catching me at Dogpatch a couple of weeks ago. I'm so excited about this event.
I'm thrilled and humbled to have been invited to join a panel at MacEwan University on February 11, discussing Dr. @rwg 's latest book "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media" with the author himself.
Get your tickets here: https://libcal.macewan.ca/calendar/library/RobertGehl
Thanks to @KarenKeiller for catching me at Dogpatch a couple of weeks ago. I'm so excited about this event.
Went to an aquarium supply store last night and was delighted to see the staff in N95 masks and all customers still required to wear masks also. I wish I saw more places still doing this. The sign behind the till particularly got me 😂
“COVID-19 SURCHARGES
$50 If we have to explain about masks
$100 If we have to hear why you disagree”
Anyway if you need any fish-related supplies, go support Aquarium Central. 🫧🐠🐟🐠🐟
The CBC has just posted a transcript of my recent interview with As It Happens, calling on the government to quit using X. I’m attaching a couple of screen shots here; since they are a bit unwieldy for alt text, I’ll attach a link to the full transcript below. #CBC #cdnpoli #Twitter #X #Grok #CSAM #yeg
Went to an aquarium supply store last night and was delighted to see the staff in N95 masks and all customers still required to wear masks also. I wish I saw more places still doing this. The sign behind the till particularly got me 😂
“COVID-19 SURCHARGES
$50 If we have to explain about masks
$100 If we have to hear why you disagree”
Anyway if you need any fish-related supplies, go support Aquarium Central. 🫧🐠🐟🐠🐟
Hello #YEG! Join us at MacEwan University on February 11, 1 to 3 pm, for a book launch and panel. @rwg Robert W. Gehl, Move Slowly and Build Bridges.
Hello #YEG! Join us at MacEwan University on February 11, 1 to 3 pm, for a book launch and panel. @rwg Robert W. Gehl, Move Slowly and Build Bridges.
whenever my wife shelves returns at the library, she checks them for bookmarks/junk readers have accidentally left inside
she arranged a month's worth of them into a collage and put the work up on the wall in the library. i love it.
a few years ago i mentioned that i wrote a book about the exciting, awkward and embarrassing experiences of growing up with computers and video games in the 80s and 90s.
i wanted to remember what it felt like being the only dorky computer kid at school. or what it was like to hear my first modem handshake sound. or starting the first flamewar on the school's national FirstClass BBS in the macintosh lab over the lunch-hour
it was originally something i wrote only for my family and friends who were there at the time.
and then i met all of you folks when i started my first masto instance 4 years ago. i had no idea there were so many hardcore retrocomputing and gaming nerds out there; unix and mac and ms-dos folks alike.
so i mentioned it casually. i was surprised by the interest in the book.
so i spent the better part of the past 3 years rewriting the book for *you* fellow mastodon dorkus malorkuses. the book is a celebration of all of the best (and worst) parts of a kid growing up in the digital age.
we're all busy old tired stressed folks now. so every memory and cringetacular story is short enough to read on a 5 minute bus/metro/toilet ride. they're weaved together into an arc that starts at my family's first Tandy TRS-80 and ends at my school's Mac LC II and building my first Pentium 133.
it's finally published, and i'm super proud of what it became thanks to everyone here nerding out for years.
enjoy the book. i wrote it just for you. ❤️
paperback edition: https://mybook.to/EDuUf
DRM-free ebook (EPUB format) and chapter samples here:
https://tomotama.itch.io/mages-modems
#books #indiePublisher #bookstodon #author #macintosh #vintageApple #vintageComputing #msdos #dosGaming #yeg #canada #alberta #bbs #smolWeb #indieWeb