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09/02/2010 - 6:16am
It's back-to-school week... what are you planning on learning this year?
The other morning, I watched the pitter-patter of feet drag their way back to school. The brand-new schoolbags scratched by the pavement, the half-tied shoelaces, and the...
08/31/2010 - 10:00pm
There is a reason why traditional media professionals will have a hard time making the transition to a new media world.
Just the other day I got into a debate with a seasoned traditional journalist about what the new media means. This individual is...
08/31/2010 - 10:43am
Is Mad Men a true representation of how great creative happens in Marketing?
In a typical Mad Men episode, research comes back saying something plain about the insights surrounding a brand. But the creatives, led by a cape-wearing Don Draper, rage...
08/31/2010 - 12:54am
Last week, Statistics Canada released its latest
report
on the commercialization of intellectual property in Canadian
universities. Canada spends billions of public dollars on
research
funding each year and the government has been increasingly...
08/31/2010 - 12:40am
A new report
funded by the European Union has concluded that counterfeits have
pro-consumer effects while rejecting claims of losses by established
companies. The report concludes that most counterfeit purchases
are
not substitute for the...
08/30/2010 - 11:39pm
The CRTC yesterday affirmed
an earlier decision requiring incumbents to grant wholesale access to
faster speeds to independent ISPs. The government could still overrule
the decision within the next 90 days.
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...
