Several NDP campaigns are blogging, and at least one is podcasting – and I think that deserves some recognition. So this page is going to serve as a repository for the Web 2.0-enabled NDP candidates.

I’ve almost certainly missed some, and others will probably launch over the course of the campaign, so please feel free to add new ones via the comments form below.

(Here’s an… Read more...

The phenomenally busy Russell McOrmond notes that, with the end of this Parliament, Bill C-60 is no more:
Bill C-60 has died on the Order Paper, but you can be sure that whoever forms the next government will table a similar bill (likely with a different number). We need to ensure that any new bill protects the rights of the majority of Canadians, including Canadian creators and their audiences… Read more...

Bingo! is its name.

The site’s supposed to be used as a Web 2.0 variation on buzzword bingo… but forget that.

Instead, if you’re in the online biz, use it as a cheat sheet the next time you’re talking with a potential client or investor. Every 15 or 20 seconds, sneak a peek and work another term into the conversation.

Before you know it, your… Read more...

And election day is… January 23, 2006. As one veteran political organizer I spoke to this morning said, “That’s way too much underwear to buy.”*

Okay, political junkies: deep breaths. Deeeeeep breaths. Calm down, and take the next two months in small, careful bites, because overdosing will be a constant risk. (To the rest of Canada, all I can say is — what you’re about to experience is kind… Read more...

Scott Piatkowski alerted me yesterday to CTV’s contest, Political Idol:

If you believe you have what it takes, here’s how it works: Question Period viewers are asked to send in a minute-long written campaign speech on a topic of their choice to questionperiod@ctv.ca or to the following address: 100 Queen St., Suite 1400, Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 1J9.

….Every week, Question Period will pick a winner and… Read more...

With all the protests that the impending federal election campaign will likely impinge on Christmas and Hanukkah celebrations, there hasn’t been one word about how badly it will interfere with the speculation over what Steve Jobs will be announcing at Macworld 2006.

Talk about your lack of respect for people’s religions… Read more...

Is it a complete coincidence that less than a week after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Lego can’t claim the design of its blocks as a trademark, LaCie offers a new stackable hard drive with a very familiar-looking design?

Yes, yes — LaCie’s a French company, their biggest market is probably the U.S. — but legal entanglements, even they’re just in the… Read more...

Elsewhere in a discussion on the dearth of municipal blogging, some of us toss around the fact that bloggers usually don’t do the kind of investigative legwork that reporters do, and can’t break stories.

Meet a vital exception: Paul Willcocks and his blog, Paying attention.

He’s independent (I’ve disagreed with almost exactly half of what he’s written about the BCTF’s struggles with the provincial government), a bang-up… Read more...