Cool Stuff My Friends Sent Me This Week

One of the things I love about the Internet is its habit of bringing us little presents. No, I’m not talking about the complete set of Reboot action figures that I purchased on eBay for my retro-animation-obsessed kids. I’m talking about all those groovy...

Where The Social Network fails, does Gossip Girl succeed?

My latest blog post for Harvard Business Review talks about what The Social Network tells us about social media. Or rather, it looks at what The Social Network doesn’t tell us about social media, since the movie used the birth of Facebook as the backdrop for a...

Eat my words: a dinner club for copy editors

Rob and I love to go out for dinner, but food is rarely the highlight of the meal. Usually, the high point is the process of copy editing the menu. It’s rare (virtually unheard of!) for us to dine at a restaurant that is typo-free, grammatically correct and...

Should you buy an iPad?

Last weekend we made the great pilgrimage across the border so that we could get iPads on the day of their release. The iPad won’t be available in Canada until the end of the month, and it seemed unfathomable to wait 20 days for a product that actually describes...

How I’m going to go

This weekend has helped me identify the most likely scenarios for my own demise: Buried under mismatched wineglasses. Suffocated by a dishtowel avalanche. Arm spontaneously separates after 18 continuous hours of drilling ceramic tile. Food poisoning from leftovers...