by Rob Cottingham | May 30, 2007 | Media Mix
Our friends at The Tyee have launched a subscription drive… and they’re using this viral video to support it: by Rob Cottingham | Mar 19, 2007 | Technology
Adobe Labs has released an alpha version of its upcoming development environment, Apollo. (It replaces a higher-performance technology, Starbuck, which ran into stability problems. And that’ll be it for the cheap Battlestar Galactica references… at least... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 18, 2006 | Technology, Vancouver
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:... by Rob Cottingham | Jun 14, 2006 | Blogging, Politics, Technology
If you have a blog, you’ve had to deal with everything from comment spammers to juvenile flame warriors. Well, brace yourself: your blog may soon pick up a new breed of online pest. According to the folks at Blanton’s and Ashton’s, paid commenters... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 9, 2006 | Blogging, Media Mix, Technology
Yes, according to the New York Times: [N]ews organizations large and small have begun experimenting with tweaking their Web sites for better search engine results. But software bots are not your ordinary readers: They are blazingly fast yet numbingly literal-minded....