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A Blog Written From Minneapolis Rattles
Canada's Liberal Party

A Blog Written From Minneapolis Rattles
Canada's Liberal Party 04/06/2005 09:28 PM
An American blogger has suddenly emerged as a force in Canadian politics.

American Web Site Win2Million.com Trumps
Canada's First Online Lottery

American Web Site Win2Million.com Trumps
Canada's First Online Lottery 08/14/2004 03:06 AM
Nevada-based gaming operator Win2Million.com announced that its two million dollar lotto-style sweepstakes is immediately available worldwide. The company's web site provides wider access for Canadians than PlaySphere, Canada's much-touted new online lottery web site. [PRWEB Aug 14, 2004]

Government of Canada vs. BlogsCanada

Government of Canada vs. BlogsCanada 04/15/2004 01:02 PM
Government of Canada vs. BlogsCanada The Government of Canada has served a cease and desist order to Canadian blog portal, BlogsCanada. Obviously the Treasury Department doesn't agree that the sincerest form of flattery is imitation.

Government of Canada versus BlogsCanada

Government of Canada versus BlogsCanada 04/16/2004 02:15 AM
The Government of Canada has served a cease and desist order .. Blogs Canada's look and feel .. ridiculous

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PHP Blog: Getting Web Site Traffic in
Less Than One Day

PHP Blog: Getting Web Site Traffic in
Less Than One Day 06/20/2004 07:08 PM
Every web site owner has wanted to drive additional traffic to their web site – and of course we’re all in a big hurry to do it. But have you ever thought about the fact that any webmaster can drive great qualified traffic to their site in less than one day? That’s right – you can literally set up an entire traffic driving campaign and see the traffic coming to your site even in the same day! Here’s how:

New Security BLOG Site

New Security BLOG Site 06/17/2004 10:41 PM
Welcome to the NEW Network Security Blog by Geek – Troy Jessup. It has been a while in coming, but it is finally here to stay. Still hosted on the Next Door Neighbor Network, this blog will continue into the...

"Webl0g/bl0g site"

"Webl0g/bl0g site" 07/29/2004 04:40 AM

Blog Site Blogger.com Clogged

Blog Site Blogger.com Clogged 10/25/2002 04:32 PM
A hacker shut down one of the more popular Web blogging sites today, changing everyone's FTP and passwords and email addresses. Service was restored later in the day.

"Government of Canada sends BlogsCanada
cease and desist order"

"Government of Canada sends BlogsCanada
cease and desist order" 04/16/2004 09:02 PM

HOWTO turn your bl0g into a gopher site

HOWTO turn your bl0g into a gopher site 04/04/2005 02:24 AM
Cory Doctorow: George Hotelling's April Fools' Day prank was converting his blog to a gopher site -- gopher being a text-only, menu-driven precursor of the Web ("gopherlog, or rlog for short"). In so doing, he created some scripts to simplify the process. He's posted them online for anyone who wants to convert her or his blog to a gopher site.

First, you need to get and install PyGopherd. It's fairly simple, just download it and follow the instructions in the manual to install it, then configure a directory for it to serve. I told it to serve ~/public_html/gopher/ but any directory will do.

Then, download feedparser, html2text and this script of my own design to create text files from an RSS feed. Set the output directory to the same one that your gopher server is using, set the RSS feed to your RSS feed and you're more or less done. For extra fun, put the script in a cron job so that it will keep updating with new items. If you do that, you'll also need to rm the old files (which really should be done in my script, but see the part above about this being a hack that needed to work in a couple hours).

There's plenty of room for improvement. For instance you could write a Python script for PyGopherd to parse the RSS feeds, which would cut down on all sorts of problems and be useful to literally tens of people.

Link (via Waxy)

You Don't Even Have to Add Water to Add
the Trusted Blog Search to Your Site!

You Don't Even Have to Add Water to Add
the Trusted Blog Search to Your Site! 03/11/2003 10:45 AM

Drat - I don't have time to add this to my site tonight, but I will next week. Micah Alpern has made it even easier to add his Search Blogs You Read engine to your site! Now called the Trusted Blog Search, you can use his mighty-fine, fill-in-the-blank wizard to produce code to copy and paste into your template. Excellent job, Micah!

