September 2006 - Posts

• Everything new is old again

  By: Terra Pobuda I work in technology but it can be tough when you’re also a diehard traditionalist. In the aesthetic sense that is. As much as I relish speeds and feeds, I like things old, natural and organic. There’s nothing better than an object that Read More... Posted 28 September 2006 12:15 by Terra Pobuda | 0 Comments Attachment(s): 310743427revamp_product.jpg

• Crash and burned

  By: Carly Suppa My PC died today. Maybe I killed it. Maybe it was just its time. We can argue over semantics but the end result is the same: a painful, sputtery demise fit for the likes of a Commodore 64 – not for a Pentium 4 machine less than two years Read More... Posted 28 September 2006 11:53 by Terra Pobuda | 0 Comments

• Reinventing the mix tape

  By: Ian Barr I miss the mix tape days when my friends would create and share music. It was a great way of discovering new artists and the latest underground basement mixes. Sure there were audio quality issues and limits on storage capacity, but this Read More... Posted 27 September 2006 21:00 by Ian Barr | 0 Comments Attachment(s): Online Mixtapes.jpg

• From school to work…

  By: Emilija Businskas The month of September means it’s time to go back to school, but for me, it’s the first time that I’m not heading back to class. My friends joke that I’ve prolonged my entry into the working world as long as possible. After high Read More... Posted 22 September 2006 09:44 by Terra Pobuda | 3 Comments

• The angel & devil sitting on my shoulders

  By: Sharon Fernandes In this industry I fight similar inner battles as most. It's the marketer in me that finds the nuances and intertwining of technology into our sector encouraging and brilliant. But on the other side my big-brother/Naomi-klein-No-Logo Read More... Posted 20 September 2006 14:19 by Ian Barr | 1 Comments

• iTunes: No video for you!

  By: Darren Leroux This week Apple unveiled a swath of new products and services as part of its iPod and iTunes portfolio. Many predicted the jump to movie downloads in iTunes, but no one expected such a limited catalogue. While Mac users and iPod enthusiasts Read More... Posted 15 September 2006 14:00 by Darren Leroux | 4 Comments Attachment(s): unbox image.JPG

• Journalism rules bending in the age of instant information

  By: Janice Foreman As I watched, listened to and read coverage of Wednesday’s horrific shooting at the Dawson College in Montreal, beyond being shocked and saddened by the tragedy of such an occurrence, the ex-journalist side of me became more and more Read More... Posted 15 September 2006 10:48 by Darren Leroux | 0 Comments

• Canada’s first ‘mobizine’ launches: Dialed In targets youth

  By: Ian Barr It’s well documented that teens are capable of taking in multiple messages from multiple mediums at once. They’re listening to the radio while messaging their friends on the net and speaking to them simultaneously on their mobile. There’s Read More... Posted 14 September 2006 18:45 by Ian Barr | 0 Comments Filed under: mobile, MediaRelations Attachment(s): dialed in.jpg

• The most dangerous game

  By: Terra Pobuda I've recently become a statistic…well, I guess it’s something I’ve always been, but I’m feeling it more lately now that I’ve started playing video games. We’ve all seen, and been mildly shocked by the plentitude of surveys released that Read More... Posted 12 September 2006 16:45 by Terra Pobuda | 1 Comments

• All the news that’s fit for print

  By: Darren Leroux A few weeks ago the Toronto Star announced that it would begin offering a mid-afternoon, e-version of the paper proclaiming it would be “North America’s first downloadable afternoon newspaper”. Plenty of folks wrote about it, Jeff Jarvis Read More... Posted 11 September 2006 14:53 by Darren Leroux | 0 Comments