I have often said here that I am a fan of traditional newspapers. I read three newspapers every day – in the printed form, not online. But the National Post, which has just announced that it will drop its Monday paper for the summer – something that will probably become a permanent fixture in the future – has a problem with accuracy. Many of their journalists, columnists, etc. simply cannot get things right. I've highlighted a few of the examples of shoddy journalism found in that particular paper (here and here), and here's the latest one: On Crossing Jordan, she......
While watching the Twitter posts fly by last night, I saw some from Robert Scoble (of course) talking about advertising, and suggesting to Twitter founder Ev Williams that he be allowed to share in the revenue from ads on the group IM service. Oh, I thought — is Twitter finally launching ads? Then came a post at TechCrunch that said it was. Or was it? Apparently not, according to Silicon Alley Insider, which emailed Biz Stone at Twitter and got a denial that any such plans were in the works.
As it turned out, a background image from Chinese Business Network blogger Christine Lu’s profile pic on Twitter popped up in a yellow box somehow, which made it look like an ad for the network, as she explained in a comment on the TechCrunch post. In other words, no story, right? Except...
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Watching Team Canada win gold
I completely forgot to blog about the Canucks Super Skills as it’s a great, cheap and fun activity that happens every year at GM Place. Our favourite players take to the ice in a competition of speed and accuracy. It’s always a low-dough event and extremely fun for the kiddies.
Unfortunately John (who had got me tickets by surprise) thought it was NEXT Saturday so discovering we actually had to go today threw a wrench in our plans. It was a nice and entertaining wrench, nonetheless.
John was able to take some GREAT shots with his new camera and I hopped on some top secret wifi at GM Place and uploaded photos on...
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