that canadian girl

Tag: communication

  • Amazon EC2 4-day downtime debacle: Keeping your users in the dark is naughty

    A few days ago, Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (or EC2 to you and I) had a catastrophic failure. The world kept turning, but unfortunately, the third-party collaboration/SVN tool we use was on the affected East USA zone where the issue…

  • Twitter's other spam problem: Username chaos

    A few months ago, Twitter published a State of Twitter Spam blog post. It claimed to have reduced spam from fake accounts to little more than 1%, lowering the number of offers for prescription drugs, dodgy online scams and invitations…

  • Torchwood Writer Gets Online Abuse: Where social media stops being fun

    A few days ago, I wrote about the Torchwood 5-day mini series which ended on Friday. During that same evening, it’s with great amusement that I also discovered that James Moran, writer for Severance, and episodes of Doctor Who, Torchwood,…

  • Bloggers: Be confident, positive (and humble)

    This evening, I came across a post where I couldn’t help but think that I had to share with fellow bloggers. Darren Rowse, pro-blogger and six-digit-salary man, tells bloggers to get rid of their inferiority complex, and I could not…

  • Why Twitter is so unbelievably awesome

    Anyone who’s witnessed a typical weekday for me will have noticed my slight addiction to Twitter, a service that simply can’t be explained and has to be experienced. But in my attempt to justify the thousands of updates I’ve posted…

  • The Twitter backlash begins: Welcome to a world of pain and spam

    A couple of days ago, Hugh quit Twitter to work on writing his book. Now I’m considering quitting Twitter, but nobody’s signed me up for a book. The reason? Spam, spam, eggs, bacon and spam. Well, without the eggs or…

  • Hippie 2.0: Reflecting upon SXSW 2008

    South by SouthWest is over. Well, the interactive bit is anyways. Music is clearly still going strong, as I witnessed walking down 6th Street and lucking out on seeing Simian Mobile Disco at La Zona Rosa with a few of…

  • The web 2.0 crowd is a fickle one: How do you keep your users?

    This evening, looking at the activity on Twitter, I was fascinated to see how quickly the usual Jaiku crowd had migrated. For those who haven’t noticed, Jaiku was showing a big fat 502 Bad Gateway error for a number of…

  • Must PR people and bloggers be like oil and water?

    Last week, Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail and Wired Magazine blogger, lashed out at lazy PR people. The crux of the story is that Chris gets torrents of press releases, some more or less relevant, from public relations…

  • Update on Twitter username call for help

    On Thursday, I got annoyed enough with my half-assed Twitter username, and not getting a response from the team that I made a blog post out of it. The next morning, I woke up to find a response to my…