Category Archives: deadmedia

Fax machines, and PDFs, kicking off the deadmedia watch for 2010

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Thomas Purves

The fax machine was obsolete 15 years ago. When someone says “fax it to me,” I always feel like I’m being punk’d. A fax machine is nothing more than a printer, scanner and an obsolete analog mode that work together … Continue reading →

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Dead Media Watch #297 – Hyphens

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Thomas Purves

About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. No one has time for the poor hyphen anymore. It seems to be going the … Continue reading →

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Will QR Codes Save the National Post?

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Thomas Purves

If you are a reader of Canada’s (other) national newspaper the National Post, you may have noticed that they are trying out something neat with 2D barcodes a.k.a QR Codes. They don’t quite look like normal QR codes but this … Continue reading →

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