http://www.hogtownconsulting.com/wordpress The Hogtown Consulting weblog, Internet technolgy and how it relates to your business Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:09:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At root the idea of net neutrality is that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who provide our connections to the Internet should not discriminate against data traffic based on it's origin, type or destination. Net neutrality may seem like an arcane concept, but it is an extremely important cornerstone of maintaining ... http://www.hogtownconsulting.com/wordpress/archives/bell-canada-stomps-on-network-neutrality/ Starting on March 10 (mucho soon now) I will be joining the Interactive Arts and Entertainment program at the Canadian Film Centre. The five month long program is divided into two main components: an instructional component and a self-directed production component. The two and a half month instructional component consists ... http://www.hogtownconsulting.com/wordpress/archives/new-media-fun-and-learning/ Actually it isn't an all knowing table, but I have been working on a prototype table interface that can recognise objects and respond to them. The project is based on the Reactivision software. Which takes care of recognising a specific set of amoeba looking symbols and reporting their position. The underlying tech ... http://www.hogtownconsulting.com/wordpress/archives/the-all-knowing-table/ I'm tired, but excited, after what might be called the 'launch' of Media Lab Toronto. MLT is an idea, or really a bunch of ideas, and some people (Dory Kornfeld, Michael Pereira, Gabe Sawhney and I so far). The ideas tend to revolve around new media, technology and art (with ... http://www.hogtownconsulting.com/wordpress/archives/media-lab-toronto-appears/ October 10th was election day here in Ontario, and gave me the opportunity I was looking for to dive into a Processing project. Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions... [It] is developed by artists and designers as an ... http://www.hogtownconsulting.com/wordpress/archives/ontario-election-data-visualisation-or-processing-is-fun/ I've been thinking a bit about ingenuity this week, which my mac dictionary tells be means 'he quality of being clever, original, and inventive'. I have in mind collecting some examples of ingenuity as a blog topic and an inspiration. Here are two I stumbled across at Tecznotes blog while ... http://www.hogtownconsulting.com/wordpress/archives/on-ingenuity/ First of all an apology, when signing up to a new book-centred social networking site (Shelfari) I accidentally caused an email invite to the site to go out to everyone in my email address book. For christ's sake, I'm supposed to be an Internet professional no? Not a bloody spammer ... http://www.hogtownconsulting.com/wordpress/archives/shelfari-an-apology-and-a-plea-for-sensible-user-interfaces/ It may be a little late to be news, but the web *is* cool. I write his mostly because as someone constantly entwined in the web it can be easy to forget it. In fact, I think I may have written this post before. But still, it *is* cool whet the ... http://www.hogtownconsulting.com/wordpress/archives/the-web-is-cool/ Here's the techie bit, bear with me this starts to make sense (perhaps) in a minute. If you're considering moving a website from an established domain name (let's say www.oldsite.net) to a new domain (perhaps www.rebrandedsite.com) be very careful. Google will tell you that using a 301 redirect is ... http://www.hogtownconsulting.com/wordpress/archives/on-casecamp-and-the-perils-of-301-redirects-to-your-google-traffic/ Yesterday was InteractionCamp Toronto BarCamp centred around user experience and design. I was a little brain-frazzled (after moving home this week) to get the premium BarCamp experience, only attending half the session slots and ducking out for part of the day. But still I had a good time. The BarCamp experience ... http://www.hogtownconsulting.com/wordpress/archives/interaction-camp/