I’ve mentioned in the past that the popular quote that the Internet interprets censorship as damage to be routed around. I think there’s a related rule that the Internet even responds to attempts to control/restrict access in a similar fashion. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews found this out the hard way this week after introducing […]
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Gorilla Cam
This is simultaneously the coolest and saddest thing I’ve seen. (The zoo does that to me.) It’s also got a nice twist at the end that proves we are, without-a-doubt, evolved from apes! 😉
10 Musicians Who Support People Downloading Music (Without Necessarily Paying First)
Not sure how this blog turned into “Piracy Week” but here’s another related article – this time listing 10 musicians (including some pretty famous names) who all support downloading of music to one degree or another.
You Will Never Kill Piracy and Piracy Will Never Kill You
Following yesterday’s post about “No Copyright Intended”, here’s another relevant article from Forbes.com (via MetaFilter where, come to think of it, I may have originally got the “No Copyright Intended” link as well.)
No Copyright Intended
A good article on the changing understanding of copyright in a non-commercial, remix-focused culture. I mean, when I made my Hawaii montage video, I thought nothing of using a couple songs (a surf tune by the Ventures and a Beach Boys medley) to backdrop my video. I don’t expect to make any money from my […]
Quora Questions Qaptured
I’ve mentioned Quora a couple times before. It’s a community-based Q&A site built by two ex-Facebook employees that some project will be bigger than Twitter and Wikipedia. The site lets you follow different topics as well as individual questions. This approach gives you a pretty high degree of personalization and the weekly e-mail digest of […]
Trip Planning in the Digital Age
Here’s a list, roughly from most to least useful, of the sites, apps and other online resources I used in researching our trip to Hawaii. The links I’ve included are mostly to info about Kauai since that’s our first stop but most of these searches were repeated for Maui info. YouTube – I always think […]
In One Week…
…this is where I’ll be! (And with the waterproof case we got for my iPhone from Santa, this could very well be me taking this exact video! Of course, it was +6 in Regina today and a high of +19 (!) in Maple Creek, SK so, with Lihue Kauai coming in at +23, my timing […]
Politics in Full Sentences: The Story of Naheed Nenshi’s Purple Army
A great article on the behind-the-scenes of Naheed Nenshi’s improbable but ultimately successful campaign to become the mayor of Calgary (and if you want to get meta, there’s also a behind-the-scenes of how the original behind-the-scenes magazine article was compiled.)
Reasons Greetings!
On December 25, people around the world celebrate the birth of a man whose ideas not only changed the world but revolutionized it. Although the man’s religious beliefs evolved and changed over time, that doesn’t change the fact that he is widely regarded as one of the most influential people to ever have lived. I […]