They started a joke…

With apologies to the Bee Gees, but this joke didn’t start ‘the whole world crying’. It was more like a frustrated sigh of bemusement.It happened a week ago, on the stalwart CBC Radio interview show, ‘As It Happens’*. I was in my car and...

Is blogging hazardous to your health?

The New York Times says it may be. Robert Scoble contends it’s worth the risk.I think this entire story is a little nuts; a hilarious example of the pedestal we, in the social media scene, are placing on communications 2.0.I mean, we’re not talking heroin...

Twitter redux

It’s no secret that I’ve been baffled by Twitter. I can’t seem to grasp why it’s so popular in the blogosphere and why so many people I know and respect continue to sing its praises.Well, Ed Lee provides a wonderfully fun and creative analogy...

Live from Third Tuesday…

…it’s Inside PR.OK, it wasn’t a taping of David Letterman, SNL or the Yuk Yuk’s Great Canadian Laugh Off*. But Inside PR listeners had a chance to get up close and personal with podcast at last week’s Third Tuesday Toronto (yes, it was on...

All we are saying…

I read that the peace symbol turns 50 this year and was a bit taken aback by the news (it didn’t look a day over 40 to me).Actually, I always thought the icon was a U.S. anti-Vietnam war invention and was surprised to find out it was created in 1958 by Gerald...