Bed spread
Jul 27th, 2006 by Christopher Mercer in General
From the “Random link of the day department”
http://www.boystoys.co.uk/product_info.php?subshop=gadgets&products_id=2306
Anyone want to order me one?
As part of the new duties I have taken along with this summer internship is the assistance with the digitized version of the Newfoundland Collection. Mostly in making that material available though my position as CAP Intern. In the case of these documents, they are historical documents that have to be scanned into digital [...]
KinderStart case dismissed!
Jul 14th, 2006 by Christopher Mercer in Digital Rights
In a follow up to my earlier post about the KinderStart website suing Google over its low page ranking, today I found out that the suit against Google has been dismissed. U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel has decided that KinderStart failed to support claims that Google was engaged in “pervasive monopolistic practices” and manually [...]
Violent Games are not to blame
Jul 11th, 2006 by Christopher Mercer in Digital Life
I have been doing a fair bit of reading lately in the “Blogosphere” and I have to say a fair bit of content is directed towards a few major issues. This is not surprising since these issues are serious enough to warrant attention, but it is the high level of apathy and ignorance toward [...]
First Item
Jul 7th, 2006 by Christopher Mercer in General
This is the first item in your weblog. Feel free to delete it.
Google Sued again…
Jul 7th, 2006 by Christopher Mercer in Digital Life
Well yet another company has attempted to sue Google. I had commented about this before and it was a ridiculous idea then. This time another site is suing Google over their less than spectacular page rank.
So while Google may exhibit an unprecedented effect on the sites it lists, it also is not [...]
Net Neutrality (Part II)
Jul 6th, 2006 by Christopher Mercer in Digital Rights
With the recent debates on Net Neutrality happening and the sub-debates of filtering, monitoring and prioritizing content one issue is being ignored. But it won’t be long till this particular debate raises its head again, and with some renewed vigor. We are talking about filtering content, otherwise known as content control software.
In [...]
Canadian Net Neutrality
Jul 3rd, 2006 by Christopher Mercer in Digital Rights
Well finally, the beginnings of the Net Neutrality debate have started in Canada. This particular debate has been ongoing in the States for some months now and the battle is only just starting.
From the Canadian perspective, many would believe that this has no real effect on Canadian Internet surfers. Well in my professional [...]
