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The Digital Segregation of Canadians

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Back in the eighties, Vancouverites would frequently made odysseys across the border and visit the foreign temples of capitalism. At that time, there were a ton of brands which didn’t have a presence north of the border: Old Navy, The Gap, Banana Republic and so forth. People felt thrilled and sophisticated to be wearing clothes […]

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Instead of Clapping, They’re Blogging

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Last month I wrote about the ubiquity of cameras at concerts. Today, via Metafilter, a journalist asks at least a half-dozen working musicians how they feel about the phenomenon. Their responses are varied. Here’s Sleater-Kinney guitarist (and blogger) Carrie Brownstein:
“As a performer, it’s frustrating to look out and see a sea of cellphones instead of […]

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144 Weeks of My Dodgy Musical Taste

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Regular readers know that I love nifty information visualizations, particularly when they’re about, well, me. So, I was pleased to discover LastGraph. It grabs your public Last.fm music-listening data and renders it in a number of interesting ways. The most interesting is a big-ass timeline poster of the music you’ve listened to.
I think I was […]

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Our iPods + iTunes + Windows + Apple Problem
Do We Have Proms in Canada (and Was There a DJ at Yours)?
The Stones Can Still Tear It Up
PlaysForSure (Until August, 2008)

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