Category Archives: Technology
Vancouver’s Human Flesh Search Engine
The actions taken to identify, name, and shame alleged rioters is the beginning of a long slide towards a state of mind and looseness of ethics that have been proven to cause harm abroad: I see no reason, based on those experiences, why we should import known, failed, modes of citizen surveillance and investigation. Continue reading
ISPs, Advocates, and Framing at the 2011 Telecom Summit
While some commentators have accused this Canadian Telecommunications Summit of merely rehashing previous years’ content – it is true that each Summit does see similar topics on the conference agenda, with common positions taken each year – there are some interesting points that emerged this year. Continue reading
Publications in OpenMedia’s ‘Casting an Open Net’
For the past several months I’ve been working away at a series of ‘traditional’ publication-type writings. One of those pieces included major sections of OpenMedia.ca’s report that was released today, entitled “Casting an Open Net: A Leading Edge Approach to … Continue reading
Review: Network Nation – Inventing American Telecommunications
So, who would I recommend this book to? Obviously, scholars in the field will find this book incredibly profitable. Given today’s tumultuous politics of telecommunications in North America the book offers advocates, members of the public, and policy makers a concise history of what went on in the preceding two centuries of telecommunications regulation. Continue reading
