ZeD
What do you know? CBC can be hip and cool. I think. I expect such things from Moses Znaimer, and it's a little disconcerting when you see it coming from CBC. In fact, if I saw the same thing from CHUM, I wouldn't even bat an eyelash -- not that I bat my eyelashes mind you -- but from CBC, it seems a little contrived, as if they're trying too hard to be hip and cool. So what am I talking about?
ZeD is more than the TV show that has a half an hour slot on CBC every weeknight. Together with its online presence, it aims to be "launch pad for independent creative expression that's slipped the leash of expectation. A synapse-teasing space where the yin of the Web slips seamlessly into the yang of TV, and back again." Read those words again -- what do they mean? They mean hip and cool, that's what they mean. They mean that somehow, the uncultured managed to usurped the fortified culture of CBC and bring it into
this century! The online face of ZeD acts as a community of sort for pretentious, hipster types, to collaborate and publish their original works. ZeD is constantly looking for new material, so if you want to be part of pretentious crowd, join. You never know, with enough pretending, you might be able to fool some cultured stalwarts to part with some of their inheritance.
While you're at it, check out the unabashed face of ZeD: Ziya Tong. She's so cool, it hurts. Is it just me, or is she trying too hard? You be the judge.
On a cool note -- yes, there is something I found cool in all the self-indulging site -- ZeD the site is entirely a product that employs open source software. Maybe that's how they managed to secure funding from the tightwads at CBC. The site employs Apache, Jboss, Tomcat, Linux and Java. Having taken from from the open source community, ZeD is giving back. The entire code drop for the site is available for download and use. Now that's something that's cool.
Yeah, and maybe some of the artsy-fartsy stuff is cool too.
ZeD is more than the TV show that has a half an hour slot on CBC every weeknight. Together with its online presence, it aims to be "launch pad for independent creative expression that's slipped the leash of expectation. A synapse-teasing space where the yin of the Web slips seamlessly into the yang of TV, and back again." Read those words again -- what do they mean? They mean hip and cool, that's what they mean. They mean that somehow, the uncultured managed to usurped the fortified culture of CBC and bring it into
this century! The online face of ZeD acts as a community of sort for pretentious, hipster types, to collaborate and publish their original works. ZeD is constantly looking for new material, so if you want to be part of pretentious crowd, join. You never know, with enough pretending, you might be able to fool some cultured stalwarts to part with some of their inheritance.While you're at it, check out the unabashed face of ZeD: Ziya Tong. She's so cool, it hurts. Is it just me, or is she trying too hard? You be the judge.On a cool note -- yes, there is something I found cool in all the self-indulging site -- ZeD the site is entirely a product that employs open source software. Maybe that's how they managed to secure funding from the tightwads at CBC. The site employs Apache, Jboss, Tomcat, Linux and Java. Having taken from from the open source community, ZeD is giving back. The entire code drop for the site is available for download and use. Now that's something that's cool.
Yeah, and maybe some of the artsy-fartsy stuff is cool too.
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