by Rob Cottingham | Aug 8, 2005 | Communicating, Politics, Technology
Short of actually causing a loss of human life, a major oil spill or the bulldozing of an orphanage, companies don’t often have a worse stretch of PR than Telus has weathered over the past few weeks. Just as the dust was settling from the site-blocking fiasco, a... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 3, 2005 | Politics
…Paul Willcocks says it better, and with — what’s that stuff called again? — oh, yeah, research. If I can take the liberty, here’s his post in brief: Marc Emery may be able to argue that extradition treaties don’t apply because... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 3, 2005 | Politics, Technology
Visitor Thomas Dirks alerts us to the OpenNet Initiative’s study on the company’s July 25-28 blockade of the Voices for Change web site. According to the study, Telus also blocked at least 766 additional web sites in the process. Voices for Change’s... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 3, 2005 | Politics
In a terrific, provocative Viewpoint piece on fundamentalism and reliance on rigid literal interpretations of scripture, James Hrynyshyn writes, [T]he great monotheistic religions all preach love while offering justification for actions without appeal to the concerns... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 2, 2005 | Politics, Technology
An Ohio Republican candidate for Congress won by a narrow margin today, despite the fact that the district favoured Bush with 64% of the votes cast less than a year ago. Jean Schmidt eked out a three-per-cent margin over Democrat Paul Hackett, who recently returned... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 1, 2005 | Politics, Technology
Waiting impatiently for a new piece of Apple gear to arrive via FedEx, I searched for others in the same boat… and discovered that a little information is a dangerous thing. Have a look at this thread of customers (link removed) who got their FedEx tracking...