• Gareth Bate: Caught between a job and a cold place –

• Artists in the middle years: Making it work –

• Artists’ earnings –

  Some basic stats

• Toronto arts: By the numbers –

• Spanish museum uses Google Earth to bring masterpieces up close –

• U.S. museums facing deep cuts because of economic crisis –

• Maddin’s My Winnipeg named best film by Toronto critics –

• TheStar.com | GTA | Textbook piracy thriving around city’s campuses –

• YouTube – LG-GD910 3G Watch Phone – It was inevitable. I'm glad it's done well.
• Iraq Vet Charged with Movie Theater Shooting | NBC Philadelphia – All the more reason to not go to the theatre
• “What are you planning to do in 2009?”, or thoughts about #lifecamptoronto | sacha chua :: enterprise 2.0 consultant, storyteller, geek –
• ze’s page :: zefrank.com: electrabel new years ad –

• Social Media is No Place for Robot Behavior | chrisbrogan.com –
• Guest Post – What Artists Can Teach Everyone About Social Media | chrisbrogan.com –
• New York Times sued over Boston.com’s linking practice | Digital Media – CNET News – Are companies still suing each other over linking and sampling? Apparently so.
• Your idea sucks, now go do it anyway – Blog – Startups + Marketing + Geekery – It is all about what you do with it.
• Unedit my heart: Christmas Eve Criticism & Cash Flows –

• AGO director wins award for transforming Toronto gallery –
• Canada Council names winners of $15,000 mid-career awards –
• The Associated Press: Screen Actors Guild sets strike vote on Jan. 2 –
• Music industry moves to disconnect file sharers in U.S. –
• publicbroadcasting.ca: Ding Dong The Witch is Dead – I can barely believe my eyes.
• #tsTO (Twitterspace Toronto) –
• AdHocnium –

Boo, Amazon:

• Revealed: Amazon staff punished for being ill – Times Online

Yay, #hohoto:

• #hohoto raises $25k
• YouTube – HoHoTo Recap
• Uninstalled: HoHoTO – The Party that Twitter built
• Torontoist: Hot Hot HoHoTO

• johndegen.com: blogcession –
• publicbroadcasting.ca: Torontoist to Close on January 1 –
• Ingram 2.0 – Twitter and “flash crowds” for good – Awesome.
• Greetings, Earthlings: Keanu Reeves promises a world of hurt in The Day the Earth Stood Still – Dear Martin Morrow: what part of Keanu Reeves', David Scarpa's or Scott Derrickson's past film history made you think that this could be anything other than a complete and utter disaster? Yes, it really is like spray-painting the Mona Lisa.
• P.E.I. girl, 5, wins $25,000 tissue-box design contest – Do I hear a "My Kid Could Paint That 2"?
• Actor cuts his own throat on stage – Um, OMG
• Alberta rethinks film funding rules after anti-oilsands doc gets cash – Are you kidding me? I thought C-10 already proved that we do not look kindly at censorship through funding restrictions.
• Bell must now invest in wireless, internet services, analysts say – The death of Bell Canada is due to the fact that their customer service = FAIL. I can't even count how many times they've screwed me over.
• Official Gmail Blog: Get your Gmail stickers – Stickers = meh. Disclaimer = awesome.

• Pepsi Apologized to Me for Its Suicide Ads – Blogger Chris Abraham analyzes PepsiCo's personal apology in the wake of widespread criticism for suicide-themed ads it released, and then immediately pulled.
• What Advertisers Need to Know about Branded Social Media Apps –
• The sculptors are coming, the sculptors are coming! | Canadian Tourism Commission – Media Centre –
• Hollywood ending?: The movie business isn’t recession-proof, after all – I wonder whether we're missing anything. Many of the recent movies being turned out aren't worth the price of admission or rental these days.
• Anonymous benefactor aids beleaguered Ballet BC – Warm fuzzies all around!
• GG agrees to suspend Parliament until January – Waste of our time and money. This is disgusting.
• Solar car completes 1st round-the-world trip –
• 15 years in the making, Australia gets a portrait gallery –
• The 2009 Spirit Award Nominations | Film News | Film | IFC.com – They probably aren't smart enough to vote Kaufman to win best screenplay andy go with Woody Allen's latest Freudian nightmare instead.
• What the data miners are digging up about you – tech – 28 November 2008 – New Scientist –
• Gov. Gen. rushes home to deal with political turmoil –
  I think when ordinary working people wake up, open their newspaper and see politicians, you know, being flown around the world and back again, all subsidized by taxpayers claiming their salaries aren't high enough, when they know those salaries have actually gone up – I'm not sure that's something that resonates with ordinary people.
• Toronto critics announce $10,000 Canadian movie prize – Toronto's film critics have launched a $10,000 award celebrating Canadian filmmakers.
• Liberals, NDP, Bloc sign deal on proposed coalition –
• Tories begin battle against coalition –
• Could consumers own their internet connections? – This is long overdue!
• Artist wins Turner Prize with help of Homer Simpson, Felix the Cat – This kind of stunt really hurts the legitimacy of arts with Harper's Ordinary Canadians. And even those of us who aren't ordinary.
• CTV.ca | Harper wrong on democracy claims: experts –
• Arts groups report strong sales despite recession fears –

