Profile of John Gushue

Biography

John Gushue takes a tour through the Internet with the Surf's Up column each Thursday. He is a former editor and political columnist with The Telegram , and is now a news writer for CBC.ca in St. John's. Read past Surf's Up columns (and much more) at his blog: johngushue.typepad.com .

All articles of John Gushue

• Quick hits for a later summer's day
  In any event, it takes a bit more effort at this time of year to concentrate on anything. So, one way of dealing with that feeling is to just ...
• What a whiteboard can teach you
  A few times within an hour, a week ago last Tuesday, I read notes on Twitter about a young woman who quit her job in grand fashion. Before I took ...
• Torch rolls up to the RIM
  As the saying goes, good luck with that. I use both a BlackBerry (for work) and various Apple products (at home), and I actually like both ...
• Why you need a digital attic
  Well, they actually could. But I frankly don’t have the time to put it all together again, and I can’t imagine where my head would be if ...
• Feedly groovy
  We’re all creatures of habit, but our online patterns are hardly cemented. You may prefer, say, the same type of breakfast cereal through your ...
• Fetch some popcorn and screen this movie-themed list
  Surf's up - It's hard to believe now, but for many years summertime was the dead zone in the movie industry. In the age before air-conditioning, ...
• Cupids has a way of getting into your heart
  Surf's up - This past weekend, the missus packed a picnic lunch, the kid picked out some road tunes and I filled up the tank with gas. We didn't ...
• My daily web diet
  Surf's up - A reader named Jim recently asked me to write about my favourite, most-used bookmarks, or the websites I visit most often and why. ...
• School's out, but Bart's still at the blackboard
  Surf's up - Another school year is ending this week. The books are put away, the lesson plans are back in the folder, and the chalkboards will be ...
• Weather tips and soccer kicks
  Surf's up - My grandfather was a keen observer of the weather, and during my visits with him, Skipper (as we all called him) had a chestnut or ...
• Going to blog? Do it for yourself, not for cash
  Surf's up - Several times over the last few months, I've received a few messages from friends or readers looking for a few tips about blogging. ...
• Notes from your friendly neighbourhood information...
  Surf's up - A little over a year ago, I noticed I was reading the word "curated" an awful lot as I kept up with trends on the web. At first, it ...
• A hangman tailored to your tastes
  Surf's up - When I was a kid, Hangman games were one of the ways we got through road trips. It's simple enough for anyone to play. You guess some ...
• Lost on the web ... but for how long?
  Surf's up - This Sunday, millions of people will be planted on our couches and chairs, our eyes fixed on our television screens as we watch the ...
• Entered an online contest? Here's what you really won
  Surf's up - Once or twice a week, sometimes a few times a day, I come across one contest or another ... an appeal to win a CD, perhaps, or to put ...
• Moving along at a steady clip
  Surf's up - I've been reading plenty about the iPad and the expected slate (no pun intended) of tablets expected to launch in the months and ...
• Out for dinner? Put yer flipping phone away
  Surf's up - Case No. 1: It happened in one of the splashier restaurants in St. John's, and we were out for dinner with one of our favourite ...
• Tourism tips in your pocket
  Surf's up - A tourism app for your smartphone is the first step on this week's hop around the web. The next stops include a tribute to a beloved ...
• It's not viral just because you say it is
  Surf's up - A few weeks ago, while I was clearing out some of the bumpf and filler that pass for real messages in my Inbox, I noticed a pitch I ...
• Radio running on full Battery power
  Surf's up - This week's web tour starts in a community within a community, in-corporates an old New-foundland fable, implores citizen action to ...
• Thanks, Flash, and take care
  Surf's up - Every now and again, my handy dandy Macbook has a fit. It rarely crashes, but instead goes into that dazed-and-confused state ...
• A sign of character
  Surf's up - We have a mixed bag this week, starting with a local photo blog that is not updated often, but which is deserving of your attention. ...
• We all live in Jake Doyle's universe
  Surf's up - Several weeks ago, when the sheen on "Republic of Doyle" was still fresh, a Toronto-based friend of mine and I were exchanging ...
• Hey! Let's watch some cartoons
  Surf's up - When I was a kid, cartoons were best watched on Saturday mornings. That is, that's when you could most easily find them in abundance. ...
• Frontline medicine and unhappy hipsters
  Surf's up - Our lives are made of serious moments and foolish thoughts, of solemn reading and outright silliness. This point really came home to ...
• Hunted tunes and Boss bootlegs
  Surf's up - "Without music, life would be a mistake," said the most light-hearted man in history, a.k.a. Friedrich Nietzsche. Good ol' ...
• Shaving heads, tapping toes and petting cats
  Surf's up - A site that is helping a local cancer fundraiser evolve into a bit of a movement is the starting point for this week's tour around ...
• Follow you, follow me
  Surf's up - A year or so ago, when the Twitter bandwagon was ramping up to warp speed, I read no end of things advising on how to get massive ...
• Take one tablet, but wait a year for full effect
  Surf's up - This week's column is about the iPad, but first, a few words from an unexpected source: Conrad Black. Remember Conrad Black? The ...
• Should St. John's get the Park Place treatment?
  Surf's up - If there's one thing that Newfoundlanders love to do, it's root for their own. Consider Canadian Idol (when in season), various ...