Following up from yesterday's post which contained the names and details of companies headquartered or active in Canada who are helping with disaster relief in South Asia, here's today's tally. Notably, long-suffering Nortel Networks of Brampton makes a $700,000 (U.S.) donation (half of the money will come from Nortel employees) making it the most generous Canadian company so far for South Asia disaster relief. (Mind you, nickel-producer . . .   more »

L-Soft International which hosts a lot of e-mail lists on a variety of topics said it has established a list where the discussion is intended to be for survivors and those looking for survivors. Here's the blurb from L-Soft:
"In response to the Indian Ocean Tsunami tragedy, L-Soft has created ...   more »

My colleague Paul Waldie takes a look in today's Globe and Mail at one of the challenges for businesses that wish to donate: How to give without seeming like you're trying to make a buck on the giving yourself: "When executives at Best Buy Canada Ltd. considered how to help ...   more »

Henry Farrell, writing on the Crooked Timber blog, puts forth a position on the relationship between mainstream media and bloggers which is very close to mine, namely, that both are important and both are an important source of information. Farrell, though, has a message for those bloggers who think ...   more »