Archive for May, 2010

The Immanent Rise of the E-Reader Tyranny Theory: Grumble. Yawn. Repeat.

I just listened to a panel on CBC Radio:  “The Future of the Book.”   An hour of people across the writing and publishing spectrum in a race to the bottom detailing the impending tyranny of digital reading and the electronic reader.  Everyone had a hard fact and a study to back up the dark days ahead scenario but it all amounted [...]

CBC Interview and Parks Canada: Remembering Louis Cameron and the Presentness of Public History

I recently interviewed on CBC Thunder Bay 88.3 during ”The Great Northwest” morning program.  Host Lisa Laco and I discussed the 1974 Ojibway Warrior Society Occupation of Anicinabe Park, Kenora, in light of the recent passing of one of the central figures Louis Cameron.    A special thanks to Jody Porter from CBC radio for the opportunity.  Public history not only matters.  It is already there [...]

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