Category Archives: Twitter

Last weekend I saw Page One: Inside The New York Times, the documentary about the influential newspaper. The movie opens with a brief history of print and the sudden decline of print media in the Internet age. Bracing for the Internet fear-mongering that loving portraits of print media usually present, I was surprised by an…
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Peter Raaymakers pointed me toward a National Post interview with the Father of the Todd Reynolds, the man behind the same-sex marriage comments on Uptown Sports Management Twitter feed yesterday. I wrote about it here. I’ll let this quote from Reynolds’ for itself: I don’t think that your opinion about gay marriage or sexual orientation…
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Time to add Uptown Sports Management to the list of people who shouldn’t be on Twitter. Behold, a series of Tweets that began at approximately 4:38 pm from their Twitter account, @uptownhockey: The handle “@uptownhockey” seems to be trending the most in Toronto, Vancouver, and Chicago according to Trendsmap. More on this tomorrow when their…
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As my fiance and I have been planning our wedding we’ve noticed something funny. A lot of businesses just aren’t sure how to deal with same-sex couples. We bumped into it again at the Bay this weekend – the wedding registry asks for “bride’s name” and “groom’s name” with a kit that suggests “his &…
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For everyone who couldn’t make it last night, we attended Twestival Ottawa last night and had the chance to take some photos and shoot some video of the event. Organizers raised over $12,000 for The Royal Ottawa Foundation for Mental Health. The organizing team did an awesome job putting this event together, and we’re thrilled…
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Two days ago Chrysler’s Twitter account, @ChryslerAutos, posted a colourful little tweet about the driving habits in Detroit. The tweet came from an employee at New Media Strategies, the firm that handles Chrysler’s social media. Chrysler reacted sternly yesterday, apologizing for any offence and explained that the employee responsible had been fired. The Red Cross…
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Here are a few interesting news stories I’ve seen this morning that deal with the  intersection of social networking and politics: Tweet breaks Commons rarified rules? House of Commons procedural wonks (Full disclosure: I’m one!) are amused and bemused by the Speaker being forced to rule on a possible violation via Twitter by a Conservative…
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A couple weeks ago I stood up in front of a whole bunch of people and explained that I was a failure. I told the story of how one of my online projects had been a complete, total, and epic failure. Is it counterintuitive to expose your mistakes? To be certain. People like to be…
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Friends of mine of online and off know my love of cupcakes. I started really turning them out after leaving Parliament Hill–Twitter and baking helped pass the time. Perhaps it was inevitable that I would find the San Francisco and Toronto versions of Cupcake Camp and help bring the unconference to Ottawa on March 29…
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Rebbeca Flemming wrote a fantastic article for The Globe and Mail about how she wasn’t the start of the Gordon Lightfoot death hoax. You can find it here. She deals with the situation with a fine wit and a literary flare. Although, one portion has slightly too much artistic license for my taste. Specifically, I…
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