More on the iTunes Pricing Negotiations

April 22, 2006

The NY Post is reporting that Apple is not budging on its price negotiations with the music labels, and that the labels may well have blinked. It’s beginning to look like none of the labels have the confidence or nerve to unilaterally raise their wholesale pricing, or the foresight to create their own online distribution […]

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New Study on Cellphone Use While Driving

April 22, 2006

Yet another study tells us what we already know to be true – at least, about the other driver, if not about ourselves – driving while gadgeting is really, really dumb.

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The Prior Art Wiki

April 21, 2006

This sounds like a job for mediawiki. Update: looks like Matt got there first. Should have known – he’s a pretty smart guy :).

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Ottawa BarCamp

April 20, 2006

You didn’t need me to tell you this, but Ottawa’s inaugural BarCamp starts Saturday at 8:30.

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Just for the Record

April 20, 2006

The site I most regret not having had the foresight to invite to mesh – and the person doing the single most interesting thing in Canadian political commentary / analysis / blogging – is Gregory Morrow of DemocraticSPACE.com. I wanted to, but Mathew said he thought it sucked. OK, I did actually make that up, […]

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The mesh Wiki

April 20, 2006

With many thanks to David Crow for creating it, and to Mike for tying it in to the site, we’re launching the mesh wiki today. It’s for — well, it’s for just about anything related to mesh, actually, so tune in, turn on, and edit. And let’s see where this goes. Update: Mathew has more […]

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Wireless Toronto Strikes Again

April 20, 2006

And this time, it’s very close to home. Torontoist reports on the newest Wireless Toronto location – Axis Gallery and Grill, which is in my ‘hood. So, from the bottom of my pint, thank you Wireless Toronto.

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DemoCamp at MaRS

April 20, 2006

While I was away, David and Mark dropped by MaRS and were offered the generous sponsorship by MaRS of a free location for future DemoCamps. This is violently cool. And another tip of the hat to David. Well done. Oh, and David’s posted a handy-dandy list of conference spaces in Toronto (it’s a wiki so […]

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ICT Toronto Launches

April 20, 2006

Mark Kuznicki posts on the launch at MaRS of ICT Toronto, “An Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Cluster Development Strategy”; the Toronto Star’s piece on ICT is here: “ICT Toronto’s goal is to make the Toronto region one of the five most innovative, creative and productive locations in the world for infotech research, education, business […]

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Still More on the Myth of Multitasking

April 19, 2006

With predictable regularity, news keeps emerging to put the lie to the idea that ‘mutlitasking’ is a viable strategy for personal effectiveness. The latest is summarized in a CNet piece – gist: Q: What is ADT? Hallowell: It’s sort of like the normal version of attention deficit disorder. But it’s a condition induced by modern […]

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From CRIA to RIA

April 18, 2006

Michael posts on the withdrawal of six major Canadian independent music labels – Anthem, Acquarius, The Children’s Group, Linus Entertainment, Nettwerk, and True North Records – from CRIA, the most recent sign of dissension since Nettwerk’s very public disagreement with the strategy of suing file sharers. Gist: The Canadian labels do not disguise their disagreement […]

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Don’t Worry, Be Happy

April 17, 2006

As I gradually get reacquainted with life on the ‘net, I’ve been catching up with my feed reader, news of the world, etc., and I’ve been a little startled to realize that not much has happened on the ‘net in the past 10 days. That’s perhaps a bit of an exaggeration, but very little of […]

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