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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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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. Blogware users typically pay a monthly fee for using this platform but I do not as Tucows has kindly provided me with this platform. I may report on Tucows, its associated operations and executives, and on industry issues that may affect Tucows. I am grateful for Tucows' assistance but that's it. No favours were promised for their generosity nor do Tucows executives expect any. I hold no direct equity or stock in any company, Tucows included. 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 Login
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Tuesday, September 30
Diversity and the media
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DavidAkin
on Tue 30 Sep 2003 09:48 PM EDT
Journalists, academics, media critics and, now, Industry Canada bureaucrats toss around this notion of "diversity of content" but I wonder what that really means. . . more »
Monday, September 29
Canadians and their weather data
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DavidAkin
on Mon 29 Sep 2003 08:49 PM EDT
Canadians and their weather dataThere's nothing that breaks the ice quicker between two Canadians than talking about, well, breaking the ice and other weather facts. For example, Environment Canada has, after exhaustive study, determined that: "The sunniest city is Medicine Hat and the wettest is ... more »
Blogs and editors
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DavidAkin
on Mon 29 Sep 2003 05:34 PM EDT
The New York Times today has a neat story titled: The Role of the Delete Key in Blog
From that story: Is a blog still a blog if someone else edits it? A recent policy change at The Sacramento Bee has raised questions about whether taking an editor's pen to a ...more » Thursday, September 25
Internet Stats and Experts
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DavidAkin
on Thu 25 Sep 2003 09:41 PM EDT
From Tara Calishain's ResearchBuzz:
Link List for Internet Demographicsmore »
Phoning Home From School
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DavidAkin
on Thu 25 Sep 2003 07:56 PM EDT
Dartmouth College in Hanover, Hew Hampshire has invested in a system to let students route phone calls over the Internet.
Interestingly enough, my alma mater, the University of Guelph is just about to do this as well. The Globe will next month publish a ranking of Canadian universities a la ... more » Friday, September 19
Fiddling part 2
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DavidAkin
on Fri 19 Sep 2003 10:41 PM EDT
Ross helpfully replies to my earlier observations about Blogware, which, I might add, I'm really warming up to. Mind you, while I hang around with a lot of geeks, I'm not necessarily as fluent in geek-ese as I ought to be so it's going to take me a minute to ... more »
Scouting the scouts
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DavidAkin
on Fri 19 Sep 2003 10:03 PM EDT
I've been subscribing to one or several of the e-newsletters published by the Internet Scout Project since I had my first e-mail address back in 1992. The Scout project, based at the University of Wisconsin in beautiful Racine, simply scouts out new Web or electronic resources and comments on them. ... more »
I'm syndicated!
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DavidAkin
on Fri 19 Sep 2003 02:46 PM EDT
This is an edited version of a post that appeared on the Blogger-powered version of David Akin's blog.. Please ... more »
A national tower grid
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DavidAkin
on Fri 19 Sep 2003 02:23 PM EDT
A national tower grid?Canada's federal government is embarking on a "National Antenna Tower Review Policy", a good idea, it seems to me, as we see more and more wireless broadband providers take to the air. Wi-Fi proponents have already warned that really good tower spots are a scarce commodity and, if there's any role for a government authority, it might be in regulating the physical access to these tower point. Anyone interested in this issue is invited to contribute to the review but time is tight. Submissions must be in by October 17. Canada's tower review policy is being led by David Townsend, a law professor at the University of New Brunswick. The government says: "This ... Review's objective is to lead the development of new, modern procedures for placing antenna towers, which embrace community involvement and expand the economic and social benefits of wireless broadcast and wireless broadband technologies across Canada." |
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