The Spirituality of Reason

January 27, 2007

If you’re a fan of enlightened conversation, particularly about reason, you will love this podcast – a “debate” at last year’s Guardian Hay Festival between Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens on blaspemy, which turns out to be much, much more.

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“Let Me Tell You About Henry Kravis”

January 26, 2007

Loren Feldman’s reaction to KKR’s investment in Sun had me choking back the laughter over my wheaties this morning. Sun is Done indeed. I had the same thought when I first saw the story break (and it’s the same reaction I had when BCE first announced its now-aborted plan to convert to an income trust) – we’re at the end of the runway, and wheels are not up. Surrender, Jonathan.

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A Girl Like Me

January 26, 2007

“A Girl Like Me”, a heartbreaking 8 minute documentary by aspiring 17 year-old filmmaker Kiri Davis that brings forward Dr. Kenneth Clark’s Doll Tests on black self-esteem and identity is up on YouTube.

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iPhone Coming to Rogers

January 25, 2007

Gizmodo reports that Rogers is (exclusively) working with Apple to bring the iPhone to Canada ” as soon as possible”.

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Missing Web Celebrities

January 25, 2007

It’s a trivial pursuit, but I still can’t help but wonder how Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Arianna Huffington were missed on Fortune’s “The Web Celeb 25” listlist.

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The Mythical Dead Pool

January 24, 2007

Much has been made of late of a Web 2.0 dead pool – it’s been a TechCrunch meme, and Steve Rubel channeled Mike on it earlier this week. There’s a reason for a growing pool: Time – it’s getting later, not earlier (funny thing, that)…. But new businesses (or features masquerading as such) are still popping up (and the more that do, the more there will be that fail in 12-36 months from now). And so yes, the list of failed companies will continue to grow – but that’s not Web 2.0 – that’s time.

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Social Media Damage Control

January 20, 2007

Ian Ketcheson links to what is a bit of a PR fiasco, or at least a fiasco-in-waiting, for the Ottawa Grocer Farm Boy, which is the subject of many brand-adverse comments on a post at Michael’s blog about their recent Facebook problem.

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Offer Void in Iraq

January 20, 2007

Iraqis need not apply, apparently.

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Tell Us What You Really Think, Stowe

January 20, 2007

Stowe delivers the rant of the year (yes, it’s only January, but it’s still a great rant) on the attempted hijacking of social media by PR. Pushing for candour from the capitalerati is a noble cause. The idea is doomed, of course – there’s just too much upper middle-class security at stake for anyone in BigAnything to take a genuine risk on sincerity. But it still quickens my pulse to read a great polemic – especially one that rings so true.

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Is Clinton In or Not In?

January 20, 2007

Senator Hilary Clinton reportedly emailed supporters yesterday that “I’m in … I’m in to win”. Fine, but if so, why is she announcing only the formation of an exploratory committee? Isn’t the ostensible purpose (not the coy, disingenuous purpose – the other one) to determine whether one actually is “in”?

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P2PNet For Sale

January 19, 2007

Darn, Jon Newton is selling P2Pnet – details are here.

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Podcasts: Everything Old is New Again

January 19, 2007

It’s been a while since I’ve dropped in, but my current batch needs to be refreshed and I was curious to see what new content is available.Wow. In the space of only a few months, iTunes’ podcast section has been transformed from a flea market of handmade goods into a mainstream media showroom. It seemed like 4 out of every 5 of the ‘casts I saw were simply mp3 versions of mainstream broadcast TV audio and radio, or audio broadcasts from large corporations – good grief, even Scotiabank now has podcasts. And they’re all advertising their wares on iTunes, with yet another incremental source of revenue to Apple resulting.It was inevitable, I suppose, but I can’t help thinking that every time a new mainstream podcast crowds out a new podcaster, somewhere an angel dies.

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