Category Archives: Technology

The Amazon Kindle Review From BlogCampaigning That You’ve Been Waiting For

By Parker Mason | Published: March 12, 2010
I got an Amazon Kindle for Christmas this year, and it has been really enjoyable to use. It’s as light as a small paperback book, the screen has the visual characteristics of regular novel paper, and it can store quite a bit. For someone like myself who frequently has a few books on the go, [...]
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Torys LLP iPhone App

By Heather Morrison | Published: March 7, 2010
Last year I wrote a whitepaper on Canadian law firms and their use of social media. I was interested in finding out how the legal industry had started to use social networking and social tools to grow their firms. Torys LLP was among the firms I interviewed. They weren’t afraid to take some risks and try [...]
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Mr. Anderson?

By Heather Morrison | Published: March 3, 2010
Last week I found myself in the middle of one of those conversations that keeps you thinking into the wee hours of the night. By no means did we reach a resolution; however, I’ll do my best to recount some of the main positions and posits of the conversation. Hopefully you can provide some insights [...]
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Fanboys: These Days’ Mods and Rockers

By Jens | Published: March 2, 2010
When I was writing about the iPad and technicity, I noticed that the notion of technicity can also be applied to the scourge of the game world: Fanboys, and their hatred of other people’s choices. To recapitulate what technicity means: it is an “aspect of identity expressed through the subject’s relationship with technology. Particular tastes [...]
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Dangerous Social Networking Games

By Adam Gorley | Published: February 25, 2010
I’m not quite sure where I stand on the phenomenon of location-aware applications. (I’m sure you’ve noticed that Foursquare is the hot one at the moment.) I find geo-tagging interesting; it’s the sort of thing that I want to use to build pre- and post-apocalyptic fantasies. But marking a spot with useful or neat info, [...]
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Spreading The Noise

By Parker Mason | Published: February 17, 2010
As regular readers of BlogCampaigning might know, I also write a music blog. That means aspiring artists, their labels and their PR people always email me new music. Some of it is good. Most of it isn’t. Nearly all of the pitches I get are amateurish at best, and nearly all of them are poorly targeted. However, [...]
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Breaking with Technicity: The iPad is the Nintendo Wii of the Computer World

By Jens | Published: February 5, 2010
Apple introduced its iPad to mixed reactions: It’s not capable of multi-tasking, lacks Flash support, and has no camera. It was derided as a blown-up iPod touch. The enthusiasm that has surrounded other Apple launches was lacking. I believe one of the main reasons for this is the iPad’s break with the dominant technicity of computers. Technicity [...]
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RSS Problems in Wordpress

By Parker Mason | Published: February 1, 2010
Last week, I realized that there was an error with BlogCampaigning’s RSS feed. Although some feedreaders were still able to grab the content, others were getting XML Parsing Errors. As I often do when I get a warning message I don’t quite understand, I Google it. Chances are, someone else has had the same problem as [...]
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When Social Media Becomes Work

By Adam Gorley | Published: January 29, 2010
Talking with my friend Mike Kennedy recently, I realized that social media have invaded my job. My personal and professional lives are colliding! Blogging and reading blogs have become part of my job description, and there are small Twitter and Facebook communities among my co-workers (including me) and higher-ups. I talk to my boss on Twitter—weird. [...]
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The Least I Could Do To Prevent Theft

By Parker Mason | Published: December 7, 2009
Least I Could Do is a web comic by Lar Desouza and Ryan Sohmer that I really enjoy reading. They post very regularly—at least a couple of times a week—and they make their income from selling print books of the comics and through ads on the site. From what I can tell, Least I Could [...]
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