Digital Disruption

Ira Glass, host of This American Life on Storytelling: Tweet

The buzz in Toronto this past week is all about Facebook – as of 2pm this afternoon, Toronto has 573,355 people in the Toronto, ON network on Facebook – that’s 11% of the population of the greater Toronto metro area (GTA) and is the largest regional network on Facebook by a significant margin. (data courtesy [...]

Want to know what the world will be like five short years from now? New Yorker Magazine recently held their inaugural New Yorker Conference, “2012: Stories From the Near Future,” which took place last week. Watch the views of luminaries like Malcolm Gladwell, Barry Diller, Arianna Huffington, Will Wright, and Craig Newmark. Topics covered include: [...]

We’re continually having conversations across the agency about how to help our clients create experiences that ultimately go beyond advertising and marketing to give something valuable, meaningful and relevant back to the community.Here’s a wonderful story that takes this concept a little further, utilizing a simple outdoor billboard at the MC Weiler School in Alexandra [...]

70 Moleskines by international artists, designers, architects, illustrators, and writers Watch them “unbox” their respective Moleskines – here are my favorite two by Chris Dent. Tweet

Part 2 to Daniel Pink’s “A Whole New Mind” (which you know is one of my favorite books of all time) … I discovered this cool survey which lets you test if you’re more left-brained, more right-brained or somewhere in the middle. Check it out: http://www.blogthings.com/areyourightorleftbrainedquiz/ According to the quiz, I am 40/60 Left brain/Right [...]

Rupert Murdoch (media mogul extraordinaire) has been in the news the past few days following his controversial $5 Billion bid for the Wall Street Journal. I found his following commentary on the changing nature of the media world to be very refreshing, insightful and quite unexpected from one of the “old-guard”. Here’s a glimpse into [...]