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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 |
Monday, February 9
The BBC and Lord Hutton: Why isn't the BBC being sued?
by
DavidAkin
on Mon 09 Feb 2004 04:51 PM EST
In all the resignations, accusations, protests and so on surrounding the BBC
and its reporting of the pre-war intelligence that Lord Hutton now says was
not "sexed up", I always wondered why Andrew Gilligan, the BBC reporter, or
the organization itself wasn't risking some legal sanction if it was, in
... more »
Sunday, February 8
That ultra-cool Honda ad
by
DavidAkin
on Sun 08 Feb 2004 08:48 PM EST
For good or bad, I'm usually computing on three or four different machines. On each machine I'm receiving e-mail and surfing the Web. Generally, when I find something interesting, I plop the URL or the document into electronic Inbaskets I have on each machine with the intention of going through ... more »
Thursday, February 5
Janet Jackson stunts draws ire of porn biz
by
DavidAkin
on Thu 05 Feb 2004 07:03 AM EST
Now this is rich: Janet Jackson's Super Bowl boob stunt has now been
condemned by the Free Speech Coalition, the U.S. trade association of the
adult entertainment industry.
In a press release the group put out yesterday, executive director Kat
Sunlove said "the entire half-time performance had distinctly sexual
overtones ... more »
The Soo's powerful new idea for Internet access
by
DavidAkin
on Thu 05 Feb 2004 06:29 AM EST
My friend Tyler Hamilton reports in today's Toronto Star that Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. is about to become the first Canadian municipality to roll out residential high-speed Internet service which uses power lines to carry data traffic. The Soo's local public utilities commission (PUC) will use Wi-Fi transmitters on hydro poles ... more »
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