Jul 31, 2008
I was walking home today and happened to pass a Norman Rockwell-esque family moment: a hot and hazy mid-summer evening; a young boy (around five or six) is playfully chasing his slightly older sister; her mock screams, a sound like enjoyment.What makes this scene a...
Jul 28, 2008
I remember an ad campaign from many years ago that used to proclaim long distance as ‘the next best thing to being there’ – pre-fibre optics.I think the same epithet could be used to describe blogging and social media (except without the exhorbitant...
Jul 20, 2008
For nearly a month now, there’s been an uneasy truce with Israel. I’m talking Shel Israel and his feud with Loren Feldman over the sock puppet incident.And now that the dust has settled, I think this is a good time to offer my (Canadian) two cents. To be...
Jul 6, 2008
For the past several weeks, my spam filter has been blocking emails I’m calling insult spam. The New York Times wrote about them in June, around the time I started receiving them. (Oh, how wonderful it is to be an early adopter!)Basically, these messages have a...
Jul 4, 2008
Yesterday, I was trying to call a former business associate who had recently changed jobs. So I went to his new company’s website, dialed the contact number and instead of the usual if-you-know-the-extension-press-it-now greeting, I reached the customer help...
