In 1994, Industry Canada published a document entitled "The Canadian Information Highway: Building Canada's Information And Communications Infrastructure."

This document was produced at a time when few Canadians had heard of the Internet, or had access to email, or a reason to use either.

Yet the Government of Canada had heard of these things, and was sufficiently engaged as to foster a series of consultations with industry and the Canadian public. The goal was to envision the best way to serve Canadians in the emerging knowledge economy.

In the intervening years, Canada first developed leadership in this area, and then lost the momentum of those early years.

Now Canadians have a 'Net infrastructure overseen by an increasingly irrelevant CRTC, sold to them by a duopoly that charges more for less, and increasingly Canada is seen as falling behind in the Internet revolution.

In this milieu, the University of Waterloo is sponsoring a conference entitled Canada 3.0.

This is a TweeterBrowser diagram depicting the relationships between 40 randomly chosen users who tweeted messages containing the text #can30 between 10:24 AM EST and 11:18 AM EST Monday June 8, 2009.

The diagram depicts a high degree of connectedness between the users returned by the search results.

Not all of these messages and tweeters are participants in the Canada 3.0 conference.

Spammers now troll Twitter looking for trending topics to which they can append their messages. Some of the search results that fed this diagram contain messages that contain hashtag spam.

This diagram was created using the TweeterBrowser, a tool for social graph analysis.

Install the TweeterBrowser to examine the relationships between Twitter accounts.

TweeterBrowser is availabe here at tweeterbrowser.com