Is Web Analytics Changing the News You Read?

What are you reading? 

Are you voting for the news with every click you make?

Many years ago I remember asking a newspaper representative if they were concerned about news stories being voted on by tracking clicks.  The person was perplexed at my question – and stated that their paper was not that sophisticated (this being one of [...]

Citizen Journalism - Changing our World (For the better)

The way the news used to be told.

I know traditional journalists sigh at the notion of Citizen Journalism (Read: Free).  The idea of pure amateurs reporting the world as they see fit.  No fact checking, no scrutiny, no authenticity – it’s a world turned upside down – a world based on innuendo, rumor and lies.  It [...]

Canadian Television Networks need to build a YouTube

What Canadian Television Networks need to do online.

If Canadian Television networks have any desire to survive the next decade they have to do something very radical – join together.

If CTV, CBC and Global want to survive they need to create one website Canadians can visit to watch anything they can normally get on cable – or [...]

Apple iPad will help create Digital Transparency

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So everyone is bitching today that the iPad is a bit of a disappointment, that they expected something ‘ground breaking’ or ‘revolutionary’.   Well, you have.  What the iPad will accomplish in it’s first year is it will start to make digital data ambiguous.

Sure smart phones have started the march down the path of always [...]

iPad should embrace Apple's vision of Cloud Computing

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With the release of iPad so should come with MobileMe tossed in for free.  Take a page from Google and see the value not in the user fee’s but rather the targeting advertising.  Maybe offer a package of reduced services, and for those who want more features – pay a little bit more.

It’s in [...]

Microsoft needs to let Internet Explorer Die.

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If you want to make any programmer instantly angry at you just utter the phrase: “oh ya, make sure it’s IE 6 compatible”.  IE 6 is now an ancient browser from a company that refuses to let it die.   This browser which shipped with XP SP 2 is rated by many one of the [...]

Is Twitter the beginning of the WWBrain?

Ok, I’ve never ‘got it’, I never was a fan of Twitter (or other similar real-time mass messaging services). Twitter appeared that it was nothing more than a steady stream of people all spewing their thoughts – yet with everyone shouting at the same time – and nobody really listening.  But in the past week I’ve [...]

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