Insomnia
my brain is a soft pile of goo, why can’t i fall asleep.
usually when i cannot sleep i can still think, and end up reading books, web, doing work on my thesis until 5am, since the 1.5kg mass in my skull is still firing electrons. that is not currently the case. so i […]
Trade ya one red paperclip for your house
Well, that is the dream of Kyle MacDonald of Montreal. He stared with one red paperclip, and is trying to barter his way to a house. So far he is up to a snowmobile.
Tonight he appeared on The Hour, and is also willing to promote his bartering items on any “ podcast, no […]
Mass media assimilation
CBC News: BCE sells major stake in Bell Globemedia to Torstar, Teachers’. As if the lack of original content and indepth journalism in today’s private mass media was not bad enough - but that is alright, we have the CBC/BBC/NPR and the blogosphere - Torstar now owns 20% of Bell Globemedia, which runs The […]
Testing 1,2,3
This is a test post.
New Layout
I was bored of the old blue site layout, so yesterday I hack one of my pictures and a WordPress theme to produce the new layout, what do you think? If you only read this site by Syndicated Feed, then click through and take a look.
I added a new CBC service, called Free Headlines. […]
Nationwide Wi-Fi for Macedonia
Wi-Fi Planet: Nationwide Wi-Fi for Macedonia. This is an ambitious initiative of over 2600 square kilometres (1000 square miles), 90% of the country. If I ever visit my mother-in-law’s village, I’ll be able to post live.
Now if only a developed nation could do that. I’d vote for a party that […]
TheStreet.com on Toronto
TheStreet.com has a piece about Toronto (Toronto: City on the (High) Rise). For the most part it is accurate and portrays T.O. as a good place to come and spend some cash.
For those americans that do not like the policies of its current governement and are looking for a chance, come and […]
CBC can learn from NPR
The Online Jounalism Review has a nice write up about how successful podcasting has been for NPR. Read the article - OJR: Will NPR’s podcasts birth a new business model for public radio?.
Then go and contact the CBC and request that more programming is made available via podcast. Put “podcast” in the subject […]