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1. Importance of a Domain Name - While watching CBC Compass, an advertisement was on for Suites on St. Stephen. The ad enticed me to bring up their website and checkout the Suites in Summerside. For me, someone who has been around the web for a while, it was easy to remember the second part (the domain) of their website address (blogspot.com). But for their target audience, who appear to be older people or the average joe it might not be as easy to writ...[More]

2. CBC Now Using Canadian Press Headlines for Atlantic Canada? - Today I noticed the CBC PEI website is no longer showing headlines for Atlantic Canada that were written by other CBC journalist. They are showing third party headlines from The Canadian Press. The CBC hasn't really been good at local reporting during the non 9-7 work hours, in fact updates tot he CBC PEI website are very rare and I was shocked they actually posted the Kyle Bambrick story on the weekend. I hope this isn't a sign of what's to come. ...[More]

3. CBC Cuts Coming? We might be at risk at loosing Compass again - On Wednesday CBC: Compass hour, Bruce had announced the CBC was looking for more money from the federal government. Then on Wednesday/Thursday the Globe & Mail reported: CBC senior management denied asking for more public money this week. It appears the CBC has an issue with about $400 million in funds. The CBC receives has a budget of $1....[More]

4. CBC Cuts Prediction - Our super hour news cast is already lacking and now cutbacks are coming. We get approximately 13 minutes of local news, 13 minutes of regional (and regional) news, 13 minutes of an interview of some sorts, 8 minutes of other news (including overflow national) and probably 5 minutes of other jabber/news. The rest is advertisements/commercials. With 1/4 of the news being strictly for PEI, we don't have much to cut here. We have 4-5 full time local reporters. I have a feeling the Island is going to be ...[More]