Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw notes that although Spotify is not yet profitable, it has managed to accumulate quite a few subscribers. Will this be enough to let it last?

Spotify has surpassed 50 million subscribers, extending its lead over rivals Apple Music, SoundCloud and Google as the world’s largest paid music streaming service ( Read more... )

Michelle Da Silva's brief article in NOW Toronto notes that Queen Street West in Toronto will finally get some free public WiFi--indeed, already has it. Now for the rest of Toronto to follow suit!

Accessing free WiFi in Toronto can often mean ducking into a McDonalds, Starbucks or other fastfood chains. In “world class” cities, such as Tel Aviv, ( Read more... )

Russell Smith's essay published in The Globe and Mail on the 25th of January, considering the claims of the selfie to cultural legitimacy, even the status of high art. I largely agree with him: There's no reason why the self-portrait is a negative form when it's a photograph, certainly not when it's a photograph that's a product of modern computing ( Read more... )

• At Apostrophen, 'Nathan Smith writes about the status of his various writing projects.
• Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling links to an article examining pieces of software that have shaped modern music.
• blogTO notes the expansion of the Drake Hotel to a new Junction site. Clearly the Drake is becoming a brand.
• Citizen Science Salon looks at how ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that TTC tunnels will get WiFi in 2018.
• Border Thinking's Laura Augustín shares some of Edvard Munch's brothel paintings.
• Centauri Dreams looks at the latest science on fast radio bursts.
• Dangerous Minds shares some of the sexy covers of Yugoslavian computer magazine Računari.
• Dead Things looks at the latest research into dinosaur eggs.

• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about the importance of showing up for major events.
• Crooked Timber looks at e-publishing for academia.
• Dead Things notes that the evolution of the human brain and human teeth were not linked.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to two papers about ocean worlds and greenhouse effects.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the ( Read more... )

NOW Toronto's Jonathan Goldsbie examines how Toronto journalist Craig Silverman helped expose the existence of the phenomenon of fake news.

It’s generally irresponsible to attribute an election result to any one thing - but in a presidential race as close as the one the U.S. just had, any one thing could conceivably have made the difference ( Read more... )

The National Post shares Vito Pilieci's Postmedia News article noting the advantage that lower energy costs gave Québec over Ontario.

Internet giant Amazon Web Services has opened a cluster of data centres near Montreal due to the ready availability and cost of hydro-electric power in Quebec ( Read more... )

• The Big Picture shares photos from ruined Aleppo.
• Centauri Dreams looks at the new explanation for the ASASSN-15h, of a Sun-mass star torn apart by a fast-rotating black hole.
• The Crux looks at the condition of hyperemesis gravidarum.
• Dangerous Minds shares the dark and Satanic art of an Argentine artist.
• Joe. My. God. reports on one man's displeasure ( Read more... )

I don't quite know how I happened getting in so deep with Facebook Editor. I have always been annoyed to find, whenever I've checked in on Facebook or Instagram to a particular location, that other people have assigned incorrect names to a particular location--misspellings, the wrong names, sometimes altogether the wrong information--so maybe it ( Read more... )