I met LeVar Burton today
Image via Wikipedia LeVar Burton was in Toronto today for an interview with CBC‘s The Hour. With about an hour’s notice he posted a Tweetup. I was there, with about thirty others, including someone from CityTV.
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Making sense of Bell’s twitter charges
Image via CrunchBase Update April 8th 2009: There’s a Bell autodialer reporting that Twitter charges will be refunded. I’ve been experimenting with Twitter‘s resumed SMS service in Canada. Right now it only works with Bell Mobility and, well, I’m a Bell subscriber. Twitter claims the service is free but I quickly heard reports of fifteen [...]
New media hearings, part one
Image via Wikipedia The CRTC held day two of their new media hearings today, with more to follow in a week. The goal is of the hearings is to figure out just what to do with this new fangled media, to discern whether incentives or regulation is required to encourage the spread of Canadian content.
Where’s the microblogsphere?
When talking about microblogging I often see this question asked: “What can you say in 140 characters?” My answer is “Maybe a sentence, sometimes with a citation.” That falls within 140 characters but it’s missing too much, which is why I’m writing this short post. Most people I talk to hear “microblogging” and put too [...]
Promoting Canadian content through internet regulations: Call for comments
A few days ago the CRTC has opened up a public consultation regarding the exemption of regulation for new media. Among other things, new media contains the internet. The old exemption was from 1999 and now the CRTC is trying to decide whether or not it’s still appropriate. User generated content, that is any content [...]
Plenty of telecom issues but no debate near the election
photo credit: Seattle Municipal Archives
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