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08.05.15

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Digital

Jordan Kawchuk is a producer / director who currently makes the video podcasts for CBC Radio3. This is his guest post.
It took me a while to digitize myself.
When I made the leap from making capital “T” television with a large crew and big broadcaster to making TV by myself with a camera, a laptop, […]

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08.05.13

Canadian Watchdog Seeks Bell Privacy Probe

Now things are going to get interesting…

“Network management practices employed by Bell Canada have led the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic to ask for an investigation of the telecommunications company. The CIPPIC, a University of Ottawa legal clinic, accuses the firm of using deep packet inspection tools […]

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08.05.12

UBC professor grades students on Wikipedia status

A UBC professor is embracing Wikipedia as a platform for academic publication.  More universities should be taking this approach. 

“VANCOUVER, Canada (AFP) - Wikipedia, the upstart Internet encyclopedia that most universities forbid students to use, has suddenly become a teaching tool for professors. 
Recently, university teachers have swapped student term papers for […]

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08.05.12

Using the web as a playground

PMOG lets you use the internet as a medium for a game of treasure hunting. An interesting use of the medum and an example of how you can re-claim your browsing experience.
“PMOG is the Passively Multiplayer Online Game. To play, you’ll need to Get Firefox and Add Our Extension.
This game […]

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08.05.12

Twitter breaks Chinese earthquake news

The Globe and Mail’s Mathew Ingram wrote about Twitter’s news breaking success today as well. If you don’t read Mathew’s blog it’s worth checking out for a Canadian perspective on technology. Here’s what Mathew had to say today:

“Like many others, I woke up this morning to news of a disaster in China: […]

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