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About Rob Cottingham

Rob Cottingham of Social Signal. Rob runs a regular cartoon blog called Noise to Signal, in which he puts in graphical form some of the big questions of the social web.

Recent Articles by Rob Cottingham

  • Cartoon: Siri, Get Me a Cepacol

    Today's cartoon may well be an exercise in envy. I'm using an iPhone 3GS, and it'll be another 14 months (or 424 days - not that I'm counting) before I'll be eligible for a free upgrade to a phone that lets me use that Siri-esque magic. And voice-control easily the feature I'm most drawn to...


  • Cartoon: Firestorm!

    A while ago, I posted about one of the classic blunders in response to online criticism: deleting negative comments. Let's add another mistake to that list: silence. I'm not sure there's a force on earth that could have saved Susan G. Komen for the Cure from the social media firestorm that engulfed the organization this...


  • Cartoon: To Make a Long Story Short...

    I'm somebody who can, uh, go on. At length. About nearly any subject. Ask anyone who's taken one of my classes... or read one of my blog posts once I get on a roll. So I can understand why I'll get the odd "TL;DR" in response. And I try not to take it personally; instead,...


  • Cartoon: Where Were You When the Sites Went Out?

    SOPA and PIPA, the twin bills before the U.S. Congress, may not be dead dead. But after the past few weeks of protest, culminating in Wednesday's remarkable day of action, they're not looking at all well. Votes on both bills are now delayed indefinitely. (Or, to put it in terms the MPAA would understand, they're...


  • Cartoon: Apple's Product Development Process REVEALED!

    As you get older, you start to see the great cycles of life emerge. Hope and disillusionment and hope again; pride crushed by defeat and then rising again; and of course, the rising wave of speculation in advance of every Apple product launch. No surprise, then, that Morgan Stanley analysts are getting plenty of news...


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