by Rob Cottingham | Aug 3, 2005 | Communicating, Technology
The Mozilla Foundation, the people behind the wildly successful open-source browser Firefox, is spinning off a for-profit corporation. The first sign? They’re using a particular phrase in no less than five of their FAQs: “going forward”. As in,... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 3, 2005 | Communicating
The latest issue of eCatalyst kindly recommends SpeechList as an important part of this balanced communications breakfast, and I’m happy to return the compliment. eCatalyst, a free e-mail newsletter, brings you fabulously useful information about PR and... by Rob Cottingham | Jul 27, 2005 | Communicating, Politics
BBC News: New name for ‘war on terror’ Confidential focus group report To: Karl Rove Re.: Rebranding exercise Note to Karl: This thing actually is confidential, okay? It’s not like the identity of a CIA operative; this is serious business here. Focus... by Rob Cottingham | Jul 25, 2005 | Blogging, Communicating, Politics, Technology
While Telus cries foul over cable-cutting in its labour dispute, the company has been snipping a few virtual wires of its own. …Specifically, the connections leading to at least two web sites critical of the company. If you want to check out their perspective,... by Rob Cottingham | Jul 19, 2005 | Speechwriting
As Rick Mercer points out, one of the top speechwriting gigs in the country is up for grabs: The writing fraternity in Canada is abuzz with talk that the Prime Minister’s speechwriter, Scott Feschuck, has decided to vacate his post. This means that for the first... by Rob Cottingham | Jul 15, 2005 | Speechwriting
The Vancouver Courier has a big front-page article by Brandon Yip on speechwriting, interviewing folks like Tim Porteous (who wrote for Pierre Trudeau during those heady early years at the end of the 1960s), Libby Davies, Bill Vander Zalm, Hedy Fry, and recovering...