I found this via a post by Cory Doctorow over at BoingBoing. Michael Geist rebuts the U.S. Copyright Lobby that is attempting to misinform Canadians and bully members of parliament into passing DMCA style copyright legislation in Canada.
Geist takes apart the lies and myths and lays out the truth in a very concise and […]

Jonathan Rintels has written an article in the Huffington Post which is entitled: Big Media Continues to Fight Against Net Neutrality that is worth taking note of:

The goal of Big Media and the ISPs is nothing less than to turn today’s wide open Internet into a closed system more akin to cable television. The […]

Let’s all wear funny hats and celebrate - the world is going Copyright Crazy!
First off the mark is Cory Doctorow and his post over on BoingBoing on how the U.S. driven copyright lobby in Canada is now charging around the public square like a frothing rabid dog:

The lobby for US-style copyrights in Canada has gone […]

Michael Geist reports on the response from the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP) to the submission from Bell to the CRTC regarding Bell’s active throttling of bandwidth and P2P traffic.
Bell claimed in its submission to the CRTC that their traffic blocking actions were necessary, justified and oh-by-the-way it’s really none of your business so […]

Ars Technica reports on the recent filing by Wireless Nomad to the CRTC calling for it to force Bell from using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to throttle P2P traffic.

Bell has been using such traffic shaping techniques on its own network since last year, but in March 2008, it expanded its filtering to encompass resellers of […]

I posted earlier about a concept put forth by Kevin Kelly in his Technium bog, wherein the 1,000 True Fans economic model was proposed; the idea being an artist could support themselves independently online if they had 1,000 True Fans - each of whom would be willing to part with a day’s salary over the […]

Two separate reports today about two separate events but both are directly related to the wildly diverse perceptions about copyright which are being flung about in America today.
The first is the PBS science series “NOVA” and their news, as reported in Wired’s Underwire blog:

When Tuesday’s Nova special, “Car of the Future,” rolls its end credits, […]

I don’t think I have ever done this before - but it’s late and I can’t sleep and so here it is:
I received a comment today on a previous post about Bill C-10 to which I felt compelled to reply.

My basic position on the proposed bill, to adjudicate and control content of Canadian produced film […]

My 500th post actually happened a couple of days ago with the news of the passing of Ollie Johnston.
Mr. Johnston was one of the original “9 Old Men” of the Disney golden age of animation. They have been revered and celebrated - and rightfully so - by many over these past many years. […]

I love the TED Talks and I just stumbled over this one at Violet Blue’s web site and was utterly gobsmacked by where all these technological innovations are leading us. Terrific eye candy, to be sure, but it will also lead the way in new ways of seeing, thinking and speaking to each other […]

Wow - in my procrastination ramblings through the net today I came across a post from The Daily Galaxy all about Hyper-Speed Evolutionary Leaps.
This isn’t the sort of thing I usually rant about but similar stuff has come up from time to time on these pages - with inevitable references to Ray Kurzweil and Kevin […]

Over on Kevin Kelly’s site, that part of it called The Technium, he has posted a new piece entitled: “The Machine That Made Us” where he springs from the recent death of Joseph Weizenbaum and Weizenbaum’s expressed concern that in trying to make machines that can think, we risk becoming machines ourselves.
The title of […]

Over at Michael Geist’s blog I found out the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP) has been given until Monday to respond to Bell Canada’s submission telling the CRTC to go fuck itself. The CAIP has already called for the CRTC to enforce Net Neutrality. Bell is, of course, against anything that […]

The last of the great nine:

Thanks to Mystery Man for the link to the YouTube video. He has a great collection of worthy insights on the creation of cinema.
There’s a lot I’d like to write about Johnston and Thomas and the others from that time - and how their work blended with the performance […]