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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 |
Friday, July 2
Marion the Robot Librarian
by
DavidAkin
on Fri 02 Jul 2004 11:01 PM EDT
[A press release received
today says:] "A team of researchers from the Intelligent Robotics
Laboratory at the University Jaume I (UJI) in Castellón, Spain, has
created the first automat capable of performing the tasks usually
carried out by a library clerk. The robot uses speech-recognition to
identify the book ... more »
Why they don't watch local TV news (in St. Louis, anyhow)
by
DavidAkin
on Fri 02 Jul 2004 08:51 PM EDT
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[From the June 30 edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
Readers Explain Why They Don't Watch Local News
By Gail Pennington
St. Louis Post Dispatch
We asked; you griped.
Encouraged to comment on St. Louis TV news, more than 100 Post-Dispatch
readers weighed in with their pet peeves. Many ... more »
Canada's Supremes say no to an Internet tax on music
by
DavidAkin
on Fri 02 Jul 2004 03:50 PM EDT
 Earlier this week, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its decision on an important and significant Internet music case, known in legal circles as the Tariff 22 case but known among those who are not lawyers as the SOCAN case.
I put together a story for CTV's National News... more »
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