Media — Page 35

Last night I listened

January 31, 2001 by Michael Boyle

to todradio.com, a CBC radio show that’s really coming along. The show covers the net and new media, each week focusing on a particular topic. Last night was online news, and they did a pretty good job of covering the basics for those not well versed in the subject while also allowing for some discussion of the more subtle points. Of course it’s broadcast on the web as well, and they have a chat room open during the broadcast as well.

Zeldman has found

January 15, 2001 by Michael Boyle

Zeldman has found a site for something called the Health and Racquet Club Group. When you go to the site, however, all you get is a page that says “You have been directed to this page because of the use of an old browser…” and suggests that you use a browser that supports web standards. People have been trying to get the real site to load using any number of browsers – it won’t load the real thing under my IE5/Mac – but everyone gets the same message. Which suggests to me that it might be a mild hoax, a bit of a media hack – but if it is, it’s pretty oblique.

There was a big

November 30, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Quebec web and multimedia awards show last night at the Spectrum on Ste-Catherine at Bleury called Boomerangs 2000. Some of the winners are pretty interesting.

Much hilarity from

October 26, 2000 by Michael Boyle

the government subsidy file as well. The Montreal Gazette reported today about E-Commerce grumblings, which is about how unhappy developers are at a plan to develop “E-Commerce Place” and give subsidies to businesses that locate there (there’s a Tilden car rental place in the location now, right around the corner from the Molson Center). Thing is that the business that are currently succeeding here are doing so in spite of gov’t intervention, not because of it. Plus, we already have the Cit du Multimedia.

It’s a positive

October 9, 2000 by Michael Boyle

idea, I think, to have candidates’ views appear in articles published in various media, and Ralph Nader makes some interesting points in a Wired News article on telecom policy. At the same time though it demonstrates one of Nader’s key problems (and it has been a problem for him for 30 years). He can’t see the forest for the trees. He gets so bogged down in minutia that he neglects to mention the key point – that the Clinton/Gore administration has a lot to answer for regarding the Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996.