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Gemini Award-winning reporter David Akin is the National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service and is based at the CNS Parliamentary Bureau in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Sunday, September 14
Twitter and Election 2008: I'm being followed by AntiHarperBias!
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DavidAkin
on Sun 14 Sep 2008 07:57 PM EDT
You've heard of Twitter, right?
Twitter is all the rage among the political class in the U.S.. It's a little less popular here. Still, politicians and others are fiddling with Twitter. With Twitter, you sign up and then choose some friends, notable, or political journalists (more on that ... more » Wednesday, September 10
Fun with iTunes or Bob Willis is NOT Lionel Richie
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DavidAkin
on Wed 10 Sep 2008 11:04 PM EDT
Among the CDs and vinyl that I've recently encoded: James Levine conducting Izthak Perlman through some Mozart concertos; Canadian new wave rockers Blue Peter's 1983 record Falling (that had the hit "Don't Walk Past"); The Hives 2001 compilation, Your New Favourite Band, and The Ultimate Collection of hits by those crazy mid-century Texas swing masters, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys.... Then iTunes reaches out on its database looking for The Ultimate Collection and pulls up this: Now, being Canadian and all, I'm not up on my race relations the way our American friends are but I'm pretty sure that Lionel Richie is not Bob Wills and his band, who were all white guys in Texas in the 1940s. more » |
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