Archive for November 2007

Some Notes on the Canadian Digital Information Strategy Draft

By Joshua Chalifour, 21 November 2007

I’ve been reading the draft consultation version of the Canadian Digital Information Strategy. The strategy proposes strengthening content, ensuring its preservation, and maximizing its access and use. These are important for many reasons the report addresses regarding culture; the report also has some anchors in industry, stating that “nations that nurture their digital information assets [...]

Personal Wikiesque Note Taking Mind Mappish Killer KDE App: BasKet

By Joshua Chalifour, 13 November 2007

I’ve found one of my favourite applications ever. It’s called BasKet Note Pads. Here’s my problem, I’m always typing up little notes to myself and saving them as text files, all over my desktop, all over my hard drive. Sometimes I try to organize them, sometimes I send myself reminder e-mails, or I create calendar [...]

Copyright Reform and the Stats Can Report

By Joshua Chalifour, 12 November 2007

Michael Geist posted about the politics in the debate on copyright reform. The point stems from dissonance between the recent Statistics Canada report and a reform-oriented bill expected to introduce more restrictive copyright policy. The report showed some nice Canadian recording industry profits where similar industries in other parts of the world seemed to be [...]