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Tuesday, August 3
"Build loyalty & increased engagement through ongoing conversation and brand experience."
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Jason
on Tue 03 Aug 2010 05:36 PM CST
Saturday, July 17
Saturday Snap - Unfortunate DVD Case of the Week
by
Jason
on Sat 17 Jul 2010 12:00 AM CST
I know its juvenile but given how he died, you have to admit that this DVD case for a David Carradine Tai Chi workout has some unfortunate text on the cover promoting its "benefits".
When I saw the case at the library, I just burst out laughing.  Then I realised this would be my *second* reference to auto-erotic asphyxiation on this blog so maybe the joke's on me?   Tuesday, June 15
Blog Holiday
by
Jason
on Tue 15 Jun 2010 11:46 PM CST
As I mentioned the other day, Shea, Pace and I are on holidays for the next little bit. And even though I have such a serious Internet addiction that I bought a wireless router on my way into Kelowna so I could have WiFi at my aunt's place (I wish I were kidding about that!
 ), I've decided that it's okay to have a bit of a blog holiday as well. I'm pretty proud of my (give or take) daily posting but I'm sure the half dozen or so people who read this blog regularly won't be heart-broken if I focus on being a proper tourist for a few days - wearing white sport socks with sandals, taking photos of every single thing I see, wearing a fanny pack (again, I only wish I were kidding about at least one of those things! ) I'm not going cold turkey - I may do a few posts here and there but mostly I just wanted to publicly give myself permission to ignore this blog if I was too tired or burnt (hopefully literally if we finally get some sun one of these days!) Saturday, June 12
Saturday Snap - On the Road Again
by
Jason
on Sat 12 Jun 2010 11:02 PM CST
We're off for a few weeks' holidays, planning to hit Calgary, Kelowna and Vancouver as our main ports of call. Here's a shot from somewhere near Brooks, Alberta. "When you gotta go" and all that - glad we decided to throw the potty in the van with us!
The funniest/scariest part of this was the two dudes who stopped where we'd parked on a side road to ask if we were okay. We told them we were and that we'd just stopped for a potty break. "We'll need one soon, too!" they said, holding up their beers and driving off, turning onto the #1 highway!   Thursday, May 27
My New Most Favourite Library Story of All-Times
by
Jason
on Thu 27 May 2010 07:00 AM CST
A patron, concerned about the possibility of germs on library books, removes the plastic covers then cooks them at 350 for 30 minutes before reading them. True story.
Tuesday, May 25
Tuesday, May 11
Leader's Gala, a snub to working people
by
Jason
on Tue 11 May 2010 09:01 PM CST
I hope no one thinks they've stumbled upon NDP Watch with this post but I have to admit that I had to do a double (actually triple) take when I received the latest e-newsletter from the provincial NDP with the headline, "Leader's Gala, a snub to working people, and more policy videos."
For a moment, I actually thought someone must've hacked the NDP's e-mail servers because I read the headline as "Leader's Gala - a snub to working people". I know that wasn't the intention but I still appreciate the unintended irony. The Leader's Gala *is* a $50 a plate fundraising event and so it probably is true that it's far beyond the reach of most working people. I'm sure events like this are probably important to any political party, right, left or center, for reaching a certain segment of society while helping to fill party coffers. But I like the recent post at Louis Riel Trail where he commends the latest Ryan Meili money bomb as a better way to fundraise in general as you can earn similar amounts by getting smaller donations from a lot more people. The bonus of a successful money bomb is that you actively engage a lot more people as well. LRT's post talks of the Sask Party's $300/plate dinners but if we're being completely honest, a lot of his arguments would apply to the NDP's own fundraising dinner. And this unfortunate juxtaposition only reinforces that impression. (I mean this post as no slight on whoever compiles the newsletter. I'm reminded of an Alberta publisher I used to work with who posted their "Typo of the Week" on their office door. Or to put it another way, "shit happens". And if I had better reading comprehension, I wouldn't even be doing this post! )Sunday, May 9
Betty White on SNL and Six Other Victories of the Internet That Influenced Pop Culture
by
Jason
on Sun 09 May 2010 07:24 PM CST
Former Golden Girl and definitely not-the-typical Saturday Night Live host, Betty White actually *was* the host of last night's show, mainly because of an Internet campaign that started on Facebook. Here's an article that details some other examples of Internet campaigns affecting pop culture.
Sunday, May 2
"You Can't Handle The Truth" - Media Bans in the Digital Age
by
Jason
on Sun 02 May 2010 07:21 PM CST
Everybody's probably familiar with the sad story of Tori Stafford, the young girl from Woodstock, Ontario who was abducted and killed last year.
Recently, some new detail has apparently come to light but the judge has imposed a publication ban meaning no Canadian media can cover this aspect of the trial. The traditional media aren't happy about this and I can't say I blame them. ...the practical reality is that in the Internet age, trying to stop the
dissemination of information revealed in open court is impractical.
Indeed, placing limits on traditional, responsible media may be
counterproductive, as the only information available to the public will
be incomplete and rife with speculation and rumour. As the Globe & Mail says, all a publication ban does is give free reign for anyone with an Internet connection to add their speculation to the mix (hi!  ) or, with a couple carefully chosen keywords, even profit from the lurid interest. Some Canadian media outlets are doing the best they can to work within the ban, hypothetically musing their way through their reports. A publication ban is doubly useless in the Internet age when a blogger OR a news outlet just across the US border in Buffalo or Cleveland could publish the details without any sanction as was frequently the case during the Karla Homolka trial. Publication bans are even more useless in less sensationalistic circumstances. In the past, media have been prevented from revealing national election results from the east until polls have closed in the west. But again, anybody with an Internet connection and a modicum of technical knowledge could find out what was going on before going to cast their vote...as if enough people would ever be paying enough attention or change their vote significantly if they *did* see results for it to make a difference. Finally, just as with the attention drawn by banned books pushing the questionable item to the top of the bestseller lists, a publication ban only serves to shine a light on information that would've likely made little more than a ripple otherwise. From the Toronto Star article I already linked to above: The facts get distorted. This is going to snowball to epic proportions
and disgustingness. Really, I don’t understand how they’ll manage to
enforce hush-hushness. I’ve been going on Facebook all day to see if
anybody has posted anything about it. That’s so easy to do now, just put
up an anonymous page and say what you like. How are they going to stop
that? It’s impossible to keep secrets in this day and age.”
Wednesday, April 21
Parody Is Not An Infrigement of Copyright (Watch It While You Can)
by
Jason
on Wed 21 Apr 2010 08:34 PM CST
I wrote about this meme before. Turns out that a couple years after these parodies gave their German-language art house film some international attention, the people who made the movie have decided that the single scene used for all these parodies is an "infringement" of their work. Well, they say that dinosaurs had small brains and that's why they went extinct...
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