Catch me on CFAX 1070 on Saturday at 8 p.m.
I’ll be on Sean Holman’s Public Eye with the brilliant Kate Trgovac, discussing Petro-Canada’s YouTube gambit. We’re on at 8 p.m., right after the news. 1070 on your AM dial in sunny Victoria, or listen live online.Photoshop, it’s not about you. It’s about me.
Believe me, Photoshop, you’re amazing. The things you can do with the Curves control, with channels, with compositing, with custom filters… you still take my breath away. But lately we’ve been getting on each other’s nerves. Come on, admit it:...PetroCan targets the bloggers
As Kate Trgovac has noted, her old employers at Petro-Canada have launched Pump Talk, an effort to spin Canadians on soaring gasoline prices that makes heavy use of YouTube. (It also makes heavy use of some pretty deft rhetorical footwork. On their FAQ page, PetroCan...Servish
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...Could the next victim of climate change be the Internet?
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...
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