http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs Fearless. Thoughtful. Witty. Canadian. And Opinionated. Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:27:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Calacanis, netlebrity and Maholo search founder/spammer, has quit blogging. Presenting: The Hate Crown. on 12seconds.tv Today the blogosphere is so charged, so polarized, and so filled with haters hating that it's simply not worth it. I'd rather watch from the sidelines and be involved in a smaller, more personal, conversation. Jason ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/07/15/hate-crown/ After frenzied outcries from Canadians all week because of Rogers' iPhone plan which prevents us from participating in a communication revolution by not offering unlimited data at any price—Rogers has caved. Wistful rumours that Apple was diverting iPhone inventory to Europe as a punishment for Rogers pricing plan have been debunked ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/07/08/the-creeper-roger%e2%80%99s-caves-offers-iphone-unlimited/ To all those who doubted it was possible: I did it! I was offline for one whole week! My Offline Activities: I read the print version of The Wall Street Journal (I found it discarded in the street). I stood under the 118 degree Fahrenheit daytime sun in Death Valley for two whole ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/06/30/how-i-survived-one-week-offline-death-valley-and-heidi-fleiss/ The Year 2015: Kid: People used to actually pay for music? Old person/me: Yes. Yes they did. Kid: Were you just stupid? Old person/me: No! We were held hostage by inefficient systems of getting the music to us. We had to go outside, drive far and buy discs and plastic never knowing what we ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/06/16/canada-fights-for-the-right-of-sony-emi-universal/ Equal amounts of laughter and applause at the night's entertainment were followed by genuine conversation. Between my twitters, of course (twot is my Twitter name): twot Arriving fashionably late! about 4 hours ago from txt I even got the opportunity to talk tech with Don Gillmor who simultaneously visited and posted to ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/06/13/intellectually-and-sartorially-brilliant-the-walrus-dark-city/ Brief history of the internets: October 29, 1969: White American guy Leonard Kleinrock sent the first data online over Brief history of the internets: October 29, 1969: White American guy Leonard Kleinrock sent the first data online over arpanet. The white people needed more sneaky military tricks and this was cutting edge ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/06/12/web-30-is-for-the-n-word/ The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) kicked off yesterday so the Internet memes are abuzz with iPorn. Every time Steve Job’s talks, tech bloggers, like me, are thrilled to blog about it. It turns each of us into ads for Apple and what is worse many of us are not ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/06/10/i-apple-wwdc-ergo-sum/ So you've posted your profile on a dating site hoping to developing a relationship with someone will add to your already thrilling life. And some unappealing people have messaged you. Now what? WARNING: What I write here might lead to irrevocable changes in your life. I am the online dating success ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/06/09/online-dating-cheat-sheet/ ONE As the ideal socialnet, I would not add features that frustrate my users and that point out how I am kissing the ass of Viacoms by pretending to care about copyright. In other words, I wouldn’t be like YouTube today and add a new “feature” that allows me to annotate ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/06/04/five-things-i-would-do-if-i-were-a-socialnet/ Google wants the intervals between television channel frequencies—called "White Space" —and I want them to have it. They're no geniuses for figuring out how useful it could be. Carol Anne Freeling did it first in 1982. But while the Freelings had an appreciation for innovative use of white space, Google ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/06/02/google-and-microsoft-white-power/