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It looks like “Lord of the Rings” accounting will be back in the news as the Estate of JRR Tolkien is suing New Line over their calculation of profits from the three blockbuster films. You may recall that Peter Jackson and Saul Zaentz have sued New Line as well claiming they saw no royalties on […]

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Time for a break from all this serious internet business. One of my real-life superpowers (I have many) is the inability to forget absolutely trivial minutia I’ve been exposed to – but frequently forget how I was exposed to it. This will serve me well should they ever finally produce “the most random gameshow in […]

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Mark Golgberg has asked some fair questions of me over at his blog regarding last year’s couchathon and the throttling difficulties we had. As I posted yesterday, am convinced those issues were due to misapplied BitTorrent throttling. I’ve responded directly on Mark’s blog – but he moderates his comments so I’m not sure when they’ll […]

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Yes I know this is turning quickly into a net-neutrality blog – but since net-neutrality traffic is up at the moment, I figured I should strike while the iron is hot. While I thought the CRTC presentation was quite strong, you’re always left with regrets about the questions that didn’t come up. There was a […]

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Howard Bernstein is a Canadian news and television über-producer who has worked for pretty much every major network in the country. Now retired, his hard hitting, no b.s. blog Medium Close Up is compelling, thought-provoking reading. Good, good, stuff – and I hope he keeps it up.

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First the iPhone 3.0 update implemented new podcast-friendly playback controls (identical to a post I made last year on a tech site (that I can’t now find) on how I wished they worked) – now Google has finally enabled image searching only within photos which are “creative commons” licensed! As someone who uses a lot […]

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So I’m back from my two-day sojourn into the heart of darkness of government. The CRTC net neutrality public hearings have a couple of (big) days to go yet. I think the joint CFTPA / IFTA team did a tremendous job in preparation and all we can do now is hope that we at least […]

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Very interesting day in Ottawa yesterday preparing for the CFTPA presentation to the CRTC today. Lots of involved conversation with extremely intelligent individuals… I’m coming to the startling realization that this “government” of ours actually entails a lot of hard work. Who knew? Having probably read, spoke, and thought more about the myriad aspects of […]

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