Category Archives: Ethics

WiFi by the City of Edmonton

My friend Andrew linked me to this news article about the City of Edmonton and their free WiFi pilot project. So far they’ve done a pilot project in several large community areas that averaged about 250 users a day. I’m extremely skeptical about those numbers considering City Hall was one of the locations. The other [...]

Free Hugs Campaign

I’m sitting in my internet cafe with my good friend, Rob Davy. We’re working on a new website project to do with equestrian classified ads.
For the last few hours we’ve watched a group of people across the street in front of Starbucks holding up “free hugs” posters. I’ve seen this before around town and at [...]

Are old software contracts devaluing my degree? Part 3

The University of Alberta is supposed to be a great school of business in Canada. However I’m slowly losing faith in it. This post is a continuation of my previous posts on my poorly run Management Information Systems class.
Since the last post we have had to create a continuation of our project websites as well [...]

Facebook ads are getting crafty..

Steve Jobs and Bill Gate at D5

I have been watching the panel with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs at this year’s 5th rendition of the D: All Things Digital Conference.
I initially expected to see Jobs and Gates pitted against each other in a battle of wits. The popular idea everyone has of these two tech titans is that they hate [...]