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. [...]

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, [...]

All this talk about privacy, I didn’t even have a privacy policy on my site. It’s a massive oversight on my part, something I should have done as soon as I set up a contact form and launched a newsletter signup form.  If you collect information from your visitors, it’s never too late to put [...]

Facebook Connect and Facebook Platform (for developers) are a big part of the strategy that has grown Facebook into a site with 350 million users.  That growth seems to be the primary goal of Mark Zuckerberg, rather than taking extra measures to protect the privacy of its userbase. In an interview with Techcrunch, Zuckerberg answers [...]