Steve Anderson's blog

*Cross posted at SaveOurnet.ca

A group of businesses have joined together for a "Campaign for Competitive Broadband" focusing on a recent CRTC decision regarding wholesale Internet services that will give Bell Canada/Telus the opportunity to limit competition and further enable them to become gatekeepers of the Internet.

As their website notes:

Huffingtonpost took their experimentation with "social news" one step further by starting to crowdsource their headlines.

It's great that Huffingtonpost is getting input from their audience, but I'd love to see them take the next step and actually let their audience participate in the final headline decision. Maybe that's next...

From Straight Goods:

"Ten years ago, we launched Straight Goods with a social mission of using the Internet to provide a reliable news source with a progressive viewpoint. Although we have a long way to go toward fulfilling this mission, we have developed a very loyal group of readers and supporters, for which we are thankful, and we're making a point of involving you more. Please let us know if you, or someone you know, would be a good candidate for one of these positions:

Jim Barnett recently wrote a blog post about the increasing role and potential for the non-profit model of journalism.


I hop the trend continues.

A new website called TweetCommons has just launched.

"TweetCommons is a new web-based initiative to connect Canadians with their elected representatives in government using Twitter."

According to the Canadian Media Guild:

84% say it’s unfair to lose free TV signals in smaller cities