Blog
I have been blogging about digital technology’s impact on culture and our lives since 2007. I post when inspiration strikes as I’m working on various projects.
The ugly truth about social media
I always enjoy reading people's big picture approach to social media. Always reading how sexy the latest tool is and my new pet peeve phrase, "join the conversation", gets tiring and will one day make social media eat itself if PR newbies social media "experts" on...
Calvin and Hobbes documentary!
I just stumbled upon this beautiful, minimalistically designed website, Dear Mr. Watterson. As a huge fan of the Calvin & Hobbes comics, I am really excited to see such an initiative. It's a movie about the influence the strip had on fans around the world. Best of...
I’ve gone and made a yellow website
Using courier font. Curiosity got the best of me after reading a few posts on design blogs about Times New Roman actually being a nice font to use. I agreed. And then thought if the same could be true to Courier. Yes, I know. I know. But hear me out. There’s an...
Search engine street smarts
My friend Jay Moonah wrote a manifesto for changethis.com called Trusting Google and Yahoo. It’s a call for critical thinking when using search engines. Since search results “seem to appear like magic, many of us tend to think of search results as being unbiased”. Jay...
Heat waves = electric outages
Heat wave season will kick in soon bringing demand for electricity higher than the sky. Once again we’ll be constantly on the verge of an outage and being asked to reduce our consumption. This won’t be a preachy green post. Just a friendly reminder. As social...
Design thinking with post-it notes and a whiteboard
I came across this post on design thinking using post-it notes on a whiteboard instead of sketching on paper. The gist of it is the advantage of being able to move post-it notes from one area of the white board to another. Whereas sketching on paper requires a lot of...
Design thinking behind Ti-Ger.org
I just launched Ti-Ger.org with my friend. The idea for this new website came after listening to my friend’s analogy of stuttering acceptance on his podcast (which you can read about right on the ti-ger.org homepage). The analogy inspired me (I stutter) to draw a...
TED for podcasting and the Six String Nation Guitar
In celebration for Canada Day, I thought I’d share my thoughts on 2 made-in-Canada entities I feel everyone should know about. 1st item: Podcasters Across Borders 2009 is the TED for podcasting PAB09 was the best one yet! No surprise as the organizers always put on a...
Just One More Book!
I was interviewed on the fantastic Just One More Book! podcast about my submission for their Love of Reading Gallery. I explain the story and thinking behind my submission, Now This One, talk about my preference for drawing with pencil and paper vs. on a...
BookCamp Toronto 2009
I’m at BookCamp Toronto today! There’ll be few familiar faces and topics will focus on the future of book publishing (tech, naturally) so it’s a different fishbowl for me. I’m looking forward to learning a lot about the publishing industry and seeing social media and...
How Twitter will change the way we live
Fantastic article from Time about the Twitter phenomenon and its influence on our lives. It focuses on the collaborative innovation from Twitter and it’s users. The folks at Twitter sat back and let it’s users come up with other useful and unexpected ways to use it....
Stories behind the domain
Had a bit of a contest with a friend to see who owns the most domains. Then I had one of my creative brainstorms. I’ll write up my domain registration bio! Yeah, I know, big whoop but the domains people register can provide an interesting look into their history. So...
Buttons and Moo cards
This year’s giveway for Podcasters Across Borders (PAB) will be 1” buttons I had made by the fine folks at Mad Cow Buttons. I really love how these came out! The photo above doesn’t do them justice. The images are sharp with vibrant colours and the teeny tiny fine...
Medium is the message
My friend Shane Shennan recently applied the infamous Marshall McLuhan quote about television, "the medium is the message", to... notebooks. In his post, Mangle Your Moleskine!, Shane explains how the type/cost of the notebook you use influences your creative output.
Twitter culture club
I had lunch with Jay Moonah and we got into a conversation where we hypothesized young children using private Twitter and Flickr accounts for keeping in touch with relatives living in different geographical areas (we also joked around with the idea of what Twitter...
Squeaky wheel gets the grease?
Here's a reply I left on Jay Moonah's blog where he ponders if the sudden high volume of new Twitter users potentially could cause its demise. Thought I'd share my comment here as well: It's a very "traditional media" way of thinking that a popular tool is expected to...
When should kids get their own social media account?
I had a conversation with a friend the other day and asked him if he ever thought about at what age he would allow his current 3-year-old to have his own account on a social media site. Parental supervision included, of course. I asked the same question on Twitter...
My PodCamp London slides
My slides are almost ready. I just need to do some more details such as choosing a more yellowish yellow and making the white text more legible against the light blue area in the background. Other than that, I'm ready to do my presentation at PodCamp London this...
Twitter popularity contests
Twitter is officially mainstream now that all the celebrities (well, their marketing team I'm sure) are using it and something about Ashton Kutcher challenging CNN on who gets the most followers? Um... I'm sure there's loads of engagement for both no matter who wins....
Reach out and touch someone
I know, I know cheesy title but that's the name I chose for my session at PodCamp London this April 25th. Here is the description: Reach Out And Touch Someone by Daniele Rossi. You have the awesome ability to make positive changes to people's lives all over the world...