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Weekend Reading

There were several interesting and longer articles published over the weekend – check out the Boston Globe on the impact of the Internet on political campaigns, the LA Times on citizen journalism in South Korea, Julian Dibbell in the NY Times with a great piece on Chinese gold farming, and […]

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June 18, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

Public Safety and National Security Committee Releases Counterfeiting Report

The Public Safety and National Security Committee has released its report on counterfeiting (I appeared before the committee in the spring).  The report makes 14 recommendations, most of which unsurprisingly track the recommendations from the Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Network.  These include criminal remedies in the Trademarks Act, inclusion of copyright within […]

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June 18, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

Australia Announces National Broadband Plan

99 percent of the population covered at 12 megabits per second.  Within two years.

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June 18, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

Google Launches Public Policy Blog

Should become a must-read.

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June 18, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

Blogging and Defamation Issues

Wendy Grossman and Mathew Ingram both focus on blogging and defamation, with discussion of Crookes, Zeke's Gallery, and other Canadian incidents.

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June 16, 2007 Comments are Disabled News