Here are a few links to articles put up by Canadian public servant bloggers who are interested in public servant and departmental blogging:
General guide for public bloggers, based largely on US laws since little is written here in Canada:
EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers
http://w2.eff.org/bloggers/lg/
On what we can reproduce and who owns what is written:
Intellectual Property
http://w2.eff.org/bloggers/lg/faq-ip.php
US guide [...]
Posts on ‘November 13th, 2008’
The Blogging Bureaucrat
Government 2.0: Rename Me, Please
Via Mashable
November 12, 2008 - 8:19 am PDT - by Mark Drapeau
Dr. Mark Drapeau is an Associate Research Fellow directing the Social Software for Security (S3) project at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy of the National Defense University in Washington, DC.
Thoughts of a future President Obama have [...]
YouTube Ventures Into Live Event Webcasting
Via the New York Times
By REUTERS
Published: November 12, 2008
Filed at 9:05 a.m. ET
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - YouTube will venture into webcasting later this month, in an effort to take the video sharing Web site’s popularity to a new level by showcasing the talent behind its most viewed videos.
The site, owned [...]
Silverlite
Via Tech Crunch IT
by Steve Gillmor on November 12, 2008
Google’s release of its Gmail Video service is noteworthy for several reasons. It is integrated into the Gmail console, adding voice and video services to the realtime console that is being built out around XMPP. It is remarkably easy to use; Dan Farber just [...]
Sharing Their Demons on the Web
Via the New York Times
By SARAH KERSHAW
Published: November 12, 2008
FOR years they lived in solitary terror of the light beams that caused searing headaches, the technology that took control of their minds and bodies. They feared the stalkers, people whose voices shouted from the walls or screamed in their heads, “We found you” and “We [...]
Online Video Publishers Should Look to Monetize Audience, Not Video
Via Mashable
November 13, 2008 - 4:07 am PDT - by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins 1 Comment
A concept in video advertising has been bubbling up amongst the professionals I’ve been listening to over the last six months, one that makes a lot of sense and is already in use by several successful [...]
