Monthly Archive for May, 2009

Weekend reading 30/05

Not much time for proper updates since I’m getting ready to move, but here’s some good reading for the weekend:

Tech vets aim to save Nortel – A plan so crazy, it just might work

Choose hyperlocal over content sites – For my fellow writers, a good piece from the WordCount blog on choosing to write for hyperlocal news sites instead of content sites (or as I like to call them, dumping grounds.)

Reasons to be terrified of Google Wave – Once again, Google announces a cool new service, but I agree with this Fast Company piece (especially #5)

Gas Station Hero

My latest piece for The Escapist is now online, a profile of the Ottawa-based video game and training company, Distil Interactive.

Enjoy!

Fixing the pizza box

It appears a company called Environmentally Conscious Organization has built a better pizza box, as demonstrated in this video:

As someone who both worked in pizzaria and an avid consumer of pizza, this is a great idea. Hopefully a lot of restaurants decide to use their design.