About
I like thinking about the Internet, cognitive liberty, digital media, culture, and the issues intersecting these things. Communities develop, businesses increase, technologies disrupt, everything connects, I try to make a little sense of it here.
Aside from pundit.ca, I write the conmem.ca blog timeline to conserve public memory for people to review and criticize political issues. My other sites include phydeau.org (some of my creative pursuits and other writing) and unkindness-of-ravens.org (an experimental music ensemble). I also occasionally write another blog, cuothe.com, as an experiment in developing a curmudgeonly fictional personality by adressing the regular goings-on in the enterprise software industry. And this is a catch-all stream chalifour.org.
I’m employed as the Director of Knowledge Services by an enterprise software selection, analysis, and decision support firm called Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC). That means I’m responsible for coordinating research analysts, writing/editorial, translation, and knowledge management teams, as well as developing specialized knowledge base systems. We research information technology and the issues in its use (I have a particular interest in F/LOSS, free/libre and open source software). TEC is not responsible for this blog, though I sometimes comment on what I do there. The things I write here are my views and do not represent TEC.
I live in Montréal, Québec, Canada and graduated with a degree in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley. Google profile and Twitter jctec (identi.ca) and LinkedIn Profile.
