communications
Back in 2018 I shared a thought on Facebook about how social media was changing our perception of time. I had just wrapped up my first summer growing flowers for profit on a parched five acres in the prairies of Southern Alberta. Somehow, despite no working wells on the property
community radio
I've been trying to find a solution to the problem of social media. Over a year ago I designed a model I thought might work – a tiered networking platform that offered free functionality to individual users, paid profiles to businesses and institutions, and founder/investor shares to arts
community
I was raised Mormon, and though I left the church and distanced myself from organized religion in my early twenties, the doomprepper in me never really died. I was brought up with large gardens and cold-storage rooms, small livestock and needle crafts. The earliest dreams I can remember, and
user data
Viral pathogen genome researcher, Theo Sanderson, has created a map of 3million+ Bluesky users that visualizes simple, publicly available user data, and it's exquisite. What first stunned me was, that's the way I imagine data in my head. Though, in my head the data is dynamic
agency
As a "communications strategist" I understand the rules of online engagement intimately, so much so that when I realized the implications of marketers applying users' behavioural data at scale – feeding it back to us as we gaze glassy-eyed into the abyss, adoring our own reflections and
alberta
Confession: two decades of being "very online" have resulted in a marked loss of my in-person social skills. Since dunking myself into "real community" in a new town on a small island province, I'm recognizing anti-social behaviours in myself that I think