Open Journal Montreal

All the cool kids are doing it.. Cuba latest to endorse open source software Cuba’s communist government has said that they are now considering adopting open source software to remove their reliance on the software giant Microsoft. The government said that they are trying to wean state agencies from Microsoft’s proprietary Windows to the open-source [...]

I am one of those few folk – slippery and stubborn – still dancing evasive maneuveurs around the necessity of the cell phone. I’m not even sure why, except that I dislike phone conversations in the first place. Not true – actually, what I dislike is calling people and being called. The actual talking part [...]

hmmm… Part video game, part real online community, Second Life is also getting attention from real-world companies that are beginning to stake out their own turf in Second Life communities. One U.S. House member, Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), last week even joined the Second Life community to brief a group of invitees on the top [...]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ENCLOSURE, EMANCIPATORY COMMUNICATION AND THE GLOBAL CITY: AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE UNION FOR DEMOCRATIC COMMUNICATIONS Hosted by the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University October 25-28, 2007. PROPOSAL DEADLINE: MARCH 15, 2007 The field of culture and communication manifests struggles between contradictory tendencies. On the one hand, pressures from capital and [...]

A short while back the founder of MP3.net went looking for php programmers on Meetup and found my partner (in life, in work, in crime:) Elran, who’s the ostensible head of the Montreal linux meetup. (Which in itself is an interesting story, given that El doesn’t really like to actually go out and meet people. [...]

In a Wired article from October 25th called Saving Democracy with Web 2.0 Jennifer Granick writes: Though it may not be obvious, the road marks in this amorphous thing called Web 2.0 are political: grassroots participation, forging new connections, and empowering from the ground up. The ideal democratic process is participatory and the Web 2.0 [...]