cleaning out the iPhone…
As October winds to an end, I’m realizing how much STUFF I’ve accumulated on my phone this fall. A crazy month+ has left me with little time for the regular digital data dump. So many amazing events with the TO community occurred this season & there is so much fantastic news to celebrate, share, synthesize…but this is all I can manage for now… A highlight of the autumn was Dan Mangan’s in-store at Criminal Records two weeks ago.  The Sure Things opened up for Dan at the Rivoli later than nigh

& a freight train running through the middle of my head
Before I spam my entire FB peeps’ update stream with ‘Meghan favourited a YouTube video’ notices, I’ll give massive official blahg shout out to Fader magazine (who throws the BEST sxsw parties, BTW) for their inspired new web campaign sponsored by Southern Comfort.  ‘At the Bar with Southern Comfort‘ is weekly series of

Why social media schadenfreude is scarier than swine flu
There’s a particularly startling epidemic happening in the online world, which I’m noticing mainly in Toronto of late.  It might just be the 2.0 version of the classic Canadian tall poppy syndrome, but this strain is turning out to be stronger & scarier than swine flu.  Victims are compelled (nay, forced?) to gush out unnecessary mea culpas, fall on their twittering swords

Tell you what I did last…Wednesday
Caught Gonzales at the Mod Club.  He was, as usual, absolutely stunning.  Caught a couple songs from his too-brief duo interlude with Feist.  Wanted to share with y’all, my bffs Oops Oh My (Tweet Cover) Where Can

Beyond adoption - considering NGO’s social media intentions
It’s been a long non-blogging stretch, which included live music (natch), a bday (piñata & nacho-enhanced), driver’s ed (2nd time’s a charm, right?), domain registration lapse (ack!) & details emerging on what could be the wildest winter ever… Thankfully, the key sanity check (outside of running/air-drum solo’ing) has been reading.  One of the best nerdy reads in a long while has been the Hatcher Group’s recent report ‘New Media & Social Change: How Nonprofits are Using Web-based Technologies to