This week I talk to Chelsea Vowel, Brooke Torgerson, Carey Newman, Conrad Saulis, Doug Jarvis, Karen Lawford, and Nahnda Garlow about identity.
The Debate About Indian Residential Schools Misses the Point
The Indian residential school debate is and has always been about the right of one ethnic or cultural group to dominate and absorb another.
Social Media, Conversation, and Connection
We go to the Internet for conversation and camaraderie and connection. There, we smell the virtual smells of other people, and it isn’t always pleasant or pretty.
Podcast 83: Talking Twitter, with Jon Kay
The Roundtable Podcast Season 5 Episode 83, “Talking Twitter with Jon Kay.”
Sir John A. Macdonald: a morally unremarkable man
By the time I have finished this little essay of mine, the Twitter storm which is its occasion will have passed, and a new and equally useless storm will be underway. Only a fraction of people take notice of Twitter,… Read More ›
What is to be Done with Mr. Crusher’s Enemies?
Convention be damned, thinks Crusher: there will be no deference to norms in the his White House.
Twelve things Millennials have amazingly never experienced
Show a Millennial a 20-D printer that can make a functioning human liver out of silicone pellets, and they’ll say “That’s awesome”— which is what they say about a new craft beer or the latest Drake song. What does blow the minds of Millennials is when you tell them that you saw the Rolling Stones in the 1970s for five dollars.
How Hard Could It Be to Have a Billion Twitter Followers?
OKAY, first of all. So I joined the Twitter around February, nine months ago. That means I’ve been on it long enough to make a baby. Which I guess means that I have made a tweets baby, or maybe it’s… Read More ›
My Top Ten Posts of All Time, by Social Media Shares (2010–2014)
The following are my most widely-shared posts on Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Reddit, Pinterest, Email, Press This and Google+
Social Media: a Soliloquy, Monologue or Conversation?
IN THE LATEST Roundtable Toronto Podcast, episode 65, Mandy, Greg, Andy and I discussed the social media. We talked about who was using what, how the respective media differ, and the contrasting uses and limitations of each. The consensus at… Read More ›
Margaret Thatcher, Pablo Neruda, Cher, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Shelagh Rogers, Nutella, Crisps, Bed Bugs
• Podcast 38 | Week of 14.04.2013 Download entire podcast (320 kbps mp3) | Visit The Roundtable on Facebook.
Linda Sobeh Ali and the Mediocrity of Palestinian Leadership
IT HAPPENS that I today regard the sudden retraction from Canadian soil of Linda Sobeh Ali, the Palestinian chargé d’affaires, as someone who has spent a number of years working in communications and public relations. In my profession — which… Read More ›
Scrapping The Social Media
Were you to find me by chance at the local pub, I’d be in the dark corner with a scotch and, at most, two or three friends. This may seem an odd way to begin an article headlined in part… Read More ›
