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The legal limits of creativity explored: Recut Reframe Recycle
Danah Boyd points out that the center for social media has released an informative paper entitled Recut Reframe Recycle concerning the boundaries of fair use (fair dealing in Canada) in digital media. Types of use they point out: • Parody … Continue reading
The web as a pidgin internet language
or “How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet” A disproportionate amount of brilliant stuff was written by Douglas Adams, who in 1999 had this to say about the internet: the biggest problem is that we are still … Continue reading
Cover this, Hey Ya…
powered by ODEO Why are music covers and movie remakes so popular? Assuming you can manage to get it out there with all the copyright licensing issues, its much more likely for a new take on an old success to … Continue reading
Welcome to the jungle: finding quality in the internet content ecosystem and why editors are so important
I agree vehemently with Alistair that folks who spent time decrying the lack of general quality in the blogosphere or on Flickr or the internet in general are missing the point. Average quality doesn’t matter. Who cares if my free … Continue reading
Visualization of cultural values
Very interesting infographic, published in The Atlantic, mapping cultural values. Apparently the study is by Ronald Inglehart of the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Data seems to be collected via census, the last data available is from 2001. … Continue reading
ID – Impugning Darwin
I’ve been watching the whole intelligent design (ID) controversy from the sidelines for some time with mixed feelings. My focus in university was evolutionary biology. I spent quite some time working in a laboratory for experimental evolution (working with microbes … Continue reading
Oh no, here we go again: Quebec to separate by 2010 according to ex-premier Landry
Monsieur Landry recently brandished that age old tool of opportunistic Quebec politicians – the promise of sovereignty. This comes hot on the heels of reports that Landry’s leadership of the Parti Quebecois is faltering and that Quebec sovereignty is a … Continue reading
Catching up on Interesting News
Technology Advances Sports Coverage Some of you may have noticed the innovative technology provided by the US Open coverage. Watching a few matches I was impressed by the computerized slow motion rendering of close calls that redrew the ball and … Continue reading
Issues with trade "liberalization"
This is really big news: Wealthy countries brace for farming cuts as WTO makes historic step but is it good news? Historically, although North American agriculture cannot compete cost wise with cheap labour and production costs elsewhere, we have heavily … Continue reading