Archive for the 'Opinion' Category
Us Canadians are getting ready to vote next week and our American friends are getting ready to vote next month.
The world economy is a mess.
Is now really the time to be voting? It almost feels like we are gambling on our future. But if the elections were cancelled, then we’d just be keeping our current [...]
I have a feeling that my grandchildren will not watch television or at least, not very much of it.
I’m seeing this pendulum swing that is just beginning really. It started with video blogging who are really the new broadcast pioneers. In reality, they are narrowcasters though.
I am finding, more an more, a reliance on [...]
This has to be a dream right? Imagine paying $5 a month and being able to have every song in the world for free! And you can give the songs to your family and friends, legally!
The Songwriter’s Association of Canada wants every Internet subscriber to pay $5 per month to them since we all pirate [...]
Do you subscribe to any “digital magazines”? I’m not talking about web sites that claim to be magazines. I’m talking about the ones that are actually a true magazine converted to a digital format in which you can flip through the pages like a real magazine.
I currently get two magazines in this format:
eWeekComputerWorld Canada
I used [...]
My mind has been working overtime lately and I couldn’t quite figure out what it was. It has finally hit me.
For the last several years I’ve felt as if I’m not moving forward much, as if time was sort of standing still. I was seeing small changes in my interests but nothing more than little [...]
A chill ran down my spine the other day and again this morning. Internet service providers are looking to implement a fee structure where you pay for your usage. On the surface, that sounds okay. But, when I think about it again, it doesn’t sound okay.
Here’s what I see happening.
Most claims, from Internet providers, are [...]
Everything is tied to money. All the good ideas are taken.
When the Scrabulous application was added to Facebook, users flocked to it because it was fun and was a good way for friends to interact in some way. But once people found out how much the creators were making, Hasbro jumped on it and threatened [...]
Its 2008 and for many of us in the IT field, we work for companies that have offices in many countries. More often than not, we work with people in India and China and Japan. I love the idea of people working together and sharing ideas and opinions. In my mind, this is one way [...]
OK, so my favourite site, Digital Home Canada, has reported that Bell Canada is making some changes to their long distance rates.
It’s 2008. One would think that a major telecom provider, looking to compete, would be lowering rates because of services like Skype which offer incredibly cheap per minute calls.
But no, that’s not the [...]
