Andrew Keen, one of our Creative Exchange conference speakers, recently had an excerpt from his book, The Cult of the Amateur, printed in the National Post. We thought to post it here too. The essay is provocative and the panel Andrew will be joining is sure to be engaging. Post your comments here and […]
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Crowd-sourcing is being utilized again by our advertisers, this time for the next great Heinz commercial.
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A new online community came to my attention the other day. It fits so well with the VIDFEST sci-fi theme, I’m beginning to think we’ve tapped deep into some serious zeitgeist here. The site is called Galaxiki (http://www.galaxiki.org). Galaxiki is a fictional galaxy created, maintained and owned by its community. The tagline is “a fictional […]
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It’s raining yet again in Vancouver and thoughts turn very quickly to sunnier climes, even virtual ones. As my friends and I were thinking about tropical getaways it didn’t take long before we got onto that hoary old pastime of making lists of desert island picks. In this round, it was the top ten sites […]
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Ah, yes, the age old question, or at least the one that’s been thrown around since the inception of the internet: Is television (as we know it) dead?
While online content and those fancy LCD monitors creep slowly, but surely, into our living rooms, I don’t believe TV is dead, nor do I believe that it […]
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