Beyond the Rhetoric

Every Wednesday, I gather together a collection of blog posts from around the Internet. This week’s selection roughly focuses on the broad subject of summer. There should be a little something for everyone here. We start out with our friend Raul Pacheco, who participated in the mainstream media game at Five Hole for Food 2011. [...]

Excuse the brevity, but by the time that you read this post, I’ll be somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. I’m on my way back from Taipei after spending two weeks there, eating the local cuisine and venturing outside the city. You can check out some of my recently updated photos on Flickr too. The unfortunate [...]

“Even though I was always one of the smallest kids on my hockey team growing up, I never stopped dreaming about playing in the NHL, so having the ability to live out that dream was unbelievable. I certainly hope that kids who are also small in stature but not in heart will look at me [...]

As you may have heard, the Vancouver Canucks won last night. That brings them to the Western Conference finals for the first time since the storied 1994 Stanley Cup playoff run and this city is positively electric as a result. This got me thinking, though, about something from a marketing and branding perspective. A trend [...]

Last night was a great night for Vancouver Canucks fans. Our hometown hockey team had already clinched the Northwest Division, as well as the Western Conference, but it was with last night’s win over the Los Angeles Kings that the Canucks clinched the Presidents’ Trophy. That’s the award given by the NHL to the team [...]