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Canadians in Identity – Canadian’s Identity: The Essay Series Begins

Burton Group’s Catalyst Conference was great for several reasons. One of them included the fact they actually had a BOF (Birds of a Feather) session for Canadians.
Last time I was in Seattle over at Kim Cameron and Adel’s house enjoying a glass of wine before dinner with Paul Trevithick, Drummond myself. Drummond was the [...]

Canada has some crazy laws too.

Canada has some crazy laws too. I kind of was thinking of Canada where I was born as the ‘friendly’ nation to the north but it seems not to be true .
Before privacy laws or the Charter, there was little if anything to stop police or national security operatives from cajoling or coercing information [...]

Community Blogging -> Semantic Social Network

I just found this link to a talk given at Northern Voice on Community Blogging by Stephen Downes
He wonders about how we manage to pull off the Semantic Social Network. It seems that a key element is functional digital identity for people. I extracted some highlights for you all:
(pssst – he works for [...]

XRI/XDI opportunity in Higher Education

WOW this is a cool opportunity for the XRI/XDI crowd – along with CivicSpace.
Reported by Abject Learning in May:
What did we propose to do? Nothing less than creating and sharing a framework for social software applications for BC’s higher education institutions. In less grandiose terms, we have proposed to create a set of policy recommendations, [...]

Canada a US territory…Apple thinks so

This Flickr photo is proof that Apple seems to think that Canada is US territory. This is a fatal business flaw. Some of you may be wondering about the Canadian ‘identity’ I am about to post this great article by Bruce Mau that I hope will explain it to you.