This article first appeared in Global News : Global Edmonton TORONTO – On Jan. 19, Canadians watched in awe as key players in the digital world – Wikipedia, Wired, WordPress and Mozilla to name a few – orchestrated what has been dubbed the “largest protest in history.” The tech companies teamed up in an effort to raise awareness about two
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Opinion pollster SodaHead surveyed 602 visitors to its site Feb. 16. about whether they experience Internet addiction, and found that many people are self-diagnosed addicts. Key word here – SELF diagnosis. Do most know what addiction is? Is being addicted to being online real? I watched a rerun of Third Rock from the Sun the other day where Dick discovered
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The state has no business in the hard drives of the Nation. Visit http://StopSpying.ca to oppose warrantless online spying (Bill C-30).
Marketing to a younger demographic? Wondering if all the forms of media are making people more thoughtful, or just better at digesting and refereing to information. This interesting infographic shows how the reference to media is not always a deep connection with multiple devices. I would say there are a few cut and paste journalists out there that could learn
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Pinterest is big news. It is the fastest growing trafficing social platform in 2012 – known as a socail curating site. Recently in a Digital Marketer Pro press release on PRWeb.com,Pinterest was mentioned as to why marketers should be using it to drive traffic. “Here’s the thing, Google+ has been getting a ridiculous amount of attention (perhaps undeserved) over the
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The federal Conservative government in Canada is set to pass lawful access legislation that will allow law enforcement (or any government agency) to, without warrant and without any legal precedent, to force ISP and telecoms to provide personal information on any Canadian. This is not limited to a computer, but also extends to mobile devices. This is a cost that
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Since this is the first post by this page, I am thinking that they are using this photo to make things viral for their page, rather than any statement on animal cruelty. The image is shocking, but the source is not known. The subject matter is off topic with the page. If it the page had many posts and
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The following is reposted (with some modification) from SimpliFlying with permission. While this is mostly about the airline industry, it gives a good snapshot on how one market segment is allocating resources when it comes to social media spending efforts. I feel that the comparison of dedicated to integrated models is however not really a comparison, but a breakdown. Not
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This fight is now happening in Canada under the proposed C11. One can be assured that the same folks arguing in favour of the flawed SOPA bill are also lobbying hard with the current Conservative government in Ottawa. (I refuse to call it by thier own brand name of the H####R Government.) Lets do a bit of “the end is
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Identifying Spam Comments on Your Blog
If you have a blog, don’t be deceived by auto posts that can fool the new comer. This blog runs on WordPress and I have ping’s turned off, but still comments come in. Like I do, you might want to set comments to moderated so your comments are not completely full of crap and you can manage them effectively. The
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