by Daniele Rossi | Aug 12, 2011 | blog, comics, social media
I drew and posted this comic on my graphic blog after suffering from a bout of social media information overload.
by Daniele Rossi | Jul 31, 2011 | blog, comics, creativity, illustration
I had the pleasure of speaking to a grade 4 class on the other side of the country via Skype. My how times have changed! The topic was illustration, comics, cartooning and animation. I told them how lucky they were to be living in the Internet age where anyone can be...
by Daniele Rossi | Jul 11, 2011 | comics, social media
I created a four-part series over at my graphic blog teaching a little bit about the similarities of the telegraph and today’s Internet. It’s inspired by the book, The Victorian Internet, and it “takes place” in a fictional version of PodCamp...
by Daniele Rossi | Jun 30, 2011 | creativity, news, social media
It is the day after my return from this year’s PAB conference in the nation’s capital and as expected, it did not disappoint. I’ve attended PAB every year since 2007 and always return even more energized to create content. I keep returning because...
by Daniele Rossi | Jun 23, 2011 | creativity, social media, user experience
I just heard about Pottermore, a new website coming soon by J.K. Rowling which I can pretty much see as becoming a great case study in bringing reading to the digital world. That is, aside from just offering an ebook riddled with DRM. I was a Harry Potter fanatic back...
by Daniele Rossi | Jun 9, 2011 | comics, illustration, user experience
I recently relaunched my webcomic Superspud.com as a graphic blog (read: graphic journalism). My latest post reflects my frustration and utter bewilderment of the new UI for Skype 5.1 for Mac. In a nutshell, it’s unintuitive. I think the comic explains exactly...
by Daniele Rossi | May 27, 2011 | social media
Four years after my first attendance, I was finally able to get to Mesh, Canada’s two-day web conference. And I had a great time. I met some great new people, caught up with old friends and learned many, many new things. The keynotes were awesome and really...
by Daniele Rossi | Apr 22, 2011 | creativity, social media
No, not those angry birds. For the past four days, a robin has been repeatedly flying into my window. It would return back to a nearby tree and try again. Over and over. For hours. I’ve seen birds do something like this a few times years ago but never to my...
by Daniele Rossi | Apr 12, 2011 | social media
Social media provides excellent benefits in everything. Period. On the latest episode of my podcast, Stuttering is Cool, I interview four speech therapists who incorporate social media tools in their practice. My summary follows. I first speak with fellow Canadian,...
by Daniele Rossi | Apr 6, 2011 | social media, user experience
Last month, I blogged about the Longform storytelling in a short attention span world panel discussion. One item which still has me pondering today came from PBS documentary maker, Raney Aronson-Rath, who mentioned the future of documentaries is in extending them in...
