It’s hard to believe we’re heading in to the final evening of 2011. It’s been an amazingly full year. In many respects, I’m surprised so much activity filled such a short period of time. For me, 2011 meant launching my own company, becoming immersed in analysis of digital and social media on politics and public [...]
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 organizations and individuals began moving their domains to other service providers [...]
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 Analysis of the full session suggests future consultations would be more effective if conducted [...]
I guess I like smart television. Which is too bad, really. Every damn time (Arrested Development reference, see below) I learn about a great television show worth watching, it’s either just been cancelled or labeled by network executives as ‘too smart for television’ which an intimate cult following can’t save with a flash mob (for the [...]
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 English session. If there’s enough interest, I will publish a similar analysis of the [...]
My apologies for my noticeable absence from my own blog of late. Besides work and the Christmas season, I’ve been winded by the bleak medical prognosis assigned to a dear uncle. It’s time I get back into a rhythm. I’m hoping to publish analysis of yesterday’s #opengovchat Twitter consultation by the Treasury Board. In 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 be found here. Specifically, I was asked if Ms. Stoddart’s “apocalyptic” view [...]
