by Rob Cottingham | Nov 17, 2005 | Politics, Technology
Net legend Doc Searls has published a passionate warning: the Internet as a commons is in grave, immediate danger. Do you believe a free and open market should be “Your choice of walled garden” or “Your choice of silo”? That’s what the... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 17, 2005 | Media Mix, Politics
To one of our commenters, Kenneth Tomlinson — the disgraced former chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — is an innocent man just trying to get at the truth. Well, not according to the corporation’s inspector general: A report by the... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 16, 2005 | Politics
Talk about your golden tickets — Vicky Smallman reports on the latest transit fare hike in our nation’s capital: Pretty soon Ottawa riders will be paying more to take the bus than anyone else in Canada. As of December 1, cash fares will be $3. $3!!!!!... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 15, 2005 | Technology
Derek is switching: [T]he company is offering new ADSL customers a free 2 GB iPod nano for signing up to a three-year term at a monthly rate similar to, or a bit less than, what I’m paying now (two- or one-year terms will get you an iPod shuffle, but I already... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 15, 2005 | Blogging, Technology
Waiting isn’t easy… TiVo does a great job of recording and playing video… but when it comes to scheduling the beast, it slows to a crawl. Maybe that’s because it has a processor speed of only 50 MHz, and 32 MB of RAM. Your average gaming...