"As long-rumored, The Huffington Post took $25 million in new funding at a $100 million valuation. It's a healthy sum given the company has aggregated a huge audience -- 8.8 million people a month, accordng to...
highlighted by mtippett | 12 hrs ago | updated 7 hrs ago 60 views | 2 comments | 12 recommendations
The fight between the Tories and the opposition parties is being fought on all fronts including a new virtual front within facebook. I personally have been invited to participate in groups from all ends of the...
highlighted by mtippett | 11 hrs ago | updated 11 hrs ago 237 views | 11 comments | 4 recommendations
"Net neutrality. A bland phrase capable of sparking a digital revolt. In the United States it's the hot-button Internet issue of the day, a threat deemed so grave to free expression it gave rise to a stunning...
highlighted by mtippett | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago 244 views | 10 comments | 29 recommendations
OPINION Clinton pardoned a rapist, a child pornography dealer, SEVERAL cocaine dealers (probably got paid in kind for that pardon), extortionists, riotors, bribers, money launderers, a child sexual abuser and TERRORISTS (just to name a few of the 140 criminals he...
The CRTC just dealt a devastating blow to anyone invovled in Canadian new media as well as anyone who uses the web in this country. Their latest ruling will have negative consquences for new media start ups in...
highlighted by mtippett | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago 139 views | 8 comments | 36 recommendations
Why do I hold on, so long and so tightly to sports that have fade from past glory? Thoroughbred Horse Racing once the sport of king, now reduced to peasants and scallywags. Stickball raises my blood pressure but...
The NY Times, freakanomics blog writes:"These are the economic times that try men’s souls, and women’s too. In the past few months, a lot of people have seen their net worth fall substantially, and I’m sure...
highlighted by mtippett | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago 63 views | 3 comments | 17 recommendations
It's sad but true ... in much the same type of problem that plagues F1 venues around the world, F1's monetary demands outstrip the budgets that can support the event. This was one of the main reasons that the Long...
Steve Anderson asks some pertinent questions about the future of new media in Canada. People should take this issue very, very seriously if they value their free speech and free Internet. "Animated by networked conversations and shared media, the amalgamation of...
highlighted by mtippett | 2 wks ago 40 views | 0 comments | 1 recommendation
In an effort to confirm the ageless expression coined by famous NY Yankee baseball player and manager, Yogi Berra - "It ain't over 'till it's over", officials of the Canadian Grand Prix, the city of Montreal, and the...
"Net Gen-ers watch less television than their parents do and they watch it differently. A Net Gen-er is more likely to turn on the computer and interact in several different windows, talk on the telephone, listen to music, do homework, read a magazine and watch television. TV...
highlighted by mtippett | 4 wks ago 51 views | 1 comment | 0 recommendations
" MONTREAL - In a ceremony with personalized vows, three opera singers and the blessing of two faiths, TV personality Ben Mulroney wed Jessica Brownstein, his longtime girlfriend, Thursday night. About 75 people,...
Singer Janet Jackson cancelled her Montreal concert on Monday after being hospitalized for an undisclosed medical condition. "A representative for Janet Jackson says the singer has been hospitalized after falling ill...
Barry Artiste Op/Ed You know I do not even know where to begin in all this, first taking blame away from addicts whose excuses for their addiction ranging from rape to murder, now have a new ally. More Heroin, and...
Christine St. Pierre, the Quebec Minister of Culture, Communications and the Status of Women, announced her plans to create a charter that would ban ultra-thin models from runways and magazines. ""We have to...
highlighted by Terri Potratz | 7 wks ago | updated 7 wks ago 144 views | 1 comment | 2 recommendations