Michael Geist has just announced that there will be a new book out in September about “the future of Canadian Copyright Law”.

The cool thing about this is that it will be CC licensed. This may or may not mean that it will be available for free (hopefully it is). Providing it as a free download would be a Good Thing™ and would open it up to a much larger audience than the book would otherwise receive. And, since this is an important topic, the more people know about it the better!

Personally, I’m looking forward to it cause I haven’t really had any time to educate myself on Bill C-60 and don’t know any of the details surrounding the Liberal proposed copyright reforms.

Well there was some interesting news the other day when Yahoo purchased Konfabulator and created Yahoo! Widgets as a result.

I was always a big fan of Konfabulator but not enough of a fan to pay for it. When Apple’s Dashboard came out, it seemed like the end for the little guy but they’ve managed to pull thru and (I guess) made some money on the way… Good for them!!

I think that at least initially, this is an awesome move by Yahoo. Aside from putting them on the desktops of a lot of users, it will hopefully be a serious competition to Dashboard on the Mac side of things.

But most importantly of all, it will be a good way for them to start exporting their large array of web services to users in a more concrete (slightly less geeky) way.