Two weeks ago, after seeing Yellow Pages stacked, unused and unwanted in both my own and several friends apartment buildings, I started a Facebook Group entitled 100,000 Canadians who’ve opted out of yellow pages! In two weeks, with friends telling a friend here and there, we’ve grown to 1000 people. So where did this come [...]
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Clay Shirky, Connected and Yellow Pages
War makes facists of us all: Would you like to know more?
Over the years I’ve taken my lumps from friends for loving Starship Troopers. Most who haven’t seen it assume it is a dumb sci-fi action movie. But listen to the directors commentary and the first two things you’re told is that the movie is about “how war makes fascists of us all” and that the [...]
Articles I’m Digesting 4/4/2010
Why Hasn’t Scientific Publishing Been Disrupted Already? by Michael Clark A couple of months ago I gave a talk at the Regenstrief Institute about collaboration and open science. This article sums up one part of the talk – about the evils of closed publishing models in science. Clark writes everything I was thinking plus more, dissecting [...]
The Irony of Wente, Opinions, Blogs and Gender
Once again a Globe Columnist talks about technology in a manner that is not just factually completely incorrect but richly Ironic! Earlier today Margaret Wente published a piece titled “Why are bloggers male?” (I suspect it is in print, but who knows…). The rich irony is that Wente says she doesn’t blog because she doesn’t [...]
The PM’s Advisory Committee on the Public Service: The Good, The Bad, The Hopeful
On February 25th Paul Tellier and David Emerson – two men whose understanding of Ottawa I have a tremendous amount of respect for – released The Fourth Report of the Prime Minister’s Advisory Committee on the Public Service. It is a document that is worth diving into as these reports will likely serve as reference [...]
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