Site review: Open Source Law Blog

Site review: Open Source Law Blog 01/06/2005 01:59 PM
Attorney Paul Arne writes the Open Source Law Blog, designed to make visitors aware of developments in the law and business of open source software. Arne is a rare bird: an attorney who can actually string together a few sentences that don't induce sound sleep in the reader. In fact, Arne has taken some issues regarding the GPL, copyright, and software patents, and made these sometimes complex topics engaging, fun, and easier to understand, all while bringing out important nuances.

Voters flock to bl0g awards site

Voters flock to bl0g awards site 03/17/2005 04:20 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Tue Mar 15, 01:08 pm GMT

AdvancedTele.com Acquires Photo Blog Web
Site

AdvancedTele.com Acquires Photo Blog Web
Site 04/01/2005 03:44 AM
AdvancedTele.com acquired ZIMoBLOG, a photo blog web site. ZIMoBLOG allows users to post digital photos and picture phone photos publicly accessible site and view other members' photos. [PRWEB Apr 1, 2005]

PHP Blog: How To Avoid Hackers From
Destroying Your Site?

PHP Blog: How To Avoid Hackers From
Destroying Your Site? 02/07/2005 01:31 AM
How To Avoid Hackers From Destroying Your Site? Recently, my site and other internet accounts ( http://www.nabaza.com/sites.htm ) have been hacked maliciously for the purpose of getting all my online sales and transferring it to his/her account. I\'ve learned a valuable lesson that I would like to share with you so as to avoid becoming the next victim for this hacker.

Disturbed diarist using perl bl0g site
mistaken for bot

Disturbed diarist using perl bl0g site
mistaken for bot 07/31/2004 01:47 AM
"Bondage-chICK" is a young, disturbed girl (she's a "cutter" who cuts herself to feel better), who stumbled across a free developers' journal service offered by perl.org and started using it for her personal diary. No problem, except that the developers who stumbled across her journal assumed that she was a perl bot ("If this is autogenerated, you need to tweak it so that the doubled+transposed letter mistake doesn't happen so often, and introduce some more naturalistic errors. If it's not autogenerated, you're really sad and about 18 months behind the curve.") or a gag. Of course, the whole thing might be a hoax. Or not. Link (via Waxy)

Blog Burner Gets Any Web Site Large or
Small Deep Crawled and Indexed Within
Hours

Blog Burner Gets Any Web Site Large or
Small Deep Crawled and Indexed Within
Hours 04/11/2005 02:14 AM
Blog Burner a powerful new service that compliments the new Blog and Ping strategy developed by Rick Butts automates the tedious and time consuming tasks of blogging and pinging multiple pages to get them deep crawled and indexed into the major search engines. [PRWEB Apr 11, 2005]

Blog-detectives tackle suspected Mexican
child-porn recruitment site

Blog-detectives tackle suspected Mexican
child-porn recruitment site 07/24/2004 06:10 PM
Eduardo Arcos, editor of the Spanish-language blog ALT1040, is conducting an online investigation into a website suspected of recruiting teenage girls in Mexico for child porn. He's soliciting help from other bloggers, and using the "comment" feature in his blog as a way to exchange info with concerned citizens throughout the blogosphere. Together they're collecting data, with the apparent goal of revealing who's behind the suspect site -- and seeing to it that appropriate action is taken to protect potential victims. Here's my clunky attempt at translating Arcos' summary post:

A site called TV-whores with a theme and intentions that are very clear, contains the following text: Girls from 13 - 19 years of age: earn thousands of pesos simply by taking photographs. More information here. (...)

The page in question offers thousands of pesos to 13-19-year-old girls for taking digital photos. You don't have to be naked, you can be in a bikini or underwear, it says... but it's more than suspicious."

Link (in Spanish)

GOC SICS
LAWYERS ON BLOGSCANADA

GOC SICS
LAWYERS ON BLOGSCANADA 04/16/2004 02:30 PM

Jim Elve over at BlogsCanada, the site that selflessly promotes the best Canadian blogs, and contains the definitive directory of Canadian blogs, has been set upon by the lawyers of the Government of Canada for his parody of the Government of Canada site. Talk about petty! Only a complete idiot, or a federal civil servant's lawyer, could possibly mistake Jim's excellent site for an 'official' Government of Canada site. Nevertheless, Jim has been served with a threatening letter ordering him to take down his site or change it so it no longer 'resembles' the Feds' site. This is what gives civil servants, and lawyers, a bad name. Give 'em hell, Jim! We're all proud of what you've been doing to encourage and celebrate Canada's bloggers, and give us a sense of community -- a damn sight more than what the government has ever done to support blogging in Canada.

