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Phone Hacking and Digital Culture
If you’ve spent any time watching the live feed provided by The Guardian you will surely agree that the Leveson Inquiry into British Press ethics, practices and culture is the most riveting public inquiry since Watergate. I mean, you’ve got the most famous, the most beautiful, the most tragic, the most scarred and the most…
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Is There Life (or creative desktop software) After Photoshop?
You know how you can know something in theory but still have it surprise you when you encounter it in real life? That happened to me yesterday with software. I had decided to unplug my kids’ desktop Mac from the web for about 23 hours a day and instead load it up with cool creative…
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Gig at Casa Del Popolo in Montreal Sunday night
Hi all, just wanted to let any Montrealers reading this know that I am doing a show at the Casa del Popolo on St.Laurent tomorrow evening at 8pm as part of the Wired on Words series hosted by poetic comrade Ian Ferrier. Casa del Popolo is a terrific cafe that was expanded recently to include…
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Basketball Business as Black Revolution?
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is in trouble. The league locked out the players months ago, bargaining has failed, and now the players have disbanded their union and are taking the league to court to contest the most basic notions of player-league business relations. Things like player drafts and even the notion of ‘owning a…
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Playing Misty For Ringo (A Dove)
Here’s a little late night sax serenade for all you social media lovebirds…
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Put an End to Terminal Thinking
Until we understand that stories are beginnings and not ends we will be ruled by Terminal Thinking. (When a story is seen as an end and not a beginning, that is Terminal Thinking.) Until media is made to be transmitted through the many to many, and to be changed in transmission from each to each,…
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Radicalizing Kids
A couple of weeks ago I was at Toronto Digifest. It’s a festival I actually co-directed for several years in the early 00s but which has been dormant since 2005. It has now been started up again by its original founder, Luigi Ferrara. I was curious to see what it would be like and so…
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Lintotineh! Bemagatineh! Gesultineh!
A few days ago I had a blast playing with the amazing Alan Gerber, a truly masterful artist who not only writes and sings great songs and plays sensational slide guitar, rocking boogie-woogie piano, folksy fiddle, and fine fingerpicking acoustic guitar, but is also as funny a musician onstage as I’ve ever seen. It’s no…
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Gig tonight with Alan Gerber
Playing at the Elmdale Tavern in Ottawa tonight with my pal Alan Gerber. 8pm. Come on down…
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Free Bradley Manning!
Just a reminder that this courageous boy has been held in solitary confinement for over 8 months without charge by Obama’s government and against the Geneva Convention, without the right to meet with a lawyer in private, and without clothes for much of that time. Why? For showing the world what democracy looks like. Free…
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