Cartoon: Pyramid Schemes
It isn’t hard to find people willing to make absolutely firm predictions about technology and social media, each one asserted with total certainty. Facebook will be around forever, and Google+ is doomed. Google+ is the future, not only of social networ…
Read More →Cartoon: Brain Meets Balance Sheet
I drew this week’s cartoon on my iPad, in a plane, at 37,000 feet. I penciled it, inked and colored it all in the confines of an economy-class seat, which experienced air travelers know has now shrunk to the size of a Scooby-Doo lunch box.
We’re now a…
Read More →Cartoon: "Let those who worship evil’s might, beware my legal team!"
If the minions of Satan ever want to seize your soul, they don’t have to trick you into signing it away in exchange for untold wealth, fame or a sneak peak at Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception.
All they have to do is tuck a provision into the iTunes user…
Read More →Cartoon: Google Plus-or-Minus
When the news about Google Plus broke, I was as cur— Sorry, just a sec. I have to go reload the Google Plus page to see if they’re accepting new signups yet.
Nuts. No luck.
Where was I? Right: when the news about Google Plus broke, I was as cur…
Read More →Cartoon: May the Source Be With You
The other day, I was at a local coffee shop trying to troubleshoot a page on my cartoon site. I didn’t have my trusty laptop with me, but I no worries — I had my iPad, which is practically the same thing, right?
Until I opened the page in Safari…
Read More →Cartoon: Yeah, You’re a Real Riot
Unlike pretty much the rest of Vancouver, I don’t watch hockey — even Stanley Cup finals — so I was in a state of media blackout during the seventh game on June 15. The one exception was Twitter, which I was mostly ignoring because the feed…
Read More →Cartoon: Please, Not Another Banner Year
There are times when it seems like the economics of the web seem to boil down to:
1: Find some white space on your site.
2: Fill it with an ad.
3: There is no number three. Check out these great discount air fares!
It starts innocently enough, with a…
Read More →Cartoon: Did I Say That Out Loud?
In a week where U.S. news coverage was dominated by an inappropriate tweet from a congressperson’s Twitter account, maybe it’s worth taking a moment or two to think about your own personal social media policy. What are you doing to avoid landing in the…
Read More →Cartoon: Command, Control and Cake
Herein, a brief rant. It may be bubbling up from the fact that I’m turning 48 tomorrow, and therefore approaching curmudgeon status. It may be from the past week’s news: an eG8 summit that looked more like a circling of wagons against the open Web; an …
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