by Rob Cottingham | Apr 13, 2006 | Culture, Arts and Popcorn, Vancouver
Every year, BC celebrates one of our mostly unsung success stories: our surprisingly vibrant writing and publishing community. And soon, the province will be marking BC Book & Magazine Week 2006 with a slew of events from readings to dancing (really) to cabaret... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 11, 2006 | Speechwriting
Funny: in February, I led off a presentation at the Ragan Speechwriter’s Conference with the story of how Bob Rae was booed loudly (and embarrassingly) at the Skydome when he appeared to congratulate the Blue Jays on winning the World Series. Now the same thing... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 10, 2006 | Media Mix, Politics
From CBC News: “Exit polls suggest Berlusconi upset” I suspect he’s gonna be a lot more than just upset… by Rob Cottingham | Apr 9, 2006 | Comedy, Politics, Vancouver
I did my longest set yet on Friday night at the Vancouver-Fairview NDP fundraiser – and got the best response of my short stand-up career. It was a great audience (and man, do they love Gregor), a terrific emcee (Nicholas Simons) and one hell of a great ten minutes.... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 9, 2006 | Blogging, Media Mix, Technology
Yes, according to the New York Times: [N]ews organizations large and small have begun experimenting with tweaking their Web sites for better search engine results. But software bots are not your ordinary readers: They are blazingly fast yet numbingly literal-minded....
