Three Reasons the Internet is Killing Culture… Dismantled
On August 16th, Stephen Colbert interviewed Andrew Keen, author of a new book, The Cult of the Amateur: How today’s Internet is killing our culture. Admittedly, I’m a little behind the rest of the...
View ArticleThree people arrested for using unsecured wireless internet, outdoors!
Today BBC news reported that a U.K. man was “arrested after being spotted allegedly sitting in a street with a laptop using someone else’s unsecured wireless connection.” Apparently, at least two...
View ArticleCritical Factors of Blog Advertising: Expertise, Intent and Involvement
I don’t blog for the money, but for those who do, purported online marketing gurus provide a proliferation of epistemically baseless, if not bogus, advice. I prefer recommendations with some data...
View ArticlePutin Rigs Election, Named Person of the Year by Time Magazine.
Time magazine recently named Vladamir Putin Person of the Year. Say What? Is this the same Russian president that had the leader of an opposing party, chess Grandmaster Gary Kasparov, thrown in jail...
View ArticleThe Totally Bogus Argument for Throttling Internet Services
Bell insists that throttling Internet services is necessary. More specifically, Bell engages in “deep packet inspection,” which means they figure out what kind of data your downloading, and slow down...
View ArticleOpen Letter to the CRTC regarding Net Neutrality
Today, the headline read, “CRTC allows Bell to continue internet throttling.” What the hell were you thinking? Do you have anybody at the CRTC who has a clue about Net Neutrality??? The telecoms are...
View ArticleAn Open Letter on the Canadian Big Brother Program
Dear Prime Minister Harper, I have recently read over the Investigative Powers for the 21st Century (IP21C) Act. Giving the police the power to take down online criminals is a virtuous enterprise;...
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