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Toronto :: Canada

Member since Mar 25, 2008

  • halpen
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  • Birthday:Jan 09, 1971
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I'm a fiction writer and cultural commentator, author of novels and short stories and two books of culture criticism including most recently Hello, I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity. Check out my books and writing at www.smellit.c...

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Have a Big Mac, Omar Khadr: Video Tapes are an International Embarrassment
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Toronto :: Canada | Jul 16, 9:16 AM

Videotapes recently released showing Canadian teenager Omar Khadr interrogated at Guantanamo Bay are an international embarrassment.

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 Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs
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Toronto :: Canada | Jul 05, 3:16 PM

Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.

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Help A Reporter
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Toronto :: Canada | Jun 26, 12:44 PM

A few months back I joined something called Help A Reporter. It's the brainchild of publicist/marketing entrepreneur Peter Shankman. Basically what happens is that twice a day I get a list sent to my email that consists of reporters looking for ...

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IT Staff Snoop on Colleagues
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Toronto :: Canada | Jun 20, 7:00 PM

A new study finds that 1 out of 3 tech staff read the private emails of their colleagues and otherwise access private material not meant for them. For more on this, read the accompanying blog post.

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Peter Lynch Retrospective and art Based on Project Grizzly in Toronto this Summer
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Toronto :: Canada | Jun 12, 2:27 PM

Project Grizzly  will be screened again in Toronto in a few weeks, when the Cinemateque Ontario does a June 20 - 28 retrospective of the work of PG director Peter Lynch. An accompanying exhibit will be on in Toronto at Trinity Square Video from ...

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Emily Gould, the Personal Blog, and the Product-Persona that Will Make You Rich
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Toronto :: Canada | Jun 06, 1:18 PM

Emily Gould obviously knew that she was overstepping boundaries of privacy and proprietary when she was blogging about private matters of concern to more than just her. She was clearly doing it to advance her career and persona, and admits as much ...

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