What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month?
-Doris Lessing, in Martha Quest (1952)

What of October, indeed. Well, around here October was the month Jon Stewart took on Crossfire and Colby Cosh lost his regular gig at the Post. (He's still ...   more »

For a long time, I was a firm believer in what University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein argued in his 2001 book Republic.com : That the Internet is a great example of narrow-casting and that that's bad for democracy. Sunstein's book was, I thought, a good start for the ...   more »

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C., says it has put a database online that lets users examine where and how many U.S. troops were deployed around the world since 1950.
The Foundation found the following:
-On average, more than a fifth of all U.S. ...   more »

Now, this is kind of bizarre: The Arizona Republic reports that the FBI foiled a plot to do some serious damage to the Intel plant in Chandler, Ariz. Apparently, an ex-employee who was arguing with Intel over disability payments planned to seek into Intel's plant there, turn on the gas, ...   more »

Tara Calishain notes in her ResearchBuzz newsletter this week that Yahoo's Image Search is now indexing more than 1 billion images, compared to just under 900 million images over at Google. I love Google's image search and, am embarrassed to say, had no idea Yahoo was matching up so well ...   more »

Just about any company that's offered cell phone service in Canada -- including Bell Mobility, Rogers Wireless, Telus Mobility, and Fido -- are named as defendants in a lawsuit filed in August but which is just coming to light now   more »

Hey, look at that, Toronto's NOW Magazine -- free newsweekly/entertainment guide widely read by college set and other young-at-hearts in Greater Toronto and Southern Ontario Area -- says my blog is OK. Go figger. Mind you, I would have thought Joey might have rated a mention. He's way more ...   more »

CNN announced today it will shutter its all-business cable news channel, CNNfn, even though the channel made a profit for the first time last year in its nine-year history. The story, broken by the Associated Press, suggests part of the reason was the loss of some distribution in the ...   more »

Those ICANN folks sure do get to travel to the neatest spots. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers just announced today the locations of their first two meetings in 2005. From April 4-8, ICANN's directors and members of its various subcommittees will meet in Mar del Plata, Argentina. ...   more »

Apple said yesterday it would finally open its iTunes music store here in November although one report suggests that music industry types here have yet to ink any deals with Apple.
Right now, there is no iTunes music store in Canada, a frustration for many iPod and Canadian music fans....   more »