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...
Jun 23, 2008
Portage and Main? River and Osborne? Vaughan and Graham?In the past few days I’ve had a couple of close encounters of the Winnipeg kind with the city of my birth.It started Thursday evening at the Bachman Cummings concert. What a trip – down memory lane,...
Jun 21, 2008
One thing I really like about the blogosphere is how much constant learning I need to do, just to keep up. The ever-evolving nature of social media is one of its best and most daunting characteristics. I can’t begin to tell you how many times my head starts...
Jun 19, 2008
…when you do a Microsoft spell-check and you aren’t offered the following alternatives:- bog for blog- logger for blogger
Jun 16, 2008
In a couple of recent entries, Joel Postman offers communicators a strategic perspective on two social media fronts:1. He analyses the types of posts you most often find on business/marketing blogs and then breaks them into useful categories. I was struck by the fact...
Jun 15, 2008
We’ve all seen this many times. A perfectly good word gets noticed by a group of people, who grab it and seemingly hold on for dear life.The poor word. It has so many hangers-on that its coattails start to fray. It becomes overburdened. Overused. It keeps...
Jun 5, 2008
No, this is not a post about being overburdened at work. (Although it may be.)It’s just that lately, a bunch of people have been referring to me in emails as Max.Now to be clear, my name is Martin (in case you hadn’t noticed). So why is this happening?...
