With the election over and Bill C-61 dying with the last Parliament, the government is once again looking at making changes to copyright law. In A Copyright Call to Arms published in the Globe and Mail this week, the authors call for consultation from all sides of this complex issue:
Ministers Clement and Moore have a [...]
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My keynote at SkillSoft’s Canadian Perspectives conference yesterday gave some advice to the training department and how it may need to change to meet the demands of a complex environment. Several people said that they found the talk interesting and I will take the notes and feedback to write a paper on the topic which [...]
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I’ve been deep into making my technology work this week. One issue was web conferencing and we used Dimdim, which I’ve mentioned before. Dimdim is very simple to use, doesn’t require a plugin, is free for 20 users at a time and is open source. I really liked it but found the audio a bit [...]
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The Accidental Tourist voices his concerns with cloud computing, the web mot du jour (thanks Karyn):
… there is a Gartner report endorsing cloud computing. Then the very next paragraph states that the same organisation published a report warning of the dangers of cloud computing.
The stability of cloud computing was examined by Read/Write Web last week [...]
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I’ve been playing a bit as a very amateur photographer and started a Flickr account when I purchased my first digital camera three years ago. I just upgraded to a Pentax Optio M50 which has a 5X optical zoom and I’m looking forward to some better wildlife photos. I also prefer that Pentax uses the [...]
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I finally got around to reading Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger. I thought that I understood the premise and contents fairly well from my readings on the Web but I was pleasantly surprised by this book, which is now available in paperback. There is lots here that [...]
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has hit some success with a program that gets viewers to create mash-up advertisements that spoof traditional advertising.
The number of ads made for a range of fictional products - a beer, an anti-ageing cream and a bank - and the number of times they have been watched, 280,000, has surprised ABC [...]
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In 2002, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that:
Excessive control by holders of copyrights and other forms of intellectual property may unduly limit the ability of the public domain to incorporate and embellish creative innovation in the long-term interests of society as a whole, or create practical obstacles to proper utilization.
On June 12, 2008, the [...]
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I installed Google Analytics last week because MapStats had crashed, though it’s back up now. I liked MapStats because it gave me data about individual visitors, such as where they came from and what search term they used. I could look at individuals and what brought them here. Google Analytics looks more at trends and [...]
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Here are the follow up notes from the session in Halifax this afternoon on Open Source and Web 2.0.
The Open Source Initiative
Social Bookmarks, that are searchable and shareable, on the topics of Open Source and Web 2.0
Videos:
Web 2.0
Open Source by Greg Papadopoulos
Yochai Benkler (author of The Wealth of Networks) at TED 2005
Cathedral & Bazaar story
Tools [...]
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