Friday, December 1st, 2006
My brother Kevin Robertson’s new comic American Soil is now available to order in both print and PDF copies. It’s a Horror Comedy Political Satire inspired by the U.S. led “War on Terrorism”, and set amidst an invasion of flesh eating zombies. Fantastic artwork, and a very entertaining script make this a great book for those interested in comics, horror films, and recent political events. I recently asked Kevin some questions about the book, and the process that brought it together.
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Tags: art, books, Family, film, politics, spooky, webcomic
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Monday, May 29th, 2006
I was speaking at the Ontario Universities Computing Conference (OUCC) today about Knowledge & Learning in the Internet Age. I think it’s an interesting topic and there was some good discussion, but an hour didn’t leave us all that much time to cover the material in much detail.
During my presentation I talked about Wikipedia and how the accuracy of some topics can be in question—particularly for politically sensitive topics, or the entries for politicians.
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Monday, January 23rd, 2006
As we wait to see which of Guelph’s candidates is elected to represent us in Parliament, I thought I’d take a moment to review how well they did using the web for their campaigns. I was surprised to see how few of the candidates thought to run their own campaign blog, and even more surprised to see a few people either had very poorly designed websites—or worse yet, no website at all! Particularly for the smaller parties, it’s quite astounding that they didn’t try and take advantage of the web a bit better.
Here’s my impression of how the candidates did:
Candidate’s Blog
- Phil Allt—NDP
- Mike Nagy—Green
- Brent Barr—Conservative
Candidates who didn’t think to have a blog…
- Brenda Chamberlain—Liberal
- Scott Gilbert—Communist
- Peter Ellis—Christian Heritage
- Manuel Couto—Communist (Lenninist / Marxist)
Candidate’s Website
- Mike Nagy—Green
- Phil Allt—NDP
- Brent Barr—Conservative
- Scott Gilbert—Communist
- Brenda Chamberlain—Liberal
Candidates who didn’t think to even bother with their own website…
- Peter Ellis—Christian Heritage
- Manuel Couto—Communist (Lenninist / Marxist)
It will be interesting to see how this compares to the number of votes each candidate receives.
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Monday, January 23rd, 2006
Today every Canadian of voting age will take to the polls in our nation’s 39th general election. Except for the folk who think it’s just too cold to bother going out today… or the people who just can’t stand the thought of any of the parties being elected… but all the rest, numbering in the thousands for certain, will take to the polls and elect a new national government. Just like we did a year and a half ago.
Here in Guelph the forecast is for temperatures around the freezing point and some snow. That’s a heat-wave for January! And to make sure there’s at least one name you can place your X next to on the ballot, we have not less than seven political parties to choose from. Here they are in no particular order:
Communist Party of Canada – Marxist-Leninist Flavour
Communist Party of Canada – Regular Flavour
Green Party of Canada
New Democratic Party of Canada
Liberal Party of Canada
Conservative Party of Canada
Christian Heritage Party of Canada
Seven choices might seem like a lot, but I miss having someone like Doug Henning or the Rhinocerous Party on the ballot. That made it a lot more fun.
Despite our TV media doing a shamelessly partisan job of reporting on the campaigns of the various political parties I really do think that the only poll that matters is on election day—and if you don’t vote at all, you might not like who the half-dozen people in your town brave enought to go out in the cold decided to elect on your behalf.
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