Publications
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Should you buy an iPad?
Last weekend we made the great pilgrimage across the border so that we could get iPads on the day of their release. The iPad won't be available in Canada until the end of the month, and it seemed unfathomable to wait 20 days for a product that actually describes...
Even in a virtual world, where you live still matters
One of the fantasies that comes from living online is that it doesn't matter where you are based if you're hooked into the net. But in the process of disentangling my online address book -- arguably essential to living life online -- I came across a great interview...
Making time for creative expression online
Pur time online doesn’t have to pull us away from what really matters. The pursuit of creative self-expression is one that the web makes vastly more accessible.
On Oprah.com: 6 ways to be a better parent online
If it takes a village to raise a child, that village no longer needs to be defined by the place you happen to live. This post for Oprah.com shows how to find online support to help you be a better parent online and offline.
Getting to know you in the age of Google
I ask digital anthropologist Brynn Evans to weigh in on the etiquette of googling new acquaintances — before or during a meeting.
The Tantalizing Promise of Social Search
Of all the sessions I missed at this year’s SXSW, the one that I regretted the most was the Social…
How to password-protect yourself from iPhone addiction
iPhone contact has become reflexive. The five minutes before a meeting, the two-minute walk to the coffee shop, the 10 seconds between parking the car and walking in the front door: they’re all moments when I automatically reach for the iPhone.
If my iPhone were a cigarette, I’d be a chain smoker. If my iPhone were a bottle of scotch, I’d be a hard-core alcoholic. If it were a rosary I’d be a religious zealot.
There’s nothing I could touch as frequently as I touch my iPhone without looking like a total freak.
What makes me think that the constant, obsessive iPhone contact is any less freaky? Or more to the point, any less addictive?
On Oprah.com: Great dates that take your marriage online
This post for Oprah.com shows how the social media can take your marriage online — with a great date offline.
Kill your tech truths
We’re taught to think of technologies as constants…and so we fall into thinking of tech in absolutes, and getting attached to truths that hold us back more than they help us. Here are 10 tech truths you would do well to question.
Confidential to Beer Guy
You know who you are. In the card-swapping frenzy that is SXSW, I'm not surprised to have a conversation interrupted so that somebody can give me his card, and ask for mine. It was only later that it seemed like a really, really bad idea for you to give me yours. I...
The Harvard Business Review
Should you buy an iPad?
Last weekend we made the great pilgrimage across the border so that we could get iPads on the day of their release. The iPad won't be available in Canada until the end of the month, and it seemed unfathomable to wait 20 days for a product that actually describes...
Even in a virtual world, where you live still matters
One of the fantasies that comes from living online is that it doesn't matter where you are based if you're hooked into the net. But in the process of disentangling my online address book -- arguably essential to living life online -- I came across a great interview...
Making time for creative expression online
Pur time online doesn’t have to pull us away from what really matters. The pursuit of creative self-expression is one that the web makes vastly more accessible.
On Oprah.com: 6 ways to be a better parent online
If it takes a village to raise a child, that village no longer needs to be defined by the place you happen to live. This post for Oprah.com shows how to find online support to help you be a better parent online and offline.
Getting to know you in the age of Google
I ask digital anthropologist Brynn Evans to weigh in on the etiquette of googling new acquaintances — before or during a meeting.
The Tantalizing Promise of Social Search
Of all the sessions I missed at this year’s SXSW, the one that I regretted the most was the Social…
How to password-protect yourself from iPhone addiction
iPhone contact has become reflexive. The five minutes before a meeting, the two-minute walk to the coffee shop, the 10 seconds between parking the car and walking in the front door: they’re all moments when I automatically reach for the iPhone.
If my iPhone were a cigarette, I’d be a chain smoker. If my iPhone were a bottle of scotch, I’d be a hard-core alcoholic. If it were a rosary I’d be a religious zealot.
There’s nothing I could touch as frequently as I touch my iPhone without looking like a total freak.
What makes me think that the constant, obsessive iPhone contact is any less freaky? Or more to the point, any less addictive?
On Oprah.com: Great dates that take your marriage online
This post for Oprah.com shows how the social media can take your marriage online — with a great date offline.
Kill your tech truths
We’re taught to think of technologies as constants…and so we fall into thinking of tech in absolutes, and getting attached to truths that hold us back more than they help us. Here are 10 tech truths you would do well to question.
Confidential to Beer Guy
You know who you are. In the card-swapping frenzy that is SXSW, I'm not surprised to have a conversation interrupted so that somebody can give me his card, and ask for mine. It was only later that it seemed like a really, really bad idea for you to give me yours. I...
OneZero
Using RockMelt with HootSuite and Feed.ly
Is RockMelt the right web browser for social media enthusiasts?
12 inspired dry erase products and tips for whiteboard lovers
For those moments when MindJet, MindMeister, Popplet and other electronic options are just too constraining, the stationery overlords invented dry erase...everything. In the process of writing about how to create a whiteboard for your laptop, I found these crazy...
Erase this computer: a whiteboard for your laptop
This week I was in a meeting with Myron Campbell, an MAA student at Emily Carr. Myron runs Draw by Night, a drawing party that happens every other month in Vancouver (and now, Calgary). Myron had an awesome DBN sticker on his laptop that looked like a dry erase board...
Using HootSuite as your Twitter dashboard
At HBR: Using Twitter to fight distraction
Five Ways Twitter Can Help You Conquer Distraction
If you were going to design the perfect distraction, you’d probably make it irresistibly urgent, gossipy, and/or funny. You’d design…
How Twitter lists can keep you connected to the relationships that matter most
JSTOR DAILY
Using RockMelt with HootSuite and Feed.ly
Is RockMelt the right web browser for social media enthusiasts?
12 inspired dry erase products and tips for whiteboard lovers
For those moments when MindJet, MindMeister, Popplet and other electronic options are just too constraining, the stationery overlords invented dry erase...everything. In the process of writing about how to create a whiteboard for your laptop, I found these crazy...
Erase this computer: a whiteboard for your laptop
This week I was in a meeting with Myron Campbell, an MAA student at Emily Carr. Myron runs Draw by Night, a drawing party that happens every other month in Vancouver (and now, Calgary). Myron had an awesome DBN sticker on his laptop that looked like a dry erase board...
Using HootSuite as your Twitter dashboard
At HBR: Using Twitter to fight distraction
Five Ways Twitter Can Help You Conquer Distraction
If you were going to design the perfect distraction, you’d probably make it irresistibly urgent, gossipy, and/or funny. You’d design…
How Twitter lists can keep you connected to the relationships that matter most
THE VERGE
For the National Geographic Assignment Blog: The Great Online Migration
In any migration, there are those who go ahead to settle the wilds, and those who linger to ensure that nothing gets left behind. While each of us now makes a different choice about how much of our lives to live online, those differences should not be turned into an...
Web Fuelled Business masters the physical logistics of going virtual
The entrepreneurs who participated in the Web Fuelled Business program this week are pushing past the limits of physical location. They are bricks-and-mortar shops that are using the web to attract local customers who would never find them on the street; they are...
Should my blog be on my web site or a separate site?
Tailor your voice to each place you use social media
"I make leather armour." That's a sentence I never expected to hear in this lifetime. In fact, until about 4:30 yesterday afternoon, I didn't know what leather armour was. I din't know that leather armour existed. Leather armor, it turns out, is what you wear if you...