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Friday, August 28th, 2009
It appears that by design or chance, the big Town Hall meeting on Copyright law in Toronto yesterday was dominated by one side of the debate - that side representing the (mostly foreign-based) commercial music industry, that side seething epithets about "lawbreakers" and "pirates", that side representing a tiny minority ...
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
putting out a feeler - looking for a good tech startup in Portugal to go 50/50 on a small (but simple) web biz idea #
taking the Canadaline TOMORROW w/Isabel. the little train fanatic can't wait. #
Isabel just said "this train goes to the report" #canadaline #
wow. The Canadaline has transformed ...
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
I've been on the sidelines of Critical Mass for far too long. Time for that to end.
For the umpteen-millionth time, I was (either intentionally or not) bullied today by two cars on Commercial Drive. Riding in the right hand lane, ever watchful behind and in front of me, carefully judging ...
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Sunday, August 16th, 2009
tofu (subbed due to seitan shortage) picatta w/olives n yellow beans + quinoa mango salad = yum. #veganomicon #
it's SRSLY embarrassing to have M.Harper represent Canada in meetings w/Obama #dumdum #
what we really need is Obama to guest host a reunion of either Soundproof or Great White North. that'd be ...
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Sunday, August 9th, 2009
according to a cashier at Donalds I look like the guy that did the voice of Nermal in Garfield. thanks, I guess... #
...would've preferred Peter Murphy or Ian McCulloch. heck I'll even take Rowan Atkinson. but I guess in the end I'll take what I can get ;-) #
anyone in ...
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
An interesting pair of complementary articles have today sprung to my attention from my unfiltered and rapidly growing twitstorms.
First, Readwriteweb carries a story about the research of Viktor Mayer-Schönberger. Mayer-Schönberger has synthesized research into open source communities, arguing that radical ideas suffer in networks where there is a greater abundance ...
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
So far this summer I've made some progress on my comps (not as much as I'd hoped, but close), but more importantly I've had a bit of mental breathing space available to reflect and assess some of the monumental changes in communication and media over the past 10 years. Since ...
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
I might start trying to do a "weekly zeitgeist" digest every Friday (or at worst, just paste together some cool links I've found). I'd like to include the sorts of links that contain answers (even partial, or even just plain wrong) to all of our questions, before many of us ...
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
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torn btw liveblogging and tweeting. what is the appopriate or trendy thing to do for conferences/panels now?
listening to Peer1/6S/Capulet panel right now.(11:08 AM)
Richard Smith: throwing "business sheep". heh.
why does the assumption that TV and radio are not interactive media prevail? let's not forget our media ...
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Vancouver Digital Week is coming up soon (May 11-14), and it's a must-attend for anyone in the New/Social/Mobile Media scenes in the Pacific Northwest. In fact, it's an international must-attend event (even GDC is part of it this year, so it's going to be huge in 2009!). So all you ...
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