The digital revolution and development of the Internet are diverting advertising from Canadian newspapers and other traditional media, the Toronto Star’s parent company, Torstar Corp., said in its submission to the Competition Policy Review Panel.
The panel was created by the federal government last July to review Canada’s competition and foreign takeover and investment policies.
Don’t you love farce? The Internet has a strange appetite for look-alikes of one peculiar website. And no matter how many times they – forgive me – send in the clones, the idea refuses to catch.
You may or may not be familiar with Digg. It’s a very large and very successful site on which people submit pages from around the Web and vote on their favourites. The pages with the most votes get promoted to the front page, where they get even more attention.
Then there are Digg clones. The Web just keeps popping them out. Most promise to do more or less the same thing as Digg, but with slightly different verbiage. Look – here’s another one now! Just this Tuesday, Yahoo coughed up something called “ Buzz.” Instead of “Digging” stories on Digg, readers on Buzz can “Buzz up” the stories they like.
A proposed downtown concert hall in Ottawa hasn’t been able to secure the sponsors it needed to go ahead despite funding from all three levels of government, and a city councillor said she wants to find out why.
“I think that it probably wouldn’t be bad to ask our staff to do a bit of a post-mortem on this to try and get a better idea of how something that … seemed so close just never made it past the finish line,” said Coun. Maria McRae before the Thursday deadline for the concert hall’s backers to find all the funding they needed.
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