September 30, 2007 – 10:23 pm
A new social network for runners, the Runners’ Lounge, launched this Friday.
Social networking sites are the perfect forum for runners - running is a social activity, it’s easily accessible, it has a large number of passionate participants, and its community thrives on exchanging resources.
As the site states:
Runners’ LoungeTM is a social running web site [...]
September 26, 2007 – 5:47 pm
Porsche got reasonable coverage of its recent announcement that it will cut its Canadian prices by 10 per cent over last year to compensate for the strong Canadian dollar.
“We cannot ignore our customers and dealers in Canada who can look to the U.S. and recognize a substantial price difference,” said Peter Schwarzenbauer, president and CEO [...]
September 24, 2007 – 7:37 pm
I read a transcript of a media event at work the other day, and one exchange between a reporter and the event’s speaker caught my eye.
Reporter: You said there are 140,000 hits on the xxx website. Is there indication that xxx is kind of catching on with the public?
Speaker: [...]
September 23, 2007 – 5:58 pm
Canada’s government has gone 2.0.
Ok, perhaps that’s a slight exaggeration. Federal government websites - of which there are many - are still stuck firmly in 1.0-land (and even that is generous).
However, in what I see as a highly significant move, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada recently launched its own blog.
Why is this [...]
September 19, 2007 – 6:55 pm
How important is grammar on blogs?
I listened to the latest episode of Mitch Joel’s Six Pixels of Separation while out on my run the other day. One thing that Mitch said about spell-checking your blog caught my ear:
"…there was this spirit of blogging that was sort of just ‘visceral and get it out there and [...]
September 11, 2007 – 7:23 am
Todd Defren at SHIFT Communications posted last week about "The End Of The Social Media Release." He’s tired of the format being ’special’ and wants to see it become the norm.
I’m not sure this is an ideal goal.
I love the social media release format. In our technology-driven world, pumping out release after old-fashioned release [...]
September 8, 2007 – 5:01 pm
Steve Jobs stirred up a storm this week when he announced a $200 price reduction for the iPhone just two months after its release (see the video here)
Not surprisingly, Apple’s early adopters, who paid full price for the iPhone not long ago, weren’t too happy. Importantly for Apple, early adopters also tend to be influencers [...]
September 6, 2007 – 10:29 pm
Last Friday, Google announced that it would start hosting material from several large news agencies, including Associated Press, Canadian Press, the UK Press Association and more, through Google News.
Not surprisingly, this has been a little controversial - the announcement raised concerns that this change will take traffic and revenue away from other online news sources [...]
