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In the Globe & Mail This Week…

Although I think it’s a bit early to pronounce that our generation’s hopelessness has once again descended, I still think this is a poignant argument and is a good setup for some other stuff I’m writing. Anyway, The Toronto Globe & Mail bought...

360networks moves up a layer..

Pretty soon, 360 will likely be offering tools like MPLS and VPN. Eventually, I think, this will lead to applications and channels like VOIP and others. Keep an eye on them. Vancouver-based company. -Ian. —— Forwarded Message From: Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001...

Internet Radio Report

—- http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010220/2655.html Tuesday February 20, 12:00 pm Eastern Time Press Release MeasureCast Internet Radio Report: Most Listeners Log On During Lunch Hours PORTLAND, Ore.–(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)–Feb. 20, 2001–MeasureCast,...

Re: Do I Win?

Mike rules! You da man! He’s the first winner. See you @ the Morton’s in SF next time I’m in town. As a bonus I’ll bring you a microphone. 🙂 -Ian. On 2/19/01 12:21 PM, “Mike Masnick” wrote: > Z.com closes their doors. > >...

SoundBreak.com is Toast

http://www.kurthanson.com/index.htm Soundbreak.com, which develops music Web sites, has shut down operations, according to Acacia Research, an incubator that invested nearly $10 million in Soundbreak. “Soundbreak CEO Paul Ryan said in a statement that the...

Canada Is Better..

…than the US in at least ONE way: you can get Coffee Crisp chocolate bars just about anywhere in Canada. But in the US? No way, except San Jose. There is a militant group of expatriates fighting the good fight to get a Coffee Crisp into the hands of every...

FW: The re-lauch of Free World Dialup – http://pulver.com/fwd

For clarification, What Jeff it offering is really quite generous. It’s the ability to make international calls, using your DSL or CableModem connection, for free. He ships you one of these: http://www.komodo-tech.com/kf300OV.html You plug it in, set it up,...

For the Hard of Thinking: NAPSTER Loses..

Ironically, Lars Ulrich appeared on “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire” on Sunday Night and busted out at $32,000. A day later, in case you live in a #^@$ing cave, Napster got burned at the stake by the San Francisco US Circuit Court, which upheld the earlier...

Power Strategies..

I’ve been a VERY BAD BOY lately about posting to FOIB, which goes to prove that my current man-of-leisure philosophy is going to my head. I wrote this article a few weeks ago, ostensibly for the Vancouver Sun. They of course had their heads inserted in various...