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Until this moment I have been forced to listen while media and politicians alike have told me "what Canadians think". In all that time they never once asked.
This is just the voice of an ordinary Canadian yelling back at the radio -
"You don't speak for me."
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Maybe you should offer one of them a job, Kate.
They don’t want to live in Saskatchewan, deeply uncool.
I’m an electronic engineer and I never read it; only just heard of it. I stick to trade journals and the EE times
Kate:
First, I sent an email to you at katewerk recently asking that you think about plugging five opinion pieces I wrote in the forlorn hope that the herald/journal might abandon their politics long enough to help put some cats among the prentice pidgeons, but have heard nothing from you. They’re at http://www.winface.com/smith ..
Second:
gigacom’s business plan depended on the wrong technical and political audience (jumping on a dead horse like an MS windows ph is dumb no matter how much you’re getting paid), was largely sponsored by the wrong people, and ignored the (by then already obvious) Pelosi/Obamacon commitment to using ever increasing regulation to freeze newcomers out of markets. What’s amazing isn’t that they crashed, but that they stuck it out for this long.
Sorry Paul – I recall those, but some days there just isn’t enough time in the day. As this post alludes to, blogging is largely a volunteer activity, and thus requires I work to support myself. That means I have little time to investigate individual stories – perhaps send them to TheRebel, where they’re crowdsourcing a paid model.
I’m a former IT guy who reads the trades (IT sites) to keep on top of issues even if I’ve left the field. Hadn’t heard of this blog until today. The Register, The Inquirer, Tech Crunch, Tom’s Hardware, sure. GigaOM? News to me. Obviously I won’t miss it.
giga who?? As per Sean above, you can’t miss what you never knew!
And just looking at this group, the booze and drugs must have been freely used during the retirement party. Provided free by their idiot “donors”, of course.
So I went to Gigaom for the first time to see what it was all about because I never heard of it.
My thoughts scanning the headlines, This seems to be an Apple fanboy site. The only article I read was one concerning the New York Times in a patent litigation suit. The low quality article referred to the other company in a slanderous manner as a patent troll and was written strongly in favor of the New York Times.
Cutting Edge Journalism indeed.