Category Archives: Technology

The Crossloop Community

April 29, 2008 – 4:28 pm

   When I first reviewed Crossloop, there was little more to it than a very simple, yet very functional Remote Assistance program. It holds a place in my ‘toolkit’ and I usually install it on customer computers for possible remote repairs.
  Since that initial post, some pretty amazing things have happened over at Crossloop.com. Nearly [...]

By Bill Vincent | Also posted in Software |

Crowdsourcing a Canadian podcast - radio show

April 11, 2008 – 5:21 pm

This post will probably only be of interest to those of us above the 49th Parallel; you now - the area that CrunchGear affectionately refers to as Canadia when they have no-one better to pick on, but according to a post on Michael Geist’s blog the CBC radio show and podcast Sparks will be [...]

By Steven Hodson |

Times are a changin’

April 4, 2008 – 6:18 pm

Even six months ago if you had asked me if I would be willing to trade in my desktop computer for exclusive use of a laptop I would have said you were nuts. Sure I would have loved to have a laptop as an extra machine to be able to sit out on our [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Miscellaneous |

Bell Canada - how much further should I bend over?

March 26, 2008 – 1:25 pm

Much has been made of the move by the CBC Television Network in Canada to slap one of their shows up on a BitTorrent feed. Everyone from Doc Searls to Boing Boing to Techdirt have been singing the praises of this move. The problem is that the other great Canadian institution of greed Bell [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Internet |

Crossing my fingers for Leo

March 22, 2008 – 3:09 pm

The other day Frederic over at The Last Podcast had a post where he was talking about why he thought someone like Oprah could potentially provide a turning point for podcasting to go mainstream. I was thinking about that today when I was reading Leo Laporte’s post on his future adventures now that The [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Internet |

Awww … I don’t get a brownie

March 17, 2008 – 10:15 am

Just a quick note here before I start - I have a nasty head cold and I’m still working my way through the first pot of coffee of the day so I might be a tad crankier than usual.
This morning as I was making my usual rounds I ran across a post by Susan [...]

By Steven Hodson |

It’s about time Canada - even if it is small steps

February 23, 2008 – 9:25 pm

As someone who spends a lot of time in the tech b’sphere reading about this startup or that startup and VC money flowing like wine at a party being held by Caligula; the one apparent thing is that the large majority of all this action is US based. That is well and fine but [...]

By Steven Hodson |

Cross Knowledge - the added value of a blog

February 20, 2008 – 5:26 pm

I always look forward to posts by Tony Hung over on his blog Deep Jive Interests even though there are dry periods when his real life profession requires his total concentration. Maybe it is those dry periods that make seeing fresh posts by him a high point when I see them show up in [...]

By Steven Hodson |