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I'm Bill Wren, a writer-editor, social media enthusiast in Fredericton, New Brunswick. And that would be my dog, Molly Bloom, as a logo in the header.
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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Social media is gossip (that’s why it works)
I had lunch in downtown Fredericton yesterday and while I had my laptop with me and a wi-fi connection I didn’t do much with them. The day was beautiful and I just wanted to sit and watch the world. As … Continue reading
Is usability kaput?
Whatever happened to Jakob Nielsen? Do you remember him? Do you remember when usability and user experience were the terms of the day and we were all bound and determined to make technology, particularly Internet related technology, user-friendly? Easy to … Continue reading
Hazards of truncated communication
On his Broadcasting Brain blog Mark Dykeman recently posted I like print media just fine thanks in which he talks about how easy it is to miscommunicate, particularly in the truncated world of Twitter. I commented and afterwards thought the … Continue reading
Talking amongst ourselves in New Brunswick
I recently used Facebook to do a very informal survey. I wanted to get outsider perceptions so I asked of friends and family outside the province, “What do you think of when you think New Brunswick?” The answer was essentially … Continue reading
This and that and a link or two
There have been a few interesting things on the web, particularly on Twitter, that I’ve found intriguing. It’s probably the cultural/societal aspects that have caught my imagination. For instance, there is the Susan Boyle thing (#susanboyle on Twitter), the woman … Continue reading