The surprisingly active DataPortability has released their first monthly report.
DataPortability is an open, user-driven and user-centric workgroup addressing the growing concern about data portability, security and ownership. They procliam: “As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen (and trusted) tools or vendors.” [...]
You Are At The Archives for January, 2008
First DataPortability monthly report released 01.30.08
Waving Goodbye to Hegemony 01.25.08
Hegemony or Survival? Perhaps the question has been already answered. America is doubtless on the decline and while the business and investment community has awoken to this fact, old media is waking up , too.
Parag Khanna writes in next week’s New York Times Magazine:
It is 2016, and the Hillary Clinton or John McCain or Barack [...]
Corporatist media ignores Canada acknowledging, then ignoring, torture of Canadians 01.22.08
If you only read corporatist media or have been kidnapped and illegally detained and tortured by the American government you’ve
likely missed this story. If the Globe and Mail or any of the dozens of CanWest media outlets mentioned this, it was not readily available today.
Here’s a summary of what you’ve missed from a legitimate [...]
Costly fuel means costly food 01.20.08
I watched the Calgary Flames beat the L.A. Kings with some friends at the Saddledome on Friday. Afterwards, the conversation among my fellow hockey-goers turned to peak oil and the cost of living… naturally.
When talk of the sharply rising price of food and potential mass starvation and food crises came up there were incredulous [...]
LINKS 00004 01.18.08
INFEST WISELY | a lo-fi sci-fi movie in seven episodes
Brighter Planet · Home · Fight global warming and build a clean energy future - new visa card
Future overlord Freebase takes in $42 million.
More reasons why we need to be moving towards a decentralized Twitter.
Citigroup announces $10bn loss 01.17.08
Yikes.
The largest bank in the US has announced record net losses of almost $10bn, mainly stemming from its involvement in the high-interest, or “sub-prime,” mortgage crisis that has shaken financial institutions around the world. Citigroup said that 4,200 staff would lose their jobs after the bank lost more than $18bn in mortgage-related loans… The [...]
Links 00003 01.12.08
Calgary’s just released Economic Development Strategy - Rather progressive report outlining recommendations for the future of Calgary. Like most sensible reports they receive, the City government will likely ignore it.
The origins of the Federation of North American City States - Speculative social fiction from All About Cities
Original SimCity goes open source! - Blast [...]
Federal Court of Appeal Kills iPod Levy 01.12.08
From MichaelGeist.ca:
While this kills the application of the private copying levy to iPods (subject to a possible appeal by the CPCC), it also means that Canadians who copy music from their CDs to their iPods are not covered by the exception and thus arguably infringe copyright. The issue therefore moves from the Federal Court [...]
Guantanamo’s 6th Anniversary: January 11, 2007 01.11.08
Nowhere in the corporate news today, unsurprisingly, but today is the sixth anniversary of the U.S. illegal detention of men and boys, including Canadian citizens, at Guantanamo. Worldwide protests are going on today to mark it.
There’s a transcript and audio stream of an interview this morning discussing the anniversary and the protests at Democracy [...]
Carbon Trading Lecture at UofC [Event] 01.10.08
Larry Lohmann, the editor of “Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power”, an exhaustively-documented new book critiquing “carbon trading” is speaking in Calgary on January 14th.
He argues that carbon trading is an ineffective method for reducing carbon emissions.
I believe that carbon trading IS an effective, available, and actionable approach to reducing [...]
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