Tom Purves – Product Management, Fintech & AI

# OMG, how cool is this watch?

# Have you been this excited for a James Bond movie since you were 14? If the film is half as good the trailer, could be worth your $13. Watch the trailer, do you agree?

# thanks for all the feedback on dead media (both inline and off), I’m touched 🙂 And, for those of you … I never said the loss of certain media wasn’t more lamentable (poetry, pneumatic tubes) than others (disco music…) =)

Shel Holtz was in town yesterday to talk about blogging and social media and one of the things he had to say was “social media is changing everything” the other thing he had to say was something along the lines of “[don’t worry] new media never completely kills old media”. Of course to say that old media forms never get killed is a pretty strong statement. Historically, there must be tons of dead media. Help me make a list!

Dead Media!

• sheet music
• poetry
• the fax machine
• 8 tracks
• town criers
• overhead projectors
• letter writing
• floppy disks
• mixed tapes
• papyrus
• illustrated manuscripts
• dotmatrix printers
• VHS (and Beta)
• Oral history
• Latin
• Morse code (and telegrams)
• Typewriters
• Clay Tablets
• Disco Music
• Hieroglyphics
• The Oracle of Delphi
• Nailing people to crosses (ouch)
• The Spanish Inquisition
• Wood block prints
• Handbills
• Parchment
• MS DOS
• What else can you think of?

BONUS: For your enjoyment, 15 years of songs about Dead Radio:

• Metric, Dead Disco (2003)
• Smiths, Panic (1988)

“we ask for too much I guess, cause all we get is dead disco, dead funk, dead rock ‘n roll…”

“hang the dj, hang the blessed dj, for the music that they constantly play, says nothing to me about my life…”

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# Michael Geist concludes 30 days of DRM

Geist (as usual) has done a fantastic job of surmising the issues at stake with regard to DRM (Digital rights Management) and the potential outcomes of copyright “reform” in discussion by our current government. Go read the piece, go write to your MP. In writing. On average, how many constituent letters is required for an MP to take an interest in an issue? Just two. I’ve blogged previously on copyright here.

# ICT Toronto: Ourselves Helping Local Policymakers Help Themselves at Drafing Better Policy to Help People like Ourselves

What the heck is going on with the once vaunted ICT Toronto Initiative? Barcamp’s own heroic policy wonk Mark Kuznicki is organizing a meet up of techsters and bloggers “to meet with
ICT Toronto the first or second week in October… The focus of the session would be for ICT to share their plans with the group and to solicit our input on what’s really necessary to support a vibrant leading tech industry cluster in Toronto.”. This conversation stemming from recent stations on Mark’s blog here and Joey’s blog here. Want to get involved? Contact Mark or add comments to any of these blogs, if you have ideas suggestions or would like to attend etc.