Configuring Site Systems and Site to
Site Communications with Advanced
Security

Configuring Site Systems and Site to
Site Communications with Advanced
Security 08/16/2004 10:22 AM

Canada's new quarter

Canada's new quarter 06/23/2004 11:13 AM
The contest to design a commemorative quarter for this year's Canada Day was won by an 11-year-old from BC with this great, cartoony design. I think this is the best coin I've ever seen. Li nk (Thanks, Ben!)

Trawlers 'caught' in Canada's net

Trawlers 'caught' in Canada's net 05/09/2004 05:57 AM
Canada produces evidence of what it says is illegal fishing off its waters by Portuguese trawlers.

Canada's Wi-LAN takes on Cisco

Canada's Wi-LAN takes on Cisco 06/24/2004 11:37 AM
p2pnet.net Jun 24 2004 3:42PM GMT

Canada's True Hero.

Canada's True Hero. 09/17/2004 05:45 PM
Canada's True Hero The author Douglas Coupland has a book coming out in 2005 about fellow Canadian Terry Fox. Until then, read this interesting, but heart-warming article.

Canada's NDP leader endorses P2P

Canada's NDP leader endorses P2P 04/09/2004 04:04 PM
Jack Layton is the leader of the NDP, Canada's left-wing New Democratic Party, and is in the running for Prime Minister of Canada in the next election. On the heels of Canada's landmark court decision that essentially legalized file sharing, Layton has turned P2P into an election issue, endorsing file-sharing as a beneficial activity, a gutsy move, considering the Party's close ties with the arts (the NDP has traditionally endorsed strong arts-spending):

"I'm a holder of a copyright myself. But it's a book on homelessness and I don't mind if anyone wants to copy it," he says with a grin. "I'm still not so sure how (file sharing) impacts sales -- some studies even say it enhances them. I don't think the dust has settled on this yet. When I was at university there was a great fear that photocopying was going to destroy the publishing industry and that hasn't happened. It's sometimes best to muddle along, take things one step at a time and see what happens. Society can have a way of sorting things out."

Link (Thanks, Simon!)

Why Offshore When Canada's Next Door?

Why Offshore When Canada's Next Door? 07/16/2004 11:53 AM

Canada's Broadcast Flag

Canada's Broadcast Flag 09/08/2004 04:44 PM
Cory Doctorow: The Broadcast Flag is a US regulation that nominally prevents Internet redistribution of digital TV signals, but in fact sets up a world where Hollywood studios and their captured regulators get a veto over the design of all new TV technology -- and distort the market for PC components like hard drives and video-cards in a way that will hobble innovation, drive up prices and shut out open source.

Weirdly enough, Canada seems to think that this sounds pretty good.

Given the controversy associated with the broadcast flag in the U.S., one would think that Canada would be wary about embarking on the same route. Accordingly, it came as a shock to many when an Industry Canada official recently indicated that Canada was likely to follow the U.S. lead by quickly implementing a similar system by July 2005. The official suggested that there was broadcaster support for the measure and that since the U.S. had adopted it, Canadians had little alternative but to follow suit.

While Canadian broadcasters may or may not support the broadcast flag (they have in fact been rather publicly silent on the matter), it is essential Canada craft its own policy by considering the privacy and copyright policies associated with the proposal.

Pre-judging the issue, as some in Minister Emerson's department appear to have done, is a dangerous course of action, that should be replaced immediately by a working group of all stakeholders, including the broader public interest, intent on studying the Canadian options. The suggestion Canada faces a Y2K-like deadline with respect to the broadcast flag appears as overblown as was the Y2K threat itself.

Link

Canada's DMCA dissected

Canada's DMCA dissected 06/22/2005 01:49 AM
Cory Doctorow: On the heels of the introduction of Canada's Bill C-60, a Made-in-Canada version of the DMCA, Michael Geist has posted several long, thoughtful blog posts about the bill's effects on different interests: search engines, ISPs, and P2P users:

While Bill C-60 therefore contains extensive provisions to cover uploading, downloading on peer-to-peer systems remains largely untouched (with the exception described above). Many experts believe that peer-to-peer downloading is covered by the private copying levy, though CRIA disputes that interpretation.

