Good things:
Heather Ross reports that SkypeOut (the ability to make phonecalls from computer to telephone/cell phone) is now free for calls made within Canada and the US.

Rob tells us that Statistics Canada is now (finally) Linux friendly.

A Bad Trend:
“Strong Copyright + DRM + Weak Net Neutrality = Digital Dystopia?” This preprint paper from Educause begins to explain one of the biggest combined issues that educational technologists, educators and netizens are facing now and in the near future. I don’t ever want to look back at this post and think, “those were the days”. I hope the best is yet to come.