Posted By:  ubershibs Posted On:  Aug 6, 2008	Working from home - where’s the downside?
Seriously folks, I worked from home today, and I: Got more done (way more) that I would in the office Was more relaxed Had time to go for a run Managed to run the same presentations and meetings Ate way healthier food than I normally do I also worked longer and took fewer breaks....... [view]

Posted By:  ubershibs Posted On:  Jul 28, 2008	Talk about speedy enforcement
So we just got this lovely abuse e-mail from Rogers, based on an e-mail from the Entertainment Software Association. The funny thing is that he was only maybe 10-20% of the way through the three potentially offensive game downloads (I checked his computer right after the e-mail came in). Funny...... [view]

Posted By:  ubershibs Posted On:  Jun 11, 2008	Become a Copyfighter
I just this great comic on Boing Boing . It does an amazing job of explaining the controversy surrounding the Conservatives’ on-again-off-again copyright amendment legislation, and provides a ton of links to great opinion pieces (including this great blog post from Howard Knopf,...... [view]

Posted By:  ubershibs Posted On:  Apr 26, 2008	Doing good in the world as a meme
Sadly, I missed the LOL-related panel (lolcats, lolsecrets, lolcode, lolbible), but I did get to the panel about pwning for the betterment of mankind. It was… a bit too serious. And in fairness, they were trying to deal with some serious stuff… net neutrality, the CIA, etc etc etc....... [view]

Posted By:  ubershibs Posted On:  Apr 25, 2008	“Revenge Against 100 Years of Broadcast”
The first day of ROFLcon is done. My highlight: meeting Leslie Hall, 100%, for sure. Doesn’t get much hotter than that! But seriously, she’s great, and Kate got to have an amazing chat with her (I missed out because I was visiting my friend Diana, but tomorrow, we’re...... [view]

Posted By:  ubershibs Posted On:  Apr 18, 2008	Rickrolling is dead
While Laura is busy posting ’serious’ things she found in the Globe & Mail (about what’s going on in Zimbabwe), I’d like to report some actually really SERIOUS stuff, namely: Rickrolling is dead. That’s right. Stop it. Right now… Don’t even...... [view]

Posted By:  ubershibs Posted On:  Mar 25, 2008	Youth Media Exchange launching (very) shortly
Hey everyone! We’re finally just about ready to launch the Youth Media Exchange ( ymex.org ), a new site devoted to sharing and discussing digital media for social change. The site will have a few bugs/kinks to start, but is going to be a pretty cool new forum for deeper conversations on...... [view]

Posted By:  ubershibs Posted On:  Sep 12, 2007	Facebook: We’re not Myspace
Facebook has been catching a lot of crap lately. Some of it is inevitable–users who have been around longer getting tense/up in arms about the evolution that occurs as the community grows, etc etc. But I’ve also seen quite a few stories lately about Facebook trying to assert its...... [view]

Posted By:  ubershibs Posted On:  Jan 9, 2008	What the world needs now…
What the world needs now is data portability! I just discovered this , via Kate , and there’s not a lot here, but it’s a pretty cool concept. Being able to download all your data from one social network and plug it into another? Nifty! And not that far fetched (as a...... [view]

Posted By:  ubershibs Posted On:  Feb 2, 2008	The craziest thing I’ve ever seen
I don’t know exactly why I find this so very mind-blowing, but just now, as I was setting up some friend lists on Facebook, I saw an add for GYNite , a new gay social network… The reason it blew my mind is that it’s just a ning someone set up, that they’re clearly...... [view]

Posted By:  ubershibs Posted On:  Feb 2, 2008	The craziest thing I’ve ever seen
I don’t know exactly why I find this so very mind-blowing, but just now, as I was setting up some friend lists on Facebook, I saw an add for GYNite , a new gay social network… The reason it blew my mind is that it’s just a ning someone set up, that they’re clearly...... [view]