Mike Cantelon

May Day is a traditional day of the people, a holiday celebrating movements that work for the betterment of the "lower classes". It was a strange coincidence that May Day 2007 coincided with the largest ever online anti-censorship protest against a news site with user-driven content. Digg.com, the target of the protest, is a website that promotes itself as a democratic news aggregator but has repeatedly been accused of censorship.

The protest was in response to a Digg user's account being deleted for posting the numbers 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 (which constitute a key that facilitates the decryption of HD DVD content).

Looking for a quick way to boost your traffic? Based on the work of Graywolf, I've created a Javascript that will render a social bookmarking widget with icons for submitting content to Digg, Reddit, etc. Download it here.

Vancouver Open Business News (http://www.vanopen.biz) is open for beta testing.

On it, folks can submit Vancouver-related open source/open business related news, commentary, etc. As on the popular tech news site Digg, Stories can be submitted, voted on, and commented on by anybody. Stories that receive the most votes will be ranked highest on the site.

The aim of the project is to promote a sense of community, and facilitate intelligence sharing, in Vancouver's open source and open business communi