Twitter breaks Chinese earthquake news

The Globe and Mail’s Mathew Ingram wrote about Twitter’s news breaking success today as well.   If you don’t read Mathew’s blog it’s worth checking out for a Canadian perspective on technology.  Here’s what Mathew had to say today:

“Like many others, I woke up this morning to news of a disaster in China: a magnitude 7.8 [...]

Eye-Fi Brings Online Ubiquity to Almost Every Digital Camera

This is a pretty cool looking new product:

New versions of the Eye-Fi hitting the market today. Now available in the original model (at $100) that allows online and local file uploads, the new versions are desktop upload only ($80) and a new model that will work with paid hotspots as well as do geo-tagging [...]

Twittering the Earthquake

Twitterers the world over are changing the way news travels. Chinese microbloggers issued some of the first reports of the earthquake that hit the country last night. But the accounts tell the story from a perspective that is unlike anything you’ll see on the evening news.

@sixhat all is [...]

What happened to prme time?

The news business is going through dramatic changes as viewers continue to move online (and take advertisers with them).  Here is the latest bit of bad news for those trying to sell prime time news:

With fewer people watching television, ad sales are more uncertain than in years past. This week the [...]

MLA wants labels on potentially toxic food

This seems so commonsensical that I can’t believe it isn’t the case already. 

Vancouver-Fairview MLA Gregor Robertson plans to introduce a private member’s bill in the legislature today making it mandatory to label genetically engineered food. The Right to Know Act would require producers and suppliers to warn consumers if products contain toxic chemicals [...]

McCain, blogger trade barbs over his 2000 vote

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Did Republican presidentialcandidate John McCain vote for President George W. Bush in2000?  [...]