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Expand All Months » May 2008 (11)
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15: Techdirt: “Ideas Are Easy… Execution Is Difficult” (0)
13: “Watching Getty Images Watching Canadians” (0)
13: “Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause” (0)
13: “Craigslist returns fire in eBay suit” (1)
13: mesh08 is sold out (0)
05: A short video on mesh08 (0)
02: The Nightmare Scenario for Democrats Starts to Take Hold (0)
02: “A bid to improve transparency” (0)
01: Lots of New Faces at mesh (0)
01: Win a free ticket to mesh08 or meshU (0)
01: “Roaming in Copacabana” (0)

April 2008 (48)
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29: StartupIndex.ca (1)
29: mesh and meshU Schedules are Live (0)
26: When Your Product Becomes Obsolete, Increase its Price (1)
25: Is Jerry Yang Floating a Trial Balloon? (0)
25: “CAIP Responds to Bell Throttling Submission” (0)
25: Tripharbor.com Sets Sail (1)
25: Joey Giggles and the new iPod Levy (0)
25: “The MyBlogLog Blog: MyBlogLog hCard & vCard” (0)
25: “But what really worries aviation specialists?” (0)
25: “3G IPhone Due on June 9, Analysts Say” (0)
24: Pakistan Surrenders (1)
22: “EBay Files Suit Against Craigslist” (1)
21: “Crovitz’s Information Age” (0)
19: Two Stories (0)
17: “The Debate: A Shameful Night for the U.S. Media” (0)
17: “Report reveals Iran seized British sailors in disputed waters” (0)
16: “Oregon Claims Copyright Over Laws” (0)
16: “Why There Aren’t More Googles” (1)
15: If you were wondering who your friends aren’t … (0)
15: “Putin agrees to head Russia’s biggest party” (0)
15: Show me the money (0)
15: “I was singed in the blogosphere” (0)
12: “Reducing Back to Art” (0)
12: Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher (0)
11: “Couric’s Fate Was Topic A in CBS Suite” (0)
10: “We Need A New Path To Liquidity” (0)
10: “Ottawa rejects space firm’s sale to U.S.” (0)
09: “Ashton Kutcher-backed startup Ooma is falling apart” (0)
09: “Worst. President. Ever.” (0)
09: “World Economic Forum Ranks Canada Ahead of U.S. on IP Protection” (0)
09: Lawsuits by Canadian Politicians Sprouting Like Mushrooms (0)
08: BC Gov’t Trying to Avoid Scrutiny Using Crown Copyright (1)
08: “You’ve been in both government and journalism; that makes everything you say twice as hard to believe” (1)
08: “The television networks have spent the last few weeks in pursuit of an interview with Gen. David H. Petraeus” (0)
08: “Newspaper ads hold their own” (0)
08: “Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services …” (0)
07: Yahoo and the tin cup (0)
06: “Bloggingheads: Do the Media Matter?” (0)
06: “Facebook is the AOL for web 2.0″ (2)
06: Mainstream Media Branding Nightmares, Version 465432 (0)
06: “Stanford Launches On-Campus Venture Fund” (0)
06: “Microsoft Sets Deadline for Yahoo to Make Deal” (0)
05: “As skewed as they are vapid” (1)
04: “There’s no such thing as work/life balance” (0)
04: “Something Important Is On The Horizon In The Music Business” (1)
04: The people who live in the capital feel scarce any inconveniency from the war (0)
04: “CRTC To Face Net Neutrality Issue as CAIP Demands Bell Cease and Desist Its Throttling Practices” (1)
03: “There is enough competition in phone and internet markets” (5)

March 2008 (89)
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31: “Your April Fool’s Day Joke Continues to Suck” (0)
31: “Lou Dobbs Almost Calls Condi A “Cotton Picker”" (0)
31: Disclaimer (0)
31: “Talking Turkey on Canadian Data” (0)
27: “iOptOut: My Response to the Do-Not-Call Disappointment” (2)
27: “Sarkozy plays statesman on rare UK visit” (0)
27: “The Bell Wake-Up Call” (0)
26: “Harper Tories take fresh shot at Ontario” (0)
26: Please dear god make it go away (1)
26: What the mainstream media simply cannot do (0)
26: More information about meshU (0)
