The FCC ruled last month that Comcast is unlawfully interfering with its customers web traffic, specifically peer-to-peer file sharing. Electronic Frontier Foundation and The Associated Press did file sharing tests and noticed that they were being reset; the internet provider was in effect, blocking the file sharing, which violates the FCC’s 2005 policy statement to “enforce an open ‘Net, […]

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Conventional wisdom holds that there is more than one way to skin a cat. Where the proverbial cat equals information technology, the solutions are as varied as needs. As a professional communicator and not a computer programmer, so much of my interactions on a personal and professional level are online, and within this artificial world, […]

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I recently interviewed indie filmmaker, Paola Mendoza, for my own blog. In our conversation, we talked about all the aspects or “jobs” one needs to master as an independent entity creating art in this country right now and the places filmmakers can turn in order to learn how to do those all-important tasks, such […]

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Tomorrow, the 15th iteration of the Canadian International Documentary Festival, aka, Hot Docs, will begin. The week’s activities encompass the festival, Doc Soup and Youth Programmes, as well as the Toronto Documentary Forum, The Doc Shop, Conference and Market–lots going on. I will be up there the latter part of the week, but […]

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Thanks to new friend David Neff at the American Cancer Society, who writes an awesome blog for nonprofits on utilizing new technologies, I just visited the NetSquared Mash-up competition where 21 finalist web application mash-ups for social change have just been announced. Do you ever land on a site to buy a hot new outfit […]

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