tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39654729217289967072011-07-08T02:49:10.785-05:00Keeping tabs on things that interest me in terms of: web building, web marketing, mobile, new media, interactive TV, usability, and generally speaking: interactive and on-demand media. Oh and the odd side-bar posting from the perspective of an Arsenal Football Club fan born and raised on the wrong side of the AtlanticDale Fallonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00411811099666923541noreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965472921728996707.post-41330230215492883972009-05-25T13:44:00.012-05:002009-05-25T14:08:44.991-05:00

..As a TFC soccer fan, as well as semi-regular community user of BMO Field, I can see both sides of the argument about artificial turf.For competitive soccer (be it TFC/MLS, or games involving one of Canada's national teams), real grass is by far preferable.For amateur athletes however, the durability of turf, and the fact that (with an inflatable bubble) it can be used year-round is hard to

Dale Fallonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00411811099666923541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965472921728996707.post-88735848135067069892008-02-10T16:24:00.000-05:002008-02-10T16:39:23.537-05:00

This map shows locations of liquor stores in west-end Toronto. The blue circles are 2km in diameter. The red circle shows the equivalent catchment area for a potential store on Roncesvalles at Howard Park Ave.The government has a monopoly on liquor sales in Ontario, and so isn't always totally customer-friendly. But but situating store in walkable neighbourhoods, the LCBO can encourage people to

Dale Fallonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00411811099666923541noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965472921728996707.post-34580743944403543062007-04-19T12:08:00.000-05:002007-04-19T12:11:23.336-05:00

The good news: Gmail seems to be working again.I've been using for the last couple hours in both IE and Firefox. For the last few days I've been getting by in "Basic HTML" mode (never shutting down the browser), but now I seem to have full functionality again.What still bugs me is that there's no explanation for what went off the rails (ie no response to my trouble ticket).So anyways, we shall

Dale Fallonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00411811099666923541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965472921728996707.post-53796604698763149282007-04-16T18:23:00.000-05:002007-04-16T18:25:45.998-05:00

Today I opened a technical trouble ticket with Gmail. Here's what I wrote:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I can login ok, but after that cannot load pages. This has been getting worse and worse over the last 2 weeks. I blogged here with error screen capshttp://on-theball.blogspot.com/2007/04/gmail-performance-issues.htmlOccasionally the system will work for a few clicks, and I can switch to "

Dale Fallonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00411811099666923541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965472921728996707.post-82904178395672327252007-04-12T10:47:00.000-05:002007-04-12T10:55:57.068-05:00

Gmail is working terribly for me.It's been sporadically bad over the last 2 weeks, but in the last 24 hours has been almost unusable.Symptoms:-generally I can login ok, and get to the Inbox (though even this isn't 100% today)-from there, its hit or miss whether I can read individual messages-sometimes I can read a message, but it hangs indefintely when I try to send a replyThere are several error

Dale Fallonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00411811099666923541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965472921728996707.post-67847483291129120352007-02-23T10:59:00.000-05:002007-02-23T11:45:50.368-05:00

There's been lots of coverage this week of the proposed XM-Sirius satellite radio merger. Of course the approval process will be fraught with all kinds of posturing and inside-the-beltway politicking, none of which I am qualified to comment on.But what I CAN say is that this is expensive technology, for which there are already viable alternatives. A big debate about these 2 companies truly misses

Dale Fallonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00411811099666923541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965472921728996707.post-63674726094529800582007-02-15T10:52:00.000-05:002007-02-15T11:20:36.294-05:00

I was just checking out this presentation by a couple former colleagues. Jonathan and Andre were at the OpenText User conference in Huntington Beach CA. These guys (and several colleagues back at the ranch in Toronto) are doing amazing custom work with the RedDot Web CMS product: http://www.keebler.net/blog/2007/02/13/presentation-broadband-video-news-powered-by-reddot/Jonathan in particular is

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I liked this story in the Hollywood Reporter today. Why? Read on ....Sling Media and MTV Networks went head-to-head Tuesday at the 3GSM World Congress in a debate about how mobile is changing television ... For many at the GSM's Mobile Entertainment Summit session ... the Slingbox's ability to stream a television set onto a computer, mobile phone or palm pilot seemed to leapfrog the laborious

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