I really like the story of the new iPhone, not because I like iPhones (though I do) but because it's a great study in journalistic ethics. I am not a tech writer or a pundit, and I don't want to be...

Listening - The Age Of Persuasion is a CBC radio show about advertising. It's a 27 minute lecture on advertising history and theory delivered by Terry O'Reilly to your computer every week (if you search...

A colleague and I have been discussing capitalization and grammar rules for technologies. There's no animosity over it, but here are the main disagreements. The thing Gabe Bullard is on, Internet or...

I've heard a reports of supervisors who are worried that employee Twittering is destroying productivity. Maybe my nose is too firmly pressed against the proverbial grindstone to understand how it could...

If you have the misfortune of following me on Twitter, you were no doubt assailed with tweets containing lyrics to popular songs mangled into odes to the 16th President and marked with the tag #lincolnlyrics...

Judging by my stats, you're looking at this post in Google Reader. I'm a big fan of the web app, too. I use it to keep track of about 200 feeds, from daily news to webcomics to friends' rarely-updated...

1. Gadget - The FM3 Buddha Machine. Matt Hurst introduced me to this $10 wonder in college. I found one on eBay and used it until the batteries died in June 2007. I just replaced them and I'm once again...