by Rob Cottingham | Jun 24, 2008 | Blogging, Communicating, Everything Else, Online Community
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I’m going to save the screen capture I took of the Democratic Party’s home page a few minutes ago. And the next time I read some columnist pontificating about how the outcome of an election is a foregone conclusion…or hear a talking head pronouncing... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 20, 2008 | Politics, Technology
The news over the past few weeks – or, more accurately, over and over and over over the past few weeks – has been all about Barack Obama’s digitally-recorded comments about small-town working-class bitterness over economic insecurity. I’m torn.... 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 | Feb 25, 2008 | Culture, Arts and Popcorn
With the victory of “Falling Slowly” in the Best Damn Tune category at last night’s Oscars (you can download the song for free – with nobody from the RIAA raising eyebrows at you – from the official site for the movie Once), I think...