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Okay, this ain’t stayin’ up long… but here’s a 13-year-old me at my first radio gig, on UBC’s campus radio station CiTR. Press the blue Play icon below to listen. About the Maffin [contact] is a keynote speaker and thought-leader in the areas ...

Forty-six years ago, today, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. That much is known. The rest, pretty much, is speculation. When I was 11, I found myself browsing through the used books section of the Value Village in New Westter, B.C. ...

So you’ve got a Facebook account and added a couple of dozen friends. In time, you begin to add some business contacts as well. Since your business contacts can now see your profile, you’re faced with a dilemma. Do you stop posting any ...

For more information about the full presentation, check out Tweet Warfare: Protecting Your Brand When It’s Attacked Online. About the Maffin [contact] is a keynote speaker and thought-leader in the areas of Recruiting, Leading, Teaching, and Marketing ...

Want to see the whole 90- keynote presentation? You are view­ing a selected por­tion of a longer keynote pre­sen­ta­tion I give called “Tweet Warfare: Protecting Your Brand from Online Attacks.” (Clicking won’t stop the video; it will open a ...

One of the projects CBC is undertaking across the country is a sweeping “integration” of its news-gathering resources. Rather than having separate newsrooms, assignment desks, and reporters for TV, radio, and web, CBC will now have a single ...

Sean Carruthers did a great review of the iPhone’s new Voice Memos application (comes with the iPhone 3.0 software update) the other day. iPhone 3's Voice Memo app One thing I haven’t been able to find any reof the actual audio quality, ...

Audio of an interview I did on CBC Winnipeg’s Information Morning radio show about my own journey through depression and addiction. www.todmaffin.com/uploads/audio/tod_depression_cbc.mp3 This is a copyrighted article from TodMaffin.com. If you are ...

Click to Play Tech journalist Tod Maffin talks to a Flip Video rep about their new products. (This was NOT a paid promotion.) This is a copyrighted article from TodMaffin.com. If you are reading this on any web site that has advertising, ...

This is a copyrighted article from TodMaffin.com. If you are reading this on any web site that has advertising, or this in its entirety without attribution and a link back to TodMaffin.com, please contact Tod. The TRUTH EXPOSED behind those misleading ...

Click to Play Perhaps you’ve seen the ads on television extolling the virtuals of the Gordon Campbell liberal government of B.C. Watch this video to see the TRUTH EXPOSED behind these misleading commercials. This is a copyrighted ...

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Satellite tracking isn’t new… we’ve had G-P-S around for years. But you may be surprised at what they’re starting to do with the technology now. For one, you may be being tracked without your knowledge…. and no satellites ...

It’s over. The battle is won. There will be one format for high-definiton DVDs and it will be… Blu-Ray. But, is good news for the industry good news for consumers? The CBC’s national technology correspondent Tod Maffin thinks not. This ...

You know it’s serious when Microsoft founder Bill Gates gives up on it. After investing nearly a quarter of a Billion dollars into Facebook, the popular social networking site, Gates has stopped using it entirely. But when he went to delete his ...

Eventually, it’ll happen. Your computer will finally breathe its last byte and you’re now stuck with an expensive paperweight. But what to do with it now? It might be harder to get rid of than you think. Landfills won’t take them ...

If you find yourself unable to pull yourself away from the email, even at home in the evening… or you can’t NOT check your email when you hear the little “New Mail” chime, you’re not alone. You’re one of a growing ...

It’s always a great feeling to get an email from someone who bought my book Idea to Air: A Freelancer’s Field Guide to Selling to Public Radio. Just yesterday, I got this email from Lisa Hale: Hi Tod, I wrote you in December that I had gotten ...

You may be used to seeing biometrics in use at the airport — those retina-scanners help the U.S. government expedite frequent travelers. But other than that, and occasional fingerprint scanners on computers, we really haven’t seen the technology in ...