Archive for the category "internet"

Twitter is Down, What to do?

Comments 10 by Rebecca Bollwitt

What does the population do when Twitter goes down? I’m not sure but hopefully they turn to blogs. This morning the microblogging service used by millions across the globe went down, and I’m not taking “Fail Whale” down. Fail Whale Fan Club & What is Fail Whale The entire site is unavailable (as well as […]

Show Your Canadian Identity with Canada Place

Comments 2 by Rebecca Bollwitt

tripleman on Flickr / tripleman.com Canada Place would like to know why you love Canada and what you feel makes it the best home for you with their Our Canada campaign. Until June 21st they would like you to submit up to 50 words about what Canada is to you — what is your Canadian […]

Twitter Tees and Geeky Clothing

Comments 3 by Rebecca Bollwitt

About a year ago I wrote about t-shirts designed with the geek girl in mind and I’ve always been a fan of techno-savvy tops (although in an early post from 2005 I did feature HTML underwear). Today a trending topic on Twitter is “Twitter Tees” as it appears Threadless has come up with these amusing […]

Real Life Twitter

Comments 8 by Rebecca Bollwitt

Everyone’s favourite microblogging site, Twitter, has been going down for maintenance quite frequently lately. This could be due to its massive and rapid growth, the upgrading of features or because millions have flocked to the service to see what Ashton Kutcher or Oprah are doing minute-by-minute. However since it is currently out of commission (for […]

Google Insights for Canucks Fans

Comments 1 by Rebecca Bollwitt

I love random stats and tidbits of information which is why I’m currently addicted to Google’s Insights for Search feature. Basically you can pop in a search term and see trends such as which cities or countries search what term the most, where people are located, what are some top searched words, and various other […]