Canada: Political Parties and Databases

Jonathan Crowe has some useful commentary about the databases our political parties have been building up and how and to what ends.

Re: Can_Con_News on LJ

I'm afraid I closed that community blog down a couple of weeks ago, per discusssions with the current executive of Can-Con. Between Facebook and Twitter, the organizers seem to be getting everything done via Social Media that they need to right now.

Comics: Drawn and Quarterly is Hiring!

Seems like a good time for it. You might have to move to Montréal, but I'd consider it a good trade-off.

https://www.drawnandquarterly.com/blog/2017/01/were-hiring

Is Flickr at Risk?

This raises the question for me:

http://arstechnica.com/business/2017/01/yahoo-board-drops-to-five-mayer-is-out-name-changed-to-altaba/

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/yahoo-not-dead-yet/#p3