inCommunicado - eric eggertson

If something you did in 2006 could make the world a better place, would you do it?
That’s the question Elizabeth Albrycht is asking New Communications Blogzine readers. The European blogger points readers to challenges from the 2005 State of the Future report, issued by an American NGO. Each year the American Council for the United […]

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One of Canada’s major cell phone services is owned by the Rogers conglomerate. Now there’s a front page story in The Globe and Mail, describing Rogers’ refusal to eat the cost of fraudulent use of customers’ cell phone costs by possible terrorist groups and others.
The kicker: the company’s security person lets slip that several top […]

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  Elizabeth Albrycht    Originally uploaded by PROBLOG.
I’ve long thought there should be a way to link web-based and text messaging tools to all the information that’s gathered about the ethical behaviour of corporations. Why can’t I take a web-enabled PDA to the mall, to help me choose between brands, based […]

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A report that Heather Mallick quit her insightful column in the Globe and Mail’s Focus secion over an editing decision leaves a gaping hole in my Saturday mornings. It’s a rare weekend when something she writes doesn’t generate discussion  of an issue in our house.
The only evidence of Ms. Mallick’s presence today is her contribution […]

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Jeff Jarvis notes that lawsuits and threatened suits against bloggers pose a threat to a group of individuals who have few resources to defend themselves. He suggests some education to help bloggers stay out of trouble.

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Tech blogger Mark Russinovich declares victory over Sony BMG, now that the mega-entertainment company has agreed to undo the damage done by its intrusive copyright protection software.
As noted by Information Week, a bad situation was made much worse by Sony’s refusal to acknowledge the problems it was causing customers, and put in place an effective […]

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The business model being pursued by the big music companies is so out of touch with what consumers want, it scares me. What if they prevail, and any music rights owned by a big company becomes so tied up in digital rights that the customers can no longer listen to the music they have bought?
Cory […]

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Anonymous Canadian journalist Fine Young Journalist writes about the delicate relationship that exists between a reporter and a source.
Whether it is stated or not, a reporter expects the source to protect their conversations from competing journalists until the story has broken. FYJ quotes a source who was asked by a reporter not to blog about […]

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Toronto media blogger Antonia Zerbisias posted an item yesterday about veteran foreign correspondent Paul Workman losing his gig in Paris next June in favour of David Common, who in the past three years has been doing more and more national and international reporting.
For Workman, it looks like a hard slap for refusing to file stories […]

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Reporters Without Borders has published The Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-dissidents (download the PDF) to help people avoid repression in countries that are targeting online activists and commentators..
Thanks to Allan Jenkins for the link.

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I have always assumed that internationally renowned artists, actors, writers and songwriters are financially well off.  Lately, I’ve been seeing more and more examples of creators being frozen out of the fruits of their labour, usually by corrupt or inept business managers.
Publishing executive Connor Cochrane has taken on the cause of Peter S. Beagle, whose […]

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