Canoe’s new video game blog, Button Mashers, of which I am a contributor, has officially launched, and we’ve already got lots of great content up.

That includes my first of many planned Q&As with folks from the gaming industry or video game culture. This one’s with Katherine Curtis, a.k.a., The Naked Nerd from Naked News (where, fun fact, I used to be a writer).

Curtis made a really fun interview, chatting about women in gaming, playing games with your kids, turning nerdom into a career and more. Here’s one choice quote:

 And when I’m playing online, I’m not there to make friends or get dates. I’m there to kill things and collect loot.

Check out the rest here, browse the blog and join the comments!

I made my national TV debut recently, appearing on Sun News Network to discuss our national sex survey’s results on the prevalence of online dating in Canada (hint: it’s up).

The video is not embeddable, so click here to watch, and click here for the story that accompanies the facts, wherein I interview Internet trends experts, online daters and one man who met his wife of 10 years on the Internet, who offered the following wisdom:

Whatever you want, you can find it. If you want to dress like a duck with someone else you can do that. If you just want to fool around, you can find that.