You might have noticed a bit of a gap in the posts in the past few weeks as I took a break from writing to concentrate on some other urgent projects. Now back, let’s dig into something I heard about a few days ago. Since I don’t shop at the store, I was not aware that the retailer Abercrombie &
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Ford is out because he voted on a motion to keep donations in (his own promoted charity using the Mayor seat) back in 2010. Irony: he actually did not have to vote on the motion as the council voted on the monies raised as an error of judgement rather than abuse of office. It was the vote on that motion
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Huffington Post Canada blogger Jim Harris has written an excellent piece on the reason for the demise of print based revenue which is evident in data supplied by the Newspaper Association of America. There are three important points that stood out to me. …newspapers on the print side have begun to optimize for Google rankings, but the business side
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Google Crisis Response is a project by Google which has partnered with government agencies, NGOs and commercial organizations that publish authoritative emergency information during disasters or emergency situations for supporting first responders. Google’s contributions can include: updated satellite imagery of the disaster area, charitable donations to organizations on-the-ground, outreach through Google web properties, and engineering tools, such as Google Person
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Tek Syndicate covers some of the myths about what Apple actually invented. Apple has been creating chaos in the courts lately, but did they actually ever invent anything? This video explains that Apple is a recipe company, not an invention company. This does not mean that they do not innovate, it simply means that they are responsible for less
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From the Halifax Metro: Last month, a healthy portion of us went all googly-eyed over PBS Digital Studios’ rolling Mr. Rogers into a soothing club jam. Of course, that was just a healthy portion. Meanwhile, the rest of us stood arms folded, disgruntled and quietly protesting the studio’s choice for their inaugural clip of autotuned inspiration. Not that there’s anything
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One challenge that comes up is writing good copy for an ad on Google while trying to keep in mind the limitations of the copy. This tool should help you create the ad copy you want without thinking (too much) about the constraints and adjusting AFTER you build it.
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