Build It and They Will Come - Marketing in the Digital Age

Can my site rank higher than Facebook and Yahoo? Yes, in the right circumstances, and with a terrifically crafted post on a specific subject.

The Contact Photography Festival just passed and my blog’s Google rank was higher than EYE weekly magazine and both the Facebook page for the fest and a page in Yahoo Business. The [...]

Contact Photography Festival 2010

The annual Contact Photography Festival is taking place through the month of May. Unlike the other famous Toronto festivals, including HotDocs and TIFF, this one is completely free – so there are no excuses – check some stuff out!

This year’s theme is “Pervasive Influence: Exploring the social and political consequences of the medium of photography, [...]

Graphics and Illustrations of 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games

The branding and identity work for the Olympics features some stunning illustration. Kudos to the Vancouver Olympic committee!

Today I fired up Google Chrome and saw the Olympic graphic (or “doodle”) Google created for their homepage. (It’s pictured at the end of this article). The image is subtle and appealing. It doesn’t even use the [...]

iDIY - iCan and uCan too - Getting Stuff Done Yourself

Once upon a time, in the days of university when I was going to school, and playing in a rock band, and booking shows, and doing some fanzines and graphics work, I bumped into a friend of a friend. We exchanged laughs and email addresses. His email address was unforgettable. It was “ican@ucant.com”. I had [...]

Free Anti-Virus Security Software from Microsoft and Google

Recently I was considering renewing my subscription to Kaspersky’s Internet Security Software after getting a freebie year on a promo disc. I had been happy with the protection I got. Prior to that I had used Zonelabs’ Internet Security Suite for a number of years. A friend uses Norton by Symantec but I always suspected [...]

Celebrating 50 Posts! And an Emerging Mastery of Web Design, Multimedia and WordPress

I have been doing this blog quite a while – I just reached the amazing mark of 50 posts! Some blog nearly everyday but I tend to post about twice a month so it’s taken about two years to get to this point. I’ve learned quite a bit along the way and I’d like to [...]

Empire of the Word – TV Ontario Program on History of Reading

An interesting series is starting tonight on TVO. Here’s a description from their website:

“The written word: in prehistoric times, it took the form of drawings in caves. Today it speeds past on the screens of our electronic devices at the touch of a finger. How did the simple act of reading come to be? How [...]

The Internet is Forever - Wayback Machine Retrieves Borat Site

It’s no secret that the Internet is a vast repository of virtually any and all kinds of information. Recent stories about Facebook retaining our info after we delete our accounts makes me hopeful that Canadian and American authorities will reign in the behemoth. What you currently post in cyber space may well continue to cycle [...]