Facebook Adds Pages Without Confirmation

Facebook has again decided that you don't need to be consulted before things are added to your profile. Last time, they decided that applications were OK to be added without your permission. Now, they're allowing web site owners to add pages to th...

Why Go Green?

"Going green" (also occasionally referred to as doing things which are beneficial for, or at least less harmful to, the environment) is practically an advertising buzzword lately. No company is "cool" if they're not jumping on the "Go Green" bandw...

Canadian DMCA Coming Soon

After a long coding spell (and obviously, no blog posts), I'm back. If everything stays on track, the Conservative government will be introducing their latest incarnation of a desperately-needed update to Canada's copyright laws within the next we...

Top Reasons To Drop Facebook

Facebook has only been around for a few short years (since 2005), yet it has managed to turn almost completely around in its approach to user privacy. Initially, you defined who could see your information — in essence, you defined your "social" ...

Music Star Saves Families From Foreclosure

It's true, Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas put forward $350,000 of his own money to save two families from losing their homes. That's half of the good news. The other half is that Will.i.am has set up the i.am home fund to continue doing this for...

What Constitutes Inappropriate

layout: post title: What Constitutes Inappropriate? time: "19:20" categories: [Apple, Society] Updating applications on my iPod today was entertaining. Apparently, Twitterific (a pretty good Twitter client) contains material inappropriate for ...

Diaspora* vs Facebook

Just a quick update to bring some light to the upcoming Diaspora* project. Diaspora* (from the Greek διασπορά, meaning "a scattering [of seeds]") intends to be a new social networking platform standing in direct competition to Facebook. Th...

Change Complete

It's taken a while, but my new blog is finally ready. This blog is hosted compliments of Github and is generated using the Jekyll processing engine. Comments are provided by Disqus. The entire Jekyll-ready source for this site may be viewed in it...