Through my larger interest about the commodification of information, I have been following the introduction of new copyright legislation in Canada, Bill C-61. Both traditional and Internet media outlets, academic, and individuals are condemning the legislation as a “Canadian DMCA“. For the best coverage one should follow the blog of Michael Geist from […]

I have been reading an excellent work by communication theorist and political economist Vincent Mosco. The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace examines the myths we have been spinning around the rise of the Internet: that it will change politics and social interaction, and generally bring us into a new enlightened age.

The first part […]

I stumbled across the nice JSTOR upgrade today. Looks much better than their older version, very easy on the eyes.

Cheating on Facebook?

This has been all over the news here in Toronto, but I have not read about it in any of my feeds yet, which is weird given the rush to get libraries on Facebook.

Here is the story. Chris Avenir, a first year engineering student at Ryerson University, was charged with 147 counts of […]

I am sure you have all read the mass of news on Amazon’s Kindle. Makes me feel secure that books will be here for a long time.

As Catherine Sheldrick Ross and others have said, reading is a social activity. Books are borrowed, lent, shared, resold and bought second hand. They are picked up […]