I’m not normally one for one-offs, but the video is too beautiful to pass up: 24 hours of global air travel compressed into 72 seconds:
Filed under: Uncategorized , airplanes, flying, YouTube
December 13, 2008 • 1:50 pm 1
Quoth the maven
I mark-up books a lot. The books I’ve most enjoyed over the years have inspired me to print in their margins recording a reaction, a response, or even just the date. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Uncategorized , peep this, poe, quotes
December 12, 2008 • 3:30 pm Comments Off
Lynx or Links: Private Eye for the Interweb Guy
Is there anything you can’t find on the webbernet these days? After today, I would venture to say no – although it depends just how long and hard you’re willing to look.
As more and more things and stuff get put on the interweb, search engines are rejigging their algorithms to surface relevant results. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Uncategorized , down a rat hole, lost and found, obscure
December 11, 2008 • 11:15 am 3
Out with the auld
As we bear witness to the steady decline of print media — precipitated by the shift in advertising dollars to new media such as the web (and, defiantly, television), and the fact that print was declared dead by Egon the Ghostbuster back in 1984 — we also get to see the unusual though expected lashing out of the old guard against the new. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Uncategorized , blogging, EGON, idiots, new media, oilers
December 8, 2008 • 6:28 pm Comments Off
It’s called the internet, ever heard of it?
This morning I attended a free seminar put on by a gracious corporation launching a new product. I enjoyed a rather nice cup of tea, some delicious fruits, a rather dry mini croissant and a few good chuckles.
The seminar was intended to teach marketers how to pitch bloggers with stories and ideas. I couldn’t believe some of the questions being asked. Besides being a rather annoying hour, it served to remind me that some people really don’t use the interweb as much as I assume.
Audience Question: What are the top 3 ways to meet the “online audience”?
Me (in my head): what the eff do they mean by the online audience?
Speakers dumbfounded response: 1) Internet 2) Internet and 3) Internet.
They later went on to include blogs, twitter and facebook.
Filed under: Uncategorized , are you 4 real, webbernetting
December 4, 2008 • 12:01 pm 2
‘Were you saying boo, or boo-urns?’
I’m not really sure what to make of Canada’s political crisis. It seems like much ado about nothing. Well, that’s rather glib. It’s much ado about a lot, but mostly it’s a statement in my mind about how over-the-top ridiculous politics have become in this country, how divisive they are when minority government situations crop up as they have the last eight years or whatever. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Uncategorized , canada, douchebags, Liberals, moustache, politics, statesmen
