Open Journal Montreal

Since Peru’s Parliament has approved their Open Source bill, I thought it might be nice to quote from the major proponent of the Bill, Dr. Edgar David Villnueva NUÑEZ- Congressman of the Republica of Perú. In his 2002 letter to the General Manager of Microsoft Perú he explains the Bill and offers one of the […]

Bookner: Where Bestsellers are Born?
“In the Bookner Peer Review, raw manuscripts are reviewed by other writers to determine the saleability of a manuscript. The findings of the peer review are consolidated into a Bookner Rating, which allows literary agents and publishers to instantly size up the saleability of a book.”
The process happens anonymously, and […]

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As we move towards the United Nations Conference on Climate Change of Montreal, the Quebec-vert-Kyoto Coalition launches a national and international short film competition on climate change : Caméra verte/Green Camera
Caméra verte/Green Camera is open to professional and amateur filmmakers who are asked to submit films between 30 seconds and 5 minutes in length […]

The violence in Lebanon has been met with an astonishing solidarity, and that’s always good news:
A man carried a sign reading “Enough” along with a symbol of the cross and the Quran, Islam’s holy book.
An estimated 50 veiled Shiite Muslim female students from Hezbollah, a pro-Syrian group, also joined the protest in solidarity.
“We will […]

Here is a strange twist in the pioneering world of internet development. Yaro Starak (the author of the “Entrepreneur’s Journey” blog) reports on ForumLaunch, an online business that tweaks paying for content toward community building:
“The service is like a rent-a-crowd, you buy content for your new fledgling forum to help it get off the ground. […]

they may have reason to be angry with us:
The navy launched the classified Cetacean Intelligence Mission in San Diego in 1989, where dolphins, fitted with harnesses and small electrodes planted under their skin, were taught to patrol and protect Trident submarines in harbour and stationary warships at sea.
Criticism from animal rights groups ensured the use […]