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Che: The Original CC Image?

Everyone know the famous photo of Che Guevara that is a symbol of revolution around the world. Of course, for many, it’s also a symbol of revolutionary iconography being co-opted by capitalist interests which have placed the image on everything from t-shirts to posters and much much more. I always leaned towards the latter interpretation of […]

¶ Posted 14 March 2011 § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: allinclusive, cool, economics, history

FTRW 2011 – Day Three – Banning Books For Fun & Profit

A few links about where the place where writing, publishing and selling controversial books intersects… In a post about Chapters deciding to not stock Mein Kampf during FTRW 2007 (part of a larger post that’s worth re-reading this week, he says humbly), I stated that although I wished bookstores would operate to a higher standard […]

¶ Posted 22 February 2011 § Library § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: book, economics, freedomtoreadweek

Help Stop Usage Based Billing (UBB)

Metered Bandwidth isn’t about stopping bandwidth hogs, it’s about preserving old media business models Stephen Harper asks for review of CRTC Decision by March 1 But it’s not resolved yet – join a quarter million of your fellow Canadians by signing the petition More on UBB from Reddit. igning the petition

¶ Posted 01 February 2011 § Politics § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics

Music Monday – “Take on me/When I come around/Take me on/When I come around/Take me on”

The answer is of course, melody. But this is still pretty cool…

¶ Posted 24 January 2011 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: music

8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media | | AlterNet

(Trying the “Press This” WordPress bookmarklet…) 8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media | | AlterNet. [Edit: Oh, and here’s a Reddit thread that summarizes, beyond the hype and lies, “what has WikiLeaks actually done?”]

¶ Posted 06 January 2011 § Politics § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, history, language, unitedstates

Web War I: The War to End All Warz?

On Sunday, I did a post about the WikiLeaks situation where I mentioned the possibility of the world’s first true “cyber-war” as one likely outcome, citing the denial service of attacks on the WikiLeaks site as the first salvo and mentioning the plans of the hactivist group, Anonymous , to retaliate. That indeed came to […]

¶ Posted 09 December 2010 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, twitter, unitedstates

Wisdom Wednesday – “Another Look at Bill C32 and the Access Copyright Tariff”

Dr. Sam Trosow holds a pretty special place in my FIMS experience as both the first and last professor I had classes with. Thinking about my first class is pretty funny in retrospect but at the time quite stressful since I mis-read my schedule as my first night class happening at 7pm when in reality, […]

¶ Posted 08 December 2010 § Library § MemoryLane § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics

WikiLeaks: Free Speech, Cyberwar 1.0 and Corporate Control of the Cloud

WikiLeaks (which is down as I write this for reasons I’ll get to) is a site that’s been around since 2006 and first got a mention on this blog just over a year ago for a library-related story. Since then, the site has released two fairly large dumps of information obtained from a single army […]

¶ Posted 05 December 2010 § Library § Politics § Technology ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: economics, history, rant, twitter, unitedstates

Google Launching E-Book Service to Compete With Apple, Amazon

Google is apparently preparing to launch an e-book service by Christmas with the big unique feature being that the books you purchase will be linked to your Google account so you can access them from pretty much any kind of device rather than having the book downloaded to one or a few proprietary devices. In […]