This is just a small collection of photos from my iPhone taken around my inlaws this winter.

Over the last few days the news has been making its rounds that Twitter will be allowing whoever to purchase old tweets and the coverage so far seems to be everything from “outrage” to “who cares”. 2,000+ mentions on the subject since the press re…

The question a few people have been asking themselves … Just how popular am I? Enter the new and exciting world of social influence. A way to measure ones presence on the internet, well a small portion anyways. A somewhat flawed metric that anal…

As most of my posts in the past have been driven by the news I read, the activities I do or the bizzare actions of others, this post will not change. Lets kick this off with the transit strike in Halifax and well other than being tired of it, the …

Taking a look at two items over the last week and the activity on Twitter. The first being @Webconomist (Giles Crouch) and the data below shows the run up to #PodCampHalifax and the number of mentions in relation to the Atlantic Canada social medi…

Haven’t posted here in a while and thought I’d come back with a post on a few random items. Starting with coffee … Halifax generally lacks in quality of coffee with only a handful of places producing a product worthy of consumption. The top coff…

Out for a drive with the wife this morning and we ended up at Sugar Moon Farms in Earltown. Great spot to head to for a drive, some nature and food. 1 degree, a light dusting of snow and absolute silence. We were the only 2 people there. Fantastic…

This is really a starting point on what I hope will be a useful collection of thoughts on services like PeerIndex and Klout. Are they social bull shit or something usefull? I’m currently mixed on the application of these services at this time. Klo…

A lot of chatter happening on the internet about Google+, with the lastest announcement around the opening of the system to everyone. Will this help, I am thinking no. While opening the flood gates to the Google+ network will result in sign ups, I…

This brain dump is the result of a Globe and Mail article “Steve Jobs right up there with Edison and Ford”. I am really confused (well, guess I answered the title question) at the recent news surrounding Steve Jobs. In some sort of geeky way the m…