RCMP: Really Carefully Monitoring People
Posted by admin on May 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment
By John Klein (aka Saskboy) How can I write this without sounding, well, paranoid? I believe the RCMP is watching too many people, and abusing its resources. There are plenty of signs this is taking place. And proliferating tech gadgets and social media are only making the matter worse. It worries me. The police should [...]
Filed under Technology · Tagged with Canada, Conservatives, G20, mobile phones, RCMP, social media
Harper’s Facebook police
Posted by admin on April 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment
By Montreal Simon Uh oh. Talk about poking our privacy. The bitter nerd Stephen Harper has been caught with his pants down reading our Facebook pages. And looking like a creeper. From The Vancouver Sun: “Prime Minister Stephen Harper is suddenly on the defensive for running a closed and ‘unCanadian’ campaign after two university students [...]
Filed under Politics · Tagged with bad behaviour, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Facebook, John Baird, Karl Rove, Liberals, Michael Ignatieff, social media, Stephen Harper
Canada’s startup scene gains traction
Posted by admin on April 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment
By Mark Evans In many ways, the sale of Radian6 was just a matter of time. As a leading player in the fast-growing social media monitoring business, Radian6 was a big target for anyone looking to quickly establish a strong foothold. So when Salesforce.com rolled in with a $326-million offer, it wasn’t much of a [...]
Filed under Technology · Tagged with business, Canada, finance, social media, Technology
Best Gaddafi speech one-liners
Posted by admin on February 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Here, from our Twitter feed, the best one-liners from those watching the Gaddafi speech (and yes, he’s still a murderous despot): InklessPW Paul Wells You see how far Libya is from Western standards of democracy when you see how little thought Gaddafi has given to set design. kady kady o’malley So, is he going to [...]
Filed under Politics · Tagged with Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, Politics, social media, twitter
McLuhan saw this coming
Posted by admin on February 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment
By Dave Brindle Lost in all of the hum online about Egypt and the CRTC was that 2011 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marshall McLuhan. He was right. When I tweeted that, my friend Rod Mickleburgh of The Globe and Mail shot back: @davebrindleshow mcluhan was certainly right when he gave my [...]
Filed under Media · Tagged with broadcasting, Canada, CRTC, Egypt, internet, internet journalism, Marshall McLuhan, new media, social media, television
In 2011, less tech is more
By Mark Evans In 2011, less is going to be more . . . and that’s a good thing. It’s a decision that comes on the heels of a happily hectic 2010 in which my business surged ahead, and a number of other projects (including the mesh conference) consumed time. It was a great year [...]
Filed under Technology · Tagged with iPhone, online media, smartphones, social media, twi
A Facebook narcissist? Moi?
Posted by admin on September 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Frank Moher I have been outed. A new study by a York University student reveals that heavy Facebook users are “narcissists” who enjoy monitoring “how many friends they have.” Guilty as charged. I’m not sure I qualify as a “heavy” Facebook user — I’m much too busy twittering for that — but I am [...]
Filed under Living · Tagged with Facebook, internet, social media, twitter
Tired of Twitter
Posted by admin on July 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Mark Evans Don’t get me wrong, I love Twitter as a way to share and consume information but I’m tired of the coverage lavished on it as a revolutionary entity. The latest breathless article appeared in The Toronto Star recently in which the author, Antonia Zerbisias, talked about how Twitter was used during the [...]
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Facebook quitters: get a grip.
Posted by admin on May 26, 2010 · 3 Comments
By Frank Moher As those of you with way too little to worry about may know, May 31st is Quit Facebook Day. This is a Canadian initiative, once again proving that, while we of the North may not have the entrepreneurial mojo to create much, we sure know how to get all indignant once somebody [...]
Filed under Media · Tagged with Facebook, internet, social media
No alternative to Facebook. . .Yet.
Posted by admin on May 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Personal web pages started for the most part at universities, because students and profs all had accounts, so why not? Then the internet opened up to mortals, and a lot of them put up web sites, though often on their own dime. Then along came Geocities, which provided free hosting for people’s web sites. And [...]
Filed under Technology · Tagged with Facebook, internet, social media, social networking
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