I read a really salient comment today on an otherwise not terribly interesting article @ CBC News. After an article describing high-end street-walking prostitutes being herded out of Vancouver’s Yaletown in advance of the oncoming Olympic onslaught, commenter...
The answer, in my article over at GigaOM.com, is resoundingly NO. But there’s more to it than that. My argument in this piece was largely an economic one, not as much a dissertation on the independent merits of the protocols in play. I do think that the issues...
I attended the Connect09 event this evening and was pleased to see such an active, engaged turnout and such a well-organized event. Hardly the picture one would paint if they’d already drawn the conclusion that the tech economy in this province was dead. But I...
Canadians want their Kindle. The device, which Forrester predicts Amazon will sell 1.8 Million copies of during 2009, is becoming a force in the publishing industry — and may well be Amazon’s iPod. As an example of its early impact, fully 5% of the...
Correct me if I’m wrong, but every Apple product I’ve ever seen can be turned OFF (except for the iPod shuffle). In the storied annals of consumer electronics, I am betting there’s generally a good reason for this. In my naive experience, things...
One of my favourite comedians/ham-actors and Seinfeld alum Patrick Warburton makes an appearance in the newest Apple ad — thus combining a number of my interests.. In case you never saw it, Patrick starred in the short-lived but incredibly hilarious live-action...
American politics are so polarized at the moment around the issue of health care that it’s hard to envision a favourable outcome. Â I would define a favourable outcome as a more cost-efficient system that guarantees coverage for all American citizens and...
The blogosphere is all a-twitter about yesterday’s East Texas court judgment, which previously awarded $290 Million to appropriately-named Canadian patent troll i4i (well, OK, not exactly a troll) and further granted them an injunction preventing Redmond from...
Sarah Palin’s greatest gift to popular culture (among many) might just well be Levi Johnston. His cause celebre has been taken up by D-List genius Kathy Griffin. For such a comedian the spectacle of a rube among the Hollywood elite, unprepared as he remains...
British Columbia’s economy has remained relatively bouyant through the global economic turmoil. One example of this is home prices… whereas Real Estate in popular cities like Los Angeles, Miami, and others have experienced 20%-40% declines amid massive...
