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Renown Vancouver developer, Bob Rennie thinks that we’ve entered an entirely new era:

The financial crisis that broke loose a year ago is not just a temporary setback; it’s one of those defining generational events that alter behaviours and attitudes forever.

via The Downfall of the Baby Boomers | Financial crisis | Change in spending habit | BCBusiness.

As a man who has helped engineer, witnessed, and benefited from the dramatic climb in Vancouver real estate, it’s a sobering assessment.

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Kate and Innes have got me into Werner Herzog and now I can’t get out. He is spectacular.

YouTube – Herzog on the obscenity of the jungle.

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From NowPublic:

“Four Greenpeace protesters have been arrested and released following a non-violent demonstration on the sixth floor of 505 Burrard Street yesterday. Four Vancouver residents, three women and one man ranging in age from 26 – 31 years are now facing charges of mischief and assault by trespass.”

via Greenpeace Protesters Facing Arrest Over Enbridge Demonstration | NowPublic News Coverage.

To get an idea of what the Greenpeace people are worried about, have a look at footage shot by residents of Marshall, Michigan who are dealing with the impact of a devastating spill in their area.

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If you’re in the market for a new gig in Vancouver:

A Vancouver/BC based company within the Social Venture Institute family is looking to hire a Marketing Manager/Director of Marketing. The ideal candidate must have strong strategic marketing abilities and be based in Vancouver. Additional information about the company and job details are available upon request.

Contact Christopher Roy* by email christopher (at) communicopia.com or by phone (604) 288-7965 for additional information.

*This post was created by Christopher Roy at Communicopia on behalf of one of their clients.

via Marketing Manager/Director of Marketing | Renewal.

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Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal tried to put its own spin on the recent Wikileaks story.  The paper, who was not offered advanced access to the material, paints the whole exercise as a publicity stunt and suggests that Wikileaks was simply frustrated with past attempts to get attention and just wanted to raise the site’s profile.

“WikiLeaks, frustrated at the lack of splash of recent leaks on its whistle-blowing website, has rolled the dice to try to raise its profile by teaming up with news organizations in its latest dump of classified documents.”

via WikiLeaks Sought to Raise Its Profile – WSJ.com.

To characterize the single largest publication of classified war documents as a publicity stunt is disingenuous at best.  Julian Assange, the site’s front man, is putting himself in great personal danger to get this material out.  This is not some trivial ploy for publicity but rather a major milestone in the development of 21st Century journalism.

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The UK’s Financial Times is proving that the paywall model in online news is not intrinsically doomed.  Recent figures show that, unlike Murdoch’s scheme, if they’re done properly they can work.

“Wherever you stand on the great paywall debate, you can’t argue with the fact that one UK national newspaper publisher has proved that a paywall can work.

Figures released by the Financial Times yesterday revealed that it now has 149,000 paying digital subscribers. That’s nearly double the UK paid-for sale of the print edition.

Whereas Rupert Murdoch has gone for the all-or-nothing gambit of putting nearly every word of The Times and Sunday Times behind a paywall. The FT has gone for a more nuanced approach.”

via The paywall debate: At the Financial Times there is no debate, it works | Editor’s Blog | Press Gazette.

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Some good insight from Michael Wolff of Vanity Fair and Newser on how wikileaks is redefining the news business:

“For one, they kick the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal out of the circle of world’s best print journalism organizations. The Post loses this position because of how it has been shrinking itself down to a more economic size and abandoning its national standing (curiously, the Pentagon Papers leak, 40 years ago, represented the Post’s bid for national standing). The Journal loses this position because of Rupert Murdoch.”

It’s worth reading the whole piece.  Here it is:

Can WikiLeaks Save Journalism?.

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Ad Age writes:

“NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Legendary and irascible adman George Lois contends that “Mad Men,” which began its new season Sunday, “misrepresents the advertising industry by ignoring the revolution that changed the world of communications forever. That mortal sin of omission makes ‘Mad Men’ a lie.”

Writing in the August issue of Playboy, he called the show “nothing more than a soap opera set in a glamorous office where stylish fools hump their appreciative, coiffed secretaries, suck up martinis and smoke themselves to death as they produce lifeless advertising,” unaware or uncaring about the creative and/or the social revolution swirling around them.”

via The Real Scoop on Ad Age in the ‘Mad Men’ Era – Advertising Age – Rance Crain.

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Maybe I missed it earlier but it looks like Google is now including trends in its search results.

wikileaks – Google Search.

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“We tend to think: big revelations mean big reactions. But if the story is too big and crashes too many illusions, the exact opposite occurs.”

This sobering revelation from Jay Rosen was first sent out via Twitter.  Today he elaborates on this thought.  As always, his insightful points are right on the money.  He says:

“The mental model on which most investigative journalism is based states that explosive revelations lead to public outcry; elites get the message and reform the system. But what if elites believe that reform is impossible because the problems are too big, the sacrifices too great, the public too distractible? What if cognitive dissonance has been insufficiently accounted for in our theories of how great journalism works… and often fails to work?”

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