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Here we go again

The City of Saskatoon came out with their strategic plan and it reads and looks good.  As I was looking through it (finally after saskatoon.ca was down all last night), I couldn’t help but notice three of the photos were taken from my Flickr account without my permission.  Again. It’s happened before and I was [...]

It’s still theft, even when the City of Saskatoon does it

I was researching something for a future column today and I went looking for a RFP regarding Kinsmen Park.  As I opened the PDF, I was impressed with the photo that made up the front cover of it.   The reason I was impressed with the photograph is that it has been a long time [...]

Why I Love Creative Commons (and Flickr)

Long time readers of this blog know how much I love Flickr and over the years I have uploaded about 12,000 photos to the site.  Photography is one of those things that I am not that good at but I really enjoy and it is one of the things that Wendy, Mark, and I all [...]

Digital copyright bill is going to lock us all in

Rory McGreal has a good article on the new copyright bill being proposed by the Government of Canada. For parents who would wish to cut exorbitantly aggressive, anti-religious or sexual content from a video, this option is now closed because of digital locks. Systems operators who suspect inappropriate use of the system such as viewing [...]

ccMixter

I don’t know how many of you use or have even heard of ccMixter but if you are doing any media production at all, it is a great tool.  Today while working on a project for work I was looking for some music and I realized the song was a remix and posted to ccMixter [...]

Site Notes

Two things of note. Since I moved from Blogger, I have neglected to update the copyright information on the site.  As stated in the footer, the site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License.  Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available here.  It means that you can use [...]

Where have I seen this photo before the Toronto Star used it tonight?

I was on David Olive’s excellent blog tonight, the Great Recession and I was reading that Saskatchewan was celebrating our entry into Confederation today.  We joined it back in 1905 and have won three Grey Cups in our time as a province. I was noticing the great looking photo of the Saskatchewan Legislative Building.  You [...]