I’m going to take ten days away from my my online activities. The process will begin on Saturday, December 20. I figure I’ll get over the DT’s after about three days. I’ll turn my email and social media tools back on around December 30. I expect I’ll be overwhelmed by the backlog and will take [...]
I received an email from the Barenaked Ladies about a holiday album offer they have with Amazon.com. For $2.99, you can download the MP3 version of their album Barenaked for the Holidays. Why not? We enjoy BNL, you can’t beat the price and we don’t have the album, yet. So, I followed the link, submitted [...]
I was interviewed by Nestor E. Arellano of itbusiness.ca last week about the recent decision by the Ontario government to back down from its plan to add further restrictions to the graduated licensing program for Ontario drivers (Facebook backlash over Ontario teen driver restrictions a “wake-up call” published today). It’s likely the now more than [...]
An all-encapsulating sentence that Andrea wrote as part of our review of the children’s book Sleeping Dragons All Around for our Just One More Book!! children’s book podcast (JOMB for short) will appear as one of four testimonials on the dust jacket of the 20th anniversary edition of the book. We’ve become friendly with author [...]
I’ve been one of the many voices expressing concern about the longevity of the PodPress, the incredible podcasting plugin many of us WordPress users have adopted because of its powerful features and ease of use. It’s been easy to worry about the plugin. Some time has past since the last update (code or even news [...]
A few days ago I called on my Twitter network to participate in a vote to help brothers Kyle and Brady Baldwin win $10,000 with which to buy and distribute 8,000 books to needy children through the My Own Book Foundation they set up when they were 14 and 16 years old (hear an interview [...]
This is typically the time of year that social media folks make predictions for the coming year. I’ve been known to offer my own thoughts (Web 2.0.08 and An eye on 2007). The problem is there’s no point making the obvious predictions (since they’re obvious) so it becomes a game of speculation and incredible odds [...]
Creative Commons is conducting a study of what ‘non-commercial use’ of a creative work means to people. I was involved in a discussion on this topic some time ago when Bob Goyetche and I learned that podcast.com was applying advertising to our our content on their site (see Is podcast.com making money from your podcast). [...]
One of the exciting things about the goings-on inside and outside of Canada’s House of Commons, is the education many of us are getting about how the parliamentary system works — mudslinging aside. Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party have been claiming that Canadians elected the Conservative government and that they specifically chose him as [...]
I guess it’s my day to catch up on meme’s I’ve fallen behind on. Thankfully, this one only dates back to yesterday – Derek K. Miller tagged me so blame him. It works like this: if you use Flickr, go to the sixth page of your photostream and pick the sixth picture there, then post [...]
On November 4th, Keith Burtis tagged me on his post String Together Unity. Since then, I’ve told him several times that I would be responding to his call. And I have; it just took me almost 30 days. The call is to offer my thoughts on “why we should look at life as one, rather [...]
I was asked to speak to about why we should care about social media to my Public Relations class at Algonquin College last evening. As part of the session, I highlighted a number of resources that will help understand the significance of social media. As a resource for the class, I’ve summarized some of them [...]
During a visit to the National Gallery of Canada, yesterday, we noticed some fancy, framed signs indicating that the parking garage elevator was out of service. It struck us as odd that there would be such an expensive looking sign out for what should be a very temporary problem. This problem has apparently been amplified [...]
I have just joined the list of amazing speakers and topics for the PodCamp Toronto… Workflow and the Creative Process – A discussion on how to pull together recorded content, chop it up, mix it up and sequence it in a way that delivers a message and/or tells a story that engages your audience. This [...]
Several months ago we announced that PAB2009 is taking place June 19-21, 2009 at the Holiday Inn Kingston Waterfront in Kingston, ON (Canada). Today, we are unveiling the next wave of important information. First up, the theme… Outside-in: Learning from beyond the fishbowl. The concept behind this theme is to evolve the conversation from being [...]
