I’ve made mention of this in passing, but I believe it is time to share this in what I consider to be a more expansive form: A post of at least 500 words. My first great new thing is the new podcast I’ve started with Michael Schechter called Mikes on Mics. While my colleague has […]
A couple of weeks back I mentioned that I’d pretty much had it with Google and was looking to – as my Internet Friend and podcast co-host Michael Schechter put it – “vote with my data” by divorcing myself as much as possible from their monolithic web presence and services. I’m not going to dive
I spent a couple of hours today watching one of the latest additions to Canada’s Netflix catalogue: Art & Copy. A great film that dives deep into the world of advertising, both from a creative and business standpoint.1 Some of the best and brightest on the industry are interviewed, and you get to see how
I love this city. Victoria, that is. It’s where I’ve planted roots, am raising my family and it has a budding technology community that seems to fly under the radar on both a national and global scale. While I know that many of my friends throughout Canada think of my city has a great destination
So I’ve had a week now to recover from my trek to and from San Francisco – with overnights in Seattle in between – and have mustered up enough energy and opinion to expand on my thoughts regarding my first Macworld experience. Here we go… The Name I think that everyone who I’ve either spoken
I did much writing on and about things, just not here. It was all a bit of a blur. I’ll come back in a couple of days and be a bit more comprehensive, but for now I can bullet out a few points: Booth babes (and there were plenty) work against your product, not for
Here’s what I’ve learned in the first day of my time at Macworld | iWorld: San Francisco is, not surprisingly, an awesome city. The Neat Company is going to do what they can to conquer the digital realm as they seem to have done with the paper realm. I may have to bid adieu to
What have I gotten myself into? Yesterday on Twitter I was engaged in a series of conversations that was spawned by this tweet I’d sent out: In fact, I am going to make a concerted effort to untether my online life from Google, using many of the resources mentioned during that barrage of tweets that
I had strongly considered taking this site offline1 for tomorrow’s online protests, but my good friend Michael Schechter directed me to a spot on tweet from another one of my Persons of Internet — perhaps the first one I’d considered a Person of Internet — Merlin Mann: So rather than going dark for the day,
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