Digital advertising belongs in the mix, but not blindly

Correlation between product characteristics, ad media, and audience response I read an article about top brands advertising and response from Facebook. Top brands are pulling a 1% look from the Facebook...

Digital newspaper for iPod by Rupert Murdoch

In 1983, while publisher of Infosystems Magazine, Hitchcock Publishing division of The American Broadcasting Companies, we put a picture on the cover depicting the Wall Street Journal leaping out of a CRT (computer...

Vancouver Digital Week hosts 3rd Annual PopVox Awards

Vancouver is preparing itself for another invigorating week of Business to Business speed dating, an influx of game developers, Obama’s social media guru, and the gathering of digital media industry’s finest at this year’s Vancouver Digital Week 2009.  Taking place...

Skrol: Art Meets Digital Media in a Huge Warehouse Showdown

Yesterday evening I attended Skrol, a presentation by of digital art by the Masters students at Vancouver's Centre for Digital Media. One of the presenters was my friend and former NowPublic colleague Ryan...

Current TV, Wired, and Six Apart Slash Jobs

Although mainstream media across America are feeling the negative force of the current financial crisis -- note Conde Nast's employee and publication hachet job last week -- so too are their counterparts in the...

Canadian Voters unite behind 'Anyone But Harper' campaign

Stephen Harper is not so popular with the new media crowd.  In fact the fear of his party becoming the majority has spawned the development of movement online.    Those behind the Anyone but...

Smart City Vancouver: Smart21 Intelligent Community Awards

The 2008 Smart21 includes communities from 14 nations, with first-time entries from Puerto Rico, Qatar and South Africa.  Three of the communities named to the 2007 Top Seven list (Tallinn, Dundee and the...

North West Digital Industry Big Chip Awards 2007

The Big Chip Awards are coming up in May, and I’m quite excited to be going again. Last year, the party was great, and it was good to see the quality and variety of digital projects going on in the North...

Microsoft and Samsung pen broad patent deal

"Microsoft Corporation and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd have this week confirmed that they have entered into a “broad patent cross-licensing agreement” which will result in South Korea-based Samsung obtaining access to Microsoft’s patent to be implemented throughout a...

Living Room Theaters: A Movie, A Glass of Wine and a Bite...All in one place

For sure you can do the same thing lounging in your jammies at home. Living Room Theaters is no ordinary Movie Theater though. They offer a state of the art movie experience in comfy surroundings.

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