@christindal They just don't need to get their serious and fluffy in the same places anymore, hence the problem. Pure Shirky.
@christindal No, I reject this tut-tutting about what readers *should* want. They want a range of things, serious and fluffy.
@MissStaceyMay Raising rates requires barriers to entering the profession; we have *excellent* reasons for not doing that.
@christindal For news sources to align their interests with their readers' is a shift devoutly, fervently to be wished.
@christindal True—and frankly, it was a longstanding weakness, aligning papers with advertisers, not readers.
@MissStaceyMay No disagreement on that point. But I see a fundamental supply-demand problem here.
I happen to believe we'd all be better off if people paid market rates for journalism. But wishes, horses, etc.
Journo-types frame pay-for-news as a moral question, but for most of the public, it's the simplest of economic ones.
The problem is not that I believe I deserve free news; it's that others believe they can turn a profit giving it away.
This fast-food boycott site is even more idiotic than it thinks we are ("Food chemists in white lab coats"!) stickittofastfood.org/home/
@hjli We'll never have enough. Never!
CB is hiring a *fourth* managing editor. Come and be my office nemesis! jobs.rogers.com/ca/toronto/med…
Dolly Parton Proust questionnaire: "What is your most marked characteristic?—Do I really need to answer that question?"
vanityfair.com/hollywood/2012…
@WaxEBuildup My first site, just a little portfolio for myself.
@ivortossell Yeah, was late to the party, as I am to most.
@kelkord OH INDEED
Best part, hands down, is when he compares himself to Nelson Mandela.
Read the tweets, thought, how epic can this Conrad interview be, really? Surpasses expectation: bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…
Realized yesterday that I made my first website more than 10 years ago (which, admittedly, still makes me a late adopter). Anyway, TIME.
I truly value not being on your email list more than I value the $9 I could have appreciated your art for.
Hear about band. Stream tracks. Enjoy. Decide to buy album. Find label site. Click Buy MP3. "Register New Account!" Close tab.
(I say that as a—broadly speaking—well-wisher toward the publication, the paywall experiment, and the philosophy of paying for value.)
This Globe ad's problem is that literally everything referenced is *abundantly* covered elsewhere: webmedia.newseum.org/newseum-multim…
I've been clicking around trying to hit the Globe money-membrane all morning. Anyone else seeing it?
Spherical globe-record with field recordings corresponding to the country they originated from: yurisuzuki.com/works/the-soun…
@hyfen Arg. So is this coming from Webkit, Chromium, Goog? Why remove ultra-basic functionality and force users to bloat it themselves?
When did Chrome remove the ability to even look at a feed's plain XML? It's text. Just *show it to me.* 
Coverjunkie discovers Toro Magazine: coverjunkie.com/magazines/1108
Thanks to @lisanjutras I've been sucked into this oenophilic apple tasting blog : adamapples.blogspot.ca/2011/12/black-…
@lisanjutras @nickhunebrown @Robsonian I used to get these apples called Black Oxfords. Rare import hipster fruit: adamapples.blogspot.ca/2010/12/black-…
@christindal Hardcore, man. I never got into anything heavier than .pro
@christindal Domain hoarding! This is a legit modern ailment. I'm at 20+.
@ivortossell Don't forget water!
This gallery of Google data centres is a great insight into what "The Cloud" really is (i.e., shitloads of hardware): google.com/about/datacent…
Toronto is #3 globally in PWC "Cities of Opportunity" ranking: pwc.com/us/en/cities-o… [PDF]
RT @christindal: Good morning. The Gift of Ford, an e-book by @ivortossell, is out today! randomhouse.ca/books/223019/t… #morningsmile
@journo_dale Maybe Adrian Chen? Probably no one yet.
Reddit is like the medieval Vatican—a hive of bizarre rivalries and plots, obscure orthodoxies, heretics, saints, devils, warring antipopes.
@navalang Since I understand them to be the originator of the style and still the best practitioners, we should allow it.
Time for a moratorium on YouTube videos of abstract concepts illustrated with stop-motion whiteboard drawings: youtu.be/i1TVZIBj7UA
"The Nobel Prize Committee...operates like a Loyal Order of Moose lodge for potty Norwegians": qz.com/15214/
Two terms learned today: the "Computational Class" (qz.com/14153/the-rise…) and "Dark Social" (qz.com/15014/we-have-…)
We live in a time when a newspaper can toss out the sentence "Diamond planets have been spotted before but..." mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBR…
Please tell me an algorithm made this call: 
When companies reach a certain size all their ads become overwrought, platitudinal nonsense. Your turn, Facebook: youtu.be/c7SjvLceXgU
(He's still lost control of this mess, but c'mon. LEAVE JIM LEHRER ALONE!)
Look, I'm not big into kneejerk generational deference, but Jim Lehrer was grilling presidents when you people were wetting yourselves.
@jm_mcgrath It's actually kind of disheartening how we all seem to be watching it in order to make zingers on Twitter.
@ty_olsen Shhhh, your fairmindedness is interfering with my rage.
