I was just over at my old friend Warren Kinsella's blog, and clicked on the ad for his new book, The War Room. Here's the top three related choices suggested by Amazon.com:

I should not that the above image was altered slightly to save space (it's 490 pixels wide vs. the original 688 pixels), but those were the recommendations in the order in which they appeared when I clicked on the link.

From a Radar interview with Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor of the New York Times and son of former executive editor Abe Rosenthal:

Type in YouTube.ca. From the CP story on CTV.ca:

The company says YouTube.ca will highlight made-in-Canada content.

As well, content uploaded by users in Canada will show up as "top favourites'' and "recommended content'' on the site. ...

YouTube has already signed agreements with Canadian content partners including the CBC, the CFL and Sony BMG Canada.

For some reason, I'm recalling the advice of the experts who said back in 2000 that content on the Internet was dead, and that people should invest in those companies that supplied the hardware -- you know, companies like Nortel.

Kevin Sites spent a year on assignment with Yahoo! News covering the world's wars as a solo digital media correspondent.

Google grabbed headlines (as usual) by announcing that it would make available, for free, a software package for mobile phone makers to put everyone on the same platform.

This isn't altruism. This would make it easier for easier for Google to peddle ads.

I found that story particularly interesting when juxtaposed with this one:

The PC's role in Japanese homes is diminishing, as its once-awesome monopoly on processing power is encroached by gadgets such as smart phones that act like pocket-size computers, advanced Internet-connected game consoles and digital video recorders with terabytes of memory. ...

The Toronto Star has a story today on the ever-increasing burden that home ownership is placing on Canadians' finances.