Online Video is No Threat to TV – Yeah, That’s the Ticket

May 13, 2007

Online video is no threat to TV the way Expedia was no threat to travel the way Zillow is no threat to real estate agents. In fact – they’re complementary, and just the bestest of pals.

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More on Outsourcing Journalism

May 13, 2007

Apropos of Neil’s post earlier this week on recent news of outsourcing journalism, this post by Liz Foreman at Lost Remote has some thoughts about what’s next (frankly, I was surprised that these jobs were not already widely outsourced).

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And Plus, My Dog Ate My Homework

May 13, 2007

From AP: “Tommy Thompson cited a dead hearing aid and an urgent need to use the bathroom in explaining on Saturday why he said at a GOP presidential debate that an employer should be allowed to fire a gay worker. Speaking to reporters after giving an address at the state GOP convention, Thompson also said […]

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“Brand over Brain”

May 12, 2007

A gorgeous expression, coined in the Globe today on its piece on the City’s campaign against bottled water.

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Canada’s Top 40 Under 40

May 12, 2007

Are you wondering why only 5 of “Canada’s Top 40 Under 40” this year are women? And why those 5 are positioned right at the front of the group’s publicity photo in the Globe today? (Not to create the false impression that there are more than 5 women in the group, I assume.)

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Dawkins on TVO

May 12, 2007

Steve Paikin interviewed Richard Dawkins earlier this week. While I generally love the show, this one was underwhelming. Dawkins was, as usual, amiable, patient and startlingly lucid. Paikin was not his usual self, and spent far too much time probing Dawkins on whether he was sufficiently tolerant of and considerate to religionists (other critics were […]

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Globe wins Four National Newspaper Awards

May 12, 2007

More than any other news organization in Canada. More than the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix and the Kingston Whig-Standard, for example. None of the awards was for the Globe’s “remarkable” coverage of the MPAA’s disinformation campaign over movie piracy in Canada.

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“Where Have All The Viewers Gone?”

May 10, 2007

Cory Bergman on the latest stats on the magically evaporating TV audience.

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Toronto’s Cherry Blossoms

May 9, 2007

If you’re like me (and as my friend Mathew says, I know I am), you’re a big fan of High Park’s cherry blossom path in bloom, which this year is right now. I’ve been hoping to see some HDR photography of the path in bloom and today my wish came true.

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“They’re selling a butt load”

May 8, 2007

This must be a new metric used by analysts, but whatever – there are interesting observations here on Apple’s success in selling Macs.

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Lies, Damn Lies and Warner Bros. Statistics

May 8, 2007

Michael and Mathew both cover the latest effort by the US movie industry to pretend that movie counterfeiting is a serious problem in Canada – yet another step in its campaign to embarrass the Canadian Government to accept the US’s most visible cultural export – its intellectual property law regime. What concerns me almost more […]

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“Disinherit the Wind”

May 8, 2007

The fiasco that was the recent Republican debate (Gist: Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee, and Tom Tancredo either do not believe in evolution or are so cravenly determined to become President at this point that they’re prepared to say anything in that quest) – at least if you believe the earth is round and do not […]

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