Despite the news of Terminal City’s demise, not all of the media headlines are gloomy on this Hallowe’en Monday.

From the Comedy Network, news that the Colbert Report will soon be part of our late-night lives:

The most compelling fake news timeslot on TV is expanding to 60 minutes. CTV announced today that it has reached a deal with MTV Networks International (MTVI) to bring the critically-acclaimed… Read more...

Well, damn. One less alternative to the Sovince/Prun:

Vancouver alternative newsweekly Terminal City is suspending publication effective immediately publisher John Kay announced today. Kay said the October 27 edition, which hit the streets last Thursday, will “probably” be the paper’s final edition.

It’s hard to make a go of it in the indie media business, and apparently harder still to do it in Vancouver. TC is going… Read more...

From WorldChanging:

I don’t want to be a big cynic about this, but really, at this point, who WANTS George W Bush to get all interested in climate change? Sooner or later, that guy poisons everything he touches. He’d probably start a highly secretive and utterly disorganized “Department of Greenhouse Security,” where Bechtel apparatchiks took over abandoned army bases to install leaky nuclear power plants in dead of… Read more...

When The Karasik Conspiracy hits bookshelves this September, the plot may sound just a wee bit familiar:

a group of shadowy terrorists conspires to murder thousands of Americans by poisoning the medicine they’re importing from Canada to beat U.S. drug prices.

It sounds uncannily like the warnings giant pharmaceutical companies were sounding not long ago over Americans buying cheap generic drugs from Canada. Weird coincidence, huh?… Read more...

Over on UIE Brain Sparks, Jared Spool weighs in on the civil war over whether web navigation bars should be on the left or right side of the page:

having tested a ton of users on bundles of sites, we’ve learned over the years that navigation placement doesn’t matter one whit. Put the navigation practically anywhere on the page and users will find it when they need it… Read more...

I came into work this morning to learn that our faces had been plastered all over last night’s broadcast of Survivor, as Global promotes tonight’s 5:30 newscast and their featured story, “Will the VCR get the heave-ho in favour of TiVo?”

Global’s reporter, the charming and talented Nathan, came by the other night to tape us with TiVo and capture our pontifications on the future of pop culture in… Read more...

Any major shift in communication technology goes through these stages:

1. Experimentation
2. Early narrow implementation
3. Establishment of community
4. Enhancement of solidarity in face of establishment backlash
5. Giving awards to ourselves

Gosh, is it time for step five again?

Yep. The Canadian Blog Awards have opened nominations for 2005, celebrating the Canadian blogospheriverse’s capacity for creating provocative, insightful commentary and engaging, ground-breaking citizen… Read more...

Sometimes, an event evokes an idea so compelling that
everyone
thinks
of it.

(Rest in peace, Rosa Parks. And thank you for your courage.)… Read more...