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11 Questions with Kyle MacDonald...you know the "red-paper-clip-guy"
What started as a playful game fueled by the digital age quickly became a lesson in relative value and ended with a gesture of generosity and a man filled with insights. Kyle MacDonald...
11 questions with Dallas Clayton of the Awesome World Foundation
Dallas Clayton writes kids books. His first was called An Awesome Book . He wrote the story and drew the pictures a few years back for his 5 year-old son (kinda like a father-son manifesto) encouraging him to dream big and imagine things like "rocket-powered unicorns." He made a few extra copies and started selling them from his home. Since then, he's sold a lot and went on to create the Awesome World Foundation and donate one book for every book sold. His fans include Spike Jonze,...
Evan Ratliff (aka Digital Houdini) chats with The Rake
photo credit: Joe Pugliese I met Evan Ratliff this summer in Toronto at NXNE. He’s a hell of a writer and storyteller. He’s most famous as “that crazy Houdini guy” in WIRED magazine who vanished for a month and challenged readers to find him. This smash-hit article is gonzo journalism for geeks at its best. For me, the biggest hook of his story is that he did what a lot of us fantasize doing: disappearing and becoming someone else. Evan and I spoke again recently and rather than...
Isn’t the mobile web the next big thing?
We all know the stats about wireless revolution. Or at least I thought we did. Inspired by a fun exercise freelancer Nick Jones did taking screenshots of various agency website around the world with his iPhone, I did a little local tour to see the mobile state of things at some of Canada’s agencies.
Web, life and a better world: Interview with David de Rothschild
Watch our exclusive interview with the founder of the Plastiki, David de Rothschild , taken while he sails across Pacific on his boat from recycled plastic water bottles.
Graham Hill waiting for the Plastiki
Did you see Thane’s presentation at Infopresse’s RDV Web conference on April 21st? If you did, you may have noticed that due to some technical and scheduling conflicts, Graham Hill was not able to join us via Skype that day. To make up for it, he sent us a fantastic video of his adventures on the Plastiki.