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This site began with a soft launch in July, 2016, repurposing content written for LinkedIn and elsewhere. With the steady generation of more content, the strategy has evolved; the blog is now the site of first resort, with links from LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Medium. We’ll be adding other channels as appropriate.
There’s nothing complicated about my SEO strategy. There are techniques, and best practices, and maybe even fads, but I won’t be buying links, trolling for likes, or looking for other quick fixes. Growing readership depends, as it always has, on producing quality content on a regular and consistent basis. That’s been central to my previous online presences, and I’m carrying it over into this one as well.
My writing tends to focus on certain themes: clarity, authenticity, critical thinking, and so on. Sometimes it bounces off the news, sometimes things just crystallize, but no matter what I’m writing about, I’m committed to thoughtful and respectful engagement.
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Recent posts

As I write this, Joe Biden's electoral-vote count has been pegged at 264. They haven't actually…
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For weeks now, if not months, we have seen demonstrations, mass gatherings, and marches by “anti-mask”…
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A few millennia ago, some sanctimonious wanker was musing about generosity of spirit and the way…
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[caption id="attachment_748" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Deb Singh, Chairperson of Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres / CBC[/caption]…
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... and let the winner be in charge of everything! After all, it's not as if…
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https://youtu.be/oc6Yo3A7CC8 "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" This was once the most devastating rebuke in…
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As the public education system is roiled by a needless dispute triggered solely by the ideological…
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A little cheap humour (is there any other kind?) and five minutes of Photoshopping.
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I’m writing in the wake of last week’s Pride event. Normally, after a PR and community-relations…
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Midnight madness at Queen's Park. Ah, well, maybe we didn't really need Storify ... https://twitter.com/SolTwoPointO/status/1041546153781878784 https://twitter.com/SolTwoPointO/status/1041546555285819392…
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The ascension of Brother Doug has been a catalyst, for better or worse. Past year or…
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Gold-flaked bagel? Seriously?
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Another mass shooting? Whatever
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Bye-bye, Blundstones
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Tyranny of the number-crunchers
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#Twitterfail, via Alexandra Brodsky
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Why ignorance isn't funny, part 3Stupid angry white people with guns
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Lindy West: Sayonara, twitter
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Why ignorance isn't funny, part 2Climate scientists get death threats
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What we're up against, and why ignorance isn't funny
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Is the Russian Menace a thing again?
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How are Facebook and Google deciding what to show us?
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It's not the post-truth era unless we let be
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People may not recall what they see on FB, but it only takes one
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Fake news isn't just a business-model failure
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Clickbait = revenue for sketchy content? Who knew?
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Phony content doesn't depend on ad revenue
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This can't be the New Normal
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Another round of whack-a-troll
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That controversy isn't going away
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Is Facebook a news source?
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Recognizing narratives
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Drilling down
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Complexity and clarity
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A comparison
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So Twitter's in play?
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iPhone 7
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How authentic are you?
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YouTube isn't dead
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Social-media smackdown
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Audience and engagement