Abort the pool feed – there’s a new pool in town

Do you want to know what it’s like to be at a press conference nowadays? Have a gander at Robert Scoble’s point of view.It’s no longer about a company waiting for rapt attention or PR vying for control. It’s a new scenario with multiple...

No ‘blue shirt group’ for me

I like blue shirts. I like them a lot.In fact, I have a closet full of them in many hues, tones and subsets. Some are plain, some are striped and the striped ones are further subdivided into vertical/horizontal and thin/medium/wide.And so on.Often, when I’m in a store...

And we all shrine on…

Have you ever noticed how iPod docking stations make it look like a shrine?Don’t get me wrong, it’s a breakthrough device. I just don’t feel the calling to worship at the altar of the iCon.

Stop being used

There’s an interesting post by Josh Bernoff about the way tech companies refer to their customers as users.And it dawned on me that if I’m a user then I’m probably being used.I guess that’s somewhat implicit in the symbiotic producer/customer...

Read any good blooks lately?

I just stumbled on Jack Kapica’s witty Weblish post. In it he mentions the Lulu Blooker Prize (I hadn’t heard of it before), awarded annually to blogs that transform themselves into into books, er blooks, from a program you can get on the Lulu site. The business...

‘A bad image or no image’

Poor Manitoba. It isn’t enough that my birth province is beset by frigid winters and an overabundance of blood-sucking mosquitoes in the summer. Not to mention a hollowed-out downtown, glue sniffing and a 40+ year exodus to points East and West.And now, to add insult...