Blaise Alleyne

• The Django Book about 1 week ago
• How Many 'Significant Blows' Against File Sharing Will It Take For File Sharing To Actually Decrease? | Techdirt about 1 week ago

• balleyne pushed 2 commits to patrack/showcase:master:
  master changed from 05605d3 to 013eb6d about 1 week ago
• balleyne pushed 3 commits to patrack/showcase:master:
  master changed from 0e60a47 to 05605d3 about 1 week ago
• balleyne committed 0e60a472 to patrack:
  Added elementary multiples support for Flickr. about 1 week ago
• balleyne pushed 0e60a472 to patrack/showcase:master about 1 week ago
• balleyne started watching social/social about 3 weeks ago

• Losing our minds to the web – Prospect Magazine « Prospect Magazine on Jun 30 2010 at 3:45 pm
• New Ground on Terminology Debate? - Bradley M. Kuhn ( Brad ) ( bkuhn ) on Jun 30 2010 at 12:07 am
• googlecl - Project Hosting on Google Code on Jun 19 2010 at 4:28 am
• How to accept email on port 26, using Iptables port redirection | Linux Operating System - Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch on Jun 15 2010 at 2:58 pm
• How Monetary Rewards Can Demotivate Creative Works | Techdirt on Jun 15 2010 at 2:56 pm
• Developing Texts Like We Develop Software | Freedom to Tinker on Jun 15 2010 at 12:36 am

As expected, the Canadian government tabled a new copyright bill today. Despite the consultation last summer, rumour has it that Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore and Industry Minister Tony Clement—the two cabinet ministers responsible for copyright (who seemed to understand the new opportunities technology presents)—couldn’t come to an agreement, and the Prime Minister’s Office sided [...]

• Michael Geist - The Canadian Copyright Bill: Flawed But Fixable on Jun 2 2010 at 6:17 pm
• What your email address says about your computer skills - The Oatmeal on Jun 1 2010 at 4:28 pm
• Review of voip.ms on May 29 2010 at 1:32 am
• Dissension in the ranks • Telecom Trends on May 27 2010 at 10:34 am
• MythTV - GTALUG on May 24 2010 at 12:14 am
• The Technology with which He Worked Was the Technology on which He Died | Don't Eat The Fruit on May 23 2010 at 1:10 am
• xkcd: Infrastructures on May 21 2010 at 5:19 pm
• Linux keyboard shortcuts on May 21 2010 at 7:21 am
• New Liturgical Movement: St. Augustine on Restricting Texts and Knowledge on May 21 2010 at 4:38 am
• Locus Online Perspectives » Cory Doctorow: Persistence Pays Parasites on May 21 2010 at 3:59 am
• Saying information wants to be free does more harm than good | Technology | guardian.co.uk on May 21 2010 at 3:55 am

• Mobile operating systems and browsers are headed in opposite directions - O'Reilly Radar on May 17 2010 at 9:36 am
• JHEAD on May 16 2010 at 8:00 pm
• MarketingSherpa: Uproar over Anti-Flash Intro Survey Results on May 12 2010 at 1:56 am
• Pro Git - Table of Contents on May 11 2010 at 2:30 am
• FTA - Main page | FTA - Free Technology Academy on May 11 2010 at 1:04 am
• Playdar - Music Content Resolver on May 11 2010 at 1:01 am
• Top 10 must-have apps for the Nokia N900 - on Drippler Nokia N900 Updates Some non-free, but lots of good free applications too. on May 11 2010 at 12:36 am
• 8 Bash Tricks you should know | Linuxers on May 11 2010 at 12:25 am
• What is your single most favorite command-line trick using Bash? - Stack Overflow on May 11 2010 at 12:22 am

WIND Mobile’s pricing plans brought a breath of fresh air to the Canadian wireless landscape last December, but customers have been asking for less expensive data. WIND offered a great $35/month unlimited data add-on, but nothing below that for general purpose data. Well, today, WIND announced new data add-ons. Just like their voice plans (and unlike [...]

• Is Canonical Becoming The New Microsoft? [Updated] | The Open Sourcerer on May 4 2010 at 2:12 pm
• Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Window indicators on May 4 2010 at 1:46 pm
• hugo’s blog » Open Letter to Steve Jobs on May 4 2010 at 3:55 am
• Gitification of Tomboy notes on May 3 2010 at 2:56 am
• Flash, Scratch, Ajax: Apple's War on Programming | Freedom to Tinker on May 1 2010 at 7:12 am
• Von's Ubuntu Experiences: Fixing MythTV Database: Table './mythconverg/credits' is marked as crashed on May 1 2010 at 6:16 am
• Nina Paley: My Decision To Turn Down Netflix Due To DRM | Techdirt on May 1 2010 at 5:35 am
• The telephone was an aberration in human development - Boing Boing on Apr 30 2010 at 4:32 pm
• Pot, meet kettle: a response to Steve Jobs' letter on Flash on Apr 30 2010 at 4:26 pm
• How to Add Nested Comments to Your WordPress Theme | bavotasan.com on Apr 27 2010 at 3:43 pm

