Yesterday was supposed to be the day the Internet community drew blood from domain services provider GoDaddy for its [brief] public declaration of support for SOPA, the Stop Internet Piracy Act, now before Congress. That community lit up on the issue last week. Many...
Here is the long overdue follow-up analysis of the Treasury Board’s #OpenGovChat which tool place December 15th (click here to read my initial analysis). In this post, I look at the breakout of signal-to-noise during the Twitter consultation. Platforms and times...
The Treasury Board and its president, Minister Tony Clement, held a public consultation on open government data over Twitter yesterday afternoon. In fact, two sessions were held; one in French, one in English. I used Sysomos Heartbeat to perform analysis of the...
I was asked to comment on a speech Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart gave this morning at the Marketing and the Law Conference in Toronto. The speech was called Respecting Privacy Rights in the World of Online Behavioural Advertising, the full text of which can...
As the Ottawa Citizen reported on Friday, the Treasury Board is sending a very mixed message about social media. They’re telling the Public Service to use social media and then putting enough caveats and confusion on the whole concept as to make it inconvenient...
I can’t help but feel the authors of a new report on the disconnect between our political system and young voters have missed the boat. According to an Ottawa Citizen report, Disconnect is primary reason young Canadians don’t vote: survey, the authors...
