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08/30/2010 - 4:13pm
Community sports is a cornerstone of the community newspaper industry. Readers expect to see full coverage of their local school teams, scores, and features on players from throughout their community. Covering local sports has always been a...
08/30/2010 - 6:54am
As Twitter evolves and grows, the etiquette and "rules" change, morph and evolve along with it.
Recently, a very influential person on Twitter sent me a direct message saying that they were insulted because I had thanked a few people for...
08/30/2010 - 1:06am
Conrad Black's ongoing legal fight in the United States has attracted
considerable attention in Canada, yet my weekly technology law column (Toronto
Star version, homepage
version) there is a side courtroom battle
at home over alleged defamatory...
08/30/2010 - 12:54am
"As technology changes, the levy is not an effective mechanism to
compensate copyright creators for possible theft of their work. For
that reason, our Government has not included an expansion of the
private copying regime to iPods and other devices...
08/29/2010 - 10:54pm
The Wire Report reports
(sub required) that Google and Yahoo are concerned with the "enabler"
provision in Bill C-32. The provision is designed to target sites
that
facilitate but the search engines fear it could have unintended
consequences.
08/29/2010 - 10:52pm
The Canada Revenue Agency has fined
a B.C. man $68,000 for failing to report sales on eBay.
08/29/2010 - 2:32pm
Episode #217 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to. This is also Across The Sound episode #8.20.
Joseph Jaffe is widely regarded as one of the top Marketing Bloggers (Jaffe Juice) and...
08/29/2010 - 2:31pm
Episode #217 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to. This is also Across The Sound episode #8.20.
Joseph Jaffe is widely regarded as one of the top Marketing Bloggers (Jaffe Juice) and...
08/28/2010 - 8:31pm
How did we all become so self-involved and to what end?
Have you ever been in a place where you wind up disgusting yourself (just a little bit)? While floating through the Intertubes today, it struck me how narcissistic most of my true engagement...
08/28/2010 - 8:30pm
How did we all become so self-involved and to what end?
Have you ever been in a place where you wind up disgusting yourself (just a little bit)? While floating through the Intertubes today, it struck me how narcissistic most of my true engagement...
08/28/2010 - 2:15pm
Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?
My friends: Alistair Croll (BitCurrent, Rednod, GigaOM, Human 2.0, the author of Complete Web Monitoring and Managing Bandwidth:...
08/28/2010 - 2:14pm
Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?
My friends: Alistair Croll (BitCurrent, Rednod, GigaOM, Human 2.0, the author of Complete Web Monitoring and Managing Bandwidth:...
08/27/2010 - 6:20pm
BC and Yukon community newspapers are proud purveyors of local content and continuing to build solid businesses around it. This week, cable TV operators were reminded of the value and importance of local content when the Canadian Radio Television...
08/27/2010 - 1:29pm
The majority of independent online video content being created is mostly unwatchable.
I'm usually not that critical of online video (and, I'm the first to admit that I am guilty of creating some of this unwatchable content as well), but as the...
08/27/2010 - 1:28pm
The majority of independent online video content being created is mostly unwatchable.
I'm usually not that critical of online video (and, I'm the first to admit that I am guilty of creating some of this unwatchable content as well), but as the...
08/27/2010 - 12:48am
The Japanese media is reporting
that the next round of ACTA negotations in Tokyo will be a
Vice-Ministerial level meeting, providing further confirmation that
countries expect to conclude the agreement at the late September
meeting.
08/27/2010 - 12:46am
CIPPIC argues
that Facebook has failed to comply with the privacy commitments it made
as part of last year's settlement with the Privacy Commissioner of
Canada.
08/27/2010 - 12:08am
My post
this week on several writers groups objections to Bill C-32 has
generated considerable discussion, with some taking me to task for
focusing on their letter's
warning of "unintended consequences,""years
of costly litigation," and "serious...
08/26/2010 - 2:21pm
All companies have one goal: to make money. Strike that. All companies have two goals: to make money and to make even more money the next year. This means that they all must be evil.
All eyes were on Google and Verizon the other week when they...
08/26/2010 - 2:20pm
All companies have one goal: to make money. Strike that. All companies have two goals: to make money and to make even more money the next year. This means that they all must be evil.
All eyes were on Google and Verizon the other week when they...
