Despite a government ruling banning election talk online in Singapore leading up to elections, that very ban may be the government’s downfall.
The Asia Times looks at the ban and the fallout, as Singapore voters go to the polls next week.
New media have opened the political space for opposition parties to promote their alternative economic policies and [...]

Microsoft has finally released it’s public beta testing for it’s Internet Explorer browser IE 7.
It’s been about 5 years since Microsoft upgraded and they add features most other types of browsers have been using for years.
The IE 7 can only be used with XP that has service pack 2 installed. The New York Times takes a [...]

The Financial Times reports the British Broadcasting Corporation is going to do some revamping to make it’s formidable online presence more interactive and accessible.
The public broadcaster said it would relaunch its website to feature greater personalisation and more user-generated content as it laid out its strategy to adapt to the so-called “web 2.0 world”, where [...]

A survey comissioned by CanWest News Service/Global National (online) using Ispos Reid indicates 65% of respondents don’t mind Harper using God Bless Canada as the tag to his political speeches. Ipsos Reid requires registration so it’s difficult to tell what medium was used, what the question(s) were and what the sampling is.
…65% of Canadians indicated it was an [...]

Our military are coming home in coffins. They have been asked to serve Canada in Afghanistan and Ottawa has decided the media cannot be on the tarmac at CFB Trenton.
Historian Terry Copp of Wilfrid Laurier University suggests that whole issue is moot, because the government will back off.
“Everybody’s right in this argument and being right doesn’t really [...]

Nice. daily dose of imagery won the best Canadian Photo Blog, and this is why.
via: Jordon Cooper

This is funny in a cognitively dissonant kind of way.  Daniel Henninger wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal decrying blogs and the dis-inhibiting of speech online. And he did so as the epitome of linguistic fussiness, befitting a deputy editor of a prestigious opinion page. He didn’t need to mock adolescents to make [...]

4 Canadian Military died in Afghanistan this past week, Matthew Dinning, Myles Mansell, William Turner and Randy Payne.
2200 men and women who have chosen to serve our country in the military are stationed there.
You can write them here.