A few days off the grid and suddenly I’m a bit behind in my reading. In my case, that means RSS feeds. Five days in Tofino results in just a few articles to catch up on…
Ouch. Time to do some power skimming, that’s for sure.
Of the hundreds of feeds I subscribe to, the biggest output, not including wire services, was from a group of feeds at the International Herald Tribune.
We spotted this bald eagle over Long Beach near Tofino BC last weekend.
He seemed to be pretty agile despite missing a big part of his wing feathers. Amazing.
Here’s a closer look.
I’m super impressed with WestJet. I wish they were paying me to say this, but they aren’t.
My two kids traveled on their own from Vancouver to Winnipeg to visit their cousins. They were treated like VIP’s on both legs, but you pretty much expect that (particularly since you’re paying extra for them to travel un-accompanied).
On the way back from Winnipeg, one of my guys left 10-dollars in cash in the seat pocket in front of him. He was pretty bummed hours after getting home when he remembered what he’d done.
Later that night, the phone rings, and it’s WestJet on the phone. They were calling to check to find out if we could identify the object left behind in the seat back pocket. Sure enough, they’d found the 10-dollar bill, and were calling to arrange to return it !
Unbelievably, their ads about pride of ownership seem to be true.
I’m now their biggest fan – way to go WestJet. Not only are you backing up your hype, you made a 12 year old very very happy.
Pandora is one of my favourite music site.applications. And it will be greatly affected by recent copyright tariff decisions in the US.
According to Read/Write Web, Pandora founder Tim Westergreen is asking for help from users, encouraging them to sign a petition in hopes of getting congress to do something to help…
Understand that we are fully supportive of paying royalties to the artists whose music we play, and have done so since our inception. As a former touring musician myself, I’m no stranger to the challenges facing working musicians. The issue we have with the recent ruling is that it puts the cost of streaming far out of the range of ANY webcaster’s business potential.
An appeal launched by NPR has already been turned down, and it looks like the new tariffs will go into effect as planned.
Looks like there’ll be no last minute call from the proverbial governor’s mansion – internet radio operators in the US will soon be facing big bills…
A panel of judges at the Copyright Royalty Board has denied a request from the NPR and a number of other webcasters to reconsider a March ruling that would force Internet radio services to pay crippling royalties. The panel’s ruling reaffirmed the original CRB decision in every respect, with the exception of how the royalties will be calculated. full story at Ars Technica