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Print Edition 23/11/09 Page B6
TECHNOLOGY REPORTERIt was once painted by critics as ground zero of copyright crime on the Internet. Today, it's where the Web's most innovative business models are coming from.
TECHNOLOGY GIFT GUIDE
Print Edition 23/11/09 Page L4
MUSICDreamgear WarBeast $100, available online at web ratailers such as amazon.caThis is no amateur hour guitar. Well, except of course, that it's not really a guitar. Technically, it's a controller for the Sony PlayStation 3 and PS2 which is modelled on a B.C.Rich guitar and works with the hit games Rock Band, Guitar hero and Rock Revolution.
Have you done your 10,000 hours?
Print Edition 21/11/09 Page A27
mwente@globeandmail.com Q. How do you get to Carnegie Hall? A. Practice, practice, practice.A year ago, Malcolm Gladwell, the phenomenally popular Canadian writer with the wild and crazy hair, published a book called Outliers, which took the world by storm. Outliers is an intriguing effort to explain how extremely successful people got that way. At its heart is something called the 10,000-hour rule, which is approximately the amount of time you have to invest in order to become an expert. Both the Beatles and Bill Gates put in their 10,000 hours (playing in seedy bars in Hamburg, or writing computer code) before they achieved greatness.
Welcome to the virtual dollhouse
Print Edition 21/11/09 Page L2
Kiki Hayes was pondering what to get her husband for their first wedding anniversary recently when she stumbled across the work of blackeyedsuzie, a.k.a. Sarah Faber of Montreal, on the Internet. When Hayes saw the contemporary-Gothic dolls that Faber creates, she thought, ''So Tim Burton!'' Since both she and her husband are huge fans of the director's aesthetic, Hayes commissioned Faber to hand-sculpt a pair of busts from a wedding photo. Gift problem solved.
Facebook members are spooked by friendly ghosts in the machine
Print Edition 21/11/09 Page F8
It has been almost two months since Amelia Shaw's friend took his own life, but she still sees his face every day.She can't escape the image of Karl, the energetic soul with a rollicking sense of humour who taught her to play polo on bicycles instead of horses. But the 25-year-old doesn't see her friend's face only in her mind's eye or in a photo on a shelf: She sees it, almost daily, on her Facebook home page.
An iPhone app for everyone
On-line 20/11/09 07:59 PM
What if Canadian wireless junkies could have a set of applications worthy of our fractious media industry?
An iPhone app for everyone
On-line 20/11/09 07:53 PM
What if Canadian wireless junkies could have a set of applications worthy of our fractious media industry?
Have you done your 10,000 hours?
On-line 20/11/09 07:21 PM
Malcolm Gladwell thinks diligence beats talent. Steven Pinker begs to differ
Small-scale artisans embrace the virtual dollhouse
On-line 20/11/09 04:17 PM
From toy makers to physicists, ‘micro manufacturers' are tapping online stores and studios to design, build and market their wares
Google PC will start in seven seconds or less
On-line 20/11/09 03:49 PM
Makers of upcoming Chrome OS say it will be out for 2010 holiday season but initially on certain netbooks
