Rob Cottingham

30 Nov 2009

That’s what friends are for

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Proposed categories for LinkedIn Contacts (icons and descriptions of 'friend' categories, e.g. 'Trophy friend')

A while back, a friend of mine wondered about LinkedIn‘s somewhat limited options for indicating how you know someone. (“I vomited on their shoes at the office party” isn’t on the list, for example.) … Read more...

26 Nov 2009

Tweulogy

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(one funeral-goer to another, while a giant backchannel is projected behind someone delivering a eulogy) I'm just saying, not every event needs a backchannel.

Probably no need to mention that this cartoon was inspired by the Web 2.0 Expo debacle involving danah boyd, a Twitter backchannel projected onto a giant screen behind her, a speech that faced… Read more...

24 Nov 2009

And with a shift-zero, they saved humanity

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(one programmer looking over another's shoulder at a computer, while behind them a rampaging robot destroys a city) See? You forgot to close a parenthesis in its master control program.

Is there anything more fun than drawing a rampaging robot intent on destroying civilization? (Answer: being a rampaging robot intent on destroying… Read more...

23 Nov 2009

Paying attention: The sad story of the passengers’ bill of rights

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Category: Everything Else
MPs from all parties professed to support the idea, including then transport minister Lawrence Cannon.But behind the scenes, his office was pleading with the airlines to launch a lobby campaign to defeat the motion, according to documents obtained by Canwest News Service.While Cannon was promising to bring in a travellers’ bill of rights, a key political staffer in his office was telling the airlines the Conservatives really wanted

Your eyes are like limpid pools… a LOT of limpid pools.

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(One bug to another at a pick-up bar) It's nothing personal. I've just found that many eyes make all bugs shallow.

This came to me while reading Dave Eave’s post about the challenges of turning the promise of crowd-sourced quality control in open-source development – the idea that “many eyes make all bugs shallow“. (It turns out the… Read more...

22 Nov 2009

Head count

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(barbarian kind holding a sword with a decapitated head impaled on it) Anyone else have a trenchant observation on the obsolescence of my command-and-control communications approach?

With this cartoon, Noise to Signal moves to its new home here at RobCottingham.ca. (Social Signal will continue carrying N2S, but the all-important RSS feed will point here.) We’ll be doing a few… Read more...

21 Nov 2009

Pushr

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Pushr(man holding a baggie, to a prospective customer) I don’t sell nothin’ but primo stuff! You don’t believe me, check my Yelp listing.

18 Nov 2009

WaPo comic blogger wins one-inch battle

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For the good of cartooning, we’ll take even small victories. And by small, we mean a mere 7 picas wide.

The Washington Post recently shrank Doonesbury to 34 picas wide. (To put that in perspective, that’s just under six inches. Or just over 14 centimetres.)

Now, shrinkage is already a pretty major annoyance in the comic world. But when you’re dealing with

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