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Archive for May 2008

The Fishstick: How to Dance by Barely Moving

I have recently become a fan of Merlin Mann’s web show You Look Nice Today.
The guys on the show have invented a new dance. Adam Lisgar demonstrates below.

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Hating on Globe & Mail Unlocked

When I went over to the Globe and Mail today, I was greeted by a pop up announcing the paper had unlocked a bunch of its content. The ad itself was a slow-marquee-type-ad that reveals its message only if you sit there and watch it — the kind of ad they tell you to avoid [...]

Stunt by Claudia Dey

When I was out and about last week, a friend produced Claudia Dey’s Stunt from her handbag. She raved about it. I stared back blankly. Never heard of it. Then a profile of Dey appeared in the paper today. I am intrigued.

New Bond: Which is The Better Cover?

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From today’s Globe & Mail…Faulks wrote Devil May Care in just six weeks.
“That was the biggest danger,” he says, “that this would become just a pastiche of a character and a genre that’s already close to self-parody. I had to be very careful to make it Ian Fleming, and yet pull up in some way [...]

Digesting MESH08 — The Website is The New Album

I attended the Mesh Conference (#MESH08) last week. As expected, it left me with a lot to think about. I am a little late to the game with this recap, but here are my thoughts.
I have come to expect a cold open at the MESH conference. The conference is all about conversation. I have learned [...]

Micheal Crichton’s Mediasaurus Article 1993

In the Fall of 1995, I passed along Micheal Crichton’s Mediasaurus Wired magazine story about the rotten state of the trade to the head of the journalism department at UKC. I thought the piece was thought provoking. I thought he would enjoy it. I thought that was fine.
How naive was I? Yes I am from [...]

Harlequin’s Malle Vallik On Spark

I have a Tina-Fey-level crush on Nora Young –in a respectful way of course. I was disappointed to miss her at the MESH conference last week, but was delighted to hear her on the radio talking publishing 2.0 with Malle Vallik. For the record Vallik was Nora’s guest. I don’t listen to the radio [...]

Ira Glass on Working Through the Taste/Creativity Gap

Alias Gonzo

What can I possible say about a play whose run ends in three days? After reading the reviews from a reportedly rocky opening night, I am tempted to try and defend it. Not much point in that, really. The highschool kids I saw it with yesterday all got it, so I think the critical reception [...]

Kiosks: The Digital Tide is Coming In

I loved one reaction I heard on The 404 in connection to the just announced download kiosks at Blockbuster stores– “Hey kids, get in the car. We are driving to the internet.”
HMV seemingly also has a sneakernet concept store on the way.
This all makes me think of when I worked at Indigo and we pulled [...]

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