New Law in BC – No Cell Phones While Driving (Except Hands-Free Devices)
No cell phone use while driving (except hands-free) We’ve all heard about it – but if you need the facts about the use of cell phones while driving – here they are. With thanks to the www.hellobc.com site. It’s official, as of January 1, 2010 in British Columbia (though I’m told there is a month grace period), it is against the law to drive while using a handheld cell phone or other electronic device. Any violation of... [Read More...]
The Truth about the Canadian TV battles
We’ve all seen the commercials. Save Local TV! Stop the TV Tax! The truth is getting muddied by both players. The CRTC is in hearings right now with the networks and the cable and satellite companies. The Canadian Writer’s Guild have put out a really good video that sheds light on the subject. Canadians have already said that they want TV that reflects their lives. Their own stories.Tweet This Post Read More →
Global Morning News – August 21, 2009
Here are some links to information Bradley Shende spoke about on Global Morning News August 21, 2009. Some great items for back-to-school that come in under $100 include (From BestBuy):Sony wireless headphone for the transit rider ($99.00)Sony’s Walkman Wearable MP3 player fuses headphones with a 2GB MP3 player into one sleek device that’s perfect for cruisin’ on the bus or skytrain or riding the new Canada Line. Its lightweight... [Read More...]
Global News – Aug 7th – Online Health
Healthcare Online http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/index-eng.php – Health Canada – it’s a massive site – with TONS of inforamation – you could spend a week just looking at this site. Canada Food Guide, Information on Advisories, Warnings, and Recalls. Tons of great information – you can even find out about Medical Isotopes – the latest news on Swine Flu (H1N1 virus) even cell phone safety. If you fill in the “I’m... [Read More...]
Bradley on Global Morning News
Global July 31 Summer is often about fixing things around the apartment, house, or cottage. Here are some great sites to help you learn how to do just about anything. http://www.wikihow.com/Cool-Yourself-Without-Air-Conditioning You can participate and actually edit the Wiki entries “One tried and true method is to wet your wrists and other pulse points with cold water, and then keep those spots cool by holding an ice cube wrapped in a face... [Read More...]
Olympics Athletes at M2O
Yesterday was amazing! We had the good fortune of having two of Canada’s most amazing Olympic athletes in the studio. First, Tom Velisek came down from Squamish for an in-studio interview. Tom is one of the best snowboardcross (SBX) riders in the world and one of only four men selected to represent Canada in the discipline at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games. SBX made its’ official Olympic debut in Torino, Italy and Velisek wants to be the first... [Read More...]
Google’s Wave – Microsoft’s Bing – big players, big changes
We’ve started doing a lot more in-house Voice-Over work at Media2o Productions (M2O). It’s really fun stuff. It’s also interesting that just as my recorded voice never sounds the same to me as it does to others – this seems to hold true for others doing VO work too. But, on to the big news – Google announced their latest innovation – Wave – today. Techcrunch has a great write up on it. If it’s half as... [Read More...]
Auto-Tune the news – everything sounds better.
A while back, ConnectedLife did a story on musicians using Auto-tuning. Check out the segment here: Connected Life: Auto Tuned Vocals Boingboing.net has a very funny mashup of newscasters being put through the auto-tune process – it shows just how good you can make people sound. Tweet This Post Read More →
Third Tuesday with Tris Hussey
If you haven’t checked out the Third Tuesday meetings in Vancouver – you’re really missing out on some great events. As the name suggests, the meetings happen every Third Tuesday and include great speakers on everything from new media marketing strategies to how to run a virtual office. Next week’s meeting is going to feature our very own social media conscierge – Tris Hussy. Tris will be asking the question: “Do... [Read More...]
Vancouver Massive Tech Show
The M2O crew took over part of the Vancouver Massive Tech Show at UBC’s downtown campus yesterday and had a blast. Jack Kao was running live-streaming cameras while I interviewed attendees and presenters by our booth. We were set up just to the left of the registration centre. We had the lite-bright, the fortune cookies and the live-streaming video. I think I interviewed more people in one day than I have in the last three months. Fun stuff. Vancouver’s... [Read More...]