Canada Lobbies for RIM

February 23, 2006

WaPo has a fascinating piece on behind-the-scenes lobbying by the Canadian Government in the RIM-NTP litigation.

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Contra MuniWifi – From a University

February 23, 2006

Lakehead University has banned ubiquitous wifi on campus – because of health concerns. Details at IT Business.ca.

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Take the Train

February 22, 2006

Mark Evans has noticed that VIA is rolling out wifi on its trains beginning February 27. CEO Paul Cote’s announcement says he hopes VIA can count on my presence. Yes, actually, they can.

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New MacBook Pro Battery Tests: Under 3 Hours?

February 22, 2006

The radio silence over the life of the new MacBook Pro seems to be ending and the results are not encouraging – under 3 hours? I truly hope this is not representative.

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CBC’s Just Watch Us: The End of Privacy

February 22, 2006

On Sunday CBC held a public forum on privacy and security, featuring some luminaries on the topic, including Michael Geist, Jennifer Stoddart, a former head of CSIS and others. The stream is now available.

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Lawyers’ Roles in Celphone Records Pretexting

February 22, 2006

EPIC is asking U.S. State Bar associations to review attorneys’ roles in using the services of companies that use pretexting to get confidential celphone records.

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gordonandfrank.ca

February 22, 2006

Ken Schafer at OneDegree.ca has a lesson for Bell’s marketing folks – the team that brought you frank and gordon, the beavers with ‘tude. You can find it, oddly enough, at www.gordonandfrank.ca. Oops.

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Employee Blogging: Real Wrath-of-God Type Stuff

February 21, 2006

Dennis Kennedy posts on the rash of articles and lawyers’ promotional pieces pitching the need for blogging policies. Here in Canada too. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together – mass hysteria, indeed.

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New Toronto Web 2.0 Conference

February 21, 2006

I’m pleased to announce that in May we will be hosting a conference in Toronto to discuss Web 2.0 and its implications for media, communications, business and society. The “we” is Mathew Ingram, Mark Evans, Michael McDerment and yours truly, with the very considerable help of Stuart MacDonald. We share a common fascination and enthusiasm […]

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The Great Unboxing

February 21, 2006

Seeing Mac fan sites pop up always leaves me in mute wonderment over the power of Apple’s marketing. Herewith, the great MacBook Pro unboxing.

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Paid Podcasting Arrives, With Some Anxiety

February 21, 2006

In what appears to be the first case of a free podcast going paid, the Ricky Gervais podcast is moving from iTunes to Audible, at $1.95 per episode or $6.95 for the season. While iTunes has certainly done a great job building a culture of payment for small doses of media, there’s no question that […]

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NYT Editorial on Net Neutrality

February 20, 2006

The NYT has come out in favour of net neutrality rules, noting the problem of an uncompetitive marketplace: If access tiering takes hold, the Internet providers, rather than consumers, could become the driving force in how the Internet evolves. Those corporations’ profit-driven choices, rather than users’ choices, would determine which sites and methodologies succeed and […]

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