Oct 30th, 2009
Mondoville: the week media came back from the dead
A daily newspaper is saved! A television network is scorned! And these fading days of October became overwhelmingly about media coverage in Mondoville. The peripatetic schooling of a Canadian new media guru [Oct. 26] CBC’s newest ‘The National’: where the annus horibillis will never end [Oct. 27] What can’t Twitter do? (October 2009 edition) [Oct. 28] Examiner.com: it’s all [...]
Oct 30th, 2009
Masturbation on paper: zine fairs stick it to the Man for 15 years
Two events this weekend in Toronto are making an old-fashioned case for the kind of print media that is generally unbound, unvarnished and unfunded: Saturday, an afternoon of readings at the Toronto Zine Library within the Tranzac Club, followed on Sunday by the Canzine fair and festival at the Gladstone Hotel — a 15th annual [...]
Oct 30th, 2009
Steve Anthony discovers that blondes have more fun than H1N1
Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa dressed up as Jon and Kate (minus eight) this morning in the first of their annual sequence of costume changes, but TORONTO’S BREAKING NEWS channel CP24 took a break from its swine flu fixation to finally live up to its 2009 reinvention by beating them to the punch by three [...]
Oct 30th, 2009
Mondoville Daily Scroll: October 30
Today on the Scroll: creative class reassured on hometown stage; reasons why internet orthodoxy merits a resistance; the latest national news disaster rant; non-contest-winning VJ gets job of his alleged dreams; and the inevitable Christmas box set from the new world headquarters of G-Funk. Richard Florida at Creative Places + Spaces Conference [TreeHugger]: From the industrial [...]
Oct 29th, 2009
Jayde Nicole determined to climb to the top of the D-list
When Scarborough-born Jayde Nicole was named Playboy Playmate of the Year for 2008, there was enough reason to speculate the George Brown College hotel management program dropout could be the final woman to hold this title, at least in print — but no, Hugh Hefner is defiantly hanging in there, publicly pondering his legacy at [...]
Oct 29th, 2009
Examiner.com: it’s all in the game, not to mention the name
Local content for Toronto residents is such a good idea, it is forever coming to a computer to you, this time around via Examiner.com. What propelled them above anything else in the citizen journalism racket? Surely, it wouldn’t be the quality of the prose — but it could be the aura of authority that comes [...]
Oct 29th, 2009
Mondoville Daily Scroll: October 29
Today on the Scroll: swine flu hysteria turns homepage into giant siren; turnover continues at revenue-stalled freesheet; propaganda paying off for local nightly newscasts; pop star flaunts her fugliness on magazine cover; and advertiser-courting poll of local taste has reason to cite this site.
Oct 28th, 2009
What can’t Twitter do? (October 2009 edition)
Russell Smith penned a column last week in The Globe and Mail titled “The trouble with Twitter” — alternatively, the less SEO-friendly print edition headline, “Twit plus tweet spells trouble” — focusing on the platform’s role as an outlet for celebrity news, under the impression that tweets never impacted journalism until a British columnist questioned [...]
Oct 28th, 2009
Mondoville Daily Scroll: October 28
Today on the Scroll: treating fast food burgers like babies; national newspaper rises again from near-dead on its birthday; newscast makeover continues to inspire enraged typing; a talking head would never turn down an Olympic torch; and publishing without a cover price pays off after all.
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