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

• Tomatoes, timepieces and keeping track of things
  Surf's up - Could a simple tomato help you regain focus in your work, spur productivity and help you clear outstanding tasks from your to-do ...
• Mapping St. John's, down to the ground
  The first featured site this week takes a map of St. John's, and invites the public to make sense of it. We'll also hit the drama button, find ...
• Goodbye watch, goodbye briefcase
  Surf's up - Over the holidays, I caught up on some reading, including a stack of magazines that has been piling up for a while. In one of them, I ...
• Real-time buzz and other 2009 goodies
  Surf's up - The year is down to its final hours, the champagne is chilled and my calendar for 2010 is suspiciously filling up already. Before I ...
• Elephants in the room, beats on the box
  Surf's up - I have a few, final tips for Christmas surfing, but feel free to clip this column for the moments when you're about to enjoy some ...
• A few bright ideas during the darkest days
  Surf's up - The days are getting progressively shorter, or at least the amount of sunlight we see during the course of the day is. This week, a ...
• Christa's Christmas
  Surf's up - I have no empirical evidence to back this up, but my guess is that Christmas Day tops the other days of the year in terms of number ...
• Customary treatment: prepping for the holidays
  Surf's up - The Christmas season kicked into gear this week at our house: the Santa parade downtown Sunday, and Tuesday, a multiple number of ...
• Get crafty with the kids this weekend
  Surf's up - It'll only be a few more weeks before strings of lights and pinecones and sugar cookies, and countless other elements of Christmas, ...
• A grand day for a walk
  Surf's up - The evenings are dark now, but that hasn't stopped our family from trying to get out when we can for a healthy walk. The first site ...
• Swine flu and hogwash
  Surf's up - Until a few weeks ago, I was trying to persuade people that H1N1 was not the benign bug they had been inclined to believe; by last ...
• Ten good reasons why seniors should get online
  Surf's up - Several weeks ago, I ran into one of my old friends by a bank machine. While we were catching up, she told me about her mom, and how ...
• Taking the twit out of Twitter
  Surf's up - In late September, Tyler BrÛlÉ, the Canadian-raised, London-living journalist, wrote a column taking a crack against Twitter, the ...
• Take two tablets, and call the publishing industry
  Surf's up - There's been a lot of chatter for the last few months about what Apple's forthcoming tablet device will look like - and more ...
• Out of the archive
  Surf's up - Memorial University is full of archival treasures. As a student and as a journalist, I've had the good fortune of being able to take ...
• Wifi and free surfing at the local library
  Surf's up - Staying in touch when you're on the move is a frequent problem for laptop owners such as myself. When I'm out and about, it's great ...
• Sorry, Kanye
  Surf's up - Kanye West is redefining the art of the apology, and it's far, far beyond anything Emily Post might ever have imagined. On this ...
• What is your business doing to stay connected?
  Surf's up - I had a chat a few weeks ago with a friend who was lamenting that her company is falling behind in terms of using social media to ...
• Beer, tourists, clotheslines and chatty catties
  Surf's up - A group that aims to combine beer and music for a new festival launches this week's walk around the web, with stops along the way ...
• Making a run for it
  Surf's up - They're so regular, you can practically set your watch by them. I saw them yesterday morning, running in batches along the trail in ...
• Life among the phoneless
  Surf's up - More than two decades ago, when my friend Ian was studying urban planning, he encountered a phrase that astonished him. "The carless" ...
• Flight of the old chords: migrating your music
  Surf's up - A few weeks ago, as one brother-in-law put on some tunes, another told us how his listening habits have changed. All of his CDs sit ...
• Making a municipal mark
  Surf's up - Shannie Duff is all over Facebook, or at least her campaign for the deputy mayor's chair is. Ron Ellsworth has a Twitter feed, and ...
• Fifteen ways to keep your website in business
  Surf's up - This spring, a friend of mine asked me to take a look at his company's website. "Are we doing it right?" he asked. I told him what ...
• All set for summer
  Surf's up - My vacation is getting close enough now that I can pretty much smell the sea and the beach where we'll soon be. I should start ...
• Live strong, and log every item along the way
  Surf's up - Lance Armstrong helps you get fit, and uses the web to do it, while a website of 360-degree photos takes you inside one of the Norse ...
• Music without frontiers: remixing Peter Gabriel
  Surf's up - "Games Without Frontiers" was a big hit in 1980 for Peter Gabriel - big enough, anyway, for the former Genesis singer to be played ...
• Putting Bing and Google to a taste test
  Surf's up - If you haven't noticed, Microsoft would really like you to use Bing, its new search engine. It's spending, according to some ...
• Touting tourism
  Surf's up - The Newfoundland and Labrador government's tourism campaign has rightly attracted a lot of attention. I've seen the television spots ...
• An incoming Wave: Google steals the show
  Surf's up - Plenty of wannabe web impresarios will tell you how difficult it is to catch the world's attention, even when they're armed with what ...