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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, January 14
The Perp Walk
by
DavidAkin
on Wed 14 Jan 2004 02:25 PM EST
A lot of critics of American capitalism and American society often point to
the different way regular bad guys -- drug dealers, bank robbers, and thugs
-- are treated differently than white collar criminals by the media. Local
television news programs in the U.S. and sometimes in Canada, for example,
... more »
We're geeks. We read books. We hang out with real people.
by
DavidAkin
on Wed 14 Jan 2004 11:42 AM EST
Reuters reports on a study by the World Internet Project,
which, among other things, dispels the stereotype of the computer geek as a
loner staring into his computer screen all day. Computer geeks -- and I'm
proud to be part of that herd -- tend to watch a lot less ... more »
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