by Rob Cottingham | Oct 23, 2003 | Politics, Technology
It became the mantra for web advertisers: the more irritating an advertising technology was, the more the ads that used it would get noticed… and the more business they’d generate.Well, maybe not. Tech firm X10 — noted mainly for those... by Rob Cottingham | Oct 8, 2003 | Politics, Speechwriting
The shock of election night in California wasn’t Gray Davis’s recall or the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor.It was hearing commentator after commentator fall all over themselves to say what a great speech the victor gave.I listened to the... by Rob Cottingham | Sep 30, 2003 | Everything Else, Politics
With the Ontario election campaign sputtering to a finish, Ernie Eves has been reduced to this: “We are not toast.” As stirring defiance in the face of overwhelming odds goes, it’s no “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.” Any... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 14, 2003 | Communicating, Politics
Humpty Dumpty founded the art of spin when he told Alice, “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”PR flaks, including yours truly, have made a not-bad living from that advice ever since. But nobody took... by Rob Cottingham | Jun 22, 2003 | Politics, Technology
It doesn’t take long after meeting me or Alex to realize that we’re pretty big followers of the wide world of Macintosh. (A glance down this page will probably establish the same thing.)For all you would-be anthropologists who’d like to know a little... by Rob Cottingham | Jun 19, 2003 | Politics, Technology
It’s a given among web cognoscenti that 99.95% of Flash-based web sites are using the Macromedia technology for all the wrong reasons. From intro splash pages as endless as they are useless… to sites that make a user wade through thigh-deep animated sludge...