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Who pays for this blog? I receive no fees, considerations, etc. etc. for the posts on this blog nor do I have any plans to accept any. My salary is paid by Canwest Global Communications Corp. I work for that company as the Ottawa-based National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service. The blog publishing platform used here is called Blogware and it's developed by Tucows Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. My use of Blogware should not be taken as an endorsement of that company. Like all Blogware users, I do not pay any fees for the use of this service. I participate in program. Google pays me some money and, for that, I give Google some space on this site to display ads. Google sells those ads and Google, not me, decides what advertising content you are seeing. I do not filter these ads and take no responsibility for them. Readers should not assume I endorse any of the products or services advertised here. If you think other disclosures are appropriate in this space, I'd like to hear from you. All of my contact details are always at www.davidakin.com You can read more about this section |
Wednesday, December 3
Brock U lights up its Wi-Fi network
by
DavidAkin
on Wed 03 Dec 2003 04:32 PM EST
I was at my alma mater, the University of
Guelph, earlier this week and checked the Wi-Fi network in McLaughlin
Library, the campus' main library. Shelves of books on that library's first
floor have given way to lots of comfoy chairs and a coffee shop. Library
users now access ... more »
Should journalists cover meaningless PR stunts?
by
DavidAkin
on Wed 03 Dec 2003 03:09 PM EST
Jay Rosen offers up a tremendously interesting and thought-provoking essay
about meaningless PR stunts and whether or not we should cover them. You
might say, "Well, of course, we shouldn't cover meaningless PR stunts". But
what if that stunt was the President of the United States visiting U.S.
Troops in ... more »
How Newspapers can get their groove back
by
DavidAkin
on Wed 03 Dec 2003 08:12 AM EST
The American Journalism Review
reports that in several surveys, newspapers prosper when they pay
attention to some pretty basic stuff:
New features for this blog
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DavidAkin
on Wed 03 Dec 2003 07:06 AM EST
The good folks who develop Blogware, the publishing system used for this blog, have added a couple of nifty new tools, one for me and one for you, dear reader. For me, I can post via e-mail and that's going to be much easier and should generate more posts. ... more »
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