Kids in a school start building Legotown. Eventually, powerful Legotown figures emerge, and inequalities surface. Some kids are excluded from Legotown, some control the enterprise,…
aging idealist. ai and education, open web, open publishing.
Kids in a school start building Legotown. Eventually, powerful Legotown figures emerge, and inequalities surface. Some kids are excluded from Legotown, some control the enterprise,…
This looks like a tide-turning event: National Post’s editorial on copyright reads: For Canada to introduce DMCA-style legislation now would do nothing but encourage nuisance…
I’m supposed to be doing a radio piece for Nora Young’s CBC show, spark. I’m supposed to come up with a sort of mission statement…
DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask…
I had dinner with one of my favourite web writers last week, Jon Udell (along with a collection of other Montreal datahounds and web citizens).…
From the economist: IN 2006 EMI, the world’s fourth-biggest recorded-music company, invited some teenagers into its headquarters in London to talk to its top managers…
Jimmy Wales got hammered by Arrington for the launch of Wikia Search. Jimmy Wales comments on the techcrunch thread, with a salient point: When I…
Tracey posted this over at Datalibre.ca …: There is an excellent article in the Toronto Star about why we have little understanding about the social…
Quoi? BarCamp Montréal, édition #3 Où? Société des Arts Technologiques, 1195 blvd St. Laurent, Montréal. Quand? Samedi, 3 novembre 2007, de 9h00 à 18h00. C’est…
From the Telegraph: All the novels shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize could be made available online in a radical move being considered by publishers,…