Why We Went Down Yesterday
Yesterday you probably noticed that most of your favourite websites were down yesterday or had a notice up warning you about two bills in front of the American government. Those…
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HUMOUR: INTERNET CENSORSHIP USA
have you used wikipedia today?
What’s going on SOPA Why it’s wrong
On constructive alternatives
Yes, plenty of key websites will be going dark today – and for good reason based on the U.S. legislation being protested. But today also marks one month from the…
Global Research ’2011 Year of the Dupe’: An Awesome Read
Read ‘2011 Year of the Dupe’ by Global Research. You’ll enjoy it and appreciate some truth for a change.
Sustainable Power for Facebook
Greenpeace has worked with Facebook to convert Facebook’s coal-powered datacentres to environmentally friends power sources. In April 2011, a Greenpeace report, How Dirty is your Data?, calculated that 53.2% of…
The Stages of Human Communication Technology
Language (pre-history) Written Language (circa 3200 BC) The Printing Press (circa 1440 ) (Johannes Gutenberg) Telephone (1861/1875) Radio Broadcasting (circa 1910) Television Broadcasting (1928/1936) The Internet (1969) (ARPANET) Smart Phones…
Twitter Occupying Time in Real World
I had a great time the other evening meeting many Regina and area Tweeters who took a few hours of their time to get off their computers and into the…
Social Media, Part II: The Value of Social Media
Like it or hate it, social media is now a potent force in society that is legitimately changing the way people interact with information, with news and politics, with each…
Social Media, Part I: Information Flows
It is truly an empowering experience to live at at time with our neary effortless access to unprecedented amounts of information. More than just this, however, we are able to…
Blogger dies of exposure
LONDON, ON (The Skwib) — Yesterday the writer of the popular blog, Prawned! was found draped across his keyboard, unconscious. Patrick Jones, aka Dedred S., was pronounced dead at the…
The Hangman’s Daughter Did Not Have a Kindle Tablet
The Hangman’s Daughter is the English version of Die henkerstochter, a German book set in 1600 Bavaria. I just bought it because I was reading an article in the New…
Would You Blog If You Couldn’t Be Anonymous?
I ask that question because Dr Dawg thinks anonymity should be busted.And he's in good company. So does Facebook.I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away… People behave…
Iceland Turns to the People for Constitutional Reform
Iceland is a fantastic place that the rest of the world can learn from. They get 99% of their energy from geothermal power and have perhaps the most open government…
Rogers LTE and 4G: Beyond Sales Puffery?
This blog post comes courtesy of Mike Fujimoto, PIAC's summer student intern. I hope to add occasional pieces on the open internet from a telecom-regulatory-consumer-advocate perspective and not to make…
300 Episodes of Tech News Today
In honour of TWIT's Petaluma, California, Tech News Today's 300th video podcast episode, I'm embeding 5 days worth right here. Agrandir le plan Monday, 296: Tuesday, 297: Wednesday, 298: Thursday,…
Heat Your Home By Hosting the Internet
As the internet continues its growth it consumes more and more electricity because larger server and data centres are required. Microsoft has come up with a brilliant idea to allow…
A new generation of threats to online freedom – Report by ONI details 3rd generation strategies for online interference
Worried about how the Internet is being transformed from a creative playground into a structure for dominance and control? You should be, at least that’s the warning from the OpenNet…
Gov 2.0: Network Analysis for Income Inequality?
I’ve been thinking a lot about these two types of graphs at the moment. This first is a single chart that shows income growth for various segements of the US…