by Rob Cottingham | Aug 10, 2005 | Politics
CBC News: Speed up plan to cut wait times, doctors urge Sort of a chicken-and-the-egg problem, if you think about it… by Rob Cottingham | Aug 10, 2005 | Communicating, Technology
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what can you say about a picture the size of a single word? Infoguru Edward Tufte has coined the word “sparklines” to describe wee word-sized graphics that pack a lot of data in a tiny package. Conventional wisdom... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 10, 2005 | Politics, Technology
In a week where gas doesn’t look likely to drop below a buck a litre, John at Dymaxion World mourns a botched opportunity to move California (and then North America) to electric cars. General Motors merits special derision for crushing every one of its popular... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 9, 2005 | Communicating, How to..., Technology
At long last, Google News has enabled RSS feeds on news searches. Now, suddenly, Google’s e-mailed news alerts are just so five queries ago. You want to keep on top of news coverage of a particular subject? Say, the name of your organization, or its... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 8, 2005 | Communicating, Politics, Technology
Short of actually causing a loss of human life, a major oil spill or the bulldozing of an orphanage, companies don’t often have a worse stretch of PR than Telus has weathered over the past few weeks. Just as the dust was settling from the site-blocking fiasco, a...
