by Rob Cottingham | Nov 30, 2009 | Cartoons, Noise to Signal, Online Community
A while back, a friend of mine wondered about LinkedIn’s somewhat limited options for indicating how you know someone. (“I vomited on their shoes at the office party” isn’t on the list, for example.) We had a back-and-forth on her blog, and I... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 26, 2009 | Cartoons, Conferences and workshops, Noise to Signal, Online Community, Technology
Probably no need to mention that this cartoon was inspired by the Web 2.0 Expo debacle involving danah boyd, a Twitter backchannel projected onto a giant screen behind her, a speech that faced an uphill battle from the get-go, and a few audience members with some... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 24, 2009 | Cartoons, Noise to Signal
Is there anything more fun than drawing a rampaging robot intent on destroying civilization? (Answer: being a rampaging robot intent on destroying civilization.) Update: Alex reminds me that the idea for this one came from her recap of Jer Thorpe’s amazing... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 23, 2009 | Everything Else
MPs from all parties professed to support the idea, including then transport minister Lawrence Cannon.But behind the scenes, his office was pleading with the airlines to launch a lobby campaign to defeat the motion, according to documents obtained by Canwest News... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 23, 2009 | Cartoons, Noise to Signal
This came to me while reading Dave Eave’s post about the challenges of turning the promise of crowd-sourced quality control in open-source development – the idea that “many eyes make all bugs shallow”. (It turns out the challenges are...
