Remember Winamp? It's 15
A screenshot of Winamp 1.006 There was a time before iTunes, a time before VLC, when listening to MP3’s could only be done using Windows Media Player or RealPlayer – both of which sucked even more than they do now. There was no such time as “playlists”…
Remember Winamp? It's 15
A screenshot of Winamp 1.006 There was a time before iTunes, a time before VLC, when listening to MP3’s could only be done using Windows Media Player or RealPlayer – both of which sucked even more than they do now. There was no such time as “playlists”…
Canada ranks in the bottom hard for freedom of information
The Canadian government’s refusal to modernize freedom of information laws means we’re now 51st in the world on a list rating 89 countries with freedom of information laws. We’re behind Mexico, The United States, Columbia, and Uganda among others. Our score on the report compiled by Halifax-based Centre…
Corporal Joy Francis of Burlington was presented with Meritorious Service Medal
Governor General David Johnston awarded 43 military decorations at Rideau Hall yesterday. Included in the recipients is a Burlington native, Corporal Joy Francis. The MSM is a decoration normally reserved for senior officers, and some senior non-commissioned. It is rarely given to non-officers, especially of such low rank…
Gawker smacksdown New York Times, only to be smacked-down in their comments
I rather enjoy Gawker articles, but I don’t actually follow the site and only visit when I link from someone’s tweet. On Thursday, media types went wild with glee linking to the Gawker smackdown of NYT’s profile of two rich teens. It’s an amusing read, drooling with sarcasm…
Toronto Star columnist notes Hamilton Spectator error
The Hamilton Spectator confused the name of a new restaurant in an article announcing the restaurant’s plans to hire. The restaurant’s name Sarcoa was mistakenly reported as Sarcoma – a type of cancer. It was noted on Poynter and then today in TheSpec’s mother paper The Toronto Star…
Hamilton to display pictures of former mayors in City Hall
Hamilton City Hall The city’s municipal heritage committee approved a request from the city government to allow minor renovations within City Hall to build racks for hanging the pictures of the city’s past mayors and current council. The request required the heritage committee’s consent due to the…
University of Ottawa student challenges mandatory student unionism
Tabaret Hall at the University of Ottawa. A University of Ottawa student [is going to court](http://cupwire.ca/articles/52835) in an attempt to leave his student union.It all began as an attempt to stop receiving emails from his student union and could become a…
The web wants longer, more informative content
The web wants longer, more informative, more interesting content. That’s the trend among web-first web-native video and it will quickly spread across the web, much as other trends among this influential sub-set of Internet users have. As with previous trends, professional journalism is betting in the other direction.…
Rodney King, iconic figure of the early 90s, dead at 47
The LA Riots shocked me as a child, I remember being glued to the coverage and trying to understand the seemingly senselessness of it all. I remember King’s statement on the third day of the riot “People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can…