Nov

25

Thanks Ralph

November 25, 2005 | 2 Comments

OK, I agree with Ralph Klein’s analysis,
On Wednesday, Alberta Premier Ralph Klein, an often harsh critic of the Liberal government, surprised onlookers when he said he expected Mr. Martin’s party to form the next government.
“If I were a betting man,” the Progressive Conservative Premier told reporters in response to questions about the coming election’s likely […]

Nov

25

Clear the decks

November 25, 2005 | 1 Comment

While my American friends load the groaning boards for American Thanksgiving, Canadians are grabbing their swag bags and holding them open in the hopes that the Federal Liberals “spend your way to power”campaign will toss a little tucker their way.
Delightfully, the Liberals are going to be defeated in the House on a schedule of their […]

Nov

18

Why Blogging is not about the Boeing

November 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Jim Lowney met his friend Tim Blair at the OSM launch,
The September 11 attacks quickly became the meat of the conversation. But these nice folks didn’t mention the horror or death or the survivors or the wounding of a city or brave firefighters or fatherless children. They didn’t even offer a personal tale of the […]

Nov

17

Build Your Own Boeing

November 17, 2005 | 1 Comment

The term “taking the Boeing” is blog talk for being bought out by the ever clueless MSM. Usage: Andrew Sullivan has just taken the Boeing with his deal at Time Magazine.
Today’s launch of Open Source Media Inc. including our very own Daiman Penny , Pieter Dorsman (shared with Holland) and Angry in the Great White […]

Nov

17

Bullet Dodged

November 17, 2005 | 1 Comment

The US government will retain overall control of the technology which powers the internet - its domain name system, root servers and the oversight of the California-based, not-for-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) which looks after it all - for the foreseeable future.
An Internet Governance Forum will be created to discuss and […]

Nov

15

Note to the UN

November 15, 2005 | Leave a Comment

The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services. The Internet is based on a layered, end-to-end model that allows people at each level of the […]

Nov

14

Anti-Portfolio

November 14, 2005 | Leave a Comment

For all of us who missed Google’s IPO….go here and be cheered up.
And what a smart thing for a VC to do.

Nov

14

B’rer Rabbit

November 14, 2005 | 1 Comment

It has been a long time since I read B’rer Rabbit. I don’t even remember who had the rabbit in his clutches. What I do remember is the Rabbit pleading, “Please, oh please, don’t throw me into the briar patch.”
Which sounds very much like what Liberal House leader Tony Valeri is doing to the bright […]

Nov

14

Political Campaigns in the age of Blog

November 14, 2005 | 2 Comments

Matt Stoller’s politics make me cringe; but his analysis of the shifts in poltical campaigning as the internet overwhelms MSM are always worth reading. The US is miles ahead of Canada in the use of the internet in campaigns but the points Stoller makes in his recent post will be here in no more than […]

Nov

13

Chirac up a tree

November 13, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Lovely image isn’t it. The arch coniver, friend to the Troll of Ramallah, patron to Saddam Hussein, big fan of Hamas, - a guy who single handedly stopped the entire American armoured division from crossing Turkey to help with security in Iraq by threatening to withhold EU membership - has been completely powerless in […]

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