Trying to re-imagine Canada's media

OpenMedia.ca Join us online to re-imagine Canada's media. A live interactive online national video conversation with media innovators, technologists, artists, citizens and the online community at Fresh Media -- a celebration of innovation and independent media, and a re-imagining of media and journalism. You can join us by visiting our site or one of our media partners: nowpublic.com thetyee.ca vancouverobserver.com freshmedia.me openmedia.ca Those in Vancouver can take part in person! Details here: freshmedia.me Schedule 3:00 p.m. EST - Opening Speaker Sudha Krishna: News Director at NowPublic and past senior producer of CBC's ZED. 3:15 p.m. - Panel: What is Media Now? Monica Hamburg, writer & social media evangelist Gareth Kirkby, Editor in Chief, xtra.ca Amber Mac, acclaimed new media journalist (beamed in through the Internet) Dave Brindle, innovative radio producer at 1410 Trevor Risk, Music Editor of ION Magazine Chair/Moderator: Alden Habacon, manager of diversity initiatives CBC, founder of Schema Magazine 4:35 - 5:00 p.m. - Intermission 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. - A Series of Conversations with Some of Leading Minds in Media Participants: Mark Surman (Mozilla Foundation - Executive Director) Judy Rebick (Author) David Beers (The Tyee - Publisher) Jason Mogus (Communicopia - CEO, tcktcktck - digital strategy manager) David Eaves (Open Data Evangelist) And many more both onsite and in other parts of the country . . .

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An Echo In The Bone

The next book in the hugely popular Outlander series…

Special Shortcovers price: $9.99 USD / $11.99 CAD

Diana Gabaldon continues the extraordinary story of an eighteenth-century Scotsman and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife. Now the future of the MacKenzie family is mysteriously, irrevocably, and intimately entwined with life and death in war-torn colonial America… Read More

Dan Brown Ebook Sales May not be the tipping point.

According to AP, Doubleday announced Tuesday that hardcover, audio and e-book sales for "The Lost Symbol" topped 2 million copies for its first week of release in the United States, Britain and Canada. The total is "well over" 2 million for English-language editions worldwide, according to Doubleday spokeswoman Suzanne Herz, who declined to offer a specific number. Herz did say that around 5 percent, or 100,000 copies, of "The Lost Symbol" were sold as e-books (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/New-Dan-Brown-novel-tops-2-apf-2025745368.html?x=0&.v=1).

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p.s. Please help BookNet aggregate ebook sales!

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Tim is now following you on Twitter! hahahahaha(evil laugh)hahaha

Tim (Kirtim) is now following your tweets on Twitter. A little information about Tim: 197 followers 666 tweets following 172 people The Twitter Team Turn off these emails at: http://twitter.com/account/notifications Please do not reply to this message; it was sent from an unmonitored email address. This message is a service email related to your use of Twitter. For general inquiries or to request support with your Twitter account, please visit us at Twitter Support.

I don't or haven't paid too much attention to my tweets and yet tonight while experimenting I decided to check my updates and - lets just say the number 666 came up! Yikes.......I quickly tweeted and prevented sure damnation.

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Interview: Peter Collingridge - Read my inovel - Scotsman.com News

After seeing Enhanced Edition, Apple featured it online. Now books by Philip Pullman and David Simon, creator of The Wire, are planned.

"Supermarkets sell three books for the price of two. Value is being shipped out of books. We want to add value," says Collingridge.

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VIA Rail Services Cut in Preparation for Strike

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This picture is why it is so nice to commute by train to Toronto. It is also the reason why you might want to book a trip across Canada in the summer by Via , not because you think after all of your hard planning and weird happenings your coveted sleeper car for two seven year olds and their parents is going to be canceled because 340 people can stop this service in Canada.

I don't know how I feel about that -right now quite angry! Keep those points a coming Via I will be able to travel across and back next summer. A kind of doubling up, because now Air travel will go up.

This by the way is a great study for risk management. I suppose if I knew all about the climate of Via I could have seen this coming. However, as it is I found out about this late.

Someone on the train tonight said so did you call via? I said why? And she said oh not because you can do something about it -something like that anyway. But of course I have been following twitter all day and finding out all kinds of stuff.

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