inCommunicado - eric eggertson

  DM Gallery    Originally uploaded by Thomas Hawk.
Thomas Hawk (psyeodonym of a San Fransisco investment guy) is the most consistently interesting photographer I keep track of on the Flickr photo sharing site.
His eye for colour, composition and compelling subjects is amazing.  If I didn’t have confirmation from other sources that […]

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  Brown Communications Billboard - The Power Plug    Originally uploaded by Mutually Inclusive.
Brown Communications puts its best creative foot forward on a billboard on their Albert Street office in Regina.  The self promotion generally tries to get the observer to look twice, and hopefully think about the visual or verbal […]

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One of the top bloggers in Saskatchewan is Jordon Cooper, the (until last week) pastor of a church near Saskatoon. His wife Wendy reports on her blog that he’s found a new job, so I’ll be watching to read about that transition in the family’s life.
(Glad I checked his blog again. Jordon reports today he’s […]

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If something you did in 2006 could make the world a better place, would you do it?
That’s the question Elizabeth Albrycht is asking New Communications Blogzine readers. The European blogger points readers to challenges from the 2005 State of the Future report, issued by an American NGO. Each year the American Council for the United […]

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The use of GPS location information continues to be applied to web tools that identify where in the world someone or something is.Steve Rubel points to KMaps, a service that allows you to provide and receive location information from a home computer, a PDA cell phone, or a Palm PDA. KMaps can host various directories […]

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We’ve had our new TV for five months now, and when we watch a DVD we still go through a complex procedure that involves changing TV channels, manually flipping through the TV’s menu, and praying that some glitch hasn’t invalidated our cumbersome but effective technique.
The TV comes with an instruction manual and a remote control […]

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Marketing guru Seth Godin writes bestsellers. But even with that reputation behind him, he is leaving traditional book publishing behind and distributing e-books digitally for free.
What, is he nuts? What about the whopping big royalty cheque? And the prestige of being on the New York Times Bestseller List?
Well, for the vast majority of authors […]

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Time Magazine hired a real graffiti artist to deface a billboard, drawing attention to the magazine’s role as an commentator on art and popular culture.
The magazine hired Fernando Carlos (known in the graffiti world as Cope2) to tag its billboard. The New York Daily News interviewed Cope2 and a local politician who was appalled that […]

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  White Board - Finn’s Slides    Originally uploaded by Mutually Inclusive.
A white board is just a tool you use to record ideas, make plans, conceptualize a project. Or in this case, record the many possible variations of slides a five-year-old can imagine.
After deciding on the kinds of slides, Finn […]

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Australian broadcaster Richard Glover makes the valid point (free sign-in required) that if podcasting was the norm and someone suddenly came up with the idea of radio broadcasts, this new technology would be much more revolutionary.
Glover is fine with podcasting, but he asks for some moderation in the hype.
He’ll get no argument from me about […]

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My five-year-old got settled into our bed, and hoped to talk his way into a permanent spot in the family bed, instead of his room across the hall.
Realizing there might be space issues, he decided he would need to create a vacancy in the bed.  A marketing scheme was hatched.  Now he had to create […]

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