Developing Online Platforms, Building Community
“England and America are two countries divided by a common language.” George Bernard Shaw One of the biggest confusions people can have in communication is using the same words, but meaning different things. I don’t mean homonyms, stereotype, or any other typifying agent. I’m not talking about the pronunciation of tomato or potato either. I’m talking about [...]
It’s easy to write one awesome post on your blog. It’s easy to spend five hours doing research, creating relevance where none existed before. It’s easy, relatively, getting an interview done with your hero. It’s easy to write ten awesome posts on your blog. What you can do once, you can do again, right? What’s [...]
I had the extreme honour of being part of the Modern Earth Tweet Team covering TEDx Manitoba yesterday – Susan Hurrell and I spent 12 hours yesterday with our dueling laptops doing the platform journalism on Twitter for the event. Susan Hurrell and Ian M Rountree – Modern Earth Web Design Tweet Team – TEDxManitoba But, I [...]
I’m so excited I can hardly breathe! After a very intensive design process, and 24 hours of pre-launch mayhem, Modern Earth now has a brand spanking new website – and I have to say, it’s really something! From the awesome randomly rotating earthlings (the whole team is there, with pictures taken during a professional photo [...]
I’m considering ordering a new laptop, because the one I currently work from is a broken old POS (I’ve had it for two years) which has had the keyboard replaced, the screen casing is broken, and it moves about as fast after a complete system reinstall as my previous laptop did having been used for [...]
Stabbed myself with a screwdriver at work the other day. Hurt like hell. It’s better now – well, getting better anyway, that’s what a week of antibiotic cream is for. How? Renovation season, that’s how. Fixing up the store, moving fixtures. I work in a downtown location, so we have theft issues. As such, we [...]
The Mental Disadvantage of Intentional Deviance
Boxing day was a bust. We spent much of the day trying to figure out why, and we came up with a few answers. It’s come down to either: (a) everyone knows Boxing Day sales are incredible, but also doesn’t want to be part of the crush; or (b) everyone went to the big box [...]