A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by a reporter at The Daily Gleaner by the name of Molly Cormier asking if she could interview me for an article about web design and social media. Not wanting to pass up any opportunity to get exposure I said “sure”. The end result is what I think turned out to be a great article (I’m bias) with a super exaggerated headline (I’m modest).

Here’s a small excerpt:

Q: How has the Internet influenced our world in the past decade, and how will it change as we move into a new decade?

A: Whether people like to admit it or not the Internet has completely changed the world that we live in. In some places you never actually need to leave your house anymore, because of the Internet. You can order groceries online, order movies online – really just about anything that you’d need to leave the house for you can do online now.

The Internet has made the world a much, much smaller place and with social media sites like Facebook and Twitter stepping into the limelight, it’s only getting smaller.

We’re now able to communicate with hundreds, thousands or millions of people at the blink of an eye.

The full article can be read here.

Thanks again to Molly Cormier for writing the article. You can follow her on Twitter at @mollycormier or follow me at @robbclarke

On Tuesday of this past week I got a phone call at the office from a reporter from the local Fredericton newspaper, The Daily Gleaner. He was looking to speak to a graphic designer about what they do and to comment on the industry. I just so happened to answer the phone at the time and was more than happy to help him out.

On Wednesday, reporter Chris Fox came into the office and interviewed me and was followed a short time later by a photographer who took some pictures.

The end result was this article that ran on Saturday, August 22, 2009. For the most part everything was great in the article except for two minor things. The first being that I don’t “handle all the programming and coding for the entire operation.” He got that part mixed up with freelance (for friends and family). I worked with a great team of programmers at Red Cow, Oliver Dueck and Sean Dunphy who have the hardest jobs of them all, they have to make my coded sites actually work. Without them, Red Cow wouldn’t work nearly as well.

The second issue was a mix up of timelines. The article states that I work at Red Cow and teach in the evenings, which is true, but the next paragraph jumps back in time 4 years to when I was doing my Bachelor’s degree and decided that I didn’t want to get into teaching, which is about all you can do with a History Major. It’s a little awkwardly worded but past that, it was good.

I first read the article online when I woke up that morning because, of course, I was incredibly exicted. It wasn’t until later in the day when I grabbed an actual paper copy that I noticed I WAS THE WHOLE FRONT PAGE OF THE BUSINESS SECTION! It was pretty frickin’ cool.

Wait… why are you still reading this? Go read the article!

Back in June, good friend Jason Wilson approached me about the creation of a website that would be a showcase “for the creatively gifted.” The website just officially launched this past Friday, August 14th and has already received some press.

The Bugle Observer in Woodstock, NB ran an article on Jason and Unfiltered Smoke on July 28th in which I get a mention.

He’s been meeting with Robb Clarke, a friend and webdesigner, concerning the look of the website.

You can read the full article here:
http://bugleobserver.canadaeast.com/rss/article/742262

If you want to check out Unfiltered Smoke you can do so by clicking here.