Nov 23, 2013
Imagine a cigar-chomping, loutish, middle-aged guy, a loudmouth big-time operator who considers himself an expert in whatever subject is being discussed. That’s what’s you’d call a real macher – an old Yiddish expression that, literally...
Nov 19, 2013
Last winter, I developed a case of Foursquare fatigue. It’s not because I lost the Mayorship of the Annex, where I live. (I have to say for a few months, it was a tightly contested race.) And it’s not even because the whole concept of Mayor in Toronto has been tainted...
Nov 16, 2013
It started on my last birthday. I’d received all sorts of friendly greetings and good wishes on Facebook – thank you for that! – and I spent time chatting back. Then a day or so later, for no apparent reason, I noticed my Klout score had gone up....
Nov 12, 2013
When you think about it, social media is still a relatively new way to connect with people, yet it’s been widely adopted by individuals and brands. (Of course, Tom Standage contends it’s 2,000 years old, but that’s the process, not the channels.) Most of us have had...
Nov 8, 2013
The photo in this post was taken at the Toronto Reference Library, arguably one of the city’s biggest repositories of words. As you can see, they’ve done their share of refocusing because when you enter, you’re greeted by banks of computers, not...
