Vancouver International Digital Festival

Losing My Mythology to the Social Machine

Guest poster Wil Arndt (www.mod7.com and www.wilarndt.com) waxes philosophic on the meaning of memory in a digital world.

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VIDFEST 08: For The Artistic Geek And The Geeky Artist In All Of Us

Most conferences I attend or participate in, or help organize for that matter, tend to lean a tad more toward the “geeky” type of affairs as opposed to the more creative. Working in social media and technology for the past several years, this fact is just par for the course and happens to be the […]

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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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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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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 […]

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