by Rob Cottingham | Jul 31, 2008 | Culture, Arts and Popcorn, Everything Else, Technology, Vancouver
A more complete blog post will follow about the incident and its aftermath… …but if you happen to have stumbled across an iPhone at the Twilight Drive-In after Get Smart (fun movie, somewhat true to the original, surprisingly fewer laughs than expected;... by Rob Cottingham | Jul 23, 2008 | Blogging, Politics, Social Media
Over on Social Signal, I’ve blogged about the Quebec chief electoral officer’s intention to start applying election spending rules to the web (CBC story here.) Here’s the upshot, but if this kind of thing interests you, I hope you’ll feel free... by Rob Cottingham | Jul 13, 2008 | Politics, Technology
The federal NDP has launched an online petition against plans by Telus and Bell Canada to charge users for incoming text messages. I’ve signed; if you agree, why not add your name, too? With everyday Canadians already paying more for wireless phone services than... by Rob Cottingham | Jul 13, 2008 | Communicating, Technology
Running Firefox 3? Good. Type “about:robots” into the address bar – no “http://’, no “www.”, just “about.robots”. Press “Enter.” You won’t be sorry. (h/t Ismail.) by Rob Cottingham | Jul 2, 2008 | Blogging, Media Mix, Vancouver
Frances Bula is leaving the Vancouver Sun – and, more to the point, her blog. It’s a big loss for the Sun, and for those who care about Vancouver civic politics: This will be my last post on this Vancouver Sun blog, as I have resigned from the paper. I wanted... by Rob Cottingham | Jun 30, 2008 | Blogging, Social Media, Technology
FeedBurner’s this great, free service that lets you dramatically improve the power of your site’s news feed, with everything from promotional tools to customizing tweaks to a very handy statistics package. (Still waiting to see it integrated with Google...