by Rob Cottingham | Aug 4, 2006 | Media Mix
Spare a moment of sympathy for the overworked web staff at Canada.com, and this resulting subheading: by Rob Cottingham | Aug 3, 2006 | Politics, Vancouver
Cross-posted to ChangeEverything.ca I’ve had the chance to write about a lot of public policy initiatives. But few have given me more satisfaction than Vancouver’s four pillars strategy, especially the safe injection site. On one level, it’s the... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 2, 2006 | Lexicon for the New Millennium, Technology
servish, n, SUHRV-ish: Policies or practices designed to have the appearance of customer service, while in fact making onerous demands on a customer. Purely hypothetical example — “Turned out when I bought my Canon A70 from London Drugs, all I was getting... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 2, 2006 | Online Community, Politics, Technology
These past few weeks have been awkward ones for the company that hosts my blog, DreamHost. Lengthy outages have plagued its users, and just as one problem was solved, another one popped up. You can read the whole sordid tale here, wherein DreamHost – to their... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 1, 2006 | Technology
This just landed in my inbox: Consultancy on operations management (4 months) This role will be part of the Internet & Ecommunications Programme at the International Secretariat (London) with an immediate start date. Responsibilities: overview of current work...