Saturday, January 29, 2011

Books as Bombs Quote

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It may be that in the nineteen-sixties, when television was still muzzling itself, from fear of provoking advertiser displeasure or F.C.C. r...
Friday, January 28, 2011

Review of Steve Martin's An Object of Beauty (Reprint)

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Comedian Steve Martin explores the New York art scene in his first full-length novel Toronto Star | December 5, 2010 | Ryan Bigge An Object ...
Monday, January 24, 2011

My Review of Combat Camera

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I will spare you the details, but up until recently I've been too busy to blog. So harried, in fact, that I lacked the time to post publ...

Hawkblocker Explained

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I looked down. I was wearing £90 Nikes, £270 Sevens, a £45 Topshop jumper and a £200 Philippe Starck watch. There was a smartphone in my lef...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

Books Stink: Super Sad True Love Story Review

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Super Sad True Love Story: Immigrant love in dystopia Gary Shteyngart goes over the top with his corporate satire, but his third novel st...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Are You a Modern Gentleman or a Man of the House?

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Reading this New York Times article about the website ManoftheHouse  reminded me that I should post this Globe article I wrote about The Mo...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

The Radical Compression of Language (aka TLDR.it will rule us all)

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In honor of tldr.it , I’m reprinting my Toronto Star article about the radical compression of language: The long and the short of naming t...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

Never Too Proud to Recycle Content Nearly a Decade Old

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Late last month techcrunch  revealed that mailing all those AOL CDs during the 1990s cost quite a bit of money. Which reminded me of an ...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

Content Strategy For Twitter (Magazine Edition)

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Toronto Life has a popular twitter feed . It has many inbuilt advantages, including a lot of quality content that it can reference and lever...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Jason McBride Explains Toronto Real Estate Syndrome

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In the new February issue of Toronto Life, Jason McBride manages to perfectly articulate my real estate frustrations: House hunting, for us...