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Putting the audience to work


TORONTO - Alliance Atlantis launched blogTV.ca this week, meaning everyday Canadians with a web cam can all now be broadcasters ("blogcasters"?). The company that owns such brands as HGTV Canada, Showcase, National Geographic Channel, Food Network and others is offering blogTV.ca in partnership with GS New Media, a global entertainment distribution company. This initial website beta launch is the first of many planned milestones for blogTV.ca, said the company. BlogTV was first introduced in 2004 by Tapuz, a publicly-listed Israeli company based in Tel Aviv, specializing in communities, blogs and chats, and is "the next step in social media as...