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Letter to the Public Order Emergency Commission

Last year, in 2022, the Public Order Emergency Commission, established by the Government of Canada to inquire into the declaration of the Emergencies Act, solicited written submissions from the public. People who know me closely know how intensely bothered I was by the declaration of the Emergencies Act. I wrote letters to each Ontario Senator… Continue reading
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Structured Strategy: How to Supercharge Your Content Analysis with XML and XPath

Last week in Atlanta, George, I presented the following talk at the Society for Technical Communication Summit 2023: The best content strategists are limited by how much content they can analyze. There comes a point where a content set becomes too large to analyze using usual methods. Do you have the skills to scale your… Continue reading
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Lessons From the STC Summit 2023 @ Atlanta

This past week I was in Atlanta for the Society for Technical Communication’s annual summit. This is my second in-person STC Summit. (Last year, it was in Rosemont, where I presented “Microcontent Migration: Making the Move to New Content Opportunities.”) I thought the venue was nice and appreciated the chance to visit Atlanta for the… Continue reading
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Information Management on Web3

On Tuesday, April 18, 2023, I presented this talk at ConVEx Baltimore: Web3 will supposedly revolutionize our experiences online, but how will it change our information management practices? This presentation will catch the audience up with the latest conversations in AI-powered content strategy, NFT metadata standards, and distributed alternatives to HTTP such as the InterPlanetary… Continue reading
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To the Next Paycheck

As I’ve written on this blog before, for better or worse, I tend to watch most of the limited-release anime films that I can when they hit my local Cineplex theater. I had not yet been a reader nor watcher of the mega-hit Demon Slayer back when its absurdly high-grossing film hit theaters in that… Continue reading
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