Ma.gnolia bookmarks for December 1st, 2008:

• Opposition Letter – A letter to Canadians from Stephane Dion, Jack Layton and Gilles Duceppe.
• We did it – Department of Culture – “By now you probably know, it’s over. We won. Most likely a week today, Stephen Harper’s government will come to an end and the majority of Canadians will get the government they voted for.”
• Arts groups report strong sales despite recession fears
• CTV.ca | Harper wrong on democracy claims: experts
• Artist wins Turner Prize with help of Homer Simpson, Felix the Cat – This kind of stunt really hurts the legitimacy of arts with Harper’s Ordinary Canadians. And even those of us who aren’t ordinary.
• Could consumers own their internet connections? – This is long overdue!
• Tories begin battle against coalition
• Liberals, NDP, Bloc sign deal on proposed coalition
• Toronto critics announce $10,000 Canadian movie prize – Toronto’s film critics have launched a $10,000 award celebrating Canadian filmmakers.
• Gov. Gen. rushes home to deal with political turmoil – I think when ordinary working people wake up, open their newspaper and see politicians, you know, being flown around the world and back again, all subsidized by taxpayers claiming their salaries aren’t high enough, when they know those salaries have actually gone up – I’m not sure that’s something that resonates with ordinary people.
• What the data miners are digging up about you – tech – 28 November 2008 – New Scientist
• The 2009 Spirit Award Nominations | Film News | Film | IFC.com – They probably aren’t smart enough to vote Kaufman to win best screenplay andy go with Woody Allen’s latest Freudian nightmare instead.
• 15 years in the making, Australia gets a portrait gallery
• Solar car completes 1st round-the-world trip
• GG agrees to suspend Parliament until January – Waste of our time and money. This is disgusting.

• Tech Bytes: Jesse Brown: Is Canada becoming a digital ghetto? – Yes.
• TheRecord.com – CanadaWorld – Anne of Green Gables star talks shop with students – "The students peppered Follows with questions, many thoughtful — How will government funding cuts affect the arts in Canada? — and some merely curious — How many times have you dyed your hair for a role?"
• Innovation Excellence Awards Presented At Inaugural Innovative Gala – Looks like physicists, biologists, innovators, utilities workers and financial workers aren't "ordinary Canadians" either.
• YouTube – Robotic Self Healing Chair –
• Can you trust your data to Amazon, other storage cloud providers? – Network World –
• publicbroadcasting.ca: Fortunately the Arts and Culture Sector Has a Strong Sense of Irony –
• The Naked Gord Program: Synecdoche, New York – OMG

• The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education — Publications — Center for Social Media at American University – via academhack
• When Google Scholar’s Integration with Google Search is Useful – Cool (via academhack, via Lifehacker)
• An ASCAP for Books. Copyfight: the politics of IP – Well, I guess now that Google has dealt with the book publishers, they're ready to tackle visual artists. Great.
• Art News Blog: LIFE Photo Archive on Google – How long before the law suits start?
• PQ wants to opt out of federal culture programs, tougher language law – What. The. F.
• We’re not endorsing internet throttling: CRTC – If they're not endorsing it, what word would they like to use instead?
• Culturing Google to Copy Right – David Nimmer as part of the CIS/SLATA Speaker Series