Archive - Internet

Rise of the Webisode

17 July 2008 by Guinevere, 1 Comment

There’s no shortage of video content online. YouTube alone has over 83.4 million videos to choose from. This enormous clip buffet keeps us on a steady viewing diet of mostly: Real-life, non-fiction video clips. Videos that originated on another platform, like television episodes and segments or movies (legal and otherwise.) Mashups of the above. However, [...]

There IS Such a Thing as Bad Press

17 June 2008 by Guinevere, No Comments

In the days of traditional media, the saying that “there’s no such thing as bad press” often held true. Except in the largest of stories, a small scandal could easily fade from memory and often what we recall years later was simply the name of the company or person involved. The next time you went [...]

Net Neutrality and Coronation Street

28 May 2008 by Guinevere, No Comments
Coronation Street

Net neutrality is the hot button internet topic in Canada lately with Bell throttling ISPs they sell bandwidth to, said ISPs appealing to CRTC, citizen rallies on parliament hill and now the promise from the NDP party that they will introduce a bill that would ensure a neutral network without ISP level hindrance. If what [...]