by Rob Cottingham | Mar 25, 2008 | Media Mix, Politics, Speechwriting
Back in the 1993 federal election, then-Prime Minister Kim Campbell was quoted as saying that elections are no time to discuss serious issues. (If memory serves, her comment was actually much more nuanced, but was dumbed down to that pithy, sensational and damaging... by Rob Cottingham | Mar 23, 2008 | Blogging
Our friend John Young has dipped his toe in the blogging waters, and then leaped in Mark-Tewksbury-like with a strong stroke, mighty kick, and… eh, I don’t have enough swimming metaphors to draw on. He’s a very good writer – how’s that?... by Rob Cottingham | Mar 20, 2008 | Conferences and workshops, Vancouver
If you’ve sat through far more than your share of bum-numbing presentations, your mind addled by a droning speaker reading from an endless procession of text-heavy PowerPoint slides leavened only by baffling charts and meaningless graphs… …then... by Rob Cottingham | Mar 16, 2008 | Technology
Behold, the death throes of a MacBook Pro’s lengthy uptime. From last Wednesday: And that’s when I decided it just wasn’t coming back, and held down the power key for a few seconds. by Rob Cottingham | Mar 15, 2008 | Conferences and workshops, Social Media, Technology, Vancouver
I’m hunkering down for a massive April Fools Day. OK, make that a Massive April Fools Day. April 1st will bring the Massive Technology Conference to Vancouver: a day where business types and high-tech folks will mingle and swap tips (“Oh… so it has...
