This is good news.
A Canadian court has ruled that the music industry RIAA and it’s Canadian counter-part cannot force internet service providers to give names of people who download music so the music companies can sue or charge them.
This has been a huge issue in the States with all kinds of people being charged.
Most people [...]

Bloggedy blog agrees with uber-blogger Dave Weinberger that social networking tools (ASN -Artifical Social Networks) isn’t his cup of tea.
A scheme is a scheme no matter how it’s packaged and a new word has sprung up:
snam. It’s short for “social network spam” — those annoying, impersonal messages from social networking services like orkut, the [...]

The cult of personality is a essentially a political term for conditions in a totalitarian state or country.
But it also refers to ego driven management in a company or organization.
It also refers to the media driven obsession with celebrity.
Can it happen in blogging?
I think so.
Honouring those who have paved the way is one thing, clustering [...]

Throughout history theocracies have come and gone.
God, gods…all made in man’s image and lust for power.
I don’t live in a country where God, gods or Satan is evoked everytime I turn the corner. But around the world, millions do.
As I watch the US electoral process unfold I’ve been keeping a personal commitment not to post [...]

I’ve seen some awful things in my life.
Bodies strewn, with the clothing still smoldering.
Blood seeping through snow.
Fireman choking for air, screaming at their collegues to ‘get the hose on it, someone is inside.’
Police officers throwing up in bushes, tears streaming down their faces.
Coronor office personnel scrapping black stuff off metal into plastic bags.
The thousand yard [...]

Ouch.
such small hands is bang on.
I can’t say I have read Jack Kelley, and hadn’t heard of him until a few months ago when questions began to be raised.
Kelley didn’t just bring shame on his profession — a profession where hard-working and mostly underpaid reporters strive to stay true to their ethical standard, even at [...]

A blog I have great respect for is Blog on the Lillypad.
Jeri who is a professional writer, has chosen to take on the corruption, isolation, doctrine, behaviour and attitudes of a sect of Independant Baptists that seem to be clustered in the state of Texas.
With wisdom, humour, a firm grasp of the issues, good research, [...]

CBC is projecting Stephen Harper as leader of The Conservative Party on the first ballot. A few areas haven’t reported in yet.
1/4 million Canadians were eligible to vote.
54% for Harper
36% for Belinda Stronach
10% for Tony Clement
The conventional wisdom got tipped a bit, with Harper making a strong showing in Ontario.