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Buy this house:

March 28, 2005 by Michael Boyle

4243 Av de l’Hôtel-de-Ville.

Tags: Montreal, Personal

The Grokster case

March 28, 2005 by Michael Boyle

is the subject of a good overview article in The Economist: Illegal file-sharers under attack. The article opens with a very sarcastic lede: “The music business should have stuck by Thomas Edison’s technology if it wanted to avoid the threat of piracy. His wax cylinders could record a performance but could not be reproduced; that became possible only with the invention of the flat-disc record some years later.”

Tags: Copyfight, Music Industry

Maciej Ceglowski:

March 26, 2005 by Michael Boyle

Elephants Invade Manhattan. Plus photos!

Tags: Curiosities

Meg Hourihan

March 26, 2005 by Michael Boyle

on Mad River Glen, my second favourite ski area in the world (behind Lake Louise, AB). Mad River Glen’s slogan used to be, “Ski it if you can” and it’s a great throwback to an earlier era, before big-resort, big-amenity skiing dominated, when sliding on snow was the main focus of the whole thing.

Tags: Meg Hourihan

Here’s Jeff Jarvis’ blog entry

March 26, 2005 by Michael Boyle

about the speech by Jim Stengel, of P&G, that was referred to in the Auletta article: ‘All marketing should be permission marketing’. Good stuff.

Tags: Media

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