Will Spaetzel's Stuff: Archive

Grids, The Rule of Thirds, and Rethinking Slide... →

Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds I received my contributor copy of Garr Reynolds’s Presentation Zen book last week and proceeded to devour it over the weekend. A fuller review is coming to this space soon, because this is the book about presentations that’s needed to be written for years, and it’s just fantastic. Best of all it’s not another recipe book about “how to make slides” —...

Dec 31st

Australia Joins China In Censoring The Internet →

The Australian Government has announced that they will be joining China as one of the few countries globally that broadly censor the internet. The Labor Party’s policy was announced prior to the Australian Election in November (release here) and was justified on the basis that the previous Government’s policy of providing free copies of NetNanny to all Australian households who wanted it didn’t...

Dec 31st

Hitting Your Target for 2008 →

Resolutions, as you might have already determined for yourself, rarely succeed. The problem is that they’re based on thinking that stems from you thinking guilty thoughts about things you should do better. You start by thinking about your weakness, and then you make plans about how to shore up those things that you’re weakest in handling successfully. I believe that this is the heart of the...

Dec 31st

Media 2008 is a Mix-Get Mixing →

Uploaded with Skitch! iEllie.com is a personal blog by a college student majoring in mass communications, focusing on PR. Her blog is an interesting peek into the heads of college students and how they’re viewing blogs, media making, and media consumption. Encapsulated on the first page alone are some interesting points to consider. And before you go and dismiss the blog for being...

Dec 28th

Good lazy day in Timmins. Hopefully i’ll have the energy to do more tomorrow.

Dec 28th

Almost in Timmins

Dec 27th