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,
This weekend has been a bit of a whirlwind, with the highlight of it being attending what I consider to have been the best WordCamp Victoria to date, WordCamp Victoria 2012.1 And I’m not just saying that because I was a keynote speaker. The calibre of speakers and variety of topics covered made this year’s
I remember the first time I looked up at the sky and was amazed by it. Actually, let me correct myself: I remember the first time I looked up at the sky as an adult and was amazed by it. When I did, I realized that I was on the verge of making some major
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