THE FIFTH COLUMN

"This column is dedicated to the proposition that Canada (and indeed the world) is in a crisis situation and that fundamental social change is required to remedy this situation." - The First Column, Lambda November 2, 1971 This blog is inspired by my column of the same name in the Laurentian University Newspaper, Lambda, from 1971-1973. The title refers to the concept of subverting the system from within. To read key excerpts from those columns read the first few posts in this blog.

2024-01-03

AI Has Nothing To Do With Intelligence

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AI has nothing to do with intelligence but people believe the marketing hype, mostly because we have a distorted idea of what intelligence ...
2023-12-17

Is There Hope For Palestine

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 I wrote this in November 2007 on the hope for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The solution essentially comes down to u...
2023-12-04

Franzis Black and White Projects Professional 6 Photo Film Emulation Versions

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This is a demonstration of the film emulation capabilities of Franzis Black & White Projects. I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the emu...
2023-12-02

Palestine – What If

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  Balfour Declaration (November 2nd, 1917) "His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a nationa...
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2023-11-10

Remembrance Day and Righteous Wars

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When I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s Remembrance Day was a very solemn occasion. There were still a lot of World War II veterans par...
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2023-11-05

All Photography is “Photoshopped”

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A pretty bold claim but what do I mean by it. Well I do not mean “photoshopped” in the sense of someone going through their photo collection...
2023-09-25

What If We Had A Different Non-Political Form of Representative Government

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I have been thinking about what a non-political from of representative government might look like and whether it could be considered democr...
2023-08-29

Fernbank Road Pond Photo Versions

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Slideshow of photos taken along the Fernbank Road Pond in Stittsville in July 2023 with my Panasonic Lumix FZ100 camera and edited with Ph...
2023-08-19

Imagining A Post Capitalist World

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This is not meant to be a comprehensive analysis but an imagining of some of the features of a post capitalist world. OK lets get this o...
2023-07-24

The stages of corporate social media

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Corporate social media essentially goes through three stages. The first is new, free and wonderful, lots of functionality, user friend...
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Richard W. Woodley was born in Sudbury, Ontario in 1950. He earned an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Laurentian University where he was the News Editor of the student newspaper Lambda and active in student politics. He was active in the New Democratic Party and Waffle in Sudbury and Kanata, as well as Kanata municipal politics. He was a member of the Bridlewood Residents Hydro Line Committee (BRHLC) and creator of the now archived Bridlewood Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) Information Service. He worked on Parliament Hill for 33 years indexing the Debates of the House of Commons (Hansard) and it's committees. Richard has been an outdoorsperson and environmentalist for most of his life and a life long cyclist.
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