James Wanless
Blog URL http://james.wanless.info
Located Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
Tags web, design, informationarchitecture, userexperience, running, learning
The musings of a web professional, masters student and recreational athlete.
Latest Blog Posts
- Olympic indoctrination a matter of perspective on Oct 19, 2009 in community education politics
The dust-up about The Olympic Resistance Network (ORN) providing an Olympics protest workshop for a local of the British Columbia Teacher’s Federation (BCTF) began at the end of last week. I’m not big on political statements being made t...
- Epic fail of the day, Microsoft style on Oct 16, 2009 in business
I love opening files sent around work in our Windows-centric environment. In particular, when I think of the Microsoft promise to embrace standards and then see these kinds of dialogue boxes, I get shivers up and down my spine. Hey Microsoft, if y...
- 250,000 gainers can’t be wrong on Oct 12, 2009 in business marketing media
Imagine my amazement. In Sunday's Vancouver Province I saw a double-page spread that said I could get a free sample of the "Rolls Royce of male enlargement." Say no more and sign me up ... No related posts.
- Getting social media for CRM right on Sep 6, 2009 in business community customer experience interaction web
This issue has been percolating just under my skin for a while now. I often hear it said where I work that we still haven’t figured out how to use social media and I’d guess that’s probably true of many places. I think, though, th...
- Clearing cobwebs and groinal eggplants on Aug 20, 2009 in fitness health personal
So, when I finally sit down to write my first journal entry in more than a month, what do I write about? Why, my recent sports hernia operation, of course – and getting out of holiday mode and back to job work and thesis work. Truth is, I&#...
- Is cloud computing still blue sky? on Jul 17, 2009 in access business information privacy web writing
As I lurch through this summer trying to finalize the thesis proposal which will frame a large part of my life for the next year, collaborative tools for learning are never far from front of mind with me. A real interest of mine is the use of collab...
- Severing the Telus umbilical cord on Jun 26, 2009 in business customer experience Shaw
Image by Darren Hester via Flickr The first move was finally made last night. It’s been long overdue and I’m happy to be on the path. I’ve taken the first step to getting Telus hands out of my pockets – and they’ve b...
