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Sad media news

January 26, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Sad media news

On Friday, Cory at Boing Boing reported that the Whole Earth Review has gone bust. There’s still some hope that it will survive in some form, but nevertheless it’s too bad this crisis is occurring.

Tags: Media

All the jobs I’ve ever had (or at least that I remember):

January 14, 2004 by Michael Boyle

All the jobs I’ve ever had (or at least that I remember):

Paper Boy (I covered Gainsborough Ave in Ottawa for the Citizen)
Summer Camp Counsellor (Camp Tawingo, Huntsville ON)
House Painter
Ski instructor/coach
Hotel Front desk clerk (in Banff)
Retail sales clerk (Monod Sports, also in Banff)
Management trainer
Teaching assistant (Concordia, my first semester back in grad school)
Forum moderator, online community
Freelance writer
Assistant Editor (CTHEORY, then based in Montreal)
Book designer
Web designer (I did a bunch of small sites on a freelance basis)
Corporate communications manager
University lecturer
Vice president of a non-profit organization
project manager

Tags: Personal

Amazing:

January 14, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Amazing:

Le bilan du sicle du Quebec. Translated from the intro text, “If you wish to quickly find facts, statistics. images, biographies, consult our Quebec information database.”

Tags: Quebec, Research

Steph describes

January 14, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Steph describes

how cold it is today in Montreal.

Tags: Montreal

Links and relationships

January 14, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Links and relationships

could be explicitly communicated within the links themselves, using a schema called XFN, the XHTML Friends Network. If this sort of thing is really going to work, it’ll have to be pretty ubiquitous – things like Game Neverending and pretty much every website or application through which relationships can develop would ideally support this (or some other) scheme.

Tags: Links, Social Networks

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