Tomorrow to Hamilton
The Hammer. For the Canadian Association of Labour Media conference. Featuring hours and hours of cutting edge workshops on communications new and old for union communicators. Including yours truly talking…
the-internet
Virtual private server, shared hosting or dedicated what sort of web hosting do I need?
Really the question is how much are you paying now and how much can you afford to pay? Though generally speaking, for the most part, shared hosting is fine. If…
Dropping the landline redux
So we now have no landline. There’s a whole mess of places where I have to replace that phone number but never mind. It’ll happen in good time.
So we still have a land line
Apparently to turn your phone line into a dry loop, a technician has to actually come to your house. And do what I don’t know. It would have been great…
Has the world gotten wierder
…or is it just that the internet shows you all the wierd stuff?
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…
Numbers or it didn’t happen: Mark Blevis on #TellVicEverything
Mark Blevis, mister podcast now digital public affairs specialist has some numbers on yesterday’s Twitterstorm/party around C-30, the Tories proposed legislation on “Lawful Access” to internet use data normally considered…
So the world may be headed to heck in a handbasket
But I had so much fun with #TellVicEverything that I’m okay with it for now. Tomorrow, I’ll be right back at it working to lessen the stupid and increase the…
NCC fundraising letter exposes Stephen Harper’s hypocrisy
Way back in 2001, Elections Canada charged a certain Paul Bryan for violating section 329 of the Canada Elections Act. Stephen Harper, then President of the National Citizens Coalition, a…
The census is invasive, but warrant-less monitoring of internet use is not?
Is it me or do the Tories seem like they’re trying to suck and blow at the same time? Perhaps not, because of course the mandatory census is done as…
So I’m doing this content inventory at work
I hit 400 pages today. I’m maybe 25 per cent of the way there. If I had my druthers I think about 380 of them would be kept near-line if…
So my friend Teresa Healy aka @FinnegansMum has a blog
Teresa is definitely one of the people who should be publishing a blog. And now, she has one. Courtesy of yours truly. Congratulations Teresa on your first couple of posts.…
What does it mean to ‘scan’ web content?
Trying to use numbers to settle an argument today at work I found this (somewhat old) Jakob Nielsen column about how much reading most people actually do on the internet.…
Urgent action required: remember you are not your audience
I send and receive a fair number of appeals for online actions. And I see phrases like “Act now” or “Urgent! Your help needed” a lot and I admit if…
Content inventory: what if it all just “went away”?
The flagship site at work – the one I’m mainly responsible for – needs a complete overhaul. Near as I can tell, it’s more than 3500 static pages composed mostly…
Numbers or it didn’t happen: measuring the impact of a social media campaign
In my little corner of the social media participant universe we’re just digging into this issue as we pursue my employer’s first ever social media campaign. I can’t speak for…
Facebook cuts off blog feeds: making me feel sad
I must say for the near constant dribble of bad news about privacy, its galloping commercialism and all that I’ve always liked Facebook. It’s allowed me to reassemble and in…
Social media: lessons from Chapstick
I am late to the party on this one, but I thought I'd flag it. The Globe writing on Facebook. Not usually where I go for info on social media…
Launch day plus two: never let a good deed go unpunished
Two of the seven re-designed regional websites my employer operates have recently gone public. I admit I was pretty excited when it happened. It looked like I could sort of…