by Rob Cottingham | Jul 20, 2005 | Technology
The latest numbers are in, and – ta da – more people bought Macintosh computers than IBM computers during the second quarter of 2005. For Mac fans like Derek, that’s a bittersweet victory. Whereas IBM was once the avatar of the Mac’s... by Rob Cottingham | Jul 20, 2005 | Media Mix
When St. Paul Pioneer Press associate editor Mark Yost ran a pretty jingoistic column bemoaning the lack of patriotic reporting on the Iraq war, he may have forgotten a pretty key audience: his own papers’ reporters. And apparently, those reporters are a little... by Rob Cottingham | Jul 19, 2005 | Technology
Wondering what the online world is saying about you? You might not want to restrict your search to English-language tools. For instance, Hatena is a Japanese social bookmarking site, and has all the usual Web 2.0 goodies (including RSS-able searches). I found my post... by Rob Cottingham | Jul 19, 2005 | Speechwriting
As Rick Mercer points out, one of the top speechwriting gigs in the country is up for grabs: The writing fraternity in Canada is abuzz with talk that the Prime Minister’s speechwriter, Scott Feschuck, has decided to vacate his post. This means that for the first... by Rob Cottingham | Jul 19, 2005 | Politics, Technology
Here’s a cool idea: a site called How’d They Vote, dedicated to telling you how your MP has voted, how often she or he speaks in the House… and, most fascinating of all, how nasty they are in debate. HTV has waded 3 per cent of the way through...
