One of the few things in our front garden I haven’t killed… yet. #roses #flowers #gardeningishard (Taken with Instagram)

One of the few things in our front garden I haven’t killed… yet. #roses #flowers #gardeningishard (Taken with Instagram)

Media and journalism: the wedding crashers

Are the media bimbos or are they pandering to the masses? Wait, maybe you can’t divorce the two.

Saskatchewan man survives after being hit by train

“Police soon found the man who appeared to be drunk and had little idea what hit him. He did, however, indicate he had pain in several parts of his body.”

Valentines for journalists via 10,000 words.

Valentines for journalists via 10,000 words.

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Bless me iPhone for I have sinned

TV and web cameras given green light in B.C. courtroom

For the first time in B.C. history, cameras will be allowed to broadcast the final arguments of Canada’s polygamy trial.

It will be interesting to see if this will help the push for allowing Twitter in courtrooms.

nationalpost: Canadians are broadband gobblers, and we’re paying for itSeeing red over metered Internet“There are two truths we know. Consumers prefer all-you-can-eat plans, and the exponential explosion of content is crashing into the finite bandwidth of networks,”How much does bandwidth actually cost?Does a gigabyte cost a penny, a dime or $2? Depends who you ask. Check out our full visual archive.

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Canadians are broadband gobblers, and we’re paying for it

Seeing red over metered Internet
“There are two truths we know. Consumers prefer all-you-can-eat plans, and the exponential explosion of content is crashing into the finite bandwidth of networks,”

How much does bandwidth actually cost?
Does a gigabyte cost a penny, a dime or $2? Depends who you ask.

Check out our full visual archive.

nationalpost

The world would be a better place if only Cuba and the United States could “Like” each other.

Cuba fears the U.S. is encouraging dissent against its communist government through social media networks, according to a video leaked on several blogs.

Clever but morally questionable advertising is fine with me, that is, as long as you make it a little more obvious that you also operate a donation website. Looking at you, Groupon.

I wonder if they reconsidered this ad campaign after Kenneth Cole’s recent PR disaster.

I learned the news business in the UK, in which newspaper political coverage is much like cable TV news in the US. Fake news, manufactured, hyped, rehashed, retracted — until at the end of the week you know no more than at the beginning. You really might as well wait for a weekly like the Economist to tell you what the net position is at the end of the week.

To follow the daily or hourly news cycle is the media equivalent of day-trading: it’s frenzied, pointless and usually unprofitable. I’d much rather read an item which just showed me the photos or documents. And if you’re going to write some text, take a position or explain something to me. Give me opinion or reference; just don’t pretend you’re providing news. That’s not news.

Nick Denton (via soupsoup)