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How Hoder galvanized the Iranians of 'Tehranto'

Before he disappeared, Hossein Derakhshan might have been Toronto's most famous blogger. For a time, he was held in such high regard that when renowned cartoonist Nikahang Kowsar, a fellow Iranian expatriate, drew a cartoon to honour him, he rendered ...

From IVOR TOSSELL, Globe and Mail,  29 Nov 2008

The truth behind our online fears

To be honest with you, I never found much fear on offer at Halloween, besides the perfunctory fear of getting wedged into a costume for another evening of drollery at my expense. But as weeks on the Web go, it's been terrifying. Fear-mongering has ...

From IVOR TOSSELL, Globe and Mail,  30 Oct 2008

Nerd humour hits it big

At the height of last year's confounding blizzard of cat photos, in which the Internet was blanketed in photos of cats talking like little hackers, a simple cartoon put things in perspective. It was of two men of two men – stick figures, in fact – ...

From IVOR TOSSELL, Globe and Mail,  23 Oct 2008

The YouTube election

Sometimes I don't know whether I should envy Americans, or back slowly away from them, whistling softly. Lately, I've been gawping over YouTube footage of increasingly angry McCain/Palin rallies. One blogger stalked around a parking lot, sticking his ...

From IVOR TOSSELL, Globe and Mail,  16 Oct 2008

Live-blogging is a strange beast

The revolution, if it ever comes, might not be televised. But I can guarantee you that, at this rate, people are going to live-blog the living daylights out of it. It seems like every news organization that has something to prove (and there are none ...

From IVOR TOSSELL, Globe and Mail,  9 Oct 2008

With skyscrapers, size does matter

'We're bit of an odd bunch," Dylan Leblanc tells me on the phone from Victoria. "A lot of people say none of their friends cared. But then they find our site on the Internet, and it's like they found their people. They fit in. They belong with us." He ...

From IVOR TOSSELL, Globe and Mail,  2 Oct 2008

Private vs. public: A cautionary tale

Show me a journalist, and I'll show you a frustrated artist. Show me a technology journalist, and I'll show you someone who thinks the kind of online embarrassment that befalls other hapless putterers can't happen to him. My personal frustration is ...

From IVOR TOSSELL, Globe and Mail,  25 Sep 2008

Plugged-in inns let guests stay wired

Not that long ago, hotel technology was simple: An in-room TV was the most sophisticated equipment in sight. The business centre had the only PCs around. But these days a PDA is a basic accessory, and hotels find themselves in a never-ending struggle ...

From IVOR TOSSELL, Globe and Mail,  24 Sep 2008

Sorting wheat from chaff

Sir Tim Berners-Lee sounded anxious the other day, bless his knighted head. The man who invented the World Wide Web was fretting to the BBC about the amount of disinformation that floats around his creation. “On the Web, the thinking of cults can ...

From IVOR TOSSELL, Globe and Mail,  18 Sep 2008

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