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Alasdair McKay (aa233@ccn.cs.dal.ca) wrote:

: 	Last Friday's "relaunch" of the magazine "InnovationN$" at Kings
: 	College was a rather curious, but not very inspiring affair.


	Come on guys ....   any innovative outfit in NS has long enough
	since got on the old 'info bah-humbug n', and is using it to advantage.
	InnovatioN$ has got its paradigm shift-stick stuck in second gear while
	the rest of us reached top a while back and are thinking about
	hitting the overdrive button.  WWW allows direct communication between
	supplier and  customer and is blind to geographical location 
	or geo-political affiliation and if the specs of the goods and the price
	are right, you'll be off and running: the last thing anyone needs
	is to have a journalist re-write your specs in his own style and
	then publish them without even turning the proofs over to you for
	approval, which seemed to be how the old InnovatioN$ operated in my 
	experience.
  
	Perhaps the Economic Renewal
	Agency could have helped things along by giving out some web space
	for companies to write their stuff on, but that's probably not needed
	and it would only cause more back-biting by  providers anyway.

	A better use for the funds handed over to InnovatioN$ might be
 	to help CCN keep up its good
	work.  Even although it rightly forbids commercial stuff at its
	site ( except for the very big business of educational commerce,
	artistic commerce, movie theatres, dive shops, religious commerce
	usw, etc, and so on  :->   ),  CCN
	has been certainly the most significant force in spreading WAN literacy
	rapidly through  NS during the past two years, and such literacy
	has been expressed volubly on other commercial sites to the benefit
	of the economy of the Province.


	If this InnovatioN$ thing is typical of what Innovacorp Inc is
	thinking of getting up to, then I think it should have another 
	think ..... even if it seems already to have spent about a year
	thinking about what to be up to.

	" Think, think, think .....that's all I do !" ( copyright of Caramac,
                                                        or is it Caramilk ? )



Anyway .....  the caterers provided some tasty sandwiches and the coffee
was quite drinkable, and I was able to have quite a pleasant chat with my
MLA (who is usually difficult to get a hold of because so many bees buzz
around him) and get over some of these points to him.  I forgot to mention
to him that the last time I was in that building at Kings was when we were
doing some publicity shots for a production of "Iolanthe" back in 1978 : 
we had fairies all up and down the bannisters then.  Apart from the good
earthiness of the food, it seemed just like fairyland there again last
Friday - pleasantly nostalgic indeed, but not quite the scene that
a would-be mover-and-shaker agency should be setting.


	Tempori parendum,  o Innovacorp  ... " act in accordance with the 
                                               dictates of the times" - of
                                               today, that is -- not
		                               yesterday.

	Alasdair McKay

	a.mckay@ieee.ca
 	
      (	The above is not issued with the authority of a greater fraction
	than  1 : 350,000 th  of the IEEE. )