May 2006 - Posts

• Are bloggers journalists? Let's not get blogged down

  By Ian Barr The heat was turned up a notch in the debate over whether or not bloggers should be considered journalists. Last Friday, a California state appeals court ruled in favor (pdf) of the bloggers who revealed Apple product secrets, granting them Read More... Posted 30 May 2006 20:03 by Ian Barr | 6 Comments

• Does Canada need more online shopping?

  By Leslie Taschner Two years ago, I returned to my hometown of Toronto after living in the U.S. for 10 years. During my time south of the border, I was fortunate enough to live in two of the world’s most digital cities, New York and San Francisco. While Read More... Posted 29 May 2006 15:46 by Darren Leroux | 2 Comments Filed under: eBusiness, OnlineShopping

• Better than beer or just a lot of breast?

  By Ian Barr I was in the middle of reading an article in Now magazine when I turned the page and it hit me – a large color ad of a woman with three breasts. The only copy on the page was Betterthanbeer.com . Given that it was the long weekend in Canada Read More... Posted 23 May 2006 18:40 by Ian Barr | 2 Comments Filed under: Campaigns

• Train wreck on the Information Superhighway

  By Darren Leroux While attending the Mesh conference in Toronto last week, I sat-in on the Steve Rubel coffee talk keynote. While I didn’t walk away with any sense of ‘wow, I had no idea…’ I was comforted by the fact, that my mindset toward blogging and Read More... Posted 23 May 2006 11:55 by Darren Leroux | 3 Comments

• Its 1996 all over again

  By Darren Leroux Earlier this week my self and a number of colleagues, ( Ian Barr , Brendan Hodgson , Lisa Walker and Ted Graham ) attended the first (will it be annual? Semi-annual?) Mesh conference in Toronto. While I personally couldn’t attend every Read More... Posted 19 May 2006 10:06 by Darren Leroux | 2 Comments

• Dose is Dumped

  By Ian Barr It was a sad day in Canadian news media yesterday. CanWest announced that it was going to dump the print edition of Dose , a youth-oriented free newspaper that was available in five cities and was just about to reach its one year anniversary. Read More... Posted 18 May 2006 15:31 by Ian Barr | 3 Comments Filed under: MediaRelations