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Robert Jago is without doubt one of the quality bloggers in Canada. But his "ranking" of blogs is not only highly subjective, but also based on totally unreliable data, and therefore complete rubbish. Problem number 1: Robert selects the blogs he includes in his "ranking" manually – a subjective choice. If a pollster excluded, for example, the Conservative Party from the choices given to respondents, even Dion could come out the winner. Problem number 2: Both Alexa and Google Page Rankings are completely unreliable because they capture only a tiny fraction of site traffic. For these services to work,...

Saw the trailer for The Strangers last week when we went to see Iron Man. Usually horror movies don’t do anything for me because I grew up on a steady diet of 70s/80s slasher movies. I even took a night course on how to make horror make up and actually got to work on a Bollywood-type movie about East Indian zombies in the water reclamation plant. Or something. We didn’t get to see a script, just one day to make heads into zombies. I digress. The trailer actually made me jump. Seriously. Okay it had the usual “WHAM! SCREAM! BOOM!” kind of structure but it did find one thing that manages to freak me out every time. The old “being watched by the creep in full sight” shot. I find if you’re going to scare me it has to be the most cleverest of...

In view of declining circulation figures for Canadian newspapers, it is surprising that an employee of CanWest would actually advise a reader to cancel his subscription. The National Post has actually suffered big losses: 3.7% on weekdays and 6.5% on weekends. You'd think they'd put more effort into retaining business, instead of posting insulting and unprofessional comments to a customer's blog. With that kind of attitude, the National Post will be out of business soon. No wonder that Andrew Coyne has jumped ship to become national editor for Maclean's instead. What is more, the National Post won't make any real money and lose even more in circulation as long as they have this guy "writing" for......

The circulation numbers for the National Post( one of my favourite media outlets) are way up in Toronto! Interesting for this internet age.The mop and pail is on the decline. The National Post is a gift from Lord Black to the people of Canada. Thank you Lord Black!!!Perhaps there is hope for Toronto after all.The NADbank survey, which is relied upon by media buyers to guide millions of dollars worth of advertising spending each year, reported that the Post's Saturday readership grew by nearly 29.7% in the 2006 study when compared to 2005 survey results. On weekdays, the National Post increased its readership by 3.5% in 2006, compared to the year before. Commenting on the National Post’s performance, Douglas Kelly, Editor in Chief of the National Post said: “These...