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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, October 31
October's most popular posts - and a first appearance on Technorati 100
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DavidAkin
on Sun 31 Oct 2004 10:50 PM EST
What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month? 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 »
Perhaps I was all wrong on this Internet thing ...
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DavidAkin
on Sun 31 Oct 2004 07:51 PM EST
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 »
U.S. troop deployment -- now and then
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DavidAkin
on Sun 31 Oct 2004 01:46 PM EST
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 » Saturday, October 30
A Gun Tale: Intel sabotage plot foiled
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DavidAkin
on Sat 30 Oct 2004 11:20 PM EDT
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 »
Yahoo Image search and me
by
DavidAkin
on Sat 30 Oct 2004 09:29 PM EDT
 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 »
Friday, October 29
Canadian cell phone companies sued over access charges
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DavidAkin
on Fri 29 Oct 2004 08:58 PM EDT
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 »
Thursday, October 28
NOW hears this
by
DavidAkin
on Thu 28 Oct 2004 10:45 PM EDT
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 »
So long CNNfn, here in Canada, we never knew you ...
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DavidAkin
on Thu 28 Oct 2004 09:37 PM EDT
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 »
ICANN will go to Argentina and Luxembourg
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DavidAkin
on Thu 28 Oct 2004 02:14 PM EDT
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 »
Wednesday, October 27
Canadian iTunes Music store to open in November?
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DavidAkin
on Wed 27 Oct 2004 07:14 AM EDT
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 » |
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