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Fired for blogging? The Employee/Employer relationship and social networking. - 07 Oct 2009
Lately I have been battling with a particular thought process which seems to be gaining steam. If anyone has watched the news lately they have likely heard a story or two about Crown Prosecutors in Ontario doing extensive background checks into potential jurors. A professor who is also an investigative journalist warning about the [...]
Read Full Post »Copyright Reform sees opposition from Facebook groups - 13 Jan 2008
Well the Christmas season has come and gone. Like many people, our parliamentarians are back to the grindstone in just a few weeks, and while most of us have been working at our respective jobs since the start of the year, our MP’s have been preparing for what will be the next round in [...]
Read Full Post »Facebook security exposes all your pictures. - 28 Nov 2007
Recently a particular nasty feature of the new Facebook advertising model allowed certain advertising partners to post your purchases to your news feed showing everyone what you had recently bought. The nastiness of this feature – and it is a feature since it was deliberate by Facebook – was the automatic opt in of [...]
Read Full Post »Lawyers just don’t understand! - 23 Oct 2007
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince got it wrong when they said “Parents just don’t understand”. I believe it is lawyers who just don’t understand… the internet.
There has been a fairly loud laugh and a collective head shaking as intelligent people attempt to understand how a U.S. firm feels that not only [...]
Facebook and Content, why it should matter to you. - 28 Jun 2007
As I write this post many of my Facebook readers will notice that the total number of “notes” I have posted has been reduced. This is due to a recent exploration of the Facebook Terms of Use. With many rumors flying around about Facebook selling personal data to third parties, I began an [...]
Read Full Post »09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 - 02 May 2007
Quietly over night, a revolt happened. It was not on the morning news, it was not covered by CNN, and no shots were fired, but it happened. In the over night hours Digg.com (a popular user submitted news site) received a torrent of postings about one thing and one thing only.
The thing they [...]
Puretracks fails again - 01 May 2007
I have previously blogged about Purtracks.com a Canadian online music store that does not support Apples Macintosh computers. Well their saga of being closely tied to the windows platform and not meeting customers needs continues on.
I recently attended the local theater to catch a flick where I was given a promotion card for 3 [...]
What happened to Davids video? - 01 May 2007
Some times in the world of copyright and intellectual property you come across something so ridiculous, something so irrational, that you are just left gasping wondering “what were they thinking”.
I went through this when I read a recent story about CTV journalist David Akin who was notified that a video he posted to Googles YouTube [...]
Link Lists patented? - 19 Mar 2007
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 [...]
Read Full Post »KinderStart case dismissed! - 14 Jul 2006
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 [...]
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