Link (Thanks, Steve!)

Canada's Sluggish Market Unites (a
Little)

Canada's Sluggish Market Unites (a
Little) 06/05/2005 10:56 PM
Four Canadian cell operators have been making Wi-Fi noises for years: A while ago, they announced a major agreement to interconnect their networks. Only trouble was, they didn't really have any hotspot action going at that point. Now, between them, they have a whopping 500 locations nationwide, with 500 more planned in the indeterminate future. Meanwhile, smaller and fleeter companies have been eating their lunch by partnering with other networks worldwide. FatPort, a company I have followed for years already, has 300 locations in Canada and at least 3,700 other roaming locations worldwide available at no additional fee to their subscribers. Most recently, they signed a deal with NetNearU....

Clueless Article About Canada's Wi-Fi
Scene

Clueless Article About Canada's Wi-Fi
Scene 02/16/2004 01:25 PM
This writer seems to enjoy writing as though he's an authority when it's clear he's not: He's read all the hype about Wi-Fi but gets enough wrong that he obviously hasn't done his own research. His general point is that Canada is behind the United States in deploying hotspots. But he hasn't got very good research to back that up. His strongest piece of evidence seems to be a conversation he had recently with one computer programmer who had never heard of Wi-Fi. He goes on to say that the market is primed to change dramatically because Canada's largest carriers said they'd create a unified standard to let customers roam between their networks. This so-called standard was developed without any of the major existing Canadian Wi-Fi operators, such as FatPort, and none of the four carriers involved had deployed hotspots when they set the roaming standard. It's also just a "standard" (how they'll handle billing, etc.), not a roaming deal. So the carriers could deploy networks and still not roam. (Meanwhile, FatPort has built hundreds of locations and secured roaming with several international networks.) He also pointed to a recent study that said no hotspots' business model could succeed if the only revenue source was connection fees. That study is bad news for cafes in the U.S., he says, because many of them offer access for free. But the two aren't related. Free hotspot operators have a totally different business model than those that charge. He closes by pointing out "guerilla Wi-Fi warriors" in Canada who warchalk. Warchalking is a great idea and testament to the community behind Wi-Fi, but who has actually seen a symbol? If this writer's point is that Wi-Fi hasn't taken off in Canada, then it's doubtful that people there are actually warchalking....

Canada's tech startups need nurturing,
study says

Canada's tech startups need nurturing,
study says 04/18/2004 10:46 PM
globetechnology.com Apr 19 2004 3:06AM GMT

Canada's New PM Aims to Thaw Chilly U.S.
Relations

Canada's New PM Aims to Thaw Chilly U.S.
Relations 12/12/2003 07:45 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 12 2003 6:50PM ET

Canada's Liberals Gain Ground in
Elections (AP)

Canada's Liberals Gain Ground in
Elections (AP) 06/28/2004 09:43 PM
AP - Canada's Liberal Party held its ground Monday as early returns came in from a national election that threatened to end its 11-year monopoly on power.

Computer glitch clips Air Canada's wings

Computer glitch clips Air Canada's wings 05/10/2004 08:37 AM
globetechnology.com May 10 2004 12:50PM GMT

Canada's liberal party loses majority

Canada's liberal party loses majority 06/29/2004 03:36 PM

"Comedians in the Rough: Canada's Very
Special School"

"Comedians in the Rough: Canada's Very
Special School" 12/15/2003 10:29 PM

Canada's Internet pharmacies thriving on
business from U.S

Canada's Internet pharmacies thriving on
business from U.S 12/21/2003 08:29 AM
Sunspot Dec 21 2003 7:34AM ET

Politics Watch - Canada's Political
Portal

Politics Watch - Canada's Political
Portal 06/03/2004 09:03 AM
Select-a-candidate : Canadian version .. Vote Selector Quiz

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Canada's drug supply at risk, documents
say

Canada's drug supply at risk, documents
say 06/07/2004 08:58 AM
globetechnology.com Jun 7 2004 1:02PM GMT
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