by Rob Cottingham | Jan 10, 2014 | Social Media
(Inspired by this, via Alexandra Samuel.) by Rob Cottingham | Mar 7, 2013 | Everything Else
I’m always ambivalent about using legislation to change behaviour. You have to be smart about it; blanket bans can wind up backfiring. (Memo to self: confirm there’s no legislation banning blankets.)
But my immediate reaction to the proposal in Ontario to ban marketing junk food to kids is pretty unambiguous: go for it.
by Rob Cottingham | Aug 11, 2011 | Online Community, Social Signal
Five years ago this summer, in a boardroom at Vancity, William Azaroff was unveiling a new online community to an audience of Vancouver-area bloggers — a community we had worked with Vancity to conceive, build and launch. Also in attendance (maybe ex…
by Rob Cottingham | Dec 21, 2009 | Cartoons, Noise to Signal
‘Tis the season and all that, and this time of year I find myself thinking a lot about my parents. This is exactly the sort of thing they’d have said (if my childhood had been, oh, 20 or 30 years later), and it would have driven me CRA-ZEE. Funny thing:... by Rob Cottingham | Jul 16, 2006 | Everything Else
There is no politician more cynical, no con artist more charming, no lobbyist more ingratiating, no general more calculating, no criminal more devious, no advertiser more manipulative… …than a three-year-old trying to avoid...