Archive for December 2010

‘Yahoo is a company that…’    (2010.12.17)

Mark Norman Francis wrote an excoriating sequence of Twits about Yahoo, preserved for posterity here

Freako covers fago    (2010.12.17)

Freakonomics actually covers my work on gay money. Funny how no one else in the mainstream press, including gay papers, has

Canadian Word of the Year 2010    (2010.12.16)

G20

Hacks & Hackers Toronto II    (2010.12.16)

At the second Hacks & Hackers event, only two of the demos were journalistic. And why are we still doing demos?

I’m not the only one who thinks comments are harmful on news sites    (2010.12.14)

Ask Ben Hammersley: Chasing “the conversation” is “actually almost a cultural crime”

Microsoft: ‘We were incompetent on this’    (2010.12.14)

Why isn’t Windows Phone 7 accessible to blind people? Ask Microsoft. Somebody did, and here was the answer: “We were incompetent on this”

All the allegedly Canadian words in the OED    (2010.12.10)

All 573 Canadian English headwords from the OED

Tell Roger Ebert and Pat Bowes about HCO    (2010.12.10)

Roger Ebert and Pat Bowes can actually still use the phone, via hearing carryover (HCO) at the relay service. Won’t somebody tell them?