And now, as Terry Gilliam said more than once, for something completely different.

My large and rambunctious clan is taking part in the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s annual Great Strides fundraising walk, under the Dunphy Armada banner. The walk is on May 30.

In addition to the walk, I’ve decided to challenge my network to raise enough money for me to shave off my beard  - something that hasn’t been done since the previous century. That’s right, I’m going to go naked faced out into the world next Sunday.

You can learn more about it – and even sponsor

Continue reading Getting Naked for CF – Seven Days and Counting

 Looking at research around writing for the web quickly turns up a central paradox: Readers scan web pages, they don’t read them like books, they jump from page to page, from link to link and back again, they drop stories and headlines within reading the first two words YET people are apt to finish more stories on the web, and to read deeper into stories if they finally do light on them.

What’s up?

Hard to say. Surely it has something to do with the conditioning we’ve received on the web, with the continual invitations to distraction that a

Continue reading How to write for the Web (it ain’t just words on a page)

 Here’s the slides – complete with links – from my Camp VJ session on Mapping and the Web.

 This is really for the folks from Ink and Beyond, the Canadian Newspaper industry’s annual gathering, where I gave a brief presentation on video for independent newspaper web sites. 

I’m posting it here really just to give everybody the links.

Bill