@ty_olsen Indeed. But I think there's a huuuge difference between chasing a dream job (you) and being handed one you toss away (C. Clinton).
@richardwarnica Damn right. Proud sufferers all, facing the howling existential void together.
@ty_olsen That is definitely the glass-half-full perspective. Agrees with studies showing income only drives happiness so far...
(I'm not saying anything original here, of course. Just venting. I'm done now.)
Like, insane material privilege wasn't enough; now must be the spiritually/metaphysically-fulfilled 1% as well.
"Clinton chose McKinsey & Co., the management consulting firm, and moved to New York." OH DID SHE
Yeah, we all got problems, and god knows I wasn't born in a log cabin. But most of us can't up and quit because job's not MEANINGFUL enough.
There is something about hedge-fund managers quitting because they want something more fulfilling that grinds my gears: bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-0…
A great portrait combined with a pitch-perfect cover line makes me want to read about sports, almost: coverjunkie.com/blog/much-more…
Yeesh, Eric Hobsbawm, Arthur O. Sulzberger, and Barbara Ann Scott, all in 24 hours: bit.ly/R8f5cE
@jamescowan @tshufelt @richardwarnica JOIN US, RICHARD
"Screening my twelve-minute animated gif about fracking": catandgirl.com/?p=3899
Working "around the clock" has a specific meaning, comms people. It's not a synonym for working hard or diligently.
@theresaoleary20 @CityMelanie Our big concern in the story is the condo market, specifically. It'lll be on canadianbusiness.com soon!
RT @jbenton: Font news: The new @sbnation redesign is using @H_FJ’s beta webfont service (see use of Sentinel in headlines) http://t.co/ ...
(I will now shut up about Quartz)
2 small details for Quartz launch: native Instapaper button; usual social suspects includes Weibo: qz.com/6014/hello-wor…
Bold publishing strategy at Village Voice: sell off papers, keep the sex-ad website: jimromenesko.com/2012/09/24/vil…
This is the first reference I've seen to the identity of the Media Culpa blogger: j-source.ca/article/media-…
I was already curious about Quartz, and this post confirms—interesting things up their sleeves: newsthing.net/2012/09/16/qua…
So I guess we know @quartznews is launching on Wordpress VIP: 
Step 1: shred social contracts and job security; Step 2: wring hands when people make rational economic choices: fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/09/19/joe…
@nickhunebrown More where that came from.
@nickhunebrown Wish I had!
(Along with many, many others, too. That blog has been consistently hammering away for a year.)
I was reading and—neglecting to journalistically pursue—the Media Culpa Wente allegations before it was cool: twitter.com/gfscott/status…
@alyoucaneat (But also: thanks!)
@alyoucaneat Blerg. It's easier to do when I imagine no one's watching.
I don't know how to describe this video other than that it involves two great things: label-making and LASERS: youtu.be/QVESpu1ukeo
@briandstdenis Yeah, it seems pretty slick. I'm going to test it a bit and see. I'll let you know!
Oo, just got my email invite saying stripe.com is launching in Canada. If only I had something to sell.
@mawilson I subscribe to a lot of stuff. Everybody's a suspect.
Picked up the mail, found a subscription offer from Zoomer Magazine. Experiencing demographic vertigo.
The new Archive.org TV news collection is seriously an incredible technical achievement: archive.org/details/tv
The USA Today website redesign is actually quite good: beta.usatoday.com
@joyce_byrne It's fun, right? Love the tagline: "It's an option." The Edmund Fitzgerald thing was what reeled me in, in fact.
Random delightful internet discovery of the day: Failure Magazine, which is exactly what it sounds like: failuremag.com
@theophani Ugh, I know, right? Although best of all would be 12-09-07. YMD FTW
Though I'm not sure I like it, points to USA Today for not pulling their punches with tomorrow's redesign: usatoday.com/money/business…
NYT introduces "Booming," a vertical aimed at baby boomers: topics.nytimes.com/top/features/t… (shoulda called it Boomtown, IMO)
RT @richardwarnica: Isn't the real scandal here that Rob Ford hired someone from U of T to coach football?
Zellers, it's a little late for this arch, too-cool advertising approach: newswire.ca/en/story/10346…
RT @julianborger: Bomb? Sell maple syrup? RT @mattaikins Canada formin on Mossad meet "This will be excellent opportunity to [censored]. ...
A tumblr that catalogues unfortunate or ridiculous skeuomorphic design: skeu.it
@kelkord @ivortossell ...then shoved down the throat of a roasting pig? #metaphors
@kelkord @ivortossell Apples, obvs.
The psychogeography of "Gangnam Style": racialicious.com/2012/09/11/psy… (attn @spacing)
"This is a movie that breaks through to the other side of its badness." @Wesley_Morris on Cloud Atlas: bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/20…
@andrewtraviss @jaimewoo Gah, I knew I was going to screw it up. 455 exabytes per gram! It's crazy. And that's in base-2, not native base-4.
"In 1981 Mauritania became the last country to abolish slavery... it was only criminalised in 2007." guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug…
With storage capacity like that, I look forward to backing up data to the Amazon Meat Cloud™ within the decade.