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I’m going to check out the PM’s YouTube throne speech response online today at youtube.com/TalkCanada.
It starts at “approximately” 10:45am Eastern time.
Great that the PM and government are embracing this media – curious to see how the questions and the moderating will work during the evening Q&A.
Lanny Cardow | posted 1 day ago
As you can tell from my Twitter stream, I’ve been at the Ontario PC’s annual general meeting this weekend at the Ottawa Westin hotel. The organizers did a great job at putting on a big show, with lovely visuals and stunning AV setup.
I’m so happy to see my dear friend Hartley Lefton be acclaimed [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted 5 days ago
…and I won’t mention the obvious contrast to Obama.
The NTU has redesigned their website. I think it’s good one for them. They have a lot of written content (more than most 501s), and this layout makes it all accessible (even if it’s pretty basic, stylistically). Check it out if you have a [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted March 4th
I tweeted about this press release from the Dept. of Finance last week, congratulating them for planning to Tweet on budget day. I notice [Flaherty press secretary] Annette Robertson’s name is on the release — as her former colleague I can tell you that she is a gifted and innovative communicator, and I’m not [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted March 1st
Popular atheist author Richard Dawkins, unimpressed with the rudeness and bickering happening on his heavily-populated message boards, recently attempted to scale them back. Predictably, a full-scale online rebellion ensued, forcing Dawkins to defend himself with this note to his fans, customers, and commenters.
I feel for Dawkins – nobody should have to tasteless ad [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted February 26th
Imagine my surprise when my entire data toolbar was greyed out this morning in the middle of working on a spreadsheet.
A quick web search found the reason. The good folks at PixelComma explained that it’s because Excel’s group mode was enabled. It was surprisingly easy to do that by accident, and equally easy [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted February 25th
Here’s some great news for those of who can’t wait to see RINO-turned-Democrat Arlen Specter defeated in November.
Franklin & Marshall’s February poll (PDF here) of 1143 Pennsylvania adults found Specter to be trailing GOP candidate Pat Toomey by 10 points among likely voters.
And it gets better:
- Toomey has a greater than 2:1 advantage [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted February 25th
Sadly, I couldn’t attend CPAC this year because of various other commitments. Luckily for us, the ACU goes to great lengths to ensure that speaker videos are hosted online. You can peruse the conference’s great video archive at your leisure, but here are a few standouts to get you started:
- Tim Pawlenty – [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted February 24th
Wilco came to Hamilton last night and for the most part left the safe, predictable “dad rock” of their last two albums behind.
They played for about two and half hours to a sold-out crowd of 2200 at Hamilton Place Theatre, digging up all of their longer and more experimental epics for the show. They [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted February 24th
I don’t really know what it is used for right now, but I do know it is one of the coolest viral video technologies I’ve seen since the BK chicken.
What you need:
1. A small digital photo of your face handy (a facebook/twitter pic will do nicely)
2. A desktop or laptop PC with speakers, a [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted February 23rd
My friend and former IPDI colleague Chris Brooks and his friends had a great idea: a disaster response system that uses the speed and flexibility of the Internet and social media to deploy immediate, actionable information from ground zero of a natural disaster.
They didn’t just daydream about this idea — they actually put [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted February 23rd
Canadian Olympic athletes and their fans have something in common: we all want Canada to “own” the podium.
It’s a terrific idea, and it’s a completely understandable goal (if you’re not aiming for first, then why not?). Consequently, it’s a fine idea for the big Canadian sports organizations come together to support an [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted February 23rd
Flashback: NBC wants to move Leno back to later-night slot. Conan gets the boot. Generational warfare among TV viewers ensues. Young people side with Coco. Leno stays out of it, but is perceived to be complicit.
Then NBC airs this ad, hoping it will not be controversial and mostly fly under the radar.
On [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted February 23rd
My friend and former Ottawa colleague Neil Hrab is one of the most talented writers I know and is truly a bright light amongst conservative-leaning communicators in Canada today.
When he’s not working away at his day job, he has been scribbling away at a collection of documents meant for a sometimes-invisible, often-ignored, under-represented, sector of [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted February 22nd
Just back from a week in the Dominican and now back to blogging.
Currently I’m at the Sunday morning sessions of PodCampTO. They’re great so far – I think there are more useful choices of sessions for those in the business/marketing/PR universe this year.
