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Marketing: Independent thinking
“You coming to bed?” asks a woman, wondering if her husband is ready to stop watching the hockey game that’s playing on their large plasma TV. “I’m just going to catch the end of the game,” he responds, moments before his young son appears saying he can’t sleep. When the father uses his PVR to show his restless boy a stellar goal and the two enjoy a spontaneous...
Picture Worth a Thousand Songs?
When Aaron Katchen stopped buying compact discs four years ago, he was forced to abandon one of his favourite time killers—flipping through CD booklets. The London, England-based Rabbi used to spend hours with his Grateful Dead and Phish records, checking out band photos and delving into the lyrics. Now, when Katchen purchases albums from iTunes he’s given a graphic of the cover art that he...
Live & Learn: Paul Anka
I love the business side of life. It allows me to make decisions, have some freedom. And it allows me to spend money, which I love to do. I don’t believe in saving and hoarding. For who? For what?
Initially, I was an artist, but I realized very quickly that you have to have some sense of who you are. If you wanted to stay in this business, you had to treat it like a business and you needed to...
Over the boarderline (cover story)
DJ Champion can’t go anywhere without his laptop. The 36-year-old from Montreal is sitting in a hotel room in France, waiting to take his portable Mac to a ten p.m. gig in Saint-Lo, France, a small town about four hours east of Paris. In the meantime though, he’s using the internet to translate words from his native tongue to English.
“Marginale,” he says at the end of a sentence, in a thick...
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Bryan Borzykowski is a Toronto-based writer and editor working mainly for business publications. He writes for the New York Times, Canadian Business magazine, Globe and Mail, Bloomberg Businessweek Custom Publishing, Toronto Star, MoneySense and more. Bryan's the editor of Review magazine and is a senior editor with Connected for Business magazine. He's also a contributing writer with Hello! Canada and was once a weekly music columnist for Metro News. He's been nominated for several National Magazine Awards and he's co-authored