What are you doing Monday night? Hopefully you’ll have already been to the polls to cast a well-informed vote. So perhaps you’d like to spend a few moments during the evening of May 2nd to check out how the election is progressing?
May I invite you to tune into London’s A-Channel. I’ve been invited by local writer and tech guru extraordinaire Carmi Levy to participate in an exciting venture in support of the local station’s coverage. Continue reading
By Jason Menard,
So who’s it gonna be?
I mean, Britney was way out in the lead for a while there. Lindsay’s been putting in solid performances for a while, and even Christina has stepped up her game as of late. Would we be surprised if any of the cast of the Jersey Shore came off the bench to do it? Although, right now, our money’s on Charlie Sheen, right?
You know what I’m talking about. Who’s going to be next to kick that final field goal? Continue reading
By Jason Menard
Social media is still in its infancy – and like all infants, the various components of social media are growing and developing at varying rates. While adoption amongst the masses seems to be fairly well advanced, social media’s language skills are woefully underdeveloped.
Now this isn’t another tired old criticism of LOL-speak or the bastardization of the English language by textually active youth. What amazes me is that in today’s world – where people tend take offense to the slightest perceived insult – one social networking term has been allowed to stand without question:
Follower. Continue reading
By Jason Menard
Two weeks into Tiger Woods’ commitment to openness and fan interaction and it’s abundantly clear that honesty remains far from the best policy for the golfer and his public relations team.
If you’ve read any of my previous work relating to social media, you’ll know that I have a simple mantra — just because everyone can blog, tweet, or post on Facebook, doesn’t mean
they should. Continue reading
By Jason Menard,
It’s somewhat ironic that social media is perpetrating a behaviour that is inherently anti-social. But while that behaviour would come across as disrespectful to previous generations, it is in fact the greatest show of respect one can display.
After all, seeing a room full of people ‘ignoring’ a speaker and typing furiously away wouldn’t seem to be a positive thing – but it could be the greatest display of approval one can show. Continue reading
The M-Dash by Jason Menard 