According to the stats collected on this blog's servers, there more than 15,000 unique visitors to this blog in June (not including those reading the XML / RSS feed) and there were more than 25,000 page views. Is that good? Beats me but it sure sounds impressive.
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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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Monday, July 5
June's biggest hit at David Akin's blog
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DavidAkin
on Mon 05 Jul 2004 11:48 AM EDT
Private radio has best year ever in 2003
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DavidAkin
on Mon 05 Jul 2004 10:51 AM EDT
Statistics Canada reports today that Canada's private radio station operators posted record profits in 2003. Air times sales were $1.2-billion. This stellar performance for "the granddad of electronic media" comes even as Internet use and music downloads continues to swell. Statscan said the radio stations did it primarly by watching their ... more »
Internet Registry of Canada guy gets fined
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DavidAkin
on Mon 05 Jul 2004 10:21 AM EDT
Daniel Kleman thought he had a good thing going. He would use a WHOIS directory to find the names and addresses of .ca holders (I happen to be one, holding the rights to davidakin.ca) and then send along what appeared to be an invoice from The Internet Registry of Canada. ... more »
Hey Canada: What should we do about spam?
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DavidAkin
on Mon 05 Jul 2004 10:21 AM EDT
The federal anti-spam task force wants your opinion about spam.
Someone named nschwarz has, at this writing, dominated the discussion forums, accounting for 11 of the 12 posts to these discussion areas. Of course, it's early yet, and nschwarz seems to know what he's talking about. more »
"One of the worst and most dangerous [Internet] court decisions..."
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DavidAkin
on Mon 05 Jul 2004 10:21 AM EDT
A U.S. federal appeals court says there is no protection of privacy for e-mail as it passes through an ISP's servers.
"This is one of the worst and most dangerous court decisions ever to appear relating to the Internet," says Lauren Weinstein, co-founder of People for Internet Responsibility. Here's ... more » |
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