by Minter Dial | Aug 13, 2010 | Entertainment, Politics, Social Media, Sports
Not heard of Rémi Gaillard? If so, the chances are that is because you still only believe in mainstream media (MSM), i.e. you watch television, read newspapers and surf only the established sources on line. Rémi happens to be the most watched humorist in the world...
by Minter Dial | Jun 29, 2010 | Politics
Taking a step back recently, I tried to think of all the industries that have been radically transformed by the tsunami of the Internet. Internet has a way of altering the way of the land in many different ways because, fundamentally, it changes the way we all...
by Minter Dial | Apr 30, 2010 | Politics
I received an email from a very “in” person (i.e. a good source). The mail writes: On MAY 10th, 2010, this open letter will appear in the Canadian magazine “The Walrus” (June and July/August issues). If you don’t know it, it’s like...
by Minter Dial | Mar 7, 2010 | Politics
WikiLeaks is one of the most riveting initiatives (read: ongoing battles) on the Internet and is putting a new spin on the transparency-anonymity debate. The Sunshine Press, which runs WikiLeaks, is an non-profit organization funded by human rights...
by Minter Dial | Mar 7, 2010 | Politics
This is the second of four posts on the topic of Transparency. The first post (link here) in this series dealt with transparency on a societal and individual level. This second post deals with the role of the Internet in the evolving importance of transparency. Any...
by Minter Dial | Mar 1, 2010 | Politics, Responsibility
Transparency is one of the important buzzwords that has surged into new management and leadership vocabulary and, surely, rightly so. It has, in fact, become such a buzzword that the University of Michigan has put it tops of its 2010 list of 15 words that should be...