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I keed, I keed. Seriously unless you haven’t read a computer-related website today you probably know that the notorious BitTorrent index PirateBay.org announced they’ve (tentatively) approved a sale to a Swedish technology company. Honestly I’m not sure what I think about this – this is not exactly a day with time for thoughtful, considered, reflection […]

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It’s nice to see that the Dutch haven’t cornered the market on ill-formed ideas relating to newspapers and the internet. I don’t really want to get into the details of Richard Posner’s blog post. The Tobin/Coover synopsis is that if it were illegal to link to or quote newspapers web-content they’d be in better position […]

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[Update – Excellent executive summary via a friend I was just talking to on the phone who is not terribly interested/versed in technology: “I get it, it makes more sense to just throw more tubes on the pile than paying engineers to constantly crawl through each one trying to figure out what’s in there.”] I’ll […]

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Billy Mays 1958-2009. Never before has a man sold so much hydrogen peroxide, in such varied forms, to so many, so loudly, for such incredible value. Out of all the high profile celebrity deaths this week the person I most likely would have wanted to grow up as, as a kid, would have been Mr. […]

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So as much debate as there was in this country about whether ISP’s should have to support development of new media initiatives, I think everyone on both sides of that debate can agree that at least we’re not tariffing ISP’s to support failing newspapers. On the other hand a videogame tarrif to support the Phonograph […]

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One of the editing suites I’ve been working in lately has a great poster on the wall – it’s a photocopy of a flyer for a local computer store sale around 1992 or so. It’s always great to remind yourself how far technology has come in price alone (A handheld Logitec Scan-Man 256 shade greyscale […]

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Considering there really isn’t a topic for this blog beyond “shameless self-promotion”, you think I’d be better at the promoting. Toronto International Film Festival Talent Lab 2009 applications have been up for weeks now, and that means you have a hair under three weeks to get them in if you’re an emerging Canadian writer, director, […]

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Seriously NBC? There’s so much non-trivial stuff going on in the world and you’re going to make me comment on this? Fine. Let’s explore the myriad of ways you don’t understand how ratings work. The Coles notes: Both the Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins have hosted free public “viewing parties” for Stanley Cup games […]

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