inCommunicado - eric eggertson

My 30 year reunion is coming up this fall, and I’ve said I’d pull together a website. Any suggestions for a good combination of web tools to help people post information, sign up for events, share photos, and generally stay informed about plans?
I’m looking at various wikis as possible platforms for most of the information. […]

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My favourite geek is coming to a screen near you.
 Starting June 1, Tod Maffin is hosting a live video show on blogtv.ca.
According to the Todster, it’s about personal technology, and will feature 45 minutes of live call-in (via computer) every Friday night.
Tod says he has funding from Alliance Atlantis for the web TV show, […]

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What the hell is wrong with the ISP and mobile phone business in Canada?
Gone are the days when you could just buy a service. Now, everything you do is an attempt to reduce the service levels below useless, or ding you for "extras" (no one has the guts to charge extra yet for services like […]

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Back when the XBox first came out, we bought one for Christmas, and I signed up for an XBox Live account soon after.
It was for my kid, so I really wasn’t paying much attention when I listed birthday, and all the other personal information.  What a pain.  After that, every time I tried to edit […]

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Via Ed Lee’s blog, I came across Choose Your Own Holiday Adventure, set up by iStudio.

This is a nice little self-promotion tool for the web design firm.  I chose to NOT include music, so it’s safe for work (unless you click on the video game - then all bets are off).
Based on your input, the […]

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Inside the CBC suddenly became one of the only sources of information Monday about why the cbc.ca site was unavailable for many hours.
The problem was caused by a server malfunction.  It took several hours to get a back-up server online.So, for a few hours, the company’s blog was there to inform people that the main […]

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The arts is supposed to be one of those areas where plucky artistic types toil away in poverty and obscurity for years until their brilliance is recognized.
That’s still true for a lot of actors and other artists, but the business of running the culture industry is complex.  Theatres and publishing houses, galleries and film companies […]

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I reached a turning point shortly after I started reading blogs. After leaving a few comments online, I Googled myself and realized just how public my life would be if I kept on participating in The Writeable Web.
Staying invisible to Google and other search tools is hard, and getting harder. Some of the articles I […]

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  Goth Kid with Contacts, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan    Originally uploaded by LeeLeFever_TwinF.
Late last year, social media consultant Lee Lefever and new (last year, anyway) wife Sachi dropped everything and took off on a trip around the world.
They left Japan recently, and are in Thailand.
Check out their experiences on The World […]

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I’ve never met him, but I hate Sanford Wallace.
In the mid ’90s, I had just talked my spouse into an e-mail account and was helping her figure out how it could help her writing career.
That’s when Sanford Wallace entered our lives, and started peppering her with the same e-mail every day. (Photo from O’Reilly Media […]

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I read a lot about the use of technology for corporate purposes, and I have to agree with some of the blogophobes. I’d like to see less blind faith, and more discussion of some of the ways social media can help organizations achieve their goals.
I still think the new media advocates have the right idea. […]

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