Last Friday I attended a monthly concert/party hosted at a luthier’s atelier in the garment district side of Mile End with my buddy and band mate Al Kohl of Loaded Films. We had the good fortune to meet Amy Vickberg and Jen Hamilton of Place magazine. As luck would have it, Place magazine’s headquarters are in the same
An astrophysicist, blogs and strategy at the HEC
March 13, 2009 – 1:50 pm
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of giving my first academic seminar since my days as an astrophysicist, to the GéPS group at HEC. So what is an astrophysicist doing giving a talk to the management and strategy group at a business school? Well, talking about how blogs are changing the nature of strategic information of course! Over
“Old school” journalists, journalists who blog, and bloggers
February 3, 2009 – 1:18 pm
I ran across this cartoon in the Tobias Escher’s excellent blog at the Oxford Internet Institute: Besides the fact that it is funny and kinda true, does anything strike you? The date maybe? 2005! That’s right 2005! Maybe somebody should send this to Christie Blatchford the next time she decides to belittle bloggers and journalists
Major Bugs in Google Blog Search
August 14, 2008 – 10:51 am
Last month I was working with Zach Devereaux (you can read some of his academic work with the team at Ryerson’s Infoscape Media Lab on the blogosphere surounding the liberal leadership race), who pointed out an excellent blog post from the Oxford Internet Institute that characterises some of the problems we here at Exvisu have come across
Twitter intelligence?
May 8, 2008 – 10:32 am
Last week, Chris Scott, a friend and an excellent Drupal and Ruby on Rails developer, (http://www.extonrails.com/) sent me this link. I have been constantly using it ever since. Summize Labs has come up with a real-time twitter sentiment mapper and overall evaluator. It is pretty simple: you type in a word or a person, and
Alcan & Alcoa in Iceland
March 7, 2008 – 10:07 am
Alcan and Alcoa in Iceland is our blog based network intelligence mini-study of the sustainability debate surrounding the aluminum industry’s role in that small country. This study has been featured in the latest online issue of Corporate Knights magazine. I especially like Prof. David Wheeler‘s ANT-like approach to corporate structure: Think of the modern corporation less as
Web 2.0: New technologies, Old Ideas
January 21, 2008 – 10:02 am
On my last trip to Paris I had lunch with Gilles Prigent, founder of Take Part Media and creator and administrator of Scitizen. Scitizen is a peer reviewed science news source: news edited and created directly by the scientists who make it, directed to well, everyone. The technology that allows Scitizen to work is brand new, but
We feel fine: blog emotional intelligence
November 27, 2007 – 9:54 am
My friend Tomek, a visual interface designer par excellence (http://www.pixelbox.com/), introduced me to this site a few weeks ago… it floored me with its insight and its visual display. It is similar in principal to our lexical text mapping tool here at Nexalogy. What WeFeelFine lacks in flexibility and depth (we check word correlations for all words
Red Bull at Webcom
November 20, 2007 – 9:42 am
Nexalogy unveiled its latest brand study at Webcom Montréal last week. Webcom was exciting to say the least, one could feel rise of the participative web in the conference halls. For a good summary of the Webcom conference check out Benoit Marcoux’s: blog. We (Nexalogy and K3) looked at a day in the life of
Tremblant Forum
September 21, 2007 – 9:33 am
Nexalogy attended the fourth annual Tremblant Forum on Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability on the 19th and 20th of September. The Forum presented an ideal setting for communicating vital ideas about the future of corporate sustainability. Clearly the future must take a turn for the sustainable. The last session on Corporate sustainability and the media was
