About

I am a writer-editor living in New Brunswick (Canada) roughly since late 2006. Prior to that I lived for about 20 years in Edmonton, Alberta and, prior to that, Ontario - Toronto, then Ottawa (primarily the latter).

I've worked for traditional broadcast media, worked freelance and spent about 15 years with a very large telecommunications company where my writing focus shifted more to marketing, technical, web sites, newsletters and so on.

These days, I'm self-employed but still doing web work and now some video work for various clients. While I know the importance of being specific I find it limiting and not representative of what I actually do. I'm an SEO writer, a technical communicator, web writer ... I write what the project calls for and I've found that can be just about anything.

I've had blogs for quite a while. This one since May 2004 but others since about 2000 or earlier, though many have gone off into the digital hereafter. I no longer remember how long I've been using computers and the web but I do know it was pre-web. (I remember BBS's and 2400 baud rate modems.)

Currently, I'm a bit obsessed with social media like Twitter and Facebook (as my blog posts probably indicate). I'm primarily concerned with how they are used and how they can be used. I'm also interested in how they connect with, support and perhaps alter more traditional media forms.

I guess you could say I'm fascinated by the way the world communicates.