Last week was a bad week for the government on the copyright front. The government recently tabled legislation to reform copyright and the man in charge of the file, Heritage Minister James Moore, gave a speech at the International Chamber of Commerce in which he decried those who questioned the bill as “radical extremists.” The [...]
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Minister Moore and the Myth of Market Forces
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 [...]
CBC: A Case Study in what happens when the Lawyers take over
Like many other people, I’ve been following the virtual meltdown at the CBC over its new (i)copyright rules. For a great summary of the back and forth I strongly encourage you to check out Jesse Brown’s blog. In short the terms of use of the CBC seemed to suggest that no one was allowed to [...]
Twitter is my Newspaper: explaining twitter to newbies
I’m frequently asked about technology, the internet and web 2.0 and in the course of the discussion the subject of Twitter inevitably arises. People are frequently curious, often judgmental, and almost always bewildered by the service. This isn’t surprising, Twitter is poorly understood despite its relative success (and its success is still small in the [...]
Twitter: Poor man’s email or smart man’s timesaver?
I’ve noticed more than a few people commenting about Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s recent quote about Twitter: “Speaking as a computer scientist, I view all of these as sort of poor man’s email systems” Apparently he made the statement at Morgan Stanley’s technology conference (Live notes here via Dan Frommer). I’m sensing that a number [...]
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