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...
created by Rob Peters | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 801 views | 17 recommendations | 3 comments
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...
"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...
created by vizpix | 5 years ago 289 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 572 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
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...
created by biverson | 5 years ago 999 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
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...
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...
created by Rob Peters | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 381 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
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...
created by biverson | 5 years ago 566 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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 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...
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...
created by mtippett | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 550 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
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...
created by MikeT | 5 years ago 513 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
created by Jordan Yerman | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 834 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment