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What have I gotten myself into?
So, barring any major catastrophe or perhaps a severe onset of procrastination I’ll be writing a post here every day this month.
Why?
Because I’m signed up for the WordCount 2010 Blogathon.
The purpose of the Blogathon is to unite freelance writers with a commitment to blog every day for the month of May.
Given my sparse posting on [...]
The best use of the iPad I’ve seen
Once again, it makes me with I was rich so I could get a Microsoft Surface for the cats.
Game guide article in The Escapist
I’ve got a new piece in The Escapist today on game guide/walkthrough/FAQ writers.
Bad MotherFAQers
Enjoy.
Big Pizza is watching
I am currently sitting at the back of a room at the University of Ottawa, covering the launch conference of the university’s new Centre for Law, Technology and Society.
It’s been an educational day with many great speakers but one mentioned a video that I think needs to be shared on it’s own.
Colette Cuijpers, [...]
Another reason I still like newspapers
It’s hard to include a free poster on a web site following a major event, like one heck of a gold medal hockey game.
Though, this is just the latest news event that provided a piece of art demonstrating the value of a physical product over collections of ones and zeros.
Barack Obama’s historic [...]
National Post’s copy & paste trick
The National Post has done something interesting with the newspaper’s web site content.
If someone tries to copy text from the site, upon pasting it there will also be a link to the original story, as well as a link to the National Post’s Facebook page.
For example, if I tried to copy and paste [...]
Rob on the iPad
I woke up this morning hoping by the end of the day I’d be either dead or hospitalized.
Dead or at the very least, in critical condition from laughing hard enough to soil myself and an overdose of schadenfreude when a tablet wasn’t announced at today’s Apple presentation.
This did not come to pass, but [...]
Weekend reading 23/01
Two greats rants from The Escapist this week on content creation and the “future of journalism” debate.
First off, there’s editor-in-chief Russ Pitts’ commentary on content creation and drive-by anonymity.
Second, there’s Escapist publisher Alexander Macris’ “Algorithmize This!” dealing with the scary trend of replacing human editor’s with computer algorithms.
Finally, unrelated, Macleans does a look [...]
The 2010 Reboot
I’m late posting this, as always it seems.
But, that’s what I intend to change.
With a New Year ushered in, I’ve rebooted my web properties (though the blog transformation is not yet 100 per cent complete, I do like how my new portfolio site turned out.)
Anyway, as part of this “reboot,” I am going [...]
An Ottawa summer in 30,000 frames
I’m a little late posting this (seems I forgot that self-hosting a blog costs money..) but this video making the rounds is rather impressive.
It definitely captures an Ottawa summer rather well. The only thing I found missing was a shot of the Elgin Street Diner.
OTTAWA – Summer in 30,000 Frames from NiWoTa Studios [...]
