Kevan Gilbert:

So the silence is pretty post-apocalyptic here on my site, but I’m not actually dead. Over with Domain7, I’ve still been busy working and writing and scribbling down words. Here’s a collection of some of the works that have materialized in this new space: My first day at Domain7 “At Pixar, they call it beginner’s [...]

Originally published on the official Domain7 blog. Tips on good project management are as common as pre-printed Royal Wedding memorabilia, and they’re just as useful, too. After all, if project management was just about following instructions, we wouldn’t have construction projects going years beyond deadlines or Fast Ferries being sold for scrap metal. Fact: Nobody [...]

I recently discovered the bizarre world of fiverr.com, where you can post various gigs, acts and services you’re willing to render for the tidy sum of five dollars. The only catches are: 1) the buyer owns the rights to your work, and 2) you only get four dollars. That’s right, fiverr’s commission is 20%, so [...]

Self-Googling, the requisite responsibility of the vain and preening web publisher, reveals two main things about me: one, I’m fortunate enough that my own website is the first result when you Google my name. I know there’s real-life, money-making, old-fashioned corporations that don’t even get to say that. Two, and directly related to number one, [...]

The future of non-profit fundraising has been sealed: it’s on the web. I am sensing a frenzied agitation and excitement amongst business leaders who are thirsty for the type of success demonstrated by President Obama’s online fundraising campaign, and it’s reaching a frightening level of hype. I am feeling the frenzy too. After reading books [...]

If this blog were a car, I’d be about 10,000 kilometers overdue for an oil change: it’s been a long time. For repeat visitors to this blog of mine, you’ll notice that the old homepage, with its magazine-like template, has been replaced with a new look, one which scrolls endlessly like a conventional blog. Why? [...]

You may have noticed that this site was “borked,” or down, or inaccessible, or busted, for the bulk of yesterday. I was doing some technical tweaking to try and stop a sickening flood of referral spam, but accidentally knocked out my website. Ugly timing on that one, because I had just announced my First Annual [...]

The Internet is like an enormous walk-in dumpster filled with discarded lamps, stale bakery leftovers and damaged umbrellas, newspapers and old bicycles, disgusting leaks from thrown-out pop cans, broken TVs, confidential banking records, free iPods and dented cans of spam. Many people willingly tolerate the wretched stench from the dumpster and the dirty looks they [...]

Paul McLean will eat your soul Approximately seven minutes ago, the Calgary Flames were eliminated from the 2007 Stanley Cup Finals by the Detroit Red Wings. The city fell silent and wept into its pillow. All across the prairie town, the Red Mile turned blue, as thousands of Flames fans untied their western-style jersey collars [...]

1. There’s a new Modest Mouse music video and it’s very good The giant, loud-mouthed band called Modest Mouse have unleashed an album just a few days ago, and it’s called “We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank.” Their lead single is called, confessionally, “Dashboard.” It’s a very great song to listen to when [...]

This day marks the inception of “Harrison Exists,” a green-ish coloured blog by a black-ish coloured person. If you’re wondering why this even matters at all, I’ll explain: Harrison (once known as “Harry”) is a culturally-informed style of smart person. He’s masterful at analyzing pop culture through a grad school lens, and brings grounded insight [...]

When this website first hit the tubes in late ’05, it was only through the modern miracle of hypertext that the site even behaved like a functional piece of Internet. It was slapped together with Frontpage (Express, no less) and foolishly designed with no thought to future expansion, and any time I wanted to add [...]

Life of Pi is being made into a movie. The screen adaptation of everybody’s favourite novel (by Canadian Yann Martell) won’t won’t be out until 2009, but I think it’s worth getting excited about. It’s being directed & filmed by Jean-Pierre Jeuner, the same director that did Amélie, which, if you remember, was a brilliant [...]