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California Sounding the Death Knell of the Printed Textbook?
You know I’m a fan of ebooks. I rarely buy or accept or pick up paper books any longer. If a book is important to me, I’d rather be able to have it at my finger tips all the time (especially reference...
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Marco Arment’s The Magazine Might Be the Right Path
You know where I consume the vast majority of my news and other reading? My iPad. Why? Because I truly prefer to hold something that I'm reading. When I want to catch up on the news of the day, I grab...
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Readdle Updates Calendars and Makes It Awesome
It’s funny how Apple do so many things really well, but just misses the boat on a few core apps on the iPad. Mail is a common whipping boy, but let’s not forget the build in Calendar app. Clunky, slow,...
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Blogging With Your iPad: A Basic How-To
You have an iPad. You’re surfing, you read and answer emails, read books, play games, watch movies, post to your blog… Wait, what? Post to my blog? No way! That’s way to hard. The apps don’t work well,...
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Cineplex Timeplay: Second Screen Comes to the Movies
Looks like the days of putting your phone away when you get the movies are drawing to a close. Well, sorta. Cineplex is rolling out Timeplay to select theatres and I get to try it out this week (and...
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Who will buy Flickr now?
As much as Marissa Mayer—and many of us—would like to believe that the mess that is Yahoo! can be turned around, the sad fact might be that it is too far gone. If Yahoo gets most of its traffic, and...
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Writing is writing, no matter how big or how small
My Masters thesis had some pretty ground-breaking results for the time. Some of the first data on what the Southeastern US was like during and after the last glacial maximum. The problem is that by the...
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Intro to WordPress This Week and Other Classes coming up
This Saturday (January 19th) I’m teaching my Intro to WordPress class down at UBC Robson Square. The original goal of the course was “Building a Website with WordPress, For Regular People”, but the...
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Learn how to make better videos for your website
This past weekend’s WordPress class went very well, nearly full class and the new approach hit the mark. Next up on February 2nd is my podcasting and video blogging class and like last week’s...
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Moving On—I’m Leaving iPhoneHacks
It was a new challenge and an exciting one, but at the end of the month I will be leaving iPhoneHacks.com as their editor in chief. I’ve contributed there for many months and in late October-November...
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And now…The SoMedia Chapter Begins
A week ago, I announced that I was leaving iPhoneHacks as the Editor-in-Chief. To say this threw me into a bit of a tumult would be an understatement. It might not have been a perfect job, but it was...
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Upcoming Class: Administering, Maintaining, and Customizing Your...
Coming up on Saturday (Feb 23rd), I’ll be teaching my “Advanced WordPress” class down at UBC Robson square. I’ve only taught this class twice before and, as you can read below, assumes that you are...
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Living with depression: My own perspective
I’ve been down this week. No particular reason, just on a low ebb. It happens from time to time. My job at SoMedia is going great (almost two months now!) and I love the people, culture, and everything...
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New Yorker launches “open-source anonymous inbox” built by Aaron Swartz
Interesting read: New Yorker launches “open-source anonymous inbox” built by Aaron Swartz via Evernote...
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Evernote, IFTTT, Automatic Posts, and the Link Blog
Remember way back when, back when most of us had a link blog of some sort? Scoble’s link blog—this was before TechCrunch btw—could launch a simple post or company into the stratosphere of cool. Somehow...
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Why is it still so hard to review and edit blog posts?
In my short time at SoMedia, I was thrown back into a curious place that I hadn’t been to an a long, long time—people needed to review and edit my posts before they went live. I’m not saying that my...
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You can’t force people to work together—even when they should be
I don’t know if I’d say I’ve come late to the Evernote party, but it’s certainly only been in the past 6 months that I’ve really gotten into using Evernote for everything that has to do with storing...
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So I’ve been on hiatus
So, I’ve been on hiatus. This summer—since May really—hasn’t been the best time. This hasn’t been a "if life hands you lemons" kind of time, more like "if life slams a mothertrucking bushel basket of...
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Is Evernote Really Fixing Recruiting Or Just Collaborating in General?
If you read my hiatus post, then you know that I’ve been job hunting for the past several months. Also in that post I mentioned that I believe that the entire recruiting process is broken. From people...
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Writing, Posting, and Administering WordPress from iOS
If you want to leave your laptop at home and just wander with your iPad, that’s cool. I’ve written a lot about doing that. In fact I’ve written a day’s worth of posts on my iPad while I was sick in bed...
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