Archive for March, 2007
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
April first brings with it an inevitable rash of hoaxes, pranks and parodies. Whether it’s the local zoo’s switchboard gets jammed as people try to return calls to Mr. L.E.Fant, news snippets of zombie attacks in Cambodia, or the pink ‘zOMG Ponies’ overhaul to the news for nerds site Slashdot; this is the day […]
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Sunday, March 25th, 2007
Another example of the work I did on the Stan Slade comic strips for the Chief Information and Privacy Officer.
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Sunday, March 25th, 2007
“Rob Clark is something to be aspired to.”
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Saturday, March 24th, 2007
Third Tuesday Toronto was, as always a delight. I came toting a new anecdote that was dubbed by all who heard as ‘bloggable’.
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
From my brain to your eyes - the steps involved in bringing an illustration onto a blank page.
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Friday, March 16th, 2007
It’s not the number of people your social media reaches… but rather who it reaches, and more importantly, how their life is changed as a result.
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Thursday, March 15th, 2007
So by now I’m assuming that the blogosphere is abuzz with the viral marketing aspects of Starbucks’ free cup of coffee. From what I gather, a two hour free coffee promotion was quietly posted to their website and advertised nowhere else. I ran across it first on lifehacker and within minutes had received […]
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Saturday, March 10th, 2007
Maggie Fox writes that ghostwriting a blog is just a bad idea. But is it?
Flogs and astroturfing are definitely wrong, and should be viewed upon with full disdain. Flogs, for the uninitiated, is a fake blog. Often these take the form of a ‘independent third party’ who writes at great length why […]
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Saturday, March 10th, 2007
Every now and then a work doesn’t quite make it through committee. Normally these pieces would fall to the wayside, never to see the light of day again. Fortunately the blog affords me the opportunity to share these works.
This work is 100% digital - no trees pulped in the production of this work […]
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Monday, March 5th, 2007
Lots are taking the plunge into the virtual world of communities, Second Life. But the very three-dimensional, real-time interface that makes it so compelling is at the same time a limitation in the messages delivered through this medium.
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