We get happier with age, study says

This is good news indeed: with age comes contentment, according to an extensive new study.The findings make sense on an intuitive level; older folk seem to know and accept themselves moreso than do idealistic...

Trailer Park Boys' 'Ricky' Tells CRTC he prefers all-Canadian Content

Well, the cable companies were warned it would happen, and now it has. Actors, production companies and broadcasters from across Canada are calling on the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications...

A Storehouse of Greenhouse Gases Is Opening in Sibera

"In the permafrost bottom of the 200-meter-deep sea, enormous stores of gas hydrates lie dormant in mighty frozen layers of sediment. The carbon content of the ice-and-methane mixture here is estimated at 540 billion tons. "This submarine hydrate was considered stable until...

Peter Gabriel Launches Entertainment Aggregator

Recommendation engines, aggregators, filters, selectors, DJs, friends, and algorithms: all are tools to help us find more relevant, cool stuff, by selectively narrowing the infinite entertainment choices available...

Is this analysis useless? King Gillette might have made it so.

Sorry, but I think that Johnathon Handel's analysis might be useless content, though it is titled "Is Content Worthless?" He asserts that he can list the reasons (even enumerating them -- he lists six) for loss of value:"Everyone focuses on piracy, but there actually six...

The Future of International TV

One of the points I tried to make will my ill-fated Hulu post is that there is a great future in these IP/Internet-driven TV services, such as Hulu, to cross International boundaries. I have played with the iPlayer while I was in the UK, and you would be surprised (perhaps...

Yet Another How-To Video Site

"IAC Launching How-To Site; Life333.com to enter an already crowded field with original and aggregated instructional content. (paidContent)"

Personalized web ads are creepy: poll

Remember that time you were innocently writing a gmail when you noticed all the ads on the page had to with knitting and soap collecting, your two favourite hobbies? Apparently you're not the only one to find that...

User-generated content leading to new jobs in news organizations

As the multimedia news streams grows and content supplied by "users" becomes part of the news, new jobs are popping up. The latest is "group multimedia editor" for the Glasgow Herald, says Editors Weblog: "John Young, former picture editor of the Glasgow Evening Times, will...

Guy Kawasaki - Exclusive Interview with NowPublic

NowPublic recently had the chance to catch up with Guy Kawasaki, a leading venture capitalist with Garage Technology Ventures, former Apple evangelist, and a highly respected web entrepreneur and blogger.We spoke...

MySpace Signs Deal to Aim Its Content for Overseas TV

MySpace is targeting original TV content on the site in an interesting way."Positioning the social network as a breeding ground for television series, MySpace has signed a deal with a British-based production firm, ShineReveille International, to distribute its video content...

Adobe Media Player

Free to download and available for both Windows and Mac. Cool ...

Net Neutrality battle heats up in Canada

The chatter I hear suggests that this is going to be a huge issue."The CRTC has to date largely avoided the net neutrality issue, however, that is about to change.  The Canadian Association of Internet Providers, Canada's largest ISP association, has filed a Part VII...

Who is 'The Throttler'?

I just got an invitation via facebook to join an interesting group.  Check it out:"As recently reported by various news outlets, Bell Canada plans to have its ‘third-party ISP traffic shaping’ policy implemented across its entire network by April 7. This policy is...

Adobe Photoshops License Agreement after User Complaints

A reviewer for CNET found a rather objectionable clause in the EULA (end-user license agreement) for the newly-released Photoshop Express. Another blogger contacted Adobe directly, and, as a result, Adobe is to...

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