A matter of degrees

On an American Airlines flight from NYC, the pilot gave a quick update on the conditions in Toronto: ‘Sunny skies,’ he said. ‘The current temperature is 61 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s about 16 degrees Canadian.’Yes, the weather is so much colder...

Stuck in NYC

I was heading back to Toronto from a day of meetings in Manhattan when my plane was cancelled at the airport (all Air Canada flights to Toronto, actually). And I found myself stranded overnight in NYC.An adventure, to be sure, but not as exciting as I might have...

Scobleized in Cabo

Yes, this is another ‘obligatory’ blog post following a keynote by BG (blogging guru) and Google search engine’s number one Robert (Scoble) at the 2007 Counselors Academy Spring Conference.He was, in many ways, an anti-motivational speaker. No power point. No...

Post post haste

We live in a world with so much writing, it’s getting harder to come up with an original thought.Case in point (albeit a small one): Tonight’s title, ‘Post Haste’… was going to be about what happens when your blog entry is written so fast...

More Mesh

In today’s morning session at Mesh, Richard Edelman, of the eponymous agency, was intelligent, articulate and insightful.And he offered a wonderful description of the PR practitioner’s role: advisor, conscience, connector to influencers, source of creative...

Fresh from Mesh

This is my first mobile post (just to see if I can do it) from day one of the Mesh conference.Random thoughts:- Blogosphere seems to be divided into two camps: the wild west where pretty much anything goes and then the same thing, but with product placement.- Biggest...