I went to Erin Bury (of Sprouter.com)’s session on community [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted February 21st
Hartey Lefton is a conservative with energy, ideas, professionalism, and great attention to detail.
That’s why he’d make a great 4th VP for the Ontario PC Party.
Hartley has been my dear friend since the start of undergrad (about a decade now) and I can honestly say that he’s going to be a huge asset to the [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted February 10th
Another great marketing campaign is going on Toronto’s subway system right now. Check out Covergirl’s new take on the TTC turnstiles:
I don’t know what a “lash blast” is, but it’s a heck of a good use of the physical environment in an advertising campaign. I think it’s especially effective because of the the [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted February 10th
I didn’t mention this ad in my roundup yesterday, but easily could have. The Audi Green Police ad is very funny — but it feels eerily like a near-future dystopia.
Banning incandescent bulbs? Strikes a little close to home for those of us living in Totalitario, no?
(See the whole ad playlist.)
Lanny Cardow | posted February 9th
Oh, Toyota. It’s been a rough couple of weeks and there have been so many missed opportunities to lessen the impact of this bona fide corporate crisis. Worse than a missed opportunity, though, is to actively add to your woes.
We get it – nobody likes nasty news coverage that goes on [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted February 9th
Just giving a quick shout-out to friend Ethan Rabidoux for creating and co-authoring the excellent In the Bullpen sports blog.
Ethan and his colleagues have been updating it frequently (thus giving it an advantage over LC.com). They have some interesting takes on the NFL next season. Even though they picked the Colts to [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted February 9th
It’s no secret that advertisers pull out all the stops for advertising slots during the SuperBowl. And at $3 million for for a 30 second spot this year, they’d better stand out. In Canada however, due to an arcane rebroadcasting system and rules called “simultaneous substitution” all we got to see was [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted February 8th
I don’t know how the heck I missed this album when it came out in 2006, but I’m glad I’ve finally discovered it.
Brightblack Morning Light is a duo from Alabama-by-way-of-California who make laid back, slowed-down, roots-influenced, experimental blues rock. They don’t sound like anyone else I can think of. Either of their discs [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted February 7th
Saw a great new ad campaign for Diesel called Be Stupidwhen I was in New York last week. Here’s a photo I snapped of just one of the many subway banners, but there were many variants. Check the link above for the whole campaign.
I think it’s aligned well with the Diesel brand. The images [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted February 7th
This is a neat idea for a fundraiser – team based spinning for charity. The event takes place March 6-7 in Toronto, at the Ex. The funds raised by the event support the redevelopment of Trillium’s Intensive Care nursery. The Intensive Care Nursery cares for babies born up to eight weeks [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted February 5th
I’ve listened politely to friends and former colleagues’ stories of Verizon’s FIoS service back in DC. 1000s of channels, speed that cannot be compared to cable and ADSL, etc. But there was no Canadian equivalent. Now, it looks like Bell is going to start a rollout in Quebec City (drats!!) in Q3 [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted February 5th
Nicholas Cardot is on the right track with his selection of the 15 best Wordpress plugins for this year.
I agree with most of his choices and have used a few (since this blog’s re-do I’ve especially been looking forward to reduced Russian Comment Spam because of Akismet.) I plan to test the iPhone/Android/BlackBerry resizer [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted February 4th
So the TTC has finally launched an online trip planner, joining the ranks of most other first-world cities. Here’s how the flow chart to design this webapp might have looked:
1. What is your departure point?
2. What is your destination?
3. Will you be travelling at rush hour? [If yes, go to 4)]
4. How would you like [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted February 3rd
Be sure to read my colleague Joseph Lavoie’s blog post on Mayor Bloomberg’s social media efforts in his 09 race.
Great analysis from the session we attended last night at Social Media Week here in New York.
The panel was sponsored by ClickZ.com and Personal Democracy Forum, and featured my fellow IPDI colleague Jonah Siegler and the [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted February 3rd
I’m becoming a fairly avid user of Foursquare. You should join too. I’m using the BlackBerry version and it’s awesome. I love it, and it’s going to be huge. It’s uptake here in New York is impressive, and I’ve yet to have to add my own venue.
Now some people are getting offended about one of [...]
Lanny Cardow | posted February 3rd
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