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A request: Please don’t post your midlife crisis on Facebook. If you must share, turn your escapades into a novel worthy of awards (like the Nobel). We suggest working on it for years. And don’t...
View ArticleTag clouds are passé. Today I started organizing four years worth of blog posts into digital magazines using Flipboard. I created specialty magazines on music, sleep, freelance writing and technology....
View ArticleArtchivist
Sara Angel is one of Canada’s leading visual arts journalists. Her latest vision, an online art museum, re-imagines Canada to the world through the works of our best painters and photographers. I sat...
View ArticleStupid shit
In Silicon Valley, designing apps that save people time is considered a noteworthy contribution to humanity. It’s why daily organizers like Evernote and 30:30 are considered big, but not as big as the...
View ArticleCanCon in the digital age
Task Canadians with making a documentary and the world tunes in. Task us with creating a primetime TV show and the majority tune out. Threaten to take away our favourite American TV shows and it’s...
View ArticleTonight’s reading
My good pal, Jonathan Menon, sent me this: The New York Times Innovation Report, 2014. It outlines how the paper might reorganize itself into a truly “digital-first” organization. The report is 100...
View ArticleUpcoming Workshop: 2 weeks today!
My next Digital Strategy Workshop is exactly two weeks today: Wednesday, June 18, from 1-4 pm. If you are an independent business owner, like me, I think you’ll find the tips and discussions very...
View ArticleThink like a newsroom
When my story pitches for magazines or newspapers tank, it’s usually because: 1. My story idea is lame. 2. The story is good, but my pitch sucks. 3. My editorial connections are too thin. 4. It’s...
View ArticleWarp speed
My favourite moments in Star Trek, the original series, weren’t the fight scenes where scrums of Beatle-booted characters threw fake punches and ricocheted off walls with a little too much actorly...
View ArticleYour reading brain ~ part deux
Marcel Proust (above) defined deep reading as the moment when, “That which is the end of [the author's] wisdom appears to us as the beginning of ours.” (1906) Book editor Peter Dimock took it one...
View ArticleConsciousness Raising
Then and now This post is dedicated to #RememberThe14,#December6, #MontrealMassacre, #ABetterMan, @EngineersCanada Twitter eggshell image via @CompDealerNews The post Consciousness Raising appeared...
View ArticleSaying no is hard
For writers, social media is like a hole in a tire. It’s a drain on your energy, productivity and ability to sustain a thought. Sometimes the leak is slow and silent (like the daily Facebook checkin)....
View ArticleNews really is getting mobile
News organizations that have been focused on their online real estate — i.e. stuff they own, like their websites — need to start thinking more like train-hopping vagabonds. This means going homeless...
View ArticlePlanet freelance
I stick up for freelancers. They inspire me. They’re my tribe. I don’t know if what I say disturbs the order. When there are still more men making $100 million a month on Wall Street flipping real...
View ArticleSaying no is hard
For writers, social media is like a hole in a tire. It’s a drain on your energy, productivity and ability to sustain a thought. Sometimes the leak is slow and silent (like the daily Facebook checkin)....
View ArticleYour reading brain ~ part deux
Marcel Proust (above) defined deep reading as the moment when, “That which is the end of [the author's] wisdom appears to us as the beginning of ours.” (1906) Book editor Peter Dimock took it one...
View ArticleConsciousness Raising
Then and now This post is dedicated to #RememberThe14,#December6, #MontrealMassacre, #ABetterMan, @EngineersCanada Twitter eggshell image via @CompDealerNews The post Consciousness Raising appeared...
View ArticleCanCon in the digital age
Task Canadians with making a documentary and the world tunes in. Task us with creating a primetime TV show and the majority tune out. Threaten to take away our favourite American TV shows and it’s...
View ArticleTonight’s reading
My good pal, Jonathan Menon, sent me this: The New York Times Innovation Report, 2014. It outlines how the paper might reorganize itself into a truly “digital-first” organization. The report is 100...
View ArticleUpcoming Workshop: 2 weeks today!
My next Digital Strategy Workshop is exactly two weeks today: Wednesday, June 18, from 1-4 pm. If you are an independent business owner, like me, I think you’ll find the tips and discussions very...
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