Monthly Archives: January 2007

Plagarism is Alive and Well

By Mark Evans | Published: January 28, 2007
Wordpress boss Matt Mullenweg believes spam is one of the blogosphere’s biggest threats but another increasingly troubling issue is plagiarism. We’re not talking about people taking the ideas of other bloggers but outright theft of entire posts or passages. A recent example is The Client Side, which had its posts ripped off without attribution or [...]
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Porn for Mobile Warrior

By Mark Evans | Published: January 28, 2007
Featuring one of the best headlines I’ve seen in a long time – “Is that your cellphone in your pocket…?”, the National Post had a story a couple days ago about wireless carrier Telus quietly offering downloads of pornographic photos and videos for about $3 or $4 a shot You’ve got to love the explanation [...]
Posted in Main Page, Wireless | 8 Comments

The Monetization of User-Generated Content

By Mark Evans | Published: January 28, 2007
So, YouTube’s going to start sharing the wealth, eh? I guess it’s easy to feel generous after you’ve pocked $1.65-billion from Google, and never have to work again. There’s lot of chatter about why YouTube is doing it (check out Scott Karp and Nick Carr for a small taste) but the bigger and far more [...]
Posted in Main Page, Media, Video, Web 2.0 | 4 Comments

I was Hacked!

By Mark Evans | Published: January 27, 2007
Computer hackers, viruses and phishing scams attack other people, right? It doesn’t affect the tech savvy, right? Well, I discovered the hard way that anyone is vulnerable to bad people online. It started about a week ago when someone tried to move a large amount of money out of my bank account. Fortunately, our tenant [...]
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We’re….Talking Tech

By Mark Evans | Published: January 26, 2007
Kevin’s in Montreal (apparently on business) so tech analyst Duncan Stewart was good enough to fill in. The major theme of this week’s Talking Tech podcast is Microsoft, which had an up and down week. First, the bad as Microsoft (or, at least one, of its employees) was thrust into the spotlight after trying to [...]
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More Blog Thoughts: Kill “Blog”

By Mark Evans | Published: January 26, 2007
Another thought about blogs and blogging. One of the major hurdles that many people need to overcome is getting their heads around the idea of a “blog”. “What’s a blog?” is a question I hear on a regular basis when talking to people outside the echo chamber. Maybe we should adopt a term such as [...]
Posted in Blogs, Main Page | 6 Comments
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