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Oh, Canada: A Siri-ous Flaw

While traveling in the US, I finally had the opportunity to unleash the full power of Siri — and I realized just how much we’re missing out on the experience here in my home and native land. Siri can do pretty much everything here that it can do in the US. But it can’t “look […]

My First Great New Thing: The Mikes on Mics Podcast

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

Goodbye Google: The First Steps

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

Worth Watching: Art & Copy

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

transmission: GLOBAL SUMMIT – An Event I Can Sink My Teeth Into

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

On MacWorld/iWorld 2012: A Week Later

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

Macworld | iWorld 2012: The Days After Day One

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

Macworld | iWorld 2012: Day One

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