Communications
A Punch Censor?
Cybertwee: Feminine Technology
… Read the restImagine, though, what the tech landscape might look like if soft hues and girly aesthetics were championed, rather than ridiculed? That’s exactly what three young artists – Gabriella Hilleman, 27, Violet Forest 26, and May Waver, 23 – decided to do a few years ago, when, mostly on a lark, they convened the first International Cybertwee Conference and Roundtable.
Words from Wordables
One of my favourite things are rainy nights. I like everything dark and shiny with a mix of coloured lights (if you’re in town).


Cyber Communication History Book
… Read the restStarting from the email and its stylistic facets, chat, in which we focus also on the art of composing spartan shapes and colors in the standard IRC, the author probes the spontaneous, irreverent and relentless personal communication that found between restrictions techniques and tricks of its own random mode. In the following chapters we analyze the digital greetings (greetings, condolences), then moved to a short and intense history of ASCII Art and its roots in RTTY Art, the art of the teletype, with the additional restriction of ASCII to 5 bits (ie only upper case).
There is no I in Hello
Working in a Library at a University
I like looking at job requirements in the communications industry. This one was posted for a university in Ontario, a non-student position.
… Read the restRequirements:
•Grade 12 diploma
•Recent college or university graduate (asset)
•One, up to two years, in a related public-service position;
•Demonstrated proficiency in typing and in the use of a computer;
•Ability to deal with the public in a courteous and professional manner;
•Ability to work fluently, orally and in writing, in both official languages, French and English.
Ghost Writer Fades to Black
You just can’t ghost write your way into being a thought leader.
via Content Used to Be King. Now It’s the Joker. | Scoop.it Blog.
This is an excellent quote and describes how I have been feeling about the blogging/ web writing and publishing I have been doing for the past year. I’ve listened to what people tell you Google wants.… Read the rest