26: “A group of investors thinks Americans are ready to pony up $35 for a movie ticket” (1)
26: Hillary and the Tonya Harding Option (0)
26: “They don’t let facts get in the way of their story” (0)
26: “Pinched, Press Steps Off” (0)
26: A Vast Right-Wing Con … Never Mind (0)
26: And besides, we helped you and Cheney get elected, re-elected and not impeached (0)
26: “Don’t discount Gore-led ticket” (0)
26: “Literally impossible for patients and physicians to understand” (0)
25: “I think that he invited President Clinton to come to his Super Bowl party” (0)
25: “Clinton Attacks On Wright” (0)
25: McCain’s Money Woes (0)
25: mesh Tickets are on Sale (0)
25: “Clinton Camp Denounces Obama Iowa Supporter for Lewinsky Comments” (0)
25: “The Audacity of Hopelessness” (0)
25: $30 Billion and a Pony (0)
24: “He has a pretty horrendous history” (0)
24: “Mind-numbing drivel” (0)
24: “Clinton Backer Points to Electoral College Votes as New Measure” (1)
23: “The Media’s Obama/Wright fixation” (1)
23: What Facebook Needs to do to Not be Boring (8)
23: “Gap in Life Expectancy Widens for the Nation” (0)
23: It was the best of papers, it was the worst of papers (0)
23: “Pope’s Easter call for peace” (0)
23: But enough about *you* (0)
22: HRC Under Fire (0)
22: “They want a hagiography” (0)
22: “A use of language as a disguised insult” (0)
22: Test Post (0)
21: “China Claims Wide Support for Tibetan Crackdown”, Satan sez people like evil “just fine” (0)
21: “Facebook Toast? Hot Today, Dead Tomorrow–Like AOL?” (2)
21: “Giant Marine Life Found in Antarctica” (0)
20: “Torstar: An Immoral Double Standard” (0)
20: I looked into the face of evil, and I was afraid, and I turned away (0)
19: Blogs are peer review for mainstream media (0)
19: “Advertising Is Content; Content Is Advertising” (0)
18: “The geniuses of finance” (0)
18: Ben’s Fire Sale (0)
18: Obama’s ‘Test’ (1)
18: Photo Finish (0)
18: Fox News: True Colours (0)
18: “Quality of cancer testing a ‘nightmare’” (1)
18: Now *that’s* open government (0)
17: ‘Beijing air quality poses risks’ (0)
17: “Wiretapping’s true danger” (0)
17: “Pastor Defends His Predecessor at Obama’s Chicago Church” (0)
17: Why Republicans will continue to try to terrorize voters (0)
17: China blocks YouTube over Tibet videos (0)
17: “A very wise expenditure of our funds” (0)
16: “Iraq war fades out as TV story” (0)
16: The Jailed Media Baron and the Former Model (0)
16: “He’s just killed the Republican brand” (0)
16: Political Cognitive Dissonance (0)
15: “McCain: Al Qaeda May Intervene To Tip Election Towards Dems” (0)
15: “Legal fairness: No. Poetic justice: Yes” (0)
15: “”That’s one of our challenges, proving intent” (0)
15: “The Rank-Link Imbalance” (0)
13: “Pentagon Report on Saddam’s Iraq Censored?” (0)
13: “When I mention my own service, people here shake their heads in disbelief” (0)
12: Indoctrination Nation (0)
12: “Misadventures in logical reasoning” (1)
11: More Troubling Views about John McCain (0)
11: Is the Spitzer Prosecution a Political Hit by the Bush Justice Dept? (2)
11: “The “Nuclear Disaster” At SXSW” (0)
09: “You are now free to do what you can do” (0)
09: “Blogger journalists make mainline journalists look bad, and they know it” (0)
09: But he started it!! (0)
08: “The red phone rang and rang and rang again” (0)
08: “I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland” (0)
07: Gerald Keddy is a Victim (0)
05: And OJ is still hunting for Nicole’s killer (0)
04: Prime Minister, answer the damned question (0)
03: George Carlin: The Last Honest Man (0)
03: “As Far as I Know” (0)
02: “Matalin Blames The Media” (0)
02: “Online Scrabble Craze Leaves Game Sellers at Loss for Words” (0)
01: Tory Ideology, Art and Science (0)
01: “The thing a lot of nerds desire more than anything” (0)
01: How to sell a bazillion Mac Minis (1)

February 2008 (34)
Detailed Monthly Archive

27: Toronto Fair Copyright Meetup (7)
26: Still, it’s pretty extraordinary … (2)
