by Rob Cottingham | May 18, 2005 | Media Mix
When I have a chance to recover, I’ll have something to say about the BC election. Meanwhile, on a not-100-per-cent-unrelated note, Larry Gelbart suggests taking a day off from our diet of corporate media: Perhaps the time has come to show our displeasure with... by Rob Cottingham | May 17, 2005 | Speechwriting, Technology
Unless, of course, there’s a hidden market of speech geeks like moi. Jason Kottke offers 50 Fun Things To Do With Your iPod, including this one: American Rhetoric has made available audio versions of many famous political speeches, including MLK’s “I... by Rob Cottingham | May 17, 2005 | Blogging
Say you have a bunch of categories, and you’d like the one that’s checked by default whenever you launch a new post to be something other than your catch-all category. (For example, if you’d like it to be somethat that doesn’t get swamped by... by Rob Cottingham | May 16, 2005 | Technology
The latest from Alex: a fascinating piece for the Toronto Star on tagging, and its growing significance for the way we live and work online: As tagging grows, web experts are recognizing the challenge that its unique combination of information and community poses to... by Rob Cottingham | May 13, 2005 | Politics
One of the questions that keeps me from jumping on the STV bandwagon is the issue of complexity. It seems reasonable to hypothesize that the harder it is to see how your votes affect the outcome, the less likely you are to see your vote as effective… and to cast...