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TMI

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...

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Flipboard

Tag 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....

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Artchivist

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...

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Stupid 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...

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CanCon 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...

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Tonight’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...

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Upcoming 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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Think 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...

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Warp 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...

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Your 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...

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Consciousness Raising

Then and now This post is dedicated to #RememberThe14,#December6, #MontrealMassacre, #ABetterMan, @EngineersCanada Twitter eggshell image via @CompDealerNews The post Consciousness Raising appeared...

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Saying 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)....

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News 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...

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Planet 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...

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Saying 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)....

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Your 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...

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Consciousness Raising

Then and now This post is dedicated to #RememberThe14,#December6, #MontrealMassacre, #ABetterMan, @EngineersCanada Twitter eggshell image via @CompDealerNews The post Consciousness Raising appeared...

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CanCon 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...

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Tonight’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...

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Upcoming 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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