Joomla! Demo Camp Notes

Monday, March 24th, 2008 Posted in Communications, Information Technology | No Comments »

Just thought I would cross-post them. They are at Tazzu as well. For those who don't remember, I was at the Vancouver Joomla! Demo Camp last month, and posted directly from there. My notes are in point form. Click below ...

Joomla Demo Camp – Vancouver

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Communications, Information Technology | 2 Comments »

I am spending this evening at the Joomla! Demo Camp at The Network Hub in downtown Vancouver. Joomla! is an open-source content management system (CMS) that makes creating sophisticated websites with dense, extensive, and/or media rich content as easy as posting ...

Net Neutrality and New Media Regulation

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Communications, Information Technology | 2 Comments »

Today I'm going to look at the inevitable intersection of 'Net neutrality and new media regulation. The populist position – one with which I concur – is to want 'Net neutrality, and not to want new media over-regulation (and ...

On Friedrich and Britney, part III

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 Posted in Communications, Humanities | No Comments »

When we left off with "On Friedrich and Britney, part II", we asked a question about the connection between Nietzsche's statement, "Without art we would be nothing but foreground," and Shelley's, "poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration". The answer ...

The Hacker Crackdown – a podcast

Sunday, January 13th, 2008 Posted in Communications, Information Technology | No Comments »

Cory Doctorow has read aloud Bruce Sterling's book, The Hacker Crackdown. He has created a podcast of the whole thing. Follow the link below: Cory Doctorow's announcement on Boing Boing of the podcast of The Hacker Crackdown. For those of you who ...

On Friedrich and Britney, part II

Monday, December 31st, 2007 Posted in Communications, Humanities | 2 Comments »

How does the art of which Nietzsche writes reveal the existence of something beyond foreground, the existence of texture? For that we must leave Freddy N for a moment and read a Briton who was somewhere on the continent ...

On Friedrich and Britney, Part I

Thursday, December 27th, 2007 Posted in Communications, Humanities | No Comments »

Let's leave law for a few days... “Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and ...

Copyfight: it’s about use

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007 Posted in Communications, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | No Comments »

Why does the history matter? From Stationers to Sony, it’s about use. In this discussion about the Canadian Copyright Reform Bill, we are really discussing several legal ideas, which though often conflated are subtly different. History demonstrates this conflation through the ...

Copyfight: the roots of the conflict

Thursday, December 20th, 2007 Posted in Communications, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | 1 Comment »

Here's the irony of the thing: Our copyright regime, in Canada, is rooted in Crown monopoly in the 16th century - a monopoly created by charter to ease the Crown's ability to censor published materials and prevent sedition. ...

Cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of Copyfight!

Sunday, December 16th, 2007 Posted in Communications, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | 2 Comments »

Not discussing the latest Canadian copyright reform bill, or the Canadian DMCA as it has been touted, to kick off weblawg.net would be like Han Solo ignoring his friend in need barreling down the trench of a moon-sized space station. Discussing ...