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 13, 2005 | Media Mix, Politics, Technology
Political geeks — er, make that “civic-minded Canadians” — have a new resource to while away the hours between poring over riding boundaries and poll-by-poll results. CPAC, the Canadian Public Affairs Channel, is now offering some of its... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 12, 2005 | Media Mix, Politics
My brother Mike has been ably chronicling the sad, slow-motion implosion of Ottawa’s Pink Triangle Services: Despite a plunge in community donations and a depleted budget surplus, the head of Pink Triangle Services is blaming a recent public controversy on... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 4, 2005 | Culture, Arts and Popcorn, Politics
There is just no universe in which this news, from David Weinberger, is a good thing: [T]he US Patent Office will today publish the first application for a patent for a story line. This particular story line — and note that the patent is not for the story but for...