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@policy_mag I'm afraid you have the wrong Graham Scott...
I would like to issue a rare, unsolicited, straight-up, no-shit product endorsement for @typeform, which is a good survey tool.
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@simonecastello Nice to meet you too! The thing I meant was the /giphy command on Slack—have fun: twitter.com/slackhq/status…
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quality 4,000th tweet
I fully endorse googly eyes in most contexts, but that panoptic broccoli is nightmarish twitter.com/helenhousandi/…
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@christindal Quality callback.
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Officially a thing! A new daily morning email briefing from @cdnbiz: cards.twitter.com/cards/18ce53v2…
#macdebate starts in ~90 mins, but join @TaylorVaisey and me here in ~60 for the liveblog pregame: macleans.ca/national-leade…
Lotsa good things planned for #macdebate—especially proud it’s streaming in 6 languages: macleans.ca/debate
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@blm849 @scowen13 @navalang “The cloud” might describe it better. Computer-to-human UX: solid. Extended constellation of services: less so.
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I’m sure no one will have any strong opinions about this: canadianbusiness.com/blogs-and-comm…
#KeepBloombergWeird twitter.com/NiemanLab/stat…
@Canadianmags Maaaaybe, but then they usually leave their rolling suitcases on the left, in my experience.
My vision of hell is an endless moving walkway where everyone stands instead of walks twitter.com/NatalieCTV/sta…
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I'm rapidly running out of CP file photos of Stephen Poloz.
@ivortossell Yesterday the headline read "In an apathetic Toronto", not "indifferent." Intrigue! newsdiffs.org/article-histor…
Imagine the psychodrama behind the scenes here theverge.com/2015/7/6/89011…
@mostlyyalit @typeter Thanks a lot Tiffanie, I SO appreciate this comment.
@typeter @mostlyyalit A linguistic-metaphysical quandary...
@mostlyyalit @typeter Usage: "The New York Times says to put avocado, lemon ?&! peas in your guacamole. As if."
@mostlyyalit @typeter I believe it was the Interroamperbang — ?&! — applied just before the last item in an unbelievable list.
Fun @Rapalytics chart showing Eminem’s currently outsize influence on homophobic rap lyrics: rapalytics.com/articles/rap-a…
@alexhayter Totally agree, and it suits me! But for many it's a difficult shift in both mindset and habit. Gotta be sympathetic to that
@kristenequan Gotta spend those VC dollars somewhere!
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@alexhayter Still a long march to the mainstream. Hence the ad buy!
@alexhayter I like it and was an early advocate at work. Early-adopter types love it, but normals still find it weird and unwieldy.
Sign of the times: print ads for Slack in Wired. Inside front spread, inside back cover, outside back cover.
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Great moments in content management:
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A particularly virulent strain of "Slack /giphy" has quickly spread through the office.
Your opinion matters™
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@ACenaiko Indeed! Probably still pretty junior in many cases. I'll see what I can find...
We’re talking about sheer numbers—not earning power/job security/etc. But still.
The millennial takeover of the Canadian workforce, in one gif: canadianbusiness.com/innovation/the…
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life-changing twitter.com/Jermolene/stat…
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RT @stuntbox: The tree of publishing must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of app vs web thinkpieces.
"it just works"
@BrettRamsay both
It's sad how sad it makes me to see logos mangled by JPEG artifacts.
@navalang Today I wrote a tweet, deleted it for a meta-tweet about tweeting, deleted for a meta-meta-tweet, gave up, closed tab, got coffee.
Premoji: typing the text shortcuts for emoji in contexts like email that don't (yet) support them — à la :ok_hand: :smiling_cat:
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A little spelunking reveals — it’s manual! gawker-labs.com/related-widget/
I'm trying to envision the metadata Gawker’s CMS must collect in order to enable this recommendation feature:
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@malcjohnston @caroljtoller No one gets a high five until the paper's at the printer. Before that it's bad luck. I don't make the rules!
We are enemies now twitter.com/caroljtoller/s…
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@richardwarnica @jamescowan @sarahboesveld @chrisboutet I think of myself less as a Managing Editor and more as a Coping Editor
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Shout out to the tenant of 85 Wellesley proudly displaying a Klingon Bat'leth in their apartment's front window.
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You could tweet, like, every third sentence in this Fran Lebowitz interview: elle.com/fashion/person…
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“Peas are normcore. Red leaf lettuce is normcore. Iceberg lettuce is not normcore. (Too kitschy.)” theawl.com/2015/03/toward…
@navalang I'm so into his sense of .gif pathos.
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Dress up your minivan to cosplay as an Apple self-driving car: appleinsider.com/articles/15/03…
RT @alliebland: Literally no evidence of claims presented here. RT @pngmarca: .@pmarca's latest #tweetstorm... http://t.co/H34bpn00RH http:…
@sarahbarmak @caroljtoller Slander! I was an enthusiastic treadmill desk–user. I'm even in the video! PROOF
@AverySwartz He's everywhere!
