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

• Hit that beat, even if you cant keep time
  Are you the sort of singer who keeps to the shower? Does even just clapping along with a crowd make you feel anxious? Regardless of whether you ...
• When the travel bugs bite
  I started my vacation this week, and goodness knows I need a break. Over the last few months, we've been thinking about and planning our trip, ...
• Absolutely Scrabulous: tile one on with other word...
  I like playing Scrabble quite a bit, even though I don't often win. My wife, you see, is a wicked player who thinks continually in seven-letter ...
• Springfield into action
  Around 1992 or so, my friend Peter and I had gathered for a Friday lunchtime ritual, consisting of beer, greasy food and pool at a pub that ...
• Thinking nothing of shooting anything
  Digital photography has allowed us to see the beauty in the mundane. Twenty-five years ago, one of my biggest hobbies was photography. I had ...
• Put that comedian on a diet and online
  A St. Johns actor goes on a diet and keeps a video diary of his experiences; a game that lets you go nuts with your crayons and not have to clean ...
• Get in the game, with your mouse and arrows
  Gaming consoles these days are pretty complicated - and, in the case of the best-selling Wii, pretty whimsical. But do you need all that hardware ...
• An e-mail service for when youre good and mad
  Remember that Simpsons episode where Homer wants to buy a gun, and chafes when told that he has to wait five days for his background check to ...
• Let the music take you to La La land
  Like millions of people, I have an iPod - a teensy little Nano, in my case. It weighs just a few ounces and is so light I can dangle it from the ...
• Clearing the decks: when podcasts pile up
  Here's something that didn't happen over the last week: I didn't listen to any podcasts. Not a single one. That makes me utterly unremarkable, in ...
• Tracking trends by the instant
  I noticed something interesting Sunday afternoon. While I was catching up on e-mails, scanning headlines and prepping this very column, I noticed ...
• Where theres a wine, theres a way
  Matching a good meal to a great wine, getting better tips to make your garden grow, navigating your trip with a little more ease all involve ...
• Answers to some questions
  Once in awhile - sometimes, many times all at once - yours truly gets a question from a curious reader related to this column. Usually, I hope, I ...
• Personalize your colour-coded food guide
  After years of research and review, the federal government recently overhauled that famous colour-coded rainbow that is Canadas Food Guide and ...
• Heroes worship: Reinventing comics online
  You dont have to be a comic book fan to enjoy NBCs hit series Heroes, although it would probably help. The show an amalgam of thriller, ...
• Put your feet up and enjoy the show
  If you spend any time looking at videos on the Web, you get accustomed to things being short - and not necessarily sweet. A typical, random ...
• The next-best option for cubicle-bound movie fans
  Watching a movie at work, I would argue, is a big no-no. But what about listening to one? That's the premise of the first of the sites involved ...
• Big guns and bigger ideas dominate Webby Awards list
  If there's one thing many people know about the Webby Awards, it's that the prizes - which are to the Internet what the Grammys are to music - ...
• A site all about me, me, me
  An interesting bit of research was released in late February. Jean Twenge, a researcher at San Diego State University, and her colleagues ...
• A great big record collection
  This week, we peek over the shoulder of a Great Big Sea member as he picks through his music collection, find a better way to sort through the ...
• Slacker broadens online listening options for music...
  A couple of weeks ago, I bought a stereo receiver from my friend, Heather, as well as some miscellaneous other components. My own receiver - ...
• A burst of ideas for spring
  It might have been that extra hour of daylight in the evening, or maybe it was the suddenly milder weather of the last few days. Whatever caused ...
• Spotlight on the videos in your closet
  A video service that favours a local accent over volume, a charitable way to make art from the hands of many, and a route-by-route guide for ...
• Music for when the mood hits you
  There are plenty of ways to listen to music over the Web - Pandora and Last FM are among services that offer customized streams, tailored to your ...
• Snout and about with movie tips
  Can a little pig help you choose which movie you ought to see? Can a bunch of virtual Vikings give you a good laugh? And what happened to all of ...
• Something wiki this way comes
  The word "wiki" comes to us from Hawaiian, and basically means fast. It was adapted into techspeak in the mid-1990s, but most of us know it ...