26: “F.C.C. to Act on Delaying of Broadband Traffic” (0)
23: Just How Many More Troops Do We Need? (0)
22: Turkey in Iraq (0)
20: More Dishonesty from the Clinton Campaign (0)
20: Why John McCain is Desperate to tie Obama to a Campaign Fundraising Pledge (0)
19: “Requiem for a TV News Career” (0)
18: “Olympic Bloggers Learn The Rules” (0)
18: “Suicide Attack Kills 36 in Afghanistan” (0)
18: “Watching Chicken Nuggets Disappear” (0)
18: “Prancing around as Hofstadterian faux-warriors waging Civilization Wars” (0)
18: What’s a journalist? (0)
17: 2.1 million and 1 reasons (0)
15: Be Afraid. Be Very, Very Afraid. (0)
15: Surrender, Dorothy (0)
15: Abandon hope all ye who enter here (3)
11: “Can It Get Worse Than This For The GOP?” (0)
09: Yahoo Fiddles (0)
08: Afghanistan is “under-resourced” (5)
08: “Someone is about to have a complicated afternoon” (0)
08: Obama: Hope, Redemption, Salvation and Faith (2)
08: Substance and Issues (0)
07: Is Torture in Afghanistan Jails Endemic, or Epidemic? (0)
06: “The search for America’s most confused voters” (1)
06: Read Warren Kinsella (0)
04: “All You Need Is Hate” (0)
04: We Won’t Get Fooled Again (13)
03: Defending Against Mulroney-Schreiber (0)
03: You’re Doing a Heck of a Job, Khalid (0)
03: Diane Francis on the Bell Buyout (0)
03: Two Americas (0)
01: “The corps was guilty of “gross incompetence.”” (0)
01: “Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion for Yahoo” (0)

January 2008 (69)
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31: Trouble in Paradise (1)
31: Desperation (0)
30: The One Man Who Can Give Republicans the White House (0)
30: U.S. Election Now in the Bag (1)
29: Fair Copyright for Canada - Toronto Meet & Greet (0)
29: Facebook, be afraid. Be very, very afraid (2)
26: New Obama Poster (1)
25: “Norman Spector’s Bombshell” (0)
25: Words that should be banned from blogging (1)
24: Who’s the bigger victim? (0)
24: It’s Over for Giuliani (2)
24: Seeking Canadian Lawyers Who Use a Mac (0)
23: “Troop ultimatum to NATO” (1)
23: “European privacy authorities consider IP addresses to be personal information” (0)
23: “Geeks will nurture the child within” (0)
23: No Mountain High Enough, No Regulator Smart Enough (0)
23: The Copyright MPs (0)
22: “How would Chris Matthews sound if he talked to men like he talks to women?” (0)
22: “Meet the heavy hitters in Ottawa” (0)
22: Founders and Funders Toronto 1.0 Was a Blast (0)
22: I Have a Dream (0)
22: Mandated ISP Filtering- the Canadian Solution (0)
22: Doesn’t Play Well With the Other Children (0)
21: “We’re watching the race from the sideline” (1)
21: “Campaign Reporting in Under 140 Taps” (0)
21: mesh08 Dates Announced (0)
21: 01.20.09 (0)
20: “Barack Obama Slams Bill Clinton” (0)
20: Is “Austin” in Canada? (0)
20: “Packet Death” and the Celphone Novel (0)
19: I love not being insulted by my TV (2)
19: “Reality-based editorials” (3)
19: Tripharbour Launches (1)
18: “Bush calls for $145-billion to prop up” Republican prospects in the next election (1)
18: “No More Mr. Nice Guy” (0)
18: “Ethical storm as scientist becomes first man to clone HIMSELF” (1)
16: iTunes Movie Rentals in Canada (1)
15: CrunchGear on the MacBook Air: Right for the Wrong Reasons (1)
15: “A New Copyright Pledge” (0)
14: Free Speech in Canada
14: Michelle Obama is Telling Fairy Tales (3)
11: This is your mind on politics (0)
10: “A food cart hit the roof” (0)
10: “GOTV, TEARS AND MALE JOURNALISTS” (0)
10: “Cry me a river of votes” (0)
10: Fair Copyright for Canada - Toronto Chapter (0)
09: “Desktop Newsreaders FeedDemon and NetNewsWire Now Free” (0)
09: The Day After for Senator Clinton (0)
09: Rudy Can Fail (0)
08: Steve Rubel = Andrew Keen 2.0? (1)
08: “Paramount in HD-DVD blow” (1)
07: Nashua Numbers (0)
07: “Some Brand-Name Bloggers Say Stress of Posting Is a Hazard to Their Health” (0)
06: “I’m very confident we’ve modeled correctly” (0)
