Yes, Bill C-61. Ashamedly, I feel I haven’t discussed it on here as much as I should. Luckily, Michael Geist has reorganized his entire blog for learning about and engaging the bill’s life ahead. Please check it out until I get something more thorough up here.
Here’s a new user rights video from OpenSourceCinema that [...]
Pay Attention: Canadian remix culture under attack by CDMCA 06.28.08
Stop! (motion) Genius! 05.16.08
I assure you, this will be the most incredibly impressive thing you see today.
BLU produced a stop-motion animation creature that criss-crosses Buenos Aires and Baden and, now, the deepest, darkest crevasses of my black and white nightmare lands.
The care and thought that went into this is difficult to comprehend; watching the intricate animation [...]
Barack Obollywood 04.16.08
I absolutely adore the internet. Elections were so boring and serious without.
With an election imminent in Canada, the federal Liberals would likely be better served by a Bollywood-themed viral campaign than anything else they’re planning/not-planning-at-all. It’ll fare much better than the Mugabe-themed campaign that the Tories now aspire to. Electoral law be damned, I [...]
Holding the Bully’s Coat: Canada and the U.S. Empire 04.04.08
This is the second of a series of posts on free culture and podcasting. I’ll be pulling out some of my favourite podcasts for discussion and highlighting some of the best podcasting available in the commons. [One: Canada's Robert J. Sawyer on TVO's Big Ideas]
Free Culture Podcasts: Two
Linda McQuaig on Canadian Voices 3: Holding the [...]
CBC Televison among the first to play catch-up 03.27.08
CBC News has posted a story about the CBC Television decision to distribute Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister via the bittorrent p2p protocol.
Turns out a lot of downloaders were surprised to discover that Rogers and Bell shape traffic on legal downloads. Many more familiar bittorrent users were surprised to discover that CBC isn’t very [...]
CBC To Release Program DRM-Free Via BitTorrent 03.20.08
CBC To Release Program DRM-Free Via BitTorrent — Michael Geist writes:
‘Sources indicate that the CBC is set to become the first major North American broadcaster to freely release one of its programs without DRM using BitTorrent. This Sunday, CBC will air Canada Next Great Prime Minister. The following day, it plans to freely release a [...]
The Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism 03.14.08
Alex Steffen at Worldchanging points us to Ethan Zuckerman’s superb recap of his talk at ETech. In it, he outlines his “Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism” which is both prescient and perversely hope-inspiring, making one feel more safe from government censorship.
Zuckerman’s theory goes as follows (1) create web to share research, (2) develop [...]
Lessig to run for U.S. Congress? 02.20.08
Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons, board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Professor and founder of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School is considering running for Congress.
The passing of representative Tom Lantos in the California 12th, a Facebook group, and DraftLessig.org have encouraged him to do so.
For the [...]
-
Navigation
Mike Soron
News and Information
People
Society and politics
Web and Culture