RT @decloet: Five days left to apply for our paid summer internship program rogersmschool.com @Sportsnet @MacleansMag @Todaysparent @F…
@briandstdenis “...a foul-up of epic proportions, with 70 crew members sustaining injuries from their untamed feline coworkers.” 70!!!
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Aspiration realized! Tricked my employers into letting me write about the history of UNIX: canadianbusiness.com/innovation/his…
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Look, I productized the hell out of some bullshit: canadianbusiness.com/bs-bingo/
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@ivortossell > PICK UP woodpecker >> Woodpecker added to inventory > PUT weasel on woodpecker >> The woodpecker flies away, heading WEST
I suspect we’ve all reached peak Buzzfeed thinkpiece, but: stratechery.com/2015/buzzfeed-…
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Some good behind-the-curtain details on the Wired.com relaunch: wired.com/2015/03/wired-…
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“I worry a little about the lesson that people will draw from that traffic.” medium.com/message/yes-to…
Picking up documents at the federal courts records office. From behind the glass, one coworker to another: "What colour is this dress?"
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Me and @tinapittaway talking about web analytics for 20 minutes? Dreams do come true: magazinescanada.ca/professional_d…
I like this in-browser AI experiment where you watch a little robot gradually get better at a simple game: qlearning.4ck5.com
@nerdygirly I was just planning to show up, invited or not!
“Three magnificent and staunchly conservative German shepherds.” this.org/magazine/2011/…
@denesrothschild Oh, I agree — but I think they're in a kind of damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation, PR-wise.
RT @goldsbie: Who gets hold of an "extremely rare" 70mm print of the original Tron, then shows it only once, at 4:00 on a Tuesday? http://t…
@kristenequan Yes! He has been on fire with this stuff lately
twitter.com/sarah_frank/st… <--- ~it’s happening~ ---> theawl.com/2015/01/some-2…
@navalang shots fired
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who File A Ticket
@mgpcoe Perhaps desks are now considered unproductive wastes of time! No desk: LIFEHACK
This editorial seating chart is catnip for Gawker kremlinologists: theawl.com/2015/01/no-but…
@campspeaks @Marketing_Mag I think the fact that Facebook obv. intends to hawk this study to govts is more important than the thing itself.
@campspeaks @Marketing_Mag Note also that @jason_kirby pretty entertainingly demolished the whole study: canadianbusiness.com/economy/facebo…
@dtopping Let's do something REAL instead like open a food truck
“The average life of a Web page is about a hundred days.” newyorker.com/magazine/2015/…
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This accurately describes my day youtube.com/watch?v=Y-QGBL…
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Not how I expected to spend my morning, I'll be honest: canadianbusiness.com/business-news/…
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“There is only a slight difference between ‘trolling’ and ‘knowing your audience better than they know themselves.’” theawl.com/2015/01/free-j…
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Some amazing aerial nighttime shots of NY—apparently until recently technically impossible: storehouse.co/stories/r3rcy-…
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“Old media layoffs will accelerate; coverage of old media layoffs will all but disappear.” theawl.com/2015/01/some-2…
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RT @timkiladze: Super thought provoking. Diving deep into Silicon Valley's troubling gender gap nytimes.com/interactive/20… by @jodikantor
All I want for Christmas is for rad people to apply for the @cdnbiz internship. Deadline in 12 days: canadianbusiness.com/internship/
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RT @karenmcgrane: On “content”: RT @jbenton: This paragraph is so true pressthink.org/2014/12/when-t…
Less than 3 weeks left to apply to the @cdnbiz internship. Go go go: canadianbusiness.com/internship/
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Does Graydon Carter get 5¢ every time Spy magazine gets name-checked in a media story? wired.com/2014/12/life-a…
RT @lindseywiebe: Hey, digitally savvy media job-hunters: Come work @macleansmag! http://t.co/yWmjrZ9tGa
RT @NBLitTimes: Sad news for Canadian literature just off twitter @DescantMagazine The first issue of Descant was a... http://t.co/MxcKpQ…
RT @andrealhopkins: Thoughtful in retrospect ottawacitizen.com/news/national/…
@jeffcbeer Have you heard about SERIAL???
Like 90% of everything in this Digiday “‘In’ for 2015!” column is from 6-8 months ago?
@kattancock We could fork our own tilde.club
@kattancock see you on ello
I'm enjoying hating everything about this New Republic meltdown. Both camps come across so badly. thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/… (via @flinnflon)
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A thing of note about #project97: Rogers Media honchos are encouraging sharing non-Rogers links, stories. This isn't about pageviews.
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Make your own Magic Eye drawings in the browser, because it's the 90s again: peeinears.github.io/MagicEye.js/
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[A reminder from the copy editor:] “Lightsaber” is a registered trademark. Like AstroTurf or Kleenex.
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@kattancock @jamescowan in the picture I'm getting a stern talking-to about the dress code :(