The following text is from Barack Obama’s LinkedIn profile. It’s hilarious in its understatement. Read on. There are some recommendations below. LinkedIn is one of the most powerful networking tools on the planet. Barack Obama is the most powerful person on the planet (next to Lady Gaga, some might argue, but that’s another story for [...]

A Joke is a Very Serious Thing By: Andrea Lloyd (Editor’s Note: this article was recently posted by my friend and colleague, Andrea Lloyd, on the Sauder School of Business’s ISIS website.Given our use of the BEST Party’s amazing campaign video on Saturday, we thought it only fitting to expand the digital story with a [...]

The City vs. The Corporation It was bound to happen. Vancouver – the upstart, self-proclaimed Greenest City in the World – and Pepsi – the upstart, self-proclaimed Anti-Brand Counterculture Fresh Innovative Social Media Grassroots Not-Coke-We’re-Different-COOLNESS! – were going to run into each other. And I’m pleased to be the one to make the connection. Speaking [...]

I have a confession to make. This is my third summer in Vancouver and yesterday was the first time that I experienced the Pride Parade and Festival. I am not, ahem, proud of this fact. What I am proud of is this city. The Pride Parade is a true reflection of the inclusive, accepting and [...]

Dear Kurt Heinrich, I know that you’re not Johnisms biggest fan. Fair enough. As someone not named John, you will be irrelevant and, probably, disappeared when the revolution comes. Speaking of “the revolution,” Johnism – actually, Jonism – just won a pretty hilarious victory on the Icelandic front (fun fact: the Icelandic front is one [...]

Trust me. I’m going somewhere cool with this. On Monday afternoon I was skimming a newsletter from up-and-coming twitblog, The Tyee. Two stories caught my attention. The first was about a supercool Downtown Eastside writers collective called Thursdays, which just released its fourth chapbook, Storybox. The second was about the BC Library Association’s teen reading [...]

For my post this week I was originally going to write about the concept of reputation, with a particular focus on Lebron James and his classless, drunk-on-ego Superfriends performance (filtered nicely through the thoughtful lens of two heroes, Alexandra Samuel and Steve Nash). And then I was going to argue that rural living is superior [...]

Dear The New York Times Fashion Section. Hi guys and gals. John here. Thanks again for all the fan mail. It really keeps us going. So, you know how your editorial department asks for our advice on a lot of story angles? Well, you kinda missed a pretty important one. As it happens, Kurt G. [...]

Last Sunday, my wife – it still sounds a little weird saying it…”wife”… – and I returned from our honeymoon. While I will not provide you readers with any details of our romanticism, I will discuss a dilemma-ridden, um, discussion that Michelle and I seem to be having each and every day. And here it [...]