• balleyne committed 8f7a0f89 to patrack:
  Modified time since span to add CSS class instead of inline CSS. on Apr 27 2010 at 3:25 am
• balleyne committed 9e79fccc to patrack:
  Fixed Flickr parsing. on Apr 22 2010 at 7:06 am

• XPath Examples on Apr 22 2010 at 2:19 am
• Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and the long road to the iPad. - By Tim Wu - Slate Magazine on Apr 19 2010 at 5:26 am
• Why the open source way trumps the crowdsourcing way | opensource.com on Apr 19 2010 at 1:34 am
• Digital Economy Act: This means war | Cory Doctorow | Technology | guardian.co.uk on Apr 16 2010 at 10:02 pm
• Ten Good Reasons To Buy | Techdirt on Apr 15 2010 at 2:30 pm
• The Future Of Music Business Models (And Those Who Are Already There) | Techdirt on Apr 15 2010 at 2:29 pm

Last Wednesday, I had the opportunity to sit on a panel for an event put on by the Society of Internet Professionals: The Future of E-Publishing and E-Reading. The following is a rough approximation of my presentation. Digital technology has a disruptive effect on traditional content industries in many ways, but this is especially true when [...]

• "Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity" on Apr 13 2010 at 12:15 pm
• Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags on Apr 11 2010 at 5:12 pm
• FFmpeg FAQ on Apr 11 2010 at 4:25 pm
• The Technium: The Shirky Principle on Apr 10 2010 at 7:23 am
• Is the arrival of 3D TV premature? | Jesse Hirsh on Apr 8 2010 at 12:31 pm
• Antifeatures Talk :: Copyrighteous on Apr 6 2010 at 2:59 pm
• OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs - export & import to Google Docs, Zoho, WebDAV | OpenOffice.org repository for Extensions on Apr 6 2010 at 11:48 am
• Sun Presenter Console | OpenOffice.org repository for Extensions on Apr 6 2010 at 11:48 am
• Pagination | OpenOffice.org repository for Extensions on Apr 6 2010 at 11:48 am
• Top 5 Cases for the Nokia N900 | Mobile Fun Blog on Apr 6 2010 at 12:29 am
• LinuxPlanet - Reports - 8 Advanced OpenOffice.org Add-ons - Templates, Clipart on Apr 6 2010 at 12:25 am

This post originally appeared at RootsMusic.ca Credit: mgifford [CC BY-SA] Last month, NDP MP (and former member of the Grievous Angels) Charlie Angus shook up Canada’s copyright debate by proposing two reforms. Angus was outspoken against the government’s last copyright bill, but he’s attracted criticism from all sides with this latest move. But that was basically [...]

• dweeb, dork, geek, or nerd? « sed contra on Apr 5 2010 at 8:13 am
• Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either) - Boing Boing on Apr 5 2010 at 5:44 am
• Tethered N900 to Ubuntu 9.10 via Bluetooth « My N900 Diary on Apr 1 2010 at 5:17 pm
• What is your most productive shortcut with Vim? - Stack Overflow on Apr 1 2010 at 11:54 am
• The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism, By Jonathan Lethem (Harper's Magazine) But if it is true that in the essential commerce of art a gift is carried by the work from the artist to his audience, if I am right to say that where there is no gift there is no art, then it may be possible to destroy a work of art by converting it into a pure commodity. I don't maintain that art can't be bought and sold, but that the gift portion of the work places a constraint upon our merchandising. This is the reason why even a really beautiful, ingenious, powerful ad (of which there are a lot) can never be any kind of real art: an ad has no status as gift; i.e., it's never really for the person it's directed at. on Mar 31 2010 at 12:19 am

• The Onion Uses Django, And Why It Matters To Us : django on Mar 25 2010 at 2:35 pm
• What does information really want? | opensource.com on Mar 24 2010 at 11:59 am
• Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby - Joel on Software on Mar 18 2010 at 3:28 pm
• More Myth Debunking: File Sharing Is A Gateway Crime | Techdirt on Mar 16 2010 at 2:09 pm
• The Brads – a comic about web design » The Brads – Why DRM Doesn’t Work on Mar 16 2010 at 3:37 am
• How Sun's need to control the code cost them the company | Between the ... on Mar 13 2010 at 7:59 pm
• Review: Noreve Tradition leather case & metal belt clip for Nokia N900 | Nokia Experts on Mar 10 2010 at 4:26 am

• No, Copyright Has Never Been About Protecting Labor | Techdirt by balleyne on Feb 25 2010 at 2:59 am
• The New Era of Big Company Forks - Bradley M. Kuhn ( Brad ) ( bkuhn ) by balleyne on Feb 25 2010 at 2:58 am