I've started producing episodes of the Jesse Show, and this episode focuses on Bob Rae, a politician whom I believe will be the next Prime Minister of Canada. In the first part of the episode I have a brief interview with Bob, and in the second discuss his chances at electoral success and the general Canadian political environment with filmmaker Robin Benger.

I am not a member of the Liberal Party, however I do think that Bob is an honest man, which is quite rare for politics. That's why I've made this video to put forward the idea that perhaps Bob will be the next Canadian PM.

I'm now appearing weekly on CBC News Today on Newsworld, speaking about various tech news stories or ideas. This is a segment about technology addictions, which is something I feel is a growing social problem. I know I sometimes find myself spending a little too much time online, so all the more important to be aware of these tendencies so as to properly moderate them. Host Nancy Wilson is great to work with, and as you can see in this segment we can take a serious segment and still be somewhat playfull with it...

Jeff Goodes, host of CBC Radio's Fresh Air is one of my favourite radio personalities. I love doing interviews with him as he's so relaxing, and the two of us tend to get into a groove and just jam! This segment was about YouTube, and I was able to capture video of the segment with my super nifty Nokia e70 provided by my good friends at Harmony Mobile. Jeff and I received a lot of positive feedback about this segment, and I was rather impressed with how well the cell phone was able to work given that I was the one holding it! It's in two parts so be sure to watch both!

This is the first video that I made with my Nokia e70 camera phone. Emily and I were driving against rush hour traffic to go visit her dad at the Trillium hospital in Mississauga. We were both amazed at how totally clogged the QEW was, and thus made this short video expressing just that!

As many of you know I've been a Google Watcher for some time now. My main attraction to Google is that they are actualizing many of the theories I've developed over the past decade and a half. Similarly they are bringing the model of network-centric computing to the average consumer, which I feel can be quite empowering. Personally I've been using Google's Calendar for quite a while, and am now starting to use their Spreadsheet program. For professional reasons I've also learned quite a bit about their advertising programs, which are their core sources of revenue.

I've been doing almost weekly appearances on CBC News Today with Nancy Wilson. Every once in a while another CBC show will invite me on in a similar capacity. Recently I was able to go on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos, and discuss the issue of Net Neutrality. As the Internet becomes increasingly commercialized and monetized, a lot of stress is put on all carriers and providers to try and get a bigger slice of the pie. Is it too late for a public interest?

I was part of a great event today held at UofT and put on by KMDI and Habitat. It was about the NextWeb or Web 2.0 or whatever you want to call the emerging culture of genuine interactivity on the Net. I'm hoping there will be more events like this, certainly I was inspired to start thinking about organizing roundtable discussions similar to when I used to run the Monday Night McLuhan Seminars. Here's the write up from today's event:

Since the CBC lockout has ended I've been able to get back onto both CBC radio and television, to analyze the latest trends and developments in technology. This one particular segment was regarding some legal troubles that Research in Motion, a Waterloo based company, has run into in the states in the form of a patent dispute. Essentially their appeal of an earlier decision was declined, which means they will have to pay a greater penalty then initially planned.

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to set the agenda for our conventional media.
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What: Bloggers claim credit for forcing the resignation of Eason Jordan

On Tuesday August 9th, Margaret Wente's column in the Globe and Mail addressed the rising costs of gasoline and explicitly she defended her right to drive a gas guzzling Sport Utility Vehicle. Her argument was that she had every right to do this, and furthermore, being able to have such a large car, while increasingly expensive due to rising gas costs, was an integral part of her freedom. I was asked by the CBC to come on air and debate Ms.