This is a new book out by Calgary professor Dr. Michael Keren.
From the Press Release:
The lonely people are blogging, an activity marked by a deep sense of melancholy and social withdrawal.
“Bloggers think of themselves as rebels against mainstream society but that rebellion is mostly confined to cyberspace, which makes blogging as melancholic and illusionary as [...]

Some of the home schooling crowd in the US, loosely based around Vision Forum is in an uproar with accusations, threats and hacks on their blogs.
Vision Forum is a reconstructionist site run by Doug Phillips, the son of Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party.
The spat appears to have started at a church called Boerne Christian Assembly [...]

This is a book that was bound to happen.
The Blogging Church, written by Brian Bailey has just come out.
It appears to be targeted to a professional church audience, for church leadership who may not necessarily use the internet, and who might be more comfortable reading hard copy before they head into the blogosphere. 
The book is written for church staff, and [...]

I confess. When I first read this I burst out laughing, which is definitely not the response the Church of England is looking for with its Fresh Perspectives Initiative.

The video-sharing website most used for pop promotions, film trailers and personal “vidcasts”, is set to become the next tool in the Church of England’s battle to curb [...]

Interesting piece in The Ottawa Citizen today on the ability of a judge to enforce what is called a ban on publication.
This article looks at Canadian bloggers writing about the trial of Robert William Pickton in British Columbia.
While traditional Canadian media is required by law to obey the judge’s request, international media does not have to.
There have been [...]

If you are looking for the ads The Conservative Party of Canada plans to run across Canada, the party has it’s own YouTube page, with the ads up.
via: Political Staples
If you’d like to know about ads The Liberal Party of Canada ran in 2004 before an election call CTV, May 2004.
Ezra Levant thinks Telecaster (which screens [...]

Google is now involved in the case of a name and shame blog in New Zealand.
Google spokeswoman Victoria Grand said the company was “working with the Ministry of Social Development as well as the blogger to reach a speedy resolution to this issue”, but had not yet decided whether to remove any content.
“We only remove [...]

Stephen Harper:
Today Canada apologizes to the Arar family
Today Canada accepts the 23 recommendations of the O’Connor inquiry and will implement them
Today Canada has insured Mr. Mahar Arar is not on any Canadian watch lists
Today Canada compensated the Arar family – 10.5 million dollars and legal costs
Today Canada has stated letters have gone to Syria and [...]