I want to help the search rank of BookNetCanada.ca by linking to it directly. Not much to say other than they have gracefully dealt with the .com disappearance. The site was back online before I wrote the douchy post about the waylay.
The Huffington Post has adopted the “Mullet Strategy” for curating content — “Business up front, party in the back”.
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No comment on this one –> The 9 Most Annoying People I Always See at the Bookstore
via The Quill Blog
Google’s secondary search feature got some attention in the New York Times. In turn it bubbled up at Techcrunch.
When I first saw this feature, I thought no big deal. Google is trying to keep searchers within their ecosystem for longer. Consumers looking for sites with bad internal search will benefit. You can bypass Canadiantire.ca’s stupid [...]
Michael Enright makes me want to throw my radio at the wall — most of the time. This morning I caught his interview with Chris Hedges, author of I Don’t Believe in Atheists. I really enjoyed Hedges’ 2002 book War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning. Last year Hedges called the Religious Right [...]
Michael Cairns is reading the tea leaves at his PersonaNonData blog after Borders’ latest quarterly report. I have always understood “the rumors of a cross border combination” to mean Borders would buy Indigo. Indigo rescuing Borders is a new one for me. I can’t see there being any advantage for Indigo’s business in such a [...]
I caught up with two movies that feature racings Trans Ams.
Ryan O’Neil channels Steve McQueen as The Driver. Good car chases. Good villian — Bruce Dern plays a great jerk. More overall excitement than Bullitt, but less of a story arc than The Transporter (if you can believe it). There are holes in the [...]
Vin Diesel is still the man — in Bulgaria. I saw Hitman. I have no shame when it comes to bad movies. Diesel was to star. He executive produced instead. Principle photography was in Bulgaria (a step down from xXx’s Prague location). His money wasn’t enough to hire a decent director. The rumours were true. [...]
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Dundurn’s Blog
I am about a year late but I just found Dundurn Press’s blog — www.definingcanada.ca
Props to Dundurn for just doing it. How many bigger houses would have balked at the extra time investment? Dundurn used a free wordpress installation and a free (?) design template. All in all a [...]
Do I ever feel sorry for the Book Net Canada folks. It looks like they let their domain name renewal slip through the cracks. The domain BookNetCanada.com expired on Dec 10th, 2007. After the 75 day grace period expired, the site was purchased by someone in Russia who is now serving ads on the [...]