Author Archives: Robert Basil

Yik Yak and Meerkat

When Ted Cruz announced his candidacy for USA president at Liberty University yesterday, many students in the audience used the Smartphone app Yik Yak to mock the junior senator from Texas (and to complain that they were coerced to attend the event … Continue reading

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Marketing in the Digital World: Student Blogs

Posts and up-to-the-minute news from my Kwantlen Polytechnic University digital-marketing class. The learning in this course is truly crowd-sourced.

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Funny sign

Glover Road, Langley, BC, near Kwantlen Polytechnic University. (cross-posted at basil.CA)

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The unending report card

In a development that would have stricken terror in me in my elementary-school days, a Langley, BC school district is employing a new software platform that allows parents to monitor their children’s work – and grades – on a daily … Continue reading

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Vantransient

Tweets from folks using the Lower Mainland’s mass transit system, retweeted for *you* by the creators of No Contest.

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Simplicity is Beautiful

I take the train from Vancouver to Olympia, and then back again, all the time. (The love of my life lives south of the border.) Olympia’s Centennial Station is staffed by (usually) elderly volunteers who love trains and who love helping … Continue reading

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A related post …

Popular bar in Olympia, Washington:

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Bringing Children in

From an excellent article in Mediate.com called “Best Interests and Little Voices: Child Participation in the Family Mediation Dialogue” by Jennifer Winestone: Children were historically excluded from post-separation decision-making, because of the  assumption that children lacked the “legal and psychological … Continue reading

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Audience Analysis

This mash-up of recent country music hits demonstrates aesthetic ossification. Via Language Log.

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Communicate for Free

I had always found eHarmony Inc.‘s advertisements vaguely disconcerting: too optimistic about romance, and too confident about its vaunted heuristic (the “Relationship Questionnaire”!). An advertisement currently in frequent rotation on television promises viewers that “You can start communicating for free today” – … Continue reading

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