I’m finally getting excited again about web tech. i dipped my toes in this new world in the fall of 2004, when I started reading…
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Excellent: Open Medicine: A peer-reviewed, independent, open-access journal, Canadian to boot. The mission of Open Medicine is to facilitate the equitable, global dissemination of high-quality…
I think I’d better do a post on something other than US generals, so: I got an invite to Freebase.com, which looks to be a…
This is a very scary thing. Canada’s mobile data rates are anywhere from 4 to 39 TIMES more expensive than elsewhere in the world. What?…
First, Ira Glass, the force behind This American Life, is, to me, something like a proto podcaster. That NPR radio show is just what I…
I’ve had a few verbal (written or out loud) jousting matches with a number of academicy people of late. Curiously, all the debates were with…
I’ve been thinking lately about evolution and politics. All this comes out of a revelation I had in the early days of LibriVox, that as…
Michael Geist has a nice long bit on Canada’s take on Net Neutraity, and here he summarizes the Conservative position: We think blocking or prioritizing…
For the hardcore info junkie, there was no better feed for your veins than diggdot.us: a feed of the purest quality, distilled from a mix…
Explains what the hell is going on on the web in a pretty compelling way. If you know all this, its fun to watch. If…