This past week’s strumpette activities and discussion across the public relations blogs put me in mind of the old saying, “on the internet, no one knows you are a dog.” Or do they?
Every move you make online drops a breadcrumb. Enough of your actions online can leave a trail right back to you. […]
Do you remember when the local library did away with the card catalogue in favour of an electronic index?
The benefits of an electronic index are self-obvious.
For the library staff, books are more efficiently processed and tracked. By linking to a central database, the content of the index can be uniform across many […]
Logitech on the YouTube
The video of bowiechick and her webcam that I linked to has now been viewed over 70,000 times.
While many of the comments surrounding this video were suggesting that Logitech ought to be cutting her a cheque, I’m wondering why they aren’t making an offer for the site itself. Or […]
The other day, a trackback came through that was in Chinese. My natural inclination was to take it as spam and delete it. But curiosity got the better of me and I decided to follow it back and see what it was.
It looked like a blog, but alas it was all Greek to […]
Just finished listening to the audio of James Surowiecki’s presentation at SXSW. I’ve not yet read James’ book, but the gist of it is that “under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them.”
The key seems to be ‘under the right circumstances‘. Surowiecki’s conditions for […]
A recent survey by The Diffusion Group states that the relevance of portability in podcasting is overstated. Their findings show that only 20% of downloaded podcasts are transferred to a portable device. It’s worth noting that there is another survey by Podtrac which is less dramatic but still show 41% listening on their […]
Take a moment and visit the page for the Orbit web camera from Logitech, click on the link that reads ‘View Demo’ and watch the short Flash intro for the camera. When it’s done come back here. Don’t worry, I’ll wait. . . . . […]
Over on Poynter Online, Amy Gahran addresses a reader submitted question about linkrot and that’s got me thinking about it. Linkrot is what happens when the pages you’ve linked to are no longer work because the URLs have moved. Maybe the site has been pulled down. Maybe the content management system was […]
The Halton Peel Communications Association is holding a social gathering this evening at the Crooked Cue. If you’re in the west end of the GTA and would like to hook up socially with other communications professionals, this is the time and place. We’ll be gathering at the Crooked Cue in Port Credit (obligatory […]
The Silicon Republic reports that podcasts are overtaking radio stations. I believe in the power of the podcast and love to shout ‘huzzah’ as well as the next guy, but folks… seriously. Podcasting has not yet surpassed radio. Not by a longshot. Podcasting has not, as some blogs are beginning to report, […]
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