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I recently got to attend the amazing Personal Democracy Forum, where I got exposed to a ridiculous amount of cyber-utopianism, learned about the effects of information technology on politics, was awed by the size of American political machines, and got to see some cyberlaw heroes in action. For those interested, here are my notes on [...]
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Days 9, 10, 11: San Francisco
From Sacramento, it was a quick commuter train to San Francisco, where I was greeted by a familiar face, a debater friend of mine who has been in SF for about six months working for everyone’s favourite hi-tech monolith, Google. He was nice enough to host me for the duration – and to provide me [...]
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A lifelong dream of mine has been fulfilled: a comment of mine was used on CBC Radio, specifically this week’s edition of Spark. It’s a great show, and worth listening to in its entirety, but if you just want to hear me, go to 14:41 and listen to me, um, defend stealing wireless internet. Maybe [...]
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MyOttawaBikeLane
After reading a column complaining about Ottawa bike lanes, I sent in a request for an Ottawa site to the people at MyBikeLane. They responded quickly, and there is now a live (if empty) page at ottawa.mybikelane.com. Carry a camera and stand up for the cycling class!
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Barriers to knowledge
The Google Public Policy Blog reports that Google is asking the US government (among others) to consider pursuing a WTO complaint against China on a matter that seems to combine the good and the profitable: that censorship constitutes a barrier to trade for the information industry. Despite Google’s much-publicized agreement with China to co-operate in [...]
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Trails want to be free
A friend showed me Bikely, a great site that makes it easy to make and share maps of bike routes. People have submitted all kinds of routes, from low-traffic commuting to multi-week tours. It’s really great to see that mapping is slowly being included in the range of user-generated content the Internet has to offer. [...]
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An impressive site I came across today and plan to contribute to as soon as possible is MyBikeLane. It takes the Internet-aided name and shame approach towards an egregious offense plaguing American society today: illegal parking in bicycle lanes.
One complaint I forgot in my last post on NYC biking was this ubiquitous practice, which forces [...]
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The Long Tail
As the title of this blog indicates, I’m a sucker for any book which uses the phrase “the tyranny of geography” on more than one page. But for reasons above and beyond that, I want to strongly recommend The Long Tail by Chris Anderson, the Editor in Chief of Wired magazine. In short, this book [...]
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Music 2.0
I haven’t paid for recorded music since high school (The White Stripes’ Elephant) although I have spent a lot of money on live music. Last week, however, I broke the IP-piracy streak by paying $10 for a merely potential album. SellaBand represents a real shift in the relationship between music and money; it allows bands [...]
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