Tag Archive for the term: technology

editor’s note: file this under “news that’s of interest to students of copyright law; copyright activists; the copyright-curious; and anyone who has ever created anything.”
International Activists Launch New Website to Gather and Share International Copyright Knowledge
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL.net), and other international copyright experts joined together today to launch [...]

Huzzah for the transformative power of human engineering, changing something as useful but irritating as texts and ringtones into a Tchaikovsky flavoured triumph, and a sexy at home installation in New Zealand. New Zealand – their national anthem may be the graduation march, but their people are clearly cunning and hilarious, and I don’t just [...]

Dear Minister Goodyear,
I will be performing a show called “The Rap Guide to Evolution” as part of the Vancouver Evolution Festival in a few weeks, and I would like to invite you to come to the performance free of charge. Allow me to explain.
I have read with interest the recent articles in the Globe [...]

On top of a month-long itinerary of amazing shows, Suoni Per Il Popolo is collaborating with The Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium at the University of Guelph and McGill University in Montreal to put together this weekend’s Improvisation Colloquium. I really really wish I could go, but I’m working both days. If you’ve got any free [...]

On my way home from work last Friday, I spotted this knitted sash on a tree. The tag says, “Knitty Gritty” so when I got home I googled the name, but couldn’t find anything that seemed to match, even though I seem to remember hearing about a Montreal group who knit things to put on [...]

The skies may have been grey, but long-time mobile talkers came out in droves to hand off their old cell phones, some so old and brick-like that the team just had to keep them out of the boxes, on display for those too young to remember to marvel at. Everyone who donated a phone was given a Matt & Nat eco-friendly shopping bag… Y’know, so we can avoid adding more plastic bags to landfills?

I just got back from Gilberto Gil’s second event here in Montreal, a kind of curated discussion between the Brazilian Culture Minister and Tropicalismo musical innovator and rebel Gil, the Digital Policy Coordinator Claudio Prado (sweetly anarchic and kind), and four academics and activists implicated in digital media.
Gilberto Gil, and Brazil as a whole, [...]

You don’t have to be weened on poetry to appreciate John Giorno’s pieces. At 72 years old, he’s the raunchy, flaming, psychedellic, grandpa that you never knew you always wanted. On Sunday night, he captivated the audience with stories about magical trees and uncountable loverboys, all with a happy-go-lucky Dr Seuss kind of cadence.

Laptops. Artists and laptops. Is one a prerequisite for the other?
I must admit: I’m a laptop newbie. I’ve only had my beautiful MacBook, named Cleopatra, since July. Before this best-birthday-present-ever I’d only ever been able to call myself a desktop computer owner, and the sight of my friends’ laptops, while inspiring the odd thoughts of [...]

Overzealous much? Yup, that’s me. Having a schizophrenic little afternoon? Yup, that’s me too!
After my last post, I heard the opening riff to one of my favourite songs, the song that will get me up and dancing and hyper-energized no matter how I felt before, and knew it was time to dash to see We [...]