December 2008
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Ten things I look forward to in 2009
OK, so 2008 kind of ended on a low note. Home owners in the US got the shaft, banks suffered huge blows, the auto industry went on life-support, newspapers faced harsh reality, and the Canadian political situation went from shaky to uncertain. The blogosphere, including my own blog, has been echoing a lot of messages of an uncertain future, and a stark new world. Let’s take a break. Like...
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Millennials: Will anything be truly private for...
In 1999, almost 10 years ago, I began tinkering on the web. I built my very first website. It was all very tentative, with no long-term goals in mind. Not for a moment did I think about whether I wanted my site to be archived forever, but it was. In July of that year, I also started experimenting with Linux and used newsgroups (remember those?) to get technical support. I got the information I...
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Does the Pew publication stink?
Just this week, the Pew Research Center released a publication, “Internet Overtakes Newspapers as News Source”, which shows the proportion of people who use the internet as their major source of news several percentage points greater than that of people who use newspapers as their major source. However, after looking over some of Pew’s figures, I’m not sure if that’s...
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"Twitistics" are just mind-candy
[caption id=”attachment_132” align=”alignright” width=”360” caption=”Not all “Twitistics” are meainingful, most are are simply “mind-candy”“][/caption] Over the last few weeks, I’ve read tweets from various tweeters proclaiming the size of their follower list, the number of direct messages they have, and percentages of...
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Storm in a Twitter-cup
This post was not sponsored on behalf of anyone. The opinions are mine (obviously). For those not keeping score, social media guru Chris Brogan, posted a sponsored post for Kmart on Dad-o-matic. Long story short: they gave him some cash to shop, and he blogged about the experience. Longer story shorter, some people, namely some on Twitter, thought it was… a bad idea, and it hurt his...
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My head just isn't in the clouds
Don’t get me wrong, I welcome the era of open-computing, APIs and shared computing. I just can’t trust it yet. I can’t help think that I’m simply not ready to build anything on a cloud. Recently Gmail has been acting, let’s say, “buggy”, to be kind, around the same time it launched it’s task manager service. Meanwhile Yahoo has been having a few...
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Welcome to my blog
[caption id=”attachment_59” align=”alignright” width=”200” caption=”A shot of me (right) with my wife Rosalie and my friend Taku from Japan”][/caption] Hi, Welcome to my new blog. As you can see, there’s nothing here yet, but hopefully soon, I’ll have a chance to post my thoughts on: Web design and development New Media Marketing Web...