05: Scoble Erased (3)
04: Once, Upon a Time (4)
04: Interchangeable? (0)
04: 2008 Resolutions (0)
04: “Canadian Digital Music Sales Outperform the U.S. - Again” (0)
04: I Love the Torontoist (0)
04: She’s Ba-ack (2)
04: Meltdown in Hollywood
04: “You’d have to have a heart of stone” (0)
03: “Facebook is about to get Scobleized” (2)
02: Happy Birthday to the Canadian Privacy Law Blog (0)
02: “Cell phone users tie up traffic” (0)
02: “The bipartisan consensus on U.S. military spending” (0)
02: Fun with polls in Iowa (0)
02: Holy cow, I won a CLawBie (5)

December 2007 (74)
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Face to Face With Hillary (1)
31: Journalism and Twitter (1)
30: “Liberating music” (0)
30: “Huckabee: ‘I Don’t Know’ If People Are ‘Born’ Gay, But It’s A ‘Choice’ To Act Gay” (3)
30: “Lies my wireless provider told me” (0)
30: “Are They That Afraid Of Bill Kristol?” (1)
29: “My party is appealing to a real meanness” (0)
29: Go Ahead, Take Some Risk. Or Not. (0)
29: “Question of the Day: Watch or Cellphone For Telling Time?” (1)
29: “Will The iPod Kill Blockbuster?” (0)
28: Suicide and Social Networks (2)
27: “It still seems a bit weird to hook a computer up to a TV” (3)
27: “Wal-Mart Scrooges on Movie Downloads” (0)
27: “Goodbye 2007, and Take Your Little Plates and Locavores With You” (0)
27: If you’re going to syndicate, Syndicate! (6)
27: The Movie Reviews Podcast (2)
26: “Christmas At The Apple Store: Very, Very Crowded” (0)
26: “Harper wonders if Canadians really get Afghanistan” (0)
24: George’s Excellent Adventures (0)
24: The Globe on Oscar (0)
24: High Wire Act (0)
22: “Free Online Malware Scanner” (1)
22: “The arguments of those opposing copyright reform are unacceptable” (2)
22: The Four Horsemen (0)
21: ThinkSecret: Free Speech or Not So Much (0)
21: “A manipulator with a mean streak and little knowledge of the world” (0)
21: A Tale of Two Cities (0)
20: “Kerrey Apologizes to Obama Over Remark” (0)
20: “He was speaking figuratively, not literally” (0)
20: “The Generational Divide in Copyright Morality” (0)
20: “Oh, keep your hairpiece on” (0)
20: Letter to a Rage-filled Anti-Semite (0)
20: “We provide both sides of the story” (0)
19: “Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Avvo” (0)
19: “This is an issue they understand, they don’t like” (0)
18: “Why Apple should launch iTunes movie rentals now” (0)
18: “Why Don’t DVR Owners Skip Commercials?” (0)
18: “The Sound of a Million Elves Celebrating” (0)
17: Blogs and Journalism (0)
17: “An unusually stupid primate” (0)
17: Air Canada’s Wild and Woolly SMS Alert System (2)
16: Tears … of Joy? (0)
15: What I Learned Today About Hannah Montana Tickets (0)
15: “The Canadians Again Show us how to do things” (0)
15: Copyright is Cool (0)
15: What in the name of Sam Hill is Seth Godin talking about? (0)
14: Mulroney: I’m Sorry (that I got caught) (0)
13: “No Canadian DMCA This Year” (0)
12: Post Still Spinning Mulroney-Schreiber (1)
12: “Lou Dobbs’ Head Explodes” (0)
12: Which of these things is pretty much exactly like the other (0)
12: “Why I Stopped Using Twitter” (1)
11: This Really is a Slimy Business (0)
11: “Prentice’s Moment” (0)
09: “Copyright’s 10K” (0)
08: Fair Copyright Has Over 10,000 Members (2)
08: “Comcast Must Die” (0)
08: I Love “On The Media” (0)
07: “Prentice’s Plan For a Decade-Long Delay of Consumer Copyright Concerns” (0)
07: Support Balanced Copyright Reform (0)
06: mesh08 - We’re looking for a few good ideas (0)
06: “C.I.A. Says It Destroyed Tapes of Harsh Interrogations” (0)
06: The Best Law Money Can Buy (0)
06: The One Feature That Would Make Me Buy an iPhone (4)
06: How to Create a Newspaper, Step 2 (0)
06: Mea Culpa - Maybe (1)
06: “They regurgitate exactly … what you said to them” (0)
05: Schreiber: Exactly why an inquiry is needed (0)
02: “A testament to the power of the Net to surface traditional-media wrongdoing” (0)
