Open Journal Montreal

This, in my opinion, could be grounds enough for impeachment… given how fluffy the definition of those grounds seems to be. The plan to standardize the libraries first became public in May (…) “Otisville had a very extensive library of Jewish religious books, many of them donated,” said David Zwiebel, executive vice president for government [...]

WikiSym 2007 2007 International Symposium on Wikis Wikis at Work in the World: Open, Organic, Participatory Media for the 21st Century October 21-23, 2007 Palais des Congres de Montral Montreal, Quebec, Canada http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/ ———————————————————————– Registration is now open for WikiSym 2007, convening October 21 through 23 in chic, sophisticated, metropolitan Montreal, Quebec. **Deadline for early [...]

Much like my thesis actually, only with more editorializing, and Singularity talk, and is pleasantly shorter. Comes to me from here but was written by this gent. To put it bluntly, software, really like all technologies, is inherently political. Even the most disruptive technologies, the innovations and ideas that can utterly transform society, carry with [...]

With world leaders locked in a dance where they communicate through small and large acts of terror and torture, in a time tainted by the deep deep trauma of environmental collapse and the knowledge of our and our parents responsibility for it, it is no wonder truth gets badly treated in swings of hysteria and [...]

I got the call to action below from Pandora today – a cool web radio service that’s been infuriatingly tangled up and now quite choked by copyright decisions from Washington that are graspy and short sighted and patently unfair. They’re treating the internet like it’s property they own, instead of like a public communication space, [...]

Let’s think about Kiva for a second, ok? Kiva- the micro finance website you may have seen featured on the news, or on some local blogger’s site, like this one where I hit upon it. Kiva has some very cool technical abilities to literally connect people from drastically different economic brackets in different countries and [...]