James Cogan

James Cogan on Dan Cook CJAD 800 AM - Michael Jackson & Net Effect

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:33:38 -0500

It's always a treat to chat with Dan Cook, show host on CJAD 800 AM and political blogstar for the Globe and Mail. The topic for this radio clip was the news of Michael Jackson's passing, and the subsequent effect on internet and traditional media. Click button to play... James...

Don't let first impressions linger when it comes to social media / technology tools

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:40:20 -0500

Don't let first impressions linger when it comes to social media / technology tools on Video.ca Awoke early Friday morning with a blog post idea and couldn't wait to get it out. re: Facebook vanity URLs and how the service has changed since it first started gaining momentum....

How important is 'Trust' when consuming news?

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:58:32 -0500

How important is 'Trust' when consuming news? on Video.ca A video blog post following-up on a recent Nanos poll that asked Canadians which news source they trusted the most. Nanos Poll document can be found here: PDF document....

Entrepreneurs can change the world

Sun, 31 May 2009 09:03:49 -0500

dailypixel has been a happy GotVmail.com customer for years. So when I heard a few months back that the company had bought a generic domain name and a re-branding announcement was on the way, needless to say I was intrigued. Sure enough in mid-April we received a letter from the...

Why our 'amazing' science fiction future fizzled

Fri, 29 May 2009 13:28:04 -0500

"At some point, you can't expect a miracle to come in the form of technology to save us," Verheiden says. "At some point, the miracle has to come from a change in attitude and a new outlook." Source: Why our 'amazing' science fiction future fizzled...

Is T-Mobile's latest viral campaign a shining example of social media? Or is it a rip-off? Or both?

Tue, 05 May 2009 09:56:11 -0500

Is T-Mobile's latest viral campaign a shining example of social media? Or is it a rip-off? Or both? I think these are fair questions in the wake of T-Mobile's recently released commercial which features a crowd of 13,500 people singing the Beatles 'Hey Jude' in unison with celebrity vocalist Pink...

The 'Coke Side of Life' is full of digital and social media

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:15:04 -0500

The 'Coke Side of Life' is full of digital and social media...Clyde Tuggle, SVP of corporate affairs and productivity at Coke, noted "mass media is declining in importance," when introducing the new department in a memo to staff, which the beverage manufacturer shared with PRWeek. Our future success depends on...

Twitter IDs are the New Domain Names

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:49:55 -0500

Bill Sweetman from Yummy Names beat me to the blogging punch (not hard to do these days given my lack of posting!) and wrote a great post on a topic I had been thinking about for some time - the growing importance of claiming your Twitter ID. As Twitter continues...

New study shows Canadian media habits are changing

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:47:53 -0500

A new Ipsos Reid study has been released as part of their ongoing series entitled Inter@ctive Reid Report. This latest study confirms that many Canadians are slowly replacing their television, magazine and radio usage with the internet."The fact that Internet usage has caught up with and is keeping pace with...

Next news model

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:53:23 -0500

Overheard in the blogosphere today...It’s not a bad thing for the public that Twitter is better for breaking news than a newspaper; it’s just a bad thing for journalists that they didn’t create Twitter first. So journalists: Let’s stop complaining about the fact that we’re getting our asses whooped at...

Internet surpasses Newspapers as news source (US)

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:11:32 -0500

According to the latest Pew Research study, the Internet (in the U.S.) has overtaken Newspapers as a primary news source, Television next?The internet, which emerged this year as a leading source for campaign news, has now surpassed all other media except television as a main source for national and international...

Bars and tones

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:52:18 -0500

I really like this. Way to go André!...

More than three

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:45:02 -0500

via bran...

Go vertical

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:50:50 -0500

Because video doesn't have to be horizontal....

CBS gets serious about TV.com

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:45:35 -0500

When CBS bought CNET a little while ago, I was quick to point out that the $1.8 billion paid for CNET included some lucrative and intriguing brand assets / web real estate / domain names. Now comes word today that CBS is getting serious about one of those acquired brand...