I am one of those few folk – slippery and stubborn – still dancing evasive maneuveurs around the necessity of the cell phone. I’m not even sure why, except that I dislike phone conversations in the first place. Not true – actually, what I dislike is calling people and being called. The actual talking part [...]
They watch the watchers… “I think there is a campaign against the bloggers here,” he said. “We are exposing what all Egyptians know but weren’t talking about.” Mideast governments for decades have dominated the media, trying to keep a monopoly on information and deter criticism of authorities. But bloggers are chipping away, writing about everything [...]
Logo Cities: An International Symposium on Signage, Branding and Lettering in Public Space May 4-5, 2007 Concordia University, Montréal, Québec Cities are awash in ‘public lettering’: street signs, newspaper mastheads, road signs, high-rise corporate logos, store/shop/restaurant signs, engravings on buildings and monuments, etc. They are at once branding and promotional devices; names (of buildings); labels; [...]