02: “Rove Lies Again …” (0)
02: “National Review reporter caught fabricating; where is the “liberal media”?” (0)
02: Acts of Ignorance (0)
02: “US says it has right to kidnap British citizens” (0)
02: (Un)Fair Copyright (0)

November 2007 (72)
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: Leopard’s Wacky Wifi
28: “I’m not saying whether I did or whether I didn’t” (0)
27: “Is Schreiber testimony about truth, or avoiding consequences?” (0)
27: Isn’t it time for the vice president to get a heart transplant? (1)
27: Mainstream Media and the Scream of the Peacock (0)
27: The Really Rather Remarkable David Remnick, on Russia (0)
27: “Mitt Romney needs to answer questions about his Mormon faith” (0)
27: ‘Golden Compass author hits back’ by BBC (0)
27: “He’s getting his assistant to buy socks” (0)
26: Do the World Some Good (1)
25: “Update: More Leopard Problems Plague Apple” (0)
25: The End of the Internet Draws Near, Part MCMLXVII (0)
25: The book showrooms of the future (1)
24: Speak For Yourself (0)
24: Ask Mitt Anything Except (0)
24: National Post Relaunches (0)
24: “Garry Kasparov Arrested at Russian Rally!” (0)
24: “Illegal immigrant rescues boy in desert” (0)
24: Rational Commentary on French Anti-Piracy Plans (1)
24: “An Increasing Amount of Frustration” (6)
23: “N.S. taser victim ‘was running for his life’” (2)
23: “City Homicides Still Dropping, to Under 500″ (0)
23: “Expect much noisier ads” (0)
23: “Exercise for the Reader: Facebook Member Stats” (0)
22: Privacy and the Social Graph (0)
22: The Really Rather Remarkable Techmeme and Memeorandum (2)
22: “McCartney’s estranged wife berates rich” (0)
22: With Friends Like These (0)
22: Gratitude is not for everyone (0)
22: “Fantasy Of The Day: The Kindle Will Save Papers” (0)
21: The Really Rather Extraordinary Huffington Post (2)
21: “Facebook users across the nation are outraged” (1)
21: An Unpleasant Truth - “Uproar Over McClellan Statement on Plame Case Grows” (0)
21: “Will Kindle Reignite Amazon’s Flame?” (0)
20: “A comfortable equilibrium” (1)
20: “Bell aims to steal iPhone thunder with limitless data on rival device” (2)
18: “An All Around Excellent Restaurant” (3)
17: “Have I Died and Gone to Hell?” (0)
17: The Banality of Media (0)
17: “U.N. Report Describes Risks of Inaction on Climate Change” (0)
17: There’s Traffic, and Then There’s Traffic (3)
16: “The Man Behind the TheFunded.com’s VC Slagfest Reveals Himself to Wired” (0)
15: Your Leopard is Eating My Self-Esteem (11)
15: Firefox is Back for the Mac (0)
14: I’ve Been Attacked by a Leopard (98)
13: “Mainstream journalism, blogs, exclusives and the techmeme effect” (0)
13: Kevin Martin on How to Save Newspapers (2)
13: “The New Environmental Centrists” (0)
11: Exclusive? (0)
10: “Schreiber sent letters to PM seven months ago” (0)
10: “Edwards: I’m closer to Obama than to Clinton” (0)
09: F.C.C. Planning Rules to Open Cable Market - New York Times (0)
09: “You people are really nuts” (1)
08: Content is Not King (2)
08: “FreshBooks Goes the Extra Mile” (0)
08: “CBC pulls Falun Gong documentary” (1)
07: “AOL’s New Plan: It’s Not Working” (0)
07: Made For Each Other (0)
07: “Today is the first day of the rest of advertising’s life” (0)
06: “Microsoft executive fired for violating company policies” (1)
06: “Coca-Cola will never be my friend” (0)
06: Democrats Outmaneuvered Again (0)
06: Is Bourque Shilling For the CWTA? (1)
05: Is Kleiner The Fat Lady on Web 2.0? (4)
03: “File-sharing is good for Big Music” (0)
02: The long slow decline of Diane Sawyer (1)
02: New AT&T International iPhone Data Plans (1)
02: Jeb Bush on the Candidates (0)
02: “NYT becomes an aggregator” (0)
01: “News flash: Apple computers can crash” (0)
01: Anybody but Facebook (0)
01: Jon Swift: Facebook Declares War on the Blogosphere (0)

October 2007 (42)
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