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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 |
Wednesday, September 26
$10B for Facebook?
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DavidAkin
on Wed 26 Sep 2007 09:40 PM EDT
News item: Microsoft take a stake in Facebook. Microsoft's rumoured investment -- the companies aren't talking -- would value the social networking site at $10-billion US. (Or, come to think of it, $10-billion Canadian ... hey, I'm takin' the loonie out for a walk while I can! ... more »
BC towns say they'll be 'carbon neutral' in five years
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DavidAkin
on Wed 26 Sep 2007 08:29 PM EDT
 Gosh, don't these yokels in B.C. know they're liable to bankrupt themselves???!! B.C. COMMUNITIES COMMIT TO CARBON NEUTRALITY BY 2012
"And don’t even get me started on Facebook, the last circle of hell..."
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DavidAkin
on Wed 26 Sep 2007 08:05 PM EDT
Andrew O'Hagan -- whose books I keep meaning to read ... has a delightful (and short!) essay in the London Review of Books:
My name’s Andrew, and I’m a reachaholic . . .
Media Cherry Picking
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DavidAkin
on Wed 26 Sep 2007 05:15 PM EDT
Substitute "PMO" for "White House" and "Prime Minister Harper" for "President Bush" and you have, in Dan Froomkin's Washington Post column, a pretty interesting column for Canadian readers:
How much control should the White House have over who gets to interview President Bush? Specifically, should Bush be able to ... more »
More data on the dollar and jobs
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DavidAkin
on Wed 26 Sep 2007 11:03 AM EDT
Just because I'm one of those geeks that likes to fool around with a spreadsheet, here's some more data on job creation in Canada during the last five years, a period in which the loonie's value has soared compared to the currency of our biggest trading partner, the U.S.
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