Balisage

I used to, sometimes, go to a conference in Montreal in August called Extreme Markup Languages. Sometimes a bit over-the-top geeky for me, but mostly a good experience. There’s now a new conference in Montreal in August, run by some of the same people and chaired by Tommie Usdin from Mulberry Technologies, called Balisage (the [...]

Web 2.0: Issues

There are some issues with Web 2.0, mostly in the areas of privacy, security, copyright — all those things you’d rather you didn’t need to worry about. Take privacy for example. On many social networking sites people sign up and then put in all their personal information simply because there’s a field there for it. [...]