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...

X02 is sexy and useful

My jaw dropped when I saw the concept designs for the X02 — the follow up to the, you guessed it, X0. This is the $180 $100 laptop for children in developing countries. THAT is exactly what I mean by designing usable products. See the photo of the kid holding...

Fantastic storytelling sample

I just saw an ad that was posted on somebody’s blog that made me want to blog about it myself! You know your video truly is viral when someone writes something like that. So I’m on Twitter and see a tweet by Chris Brogan (who knows how to use Twitter...

BrightKite a hit at PAB2008?

The latest social media darling buzzing around Twitter is BrightKite. Well, among my Twitter friends anyway. First let me explain that a good chunk of the people I follow on Twitter are fellow podcasters who I met at PodCamp Toronto and/or Podcasters Across Borders....

Send a message after you friend someone

Now that Facebook has pretty much become MySpace (no thanks to Super Wall), I keep getting friend requests from people I don’t know. While trying to keep the social in “social media”, I always first reply with a message before accepting or denying. Hi there! Thanks...

Breaking the right social media rules

On a recent episode of his excellent Media Driving podcast, Jay Moonah talked about something that I’ve been pondering about for a while; how come nothing bad happens to Apple because they don’t blog, podcast, etc.? Jay also asks the question about Seth Godin blogging...