The Webconomist

This is the dawn of the Attention Economy. These are my thoughts and presumptions on the Web and the impact on our world. Information has been democratized, how will we evolve? What are the changing economics?

Why Apples Closed System Works

Apple and Microsoft are closed. Google is open. There is, I think, a case for both. The debate now rages…

16 years ago

Why the iPad and Kindle Will Not Be The End of Books

Sure they're nice. Sweet technology, doing cool things. They figured out the eye-strain issue with Kindle and that will be…

16 years ago

The Idiocy of Patents In The Web World

I'm not a fan of patents, let's just lay that out there. Essentially you create an idea, make the patent…

16 years ago

Why Google Gets The Browser With Chrome

Aside from speed. I made the full migration from FireFox over the past week, in those odd moments I wasn't…

16 years ago

The Choice To Turn It Off

Two things strike me about the technology revolution underway today; 1) we've never before, in the history of humanity, been…

16 years ago

Some Things Just Can’t Go Digital

Netflix has been out there on the Web renting movies for a while, in Canada it's zip.ca and now YouTube…

16 years ago

Big Change & The Internet Generation

This year, the first kids of the Internet generation start to come of age. Some already have. They're seriously far…

16 years ago

Bust-A-Move, social media and the newspaper biz

Giles Crouch talks with Halifax Chronicle-Herald columnist Gail Lethbridge (aka @giftedtypist on Twitter) about embracing social media, Bust-A-Move for breast health,…

16 years ago

Chatting About SEO & Twitter

Giles talks with Mark Campbell, a Halifax-based search engine optimization expert with Wordsworth Communications & Consulting. Be sure to follow…

16 years ago

Buying Google Stuff For Your Business: Sheepdog Inc

Giles Crouch talks with Shawn Wilkie of Halifax's Sheepdog Inc, the first Canadian reseller of Google Apps for business. More

16 years ago