Being a blog by Leslie Regan Shade

About the author

Associate Professor, Concordia Univ., Dept of Communication Studies

I can be reached at; lshade@alcor.concordia.ca


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Mir has updated movable type
July 14, 2008
Posted by Lshade at 6:03 PM | Comments (0) | Posted to | permalink

And says that there are some funky punctuation things happenin' with my blog...so mebbe it's me or mebbe it was an old and stale version, "let's see what happens now", she said....thanks Mir!

It's now hip
June 19, 2008
Posted by Lshade at 3:00 AM | Posted to I am really a California girl | permalink

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Wow. What used to be the local watering hole about 20 odd years ago is now reviewed in Zagat and Fodor’s and even has its own MySpace page. Says Fodor – in a somewhat desolate part of the Mission – indeed – at 17th and Folsom… The Rite Spot.

NCMR 2008
May 31, 2008
Posted by Lshade at 3:07 PM | Posted to Media Reform Conference | permalink

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Academic Research for Media Reform Pre-Conference , June 5, Minneapolis.

National Conference for Media Reform (NCMR) 2008, Minneapolis June 6-8.

Net Neutrality Resources and Activism in CA
Posted by Lshade at 1:03 AM | Posted to Telecommunications Policy | permalink

Resources from the Campaign for Democratic Media

Save Our Net: Protecting Your Internet’s Level Playing Field

CBC News, May 28, Net Neutrality Bill Hits House of Commons.

Rally on Parliament Hill for Net Neutrality, The Dominion, and see Michael Lithgow on NN.

Net Neutrality Rally site

CBC News, May 15, CRTC Opens Net Neutrality Debate to Public

CRTC New Media Hearings 2008


Struck by a groovy storefront display...
May 26, 2008
Posted by Lshade at 11:08 PM | Posted to Whatever | permalink

I’m wondering if Roots Canada is behind a year…their new Summer of Love collection celebrates the 60s and the Keroucian On The Road, which had its 50th ann last summer. Was the Summer of Love in Canada in 1968 instead?

ICA-SSRC Pre-Conf re scholar/activist divides
May 21, 2008
Posted by Lshade at 5:46 PM | Posted to Conferences | permalink

ICA pre-Conference: Bridging Scholar/Activist Divides in the Field of Communications.

The SSRC and the McGannon Center for Communications Research at Fordham University invite you to attend an Academic pre-Conference held in conjuction with the 2008 ICA Conference in Montreal, Canada. Thursday, May 22nd, Le Centre Sheraton Montreal.

CV
May 18, 2008
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