Mar 27th, 2007 by Christopher Mercer in Digital Life
In my final statement about the situation faced by social community site Blue Kaffee, I am glad to see they moved to using Google ad’s. The donation drive was not generating the revenue needed to pay the debt the owner incurred on behalf of his users. Hopefully this particular move will not alienate [...]
Mar 27th, 2007 by Christopher Mercer in Digital Life
So BK has extended the time frame of the donation drive by 24 hours. I am starting to think the site won’t go down because people are willing to donate to the site every time it gets in trouble. I do however feel that the owner is taking great personal risk in this [...]
Mar 25th, 2007 by Christopher Mercer in Digital Life
Social community site Blue Kaffee is in trouble. Earlier this week I noticed the sites webmaster Chad Levesque has posted a message stating that site needed to raise $2000 by 10:00 NST Monday March 26 2007. Failure to do so could see the site go down for an undetermined amount of time. [...]
I have been thinking about what makes Facebook so addictive. Why is it I, and many others, come back to this site day and day again. Why is Facebook enjoying more success than HI5, WAYN, Classmates.com, or any other social networking site ever did.
What really started me thinking about this was [...]
Mar 19th, 2007 by Christopher Mercer in Academics
Some of the worlds leading universities have discovered that information should be free, or at lest freely available. As such they are offering the lectures from their Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, and other departments.
The site Lecture Fox.com catalogs a significant amount of material from schools such as UC Berkeley, MIT, Carnegie [...]
Mar 19th, 2007 by Christopher Mercer in Digital Rights
I read an interesting article on Slashdot today where a patent was awarded for the common data structure of “Linked Lists”. If you are wondering what linked lists are then don’t worry to much about it. Since explaining them would take far longer than you care to read, you can simply view them [...]
When I first heard the name I thought… “What is a gorb” but I quickly found out what it was. The Gorb is a rating system for online identities. It follows in the trend of Ebay’s famous seller rating system that allows you to give feed back and help generate an overall score [...]
Mar 11th, 2007 by Christopher Mercer in Digital Life
I was a fan of Puretracks approach to DRM but after seeing this I will have trouble supporting them further.
The Apple iPod is the largest selling portable music device, and arguable the most successful. With this in mind it boggling that a major store would not want or have their tracks [...]
Mar 11th, 2007 by Christopher Mercer in General
Logging in to my Google Calendar a few minutes ago to check on upcoming assignments, due dates and other projects I find that my classes have been moved from 11am to 12 noon. Knowing this is not correct I further investigated. I noticed everything has shifted by on hour. Further checking showed that [...]
Mar 11th, 2007 by Christopher Mercer in General
CTV.ca is reporting that three high school girl have been suspended, not for fighting, not for vulgar use of language, not for being disruptive but for saying the word Vagina! At first you might be thinking “this is ridiculous, it is a harmless word” but the plot thickens when you take in to account [...]
