24 Hour Conservative News Comes to Canada

Moving from the U.S. to Canada was a bit of a news media shock to say the least. Coming from a place where 24 hour news began in earnest back in the early 90′s with CNN and is now dominated by the likes of FoxNEWS and MSNBC, watching Canadian national news feels more like watching a local affiliate...

Talk About a Catchy Job Posting

This is a classic! Had I come across an ad like this in 1993 it might have taken me into a journalism job out of college rather than the StumbleUpon career I currently have that began with the question, “how the hell am I going to pay off this debt I accumulated going to journalism...

The Fate of Del.icio.us

Back in December word leaked out that Yahoo was planning to kill social bookmarking site del.icio.us and I for one freaked out. I made the move to del.icio.us in late 2005 as a purely workflow decision. The number of bookmarks that resided in the primary browser on my home PC had grown to epic proportions...

Lazy Friday

I have been off work all week enjoying spring break with my daughter and my visiting mother so my posting has been spotty. That said, I would like to share with you my latest UNPLUGGED feature for Vancouver Is Awesome, UNPLUGGED #14: Sailing Howe Sound – Snowflake Series. Happy...

On Libya, Liberal Interventionism, and Progressive Misogyny

Ok, I’m no fan of intervention, humanitarian or otherwise.  So, let me state for the record that I’m unequivocally opposed to military operations in Libya, regardless of how much fuzzy, feel-good moralistic liberal internationalist gloss the usual suspects try to apply to their latest...