Not sure I fully understand the mechanism, but here’s a nifty Digg-like site that lets the community track Canadian political news — and lets people vote on the level of political spin associated with it.
CHECK IT
Read the rest of this entry »Wow. A colleague passed me this — a round-up of illegal signs in the Metro Toronto area. Disgraceful. Not for filling up the world with more ads, which I accept as a battle we’ve already lost as a society, but for not playing by the damn rules.
It’s becoming a bit of a theme on [...]
I just noticed that I’ve been doing this silly thing for six months. I wish I were able to post more, and more cogently, but hell, a guy’s gotta eat.
Check out the kung fu kicks in this clip as you raise a jar for your old pal Bloggerton. And thanks, as always, for reading this [...]
This is why I love the web: a guy finds a legal loophole for canceling his Verizon contract (they upped their text messaging rates by a nickel per message) without paying the $175 cancellation fee
He then explains how he did it on a site called The Consumerist. Then the article ends up on Digg, where [...]
Score one for angry blogging — and one for Radar Magazine.
Only a day after posting my peevish rant against the mag, I received an email from Andrew Grant, Radar’s Marketing Director. In an email (which was, incidentally, far more polite than mine might have been were I in his shoes), he let me know that [...]
Is there any human interest or exchange you can’t cater to?
I’m tempted to reply and see how this pans out for him. It’ll either end in a restraining order, a reality series, or both.
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A while ago, I posted a piece on Orato, the “citizen journalism” site that was soliciting sex trade workers to cover the Pickton trial. The idea, presumably, was to get an insider’s look at the sex trade scene in Vancouver.
Orato managed to find not one but two correspondents, and whatever the original intent, I have [...]
This cat is seriously irritated.
Read the rest of this entry »UPDATE: Immediately after I wrote this, I noticed that Boing Boing has a riff on it as well. But he didn’t use any swear words, so mine’s more fun.
Quietly tucked in amongst the breathless, fawning and almost completely uncritical reviews of the iPhone, I found a blog entry from PC World (Oh, the irony!) containing [...]
