Social media street cred

Joseph Thornley recently blogged his opinion on the importance of a PR agency actually creating social media (blogs, podcasts, etc.) before they can advise their clients on what to do. In other words, street cred. “Social media authorship is the entry fee for social...

Twitter survived WWDC

My good friend and fellow podcaster, Daryl Cognito, tweeted recently: hey wait, big congrats to twitter for surviving the key note. Good point! We only moan and groan when Twitter (*cought* repeatedly *cough*) goes down. Kudos!

Experience-based design

I began reading Sketching User Experiences by Bill Buxton, and so far, after 40+ pages, I’m enjoying it immensley and learning a lot. It’s about the importance of designing something (a product, website, building, team, whatever) "in the wild"...

Notes from Jeff Smith interview

I’m a huge fan of Jeff Smith and his comic/graphic novel, Bone . I had the pleasure and honour of meeting him a few years ago at the Silver Snail here in Toronto and his autographed issue 3 of Bone is one of my treasured items (see left). Jeff was friendly and...

Doodle Association Game

I’ve had this site in my bookmarks for a long while and thought it’s about time I blogged about it. Kevin Cornell and his buddy, Kim, invented this cool collaborative drawing game. Oh, I made that sound so dry and scientific. They gave it a cooler name, “The Doodle...

Designed by acceptable social conventions

In JK Rowling’s wizarding world, wizards have the ability of teleportation. During an online Q&A with fans, Rowling was asked if there was any way that could prevent wizards from apparating into other people homes unannounced. Her reply was that it was...