The iPad is not a technological game changer, it's a simple match of current content on a larger screen. It will offer Apple, publishers and App designers a new platform, but only if the take up is as large as the iPod, which I doubt will happen. The iPad does not fundamentally break the...
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"If you erect a universal pay wall around your content then it follows you are turning away from a world of openly shared content. Again, there may be sound business reasons for doing this, but editorially it is about the most fundamental statement anyone could make about how newspapers see themselves in relation to...
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Now there is a symbol - the SarcMark - which aims to end the confusion. Commentators are varying: calling it a new emoticon, font character, punctuation mark. It is anticipated to be widely used through online and mobile messaging, similar to how emoticons are currently utilized. Will the SarcMark become an accepted symbol for...
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The use of online social media as a protest platform is certainly not unprecedented in Canada. What is somewhat unique is how quickly the Facebook group spread virally across the entire country, how it was used as a messaging and organizational system, then leading to disparate groups and individuals into protest rallies. As everyone...
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Going into it's 6th year the February Classic, Pacific Baroque Festival welcomes Bernard Foccroulle (organ), Anne Grimm (soprano), the return of Colin Tilney (harpsichord), Elissa Poole (baroque flute), Sand Dalton (baroque obio) as well as the Pacific Baroque Orchestra and The Victoria Children's Choir.
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