I suspect for most of Monday, I’ll be transfixed by engaging content and speakers and have this kind of look on my face (a few of us are attending IAB’s MIXX Canada 2008.) Photo: Spider.Dog on flickr Stay tuned for updates in future posts.

On October 3, Toronto’s own Gladstone Hotel will play host to “Gladstone World” — a free monthly world music series that takes place the first Friday of every month, in the hotel’s Melody Bar from 7 pm to 10 pm.  The series showcases music from Portugal, Brazil, Cuba, Africa, and the Caribbean by some of [...]

The Canadian Internet Project (CIP) released their “Year Two” report yesterday, an ongoing longitudinal study of the Internet, conventional media and emerging technologies in Canada. At over 350 pages, it’s huge – so far, I’ve only browsed it. However, three ideas are worth noting: two specifically raised by Professor Charles Zamaria (Principal Investigator and Project [...]

The latest innovations the Trendwatching.com folks are keeping an eye on is the trend of “Off=On“. As they put it: More and more, the offline world (a.k.a. the real world, meatspace or atom-arena) is adjusting to and mirroring the increasingly dominant online world, from tone of voice to product development to business processes to customer [...]

Imagine having just 1 minute to tell a compelling story – complete with character development, editing, sound design, setting dialogue – one that resonates beyond just 60 seconds. The international one-minute film continues to the end of this month. For this year’s Filminute® edition, festival programmers initially screened over 1,500 films and animations from 60 [...]