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Online lives rewiring coffee shop culture

It's easy to sneer at coffee shops. This country properly belongs to Tim Hortons, after all, which is really more of a fast-food joint in drag. Coffee shops are urban inventions: game reserves for students, layabouts, guitarists and wearers of ...

From IVOR TOSSELL, Globe and Mail,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Tim Hortons Inc.,  Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc

Using FourSquare is like shouting, ‘Hello, world, here I am!'

There is, without a shadow of a doubt, something profoundly disconcerting about FourSquare. It's not even the Web service's fault; it's a perfectly nice piece of software. It's more what it does – encourage users to pinpoint themselves on a map, in ...

From IVOR TOSSELL, Globe and Mail,  1 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.,  McDonald's

‘Augmented reality' comes to an iPhone near you

On a starry night a couple of months ago, I stood on a beach and watched as my cousins stared at the heavens through an iPhone. It's fun to play the age-old guessing game about whether that's Cassiopeia or space junk or a formation of exceedingly well- ...

From IVOR TOSSELL, Globe and Mail,  18 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Wikipedia,  Facebook Inc.,  Tim Horton

Aurora: Toronto's most dysfunctional suburb

Perched on Yonge Street, about 40 kilometres north of Toronto, Aurora is perhaps best known for being home to the Stronach family, who rule over the auto-parts company Magna and whose daughter, Belinda, once represented the riding in Ottawa. On first ...

From IVOR TOSSELL, Globe and Mail,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company

On the Web, forever has a due date

Let's imagine, for a moment, that the year is 2019, and we have dragged ourselves into the future with a minimum of apocalypse. Picture yourself sitting in front of your news-o-scope (my patent is pending) when up pops word that a website you were ...

From IVOR TOSSELL, Globe and Mail,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Yahoo!,  Facebook Inc.,  Google Inc.,  Twitter Inc,  Flickr

Yo Kanye, I’mma let you have the best meme of all time

One of the surest ways to pop a vein in your head is to overthink a meme. Why, for instance, is the Internet flooded with riffs on Kanye West's infamous awards-show implosion? Why has this supplanted a video of a cat playing the piano? Why ask why? ...

From IVOR TOSSELL, Globe and Mail,  20 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Kanye West,  Barack Obama,  Beyonce Knowles,  Taylor Swift,  Chuck Norris

If piracy is wrong, why does it feel so right?

" T here's no chance of you getting caught, and it doesn't hurt anyone directly,” says the guy who acquired much of his sizable music collection from a dubious site in Russia. “And it's something you do in the privacy of your own home.” Oh, callow youth, ...

From IVOR TOSSELL, Globe and Mail,  10 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Napster, Inc.,  Stanford University,  Myra (musician),  Lawrence Lessig,  Creative Commons

The (nearly) free road trip

H ere's what I can tell you about the middle of the United States. In Texas on a Sunday morning, you can't go two stations on the radio dial without hitting a live church broadcast. The white sands of New Mexico, near where they set off the first atom ...

From IVOR TOSSELL, Globe and Mail,  8 Sep 2009

15 reasons to get back to work (And be happy about it)

There's money to be made ? Is it okay to be bullish again? Or at least to assume that the recent surge in stock markets isn't a dead cat bounce? By midsummer, Canadian and U.S. markets had climbed back by about a third since they hit bottom in early ...

From JOHN DALY, BRIAN MILNER, STEVE LADURANTAYE, DENISE BALKISSOON, BOYD ERMAN, CAROL TOLLER, BENJAMIN LESZCZ AND IVOR TOSSELL, Globe and Mail,  28 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Intel,  Standard Poor's,  Paul Smith,  John Adams,  Lexus

Progressive signals? From the Tories? On copyright?

Access Copyright, a group that collects copyright fees for things like textbooks, put out a curious statement earlier this month in the midst of the latest debate over copyright reform. “It's a simple fact that users outnumber us,” it read, sounding a ...

From IVOR TOSSELL, Globe and Mail,  26 Aug 2009

Related Topics: UK Conservative Party

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