by Rob Cottingham | Dec 5, 2005 | Blogging, Culture, Arts and Popcorn, Politics, Technology
Samuel Goldwyn once famously answered criticism that his company’s films lacked artistic merit with a biting, “Pictures are for entertainment. Messages should be delivered by Western Union.” That’s more or less where J. Kelly Nestruck stands,... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 30, 2005 | Blogging, Politics
Several NDP campaigns are blogging, and at least one is podcasting – and I think that deserves some recognition. So this page is going to serve as a repository for the Web 2.0-enabled NDP candidates. I’ve almost certainly missed some, and others will... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 24, 2005 | Blogging, Media Mix, Politics
Elsewhere in a discussion on the dearth of municipal blogging, some of us toss around the fact that bloggers usually don’t do the kind of investigative legwork that reporters do, and can’t break stories. Meet a vital exception: Paul Willcocks and his blog,... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 18, 2005 | Blogging, Technology
It’s like they’re trying to kill me. WordPress (the software that drives this site) has just released a public beta (testing) version. And tantalizingly, they’ve changed the version number from 1.6 to 2.0. Obviously, you don’t need me to spell... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 18, 2005 | Blogging, Politics, Vancouver
I’ll be voting for Jim Green and the Vision Vancouver team tomorrow, along with several great folks from COPE. (Disclosure: I’ve been working for the Vision campaign — and they’ve made me proud.) After so many years of watching this city... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 15, 2005 | Blogging, Technology
Waiting isn’t easy… TiVo does a great job of recording and playing video… but when it comes to scheduling the beast, it slows to a crawl. Maybe that’s because it has a processor speed of only 50 MHz, and 32 MB of RAM. Your average gaming...