Twitter in Plain English

via [Jason Morgan]
Clive Thompson wrote last year about the development of a “social sixth sense” emerging from services like Twitter. I can very much say that this has continued to develop since he first wrote it. CommuterFeed is one of my favourite examples of emerging ways we can use multi-channel services like Twitter even better. [...]

Police versus Citizen Panopticon: Canadian Edition

This is outrageous. After not paying attention to the police-protest scandal in Quebec I was shocked to catch up this afternoon and utterly disgusted with the Conservative government’s response.
Quick summary: A peaceful protest at the SPP Summit in Montebello, Quebec was infiltrated by the Sûreté du Québec, disguised as out-of-place looking anarchists. They attempted [...]