In my years of internet research, stumbling, browsing and surfing, I’ve never had such a difficult time finding something.  See, I’m trying to find out where the surfers on the net hang out, blog, post and share stories.  That’s how I get to the root of a thing I’m researching, find out what the people [...]

I like powerpoint as much as the next guy, it’s a valuable presentation tool, it’s feature rich and a great complement to spoken presentations and keynotes.  More than a decade after its debut in 1997 as part of the Microsoft Office suite, Powerpoint has gained a virtual stanglehold on executive meetings and presentations.  The use [...]

I was trying to get access to the last Canadian Internet Use Survey today.  Statistics Canada provides a CD-Rom for the low, low price of $2400.  Ouch.  I went to AskAway next, it’s a great resource of volunteer librarians from BC that are available 13 hours a day to help you find helpful reference information. [...]

I’m a bit of a typography nut…  it’s why I linger around print and and graphic design (yes, you can often see me loitering in the type section of the library scanning ancient books on type and avdvertising).  I get to see literally hundreds, if not thousands of creative type uses. And I am jealous.  [...]

It seems every major corporation and conglomerate has grokked on to social media as a broadcasting tool.  As a result, there’s a drive for businesses of all types and sizes to make the leap from ‘broadcasting at’ to ‘communicating with’. It’s a great idea for businesses and entrepreneurs to get inside the minds of their [...]

I’ve been having an unrequited love affair with semicolons for some time now. Oh, if you look through my posts you won’t be likely to find any; I haven’t been comfortable that I’m using them correctly when I write.  That is, until now.  Inspired by a 2009 post on Daggle titled conjunction complex sentence misfunction [...]

Type speaks.  The typefaces you use on your website will change how users perceive and interpret information.  The last few years have shown some major advances in the ways we are able to use different fonts on our websites.  You can use the @font face syntax in your CSS files to load a font from [...]

The first of Watzlawick’s five axioms of communication is “One cannot not communicate”.  Because every behaviour is a kind of communication, people who are aware of each other are constantly communicating. Any perceivable behaviour, including the absence of action, has the potential to be interpreted by other people as having some meaning. On the web, [...]