Recent
Some Web Culture Posts.
-
Don't be a free user
Pinboard creator explains why paying for stuff you like is a good thing
-
HoHoTO 2011 tickets on sale
The annual HoHoTO party has collected than four tons of food for hungry Torontonians since 2008
-
There is no Silicon Valley North
A heartfelt rant asking Canada to measure its tech ambitions on a global scale
-
On the Network manifesto
Ten principles to reset expectations about the internet (and an 11th that made me change my style)
-
Canadian digital media economy
Justin Kozuch released his first annual survey of Canada's digital media business
-
2011 Webby winners
Seemingly as irrelevant and about brand plays as ever
-
Twitter's real history
In-depth investigative report on how Twitter was really started
-
News org Webby nominations
The New York Times, NPR, CNN, CBC, and Guardian all nominated in the annual Web awards
-
Enemies of indie Net TV
A sobering list of what makes independent online video a significant business challenge
-
Comscore's digital year in review for Canada
You need to fork over your info to download it, tho
-
Dot-ca award created
CIRA has created the .CA Impact awards to promote websites using Canadian-specific domains
-
Toronto's digital start-up scene
When I left the city, Internet startups barely existed, now the scene has its own superstars
-
Measuring Canada's digital media workforce
Take this survey - it's a first attempt to map the industry, and there's a promise to freely share the data
-
The Web needs editors
Maybe because this is how I started out, it all makes sense to me
-
Mind over mass media
Stephen Pinker in response to all the talk of how the Web is ruining our brains
-
What Clay Shirky reads
The most surprising thing might be how (Web) mainstream his media diet is
-
Putting links at the end
An another argument that fails to convince me why inline article links are bad
-
Top 1000 sites
According to Google; crazy that Microsoft properties have 1.1 billion visitors a month on the top 30
-
Ignite Seattle 10
Line-up for the June 14, 2010 edition of the the 5-minute talks in Seattle
-
The mesh Prize
The $40,000 prize aims to help encourage innovative risks in the Canadian digital media industry
-
The commonplace book
Steve Johnson delivers another outstanding piece on the presentation of information online
View all (it might be a looong page, though)