A new report challenges claims made by Canada’s largest telecommunication companies in recent disputes over Internet billing and governance. Casting An Open Net: A Leading-Edge Approach to Canada’s Digital Future, offers an at times scathing critique of telecom positions on Internet congestion, BiTorrent use, billing strategies and throttling and backs its criticisms with topnotch research […]
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Drive-by Times: ‘Big Bro’ Sarkozy calls for internet regulation
French President Sarkozy has referred to the need to “civilize” the internet as a central issue of France’s G-8 agenda. This week Sarkozy opened an ‘historic’ conference on the internet and the future of the “digital ecosystem.” The Paris forum brought…
Continue readingeaves.ca: How to Unsuck Canada’s Internet – creating the right incentives
This week at the Mesh conference in Toronto (where I’ll be talking Open Data) the always thoughtful Jesse Brown, of TVO’s Search Engine will be running a session title How to Unsuck Canada’s Internet. As part of the lead up to the session he asked me if I could write him a sentence or two […]
Continue readingALTAVISTAGOOGLE: Rebecca Black Loves Friday and So Should You
How is it that with all those machines and Mexicans, most of us still have to work 40 hours a week (and waste our best years in school for the privilege)?
It would be nice to only have to worry about what cereal to eat and what seat to sit in.
Friday analysed by 13 year old Rebecca Black.
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Continue readingALTAVISTAGOOGLE: NY Times Pay-Wall Workaround
Introduction
The NY Times paywall has been quite lucrative… for me. Traffic to my advertising supported blog tripled after posting instructions to my little paywall hack. I posted a couple of links in Twitter, using a clever url shortner, http://j.mp/nytpaywall , but I shouldn’t have bothered, as the vast majority of traffic came in via Google. Visitors c…
Continue readingReasonable caps for reasonable prices?
Usage based billing. It is a term that most Canadians had probably never even heard of until quite recently. I had, but that is because I handle most of the technological aspects of my family, and my family is a Rogers customer.
We switched to Rogers …
Continue readingpunditman: How to Maintain Internet Access Even If Your Government Turns It Off
It wouldn’t surprise Peacenik at all if the Harper Gov’t tried to set up a kill switch for the Internet. He’s already allowed the CRTC to make it too expensive for some people to use. So Peacenik is going to file this article away for future reference. And Peacenik is
Continue readingpunditman: How to Maintain Internet Access Even If Your Government Turns It Off
It wouldn’t surprise Peacenik at all if the Harper Gov’t tried to set up a kill switch for the Internet. He’s already allowed the CRTC to make it too expensive for some people to use. So Peacenik is going to file this article away for future reference. And Peacenik is
Continue readingpunditman: How to Maintain Internet Access Even If Your Government Turns It Off
It wouldn’t surprise Peacenik at all if the Harper Gov’t tried to set up a kill switch for the Internet. He’s already allowed the CRTC to make it too expensive for some people to use. So Peacenik is going to file this article away for future referenc…
Continue readingPop The Stack: You Can Tweet Us on Twitter, Where the Heck Else Could I Tweet You?
I’ve got a nagging pet peeve about how the media are explaining all the new ways of communicating with them. I’ve heard CBC and CTV doing this but I’m sure everyone does. Maybe this happens with all new forms of communication but its time to recognize the pattern and learn from it. It is completely redundant […]
Pop The Stack: Google Takes a Step to Reclaiming “Do No Evil” Status
Sometimes you think the world can never chance, companies and governments won’t ever really improve or open themselves to scrutiny, they’ll never backtrack because in the end all they care about are money and power. Well, maybe that’s true. And maybe, Google’s famous desire to “Do No Evil” is naive, pie-in-the-sky silliness. But today, Google […]
Pop The Stack: How not to get people to pay for news
He’s going for it, Murdoch has announced that Times Online will begin to charge, get this, $1.50 a DAY for access to their online news! Oh ya, that’s gonna work out great. I am not against papers trying to implement incremental charges to fund their journalism costs. Nothing comes for free and advertising is not […]
Thus Prate the Pundit » Social Critique: What Would Happen if You De-occupy the Cognitive Surplus?
The “West” is known for its consumers. Much of the rest of the world is trying its best to head in that direction too. Reading Clay Shirky’s recent blog post, Gin, Television, and Social Surplus, got me thinking about the stance of the passive consumer. I’m wondering if the new
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