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  • Toronto :: Canada

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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 | 4 months ago

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

58 news stories / 5 blog posts / 12 images / 31 videos / 2 voices

 Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs
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Toronto :: Canada | 4 months ago

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.

20 news stories / 19 blog posts / 16 images / 18 videos / 1 voice

Help A Reporter
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Toronto :: Canada | 5 months ago

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...

2 news stories / 1 blog post / 0 images / 1 video / 1 voice

IT Staff Snoop on Colleagues
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Toronto :: Canada | 5 months ago

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.

2 news stories / 7 blog posts / 7 images / 5 videos / 1 voice

Peter Lynch Retrospective and art Based on Project Grizzly in Toronto this Summer
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Toronto :: Canada | 5 months ago

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...

1 news story / 2 blog posts / 14 images / 28 videos / 3 voices

Emily Gould, the Personal Blog, and the Product-Persona that Will Make You Rich
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Toronto :: Canada | 5 months ago

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...

4 news stories / 13 blog posts / 14 images / 5 videos / 3 voices

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