See if you recognize yourself here: Instead of locking antlers with the other young bucks or preparing for the fall migration, you were off trying to operate a Flip video camera with your hooves, type on a netbook without stomping it to pieces, and hold down a decent WiFi signal in the middle of the...

Video genius Bruce Sharpe has just posted the video of my keynote from Feb. 21 at the Northern Voice blogging conference in Vancouver. It's my look at what makes the world of social media so damn funny. You'll laugh, you'll cry... and maybe you'll comment and let me know what you think. <!--break...

A few months ago, I left a conference thinking how great it would be if I could have checked up on the speakers beforehand: not just their bios, but their reputations for delivering engaging, useful and, yes, entertaining talks. From that spun out the idea for a site where anyone could rate speakers...

It's hard to say which is the more interesting finding in the latest Pew report on what Americans are up to online: the fact that one in 10 online Americans say they use Twitter, Yammer or a similar status-update application... or the fact that adoption declines so sharply with age: Twitter and simi...

So far in this 10-part series, we've seen how blogs can give your organization a human voice, and provide valuable feedback from your customers. Now we're going to look at how they can open up a new communications channel to the world: one where you can tell stories that might not make front page ne...

This is all because of Dave Eaves. So blame him. 1. I don’t do memes. I’m not quite sure why, but there’s something about them that rankles me. (Turns out I have an inner curmudgeon.) But the urge to self-disclose has always been irresistible to me. So, dammit, here I go. 2. The ur...

I recently had an email exchange with a few colleagues, sparked by a news columnist's disdain for how two local public figures are using Twitter. And Darren Barefoot, after offering some solid advice, weighed in with this: I get frustrated by all of the prescriptive behaviour around new technology. ...

VirtualBox A free virtualization product from Sun, with an open-source edition plus a proprietary version that has a few more bells and whistles (like USB support). The proprietary version is free for personal use and evaluation. (tags: software osx mac windows opensource linux sun opensolaris virtu...

For years, a big thing in computers and digital devices has been to look cool and enticing. Apple is the acknowledged leader of that pack, but nearly everyone has climbed aboard. That’s been a big improvement over the era of beige-box computers. (You’re old enough to remember those? Pull...

From the iTunes store’s page for the movie Fun With Dick and Jane: What’s lovely about this is the word “Dick” appears in big, bold red letters in the movie poster. That, and the fact that my brain immediately tries to fill in the asterixes: “Dork..? Dink..?” (I&#...