January 2009
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Maramushi Newsmap
Serious case of <3 going on here. Srsly. [caption id=”attachment_579” align=”aligncenter” width=”432” caption=”What’s going on in the world today?”][/caption] Maramushi’s Newsmap takes news feeds from Google News and creates a visualisation based on the popularity of stories. It updates on the fly as news breaks with the tiles linking...
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Do you see what I see?
[caption id=”attachment_573” align=”alignright” width=”259” caption=”Like I said…perspective…”][/caption] As I walked through snow to Union Station yesterday, counting the number of beaches I used to live near that I’m not currently spending time on, it occurred to me that marketing is so often just a matter of perspective. We say and do...
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Postcards from the edge
I think this is what they call coming up for air. So it’s a little less than -10 outside, though the sky is blue and I am warm as I sit banging away on the keyboard from Cafe Latte, a cute little coffee shop run by an old Italian couple who emigrated a long time ago to teach sociology (him) and engineering (her) at a university in Edmonton. Funny how things work out. In the rush to get off...