The State of the Interwebs
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.
Google is set to stand communications on its head. Again. The soon to be released Google Wave program, web app, platform, protocol, paradigm is introducing a new way to do email, IM, forums, wikis, social networking and blogs. All-in-one. And not to put too fine a point on it, it looks pretty slick. Not only…
On June 19th one of my favourite podcasts, CBC’s Search Engine, announced they were being taken off the air. I was so upset I started a Facebook group, Saving CBC’s Search Engine, which managed to attract over 800 other unhappy fans of the show. Search Engine tackles some of the most important issues facing Canadians…
How Tucows feels they can unilaterally take your domains.
Shawn Chittle writes that he was there at the beginning of Tucows, when it was just one cow. Before they had a barn, even. I love these impromptu histories. They remind me of my days as a young geek in my high school’s computer room.
This year I participated in One Web Day. OWD promotes Web issues to the public. It celebrates that every participant to the web is also a contributor. As part of Tucows’ support and involvement, we collected over 10GB of public domain and Creative Commons ebooks. These will be loaded onto computers we donated to the…
I’d heard about RiP: A Remix Manifesto on CBC’s very excellent Search Engine podcast a couple of weeks ago. I’m not sure how it bubbled up (probably through Facebook), but I ended up going to see it at the Royal on opening night with Morty and Bebe. WARNING: You will come out of this movie…