Friday miscellany…
Wanna know what climate change “looks like”? Well, here you go: Extreme weather events are textbook examples of an effect that an overall warming of the planet will have. But…
Those Facebook Games
Facebook games are getting more, and more easy all of the time. Just see how long it takes you to solve one of the typical Find-A-Word game images that goes…
New Documentary "Rational Middle": Oil and Gas Advertising in Disguise
Rational Middle Logo.jpeg The "Rational Middle Energy Series," directed and produced by Gregory Kallenberg, is hot off the film rolls and has already been screened at an influential venue: the…
Ethics committee talks social media without Del Mastro
I had a few committee meetings to choose from while I was in Ottawa last week, and attending the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics meeting on…
FreedomWorks Creates Error-Filled Site To Accuse EPA Of "Killing Jobs"
EPA Kills Jobs Facebook Ad.jpg FreedomWorks, the sister organization to the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity (AFP), has launched a new website and advertising campaign to convince American voters that the…
Facebook has serious problems
Facebook dilemma. An Exile from the Kingdom of Me -Thomas Beller Whenever I try to sign into my Facebook account it asks me for my phone number and then a…
Breastfeeding Makes Sane People Crazy
Why does any discussion of breastfeeding makes people a little insane? I don’t exclude myself: even I get a little agitated. Here are some examples of what I mean: Exhibit…
Daily Social Well-Being Challenges
MeYou Health is an online community that is trying to get people to make small changes everyday that add up to big change. They have a suite of apps for…
U.S. Chamber Front Group Holds “Whine And Blame” Facebook Party – Nobody Shows Up
American_Free_Enterprise_logo1.jpg American Free Enterprise, a front group of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, held a complaint session on Facebook on Tuesday afternoon to let Americans vent about “who is to…
Using FB and Twitter…
…seems to be becoming popular as direct lines to an omnipotent, omnipresent being. And I’m getting quite bored with it all. Specifically, I’ve had quite enough of Facebook updates, Twitter…
WeTopia: A Facebook Game that Funds Good Projects
We’ve looked at Facebook games that promote goodness before, and now we can WeTopia to that list. Instead of taking all those in-game purchases as profit WeTopia gives to charities…
Facebook is NOT The Internet – The Internet IS The (Social) Network
In the beginning there were BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems). In a foreshadowing of things to come, almost immediately following the invention of the Personal Computer (PC) they became communications devices…
Conservatives Bill C-30: Upset Canadians #TellVicEverything
This week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Public Safety Minister, Vic Toews, attacked the Internet and Canadians through Bill C-30. He insulted Canadians, and threatened their right to online privacy and…
Conservatives Bill C-30: Upset Canadians #TellVicEverything
This week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Public Safety Minister Vic Toews attacked the Internet with Bill C-30. And Canadians’ right to online privacy and a host of individual freedoms. But…
Slack-tivists All
People who click “like” on Facebook to show support for a cause are slacktivists, you on the other hand with your “Support Our Troops” bumper sticker, breast cancer ribbon fleece…
Sustainable Power for Facebook
Greenpeace has worked with Facebook to convert Facebook’s coal-powered datacentres to environmentally friends power sources. In April 2011, a Greenpeace report, How Dirty is your Data?, calculated that 53.2% of…
Molly’sBlog 2011-12-11 02:07:00
PERSONAL MOLLY DEBATES THE INSANE Most of Molly’s “action” is now over at her Facebook site. Over there there is an interesting “debate” if you can call it such. The…
Integrating Corporate Responsibility Into Brand: GM vs Zipcar
There is a powerful opportunity for brand managers to integrate corporate responsibility commitments into brand platforms to win consumer loyalty. General Motors and Zipcar both ran recent campaigns in universities…
The Tyranny and Creativity of a Word Count
On the other hand, a really specific (short) word limit can force one to be more creative and improve the text. I love the Blaise Pascal quote: “Je n’ai fait…