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Results Canadians Have Been Waiting For

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

Here are the results you’ve been waiting for: the results of RimCount.com tracking of the Roll Up The Win Campaign from a large Canadian Coffee and Donut chain. RimCount.com collected tweets with the hastag #rolluptherim and extracted ratios and recorded them. The site really took off when it started tweeting back with the Twitter account… Continue Reading Results Canadians Have Been Waiting For

Started building my Toronto Maple Leafs bandwagon

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

The Toronto Maple Leafs have won all three of their games so far this year. As of right now they are tied for first place over all with Washington. I’ve started building my bandwagon so that it’s ready for the Stanley Cup parade. Haven’t found any wheels yet, should I be worried that as soon… Continue Reading Started building my Toronto Maple Leafs bandwagon

Rescue of the Chilean miners

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

The rescue of the Chilean miners has been a great triumph of engineering and the human spirt. Congratulations to the nation of Chile and everyone involved. What a great story, and what great television. I started watching the first three miners rescued last night and watched a more of the rescues on-line at work. The… Continue Reading Rescue of the Chilean miners

Ron MacLean saves a man, all I can do is make fun of him

Friday, June 4th, 2010

During lunch with Don Cherry in Philadelphia Ron MacLean responded to someone looking for help to save a drowning man by jumping into the Delaware to save the man who was apparently trying to take his life. Written up here: www.theprovince.com/mobile/story.html?id=3108588 My response was to make fun of this man who is national treasure: Ron… Continue Reading Ron MacLean saves a man, all I can do is make fun of him

Facebook Privacy Infographic

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Matt McKeon has created an excellent “Evolution of Privacy on Facebook” infographic. It’s a great demonstration of how what was a great private place to share information surreptitiously became a tool for selling your information to marketers and disclosing your private information to the entire Internet. The Evolution of Facebook Privacy on MattMckeon.com Update: Friday… Continue Reading Facebook Privacy Infographic