Net Neutrality Rally May 27, Ottawa
Big rally in Ottawa to keep the content in pipes moving freely!
For Sale: Arctic Sovereignty?
Radarsat-2 article in the Walrus.
How losing a Canadian satellite to the US would be like losing our eyes on the North
by Michael Byers
Nargis Imagery From Asia Pacific & other Organizations
Myanmar: Forecasting Worked, Mitigation - Response Failed Again, Vector 1 Media. Bref, we can model til the cows come home, and the models can be great, but if the people on the ground do not have the capacity to understand or want to hear what is being told, the warnings and the forecasts, then we see rising death tolls, just like in Burma right now. It is not a math or science problem, it is a people problem.
ohoh! China and a post US world
Government of China Moto:
Enrich yourselves, but leave the driving to us
The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria. He states that the US will do well as China and India rise for the following 4 reasons.
- Momentum and adaptability
- Industries of the future, info, bio, nano,
- Higher education is the best industry
- US demographics are young, immigration brings in 1 000 000 legally
Broadband Atlas Research
A small group of researchers including myself are doing a scan of maps, atlases and visual statistics on the Internet and the telecommunication infrastructure. The start of our collection can be found in a bookmark sharing file that will expand with time. And scanned images from paper products can be found here. If you have ideas, suggestions, links to maps/atlases you have seen or data sources for Canada we would most appreciate them.
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Movie Faves
Le scaphandre et le papillon
Radarsat-2 Not to be sold
The deal will not go through as Mr. Prentice said he is not satisfied that the deal "is likely to be of net benefit to Canada."
2+ years of blogging
Well it has been 2 + years since I started Blogging!
There have been about 35k + visits, 581 posts, some longer, others better, some good stuff with some intermitten nonsense and overall a really good time with a bit of time wasting on this blog. Since then I organized a video blogging workshops in India with Naga youth (stimulating 6 blogs), started 5 community blogs (2 Judo blogs, 1 soccer blog, 1 vagina monologues blog, 1 ogwifi blog), 1 political blog on Nepal, I co-author 1 blog datalibre.ca, and have led some intro to blogging workshops mostly with academics. I will also be teaching a group of women artists to start and take care of their own blog in the next couple of weeks and have inspired a few really interesting blogs. I have been featured on some, send content to many, follow a ton and drop a ton too, get linked and link to many! There were good and really bad sentences and some outrageous spelling. I also love comments and commenting on other peoples and I love writing.
Dam! I am still learning how this works and exploring how to tell stories. I will next learn about recording and making videos as it will be a really useful field work skill. The most fun though has been sharing with others and building an archive of ideas, thoughts and finds. Excellent!
My Dad & Brother!
Hey! Someone googled my family name, got to my blog, and left a trace. When I went to see what they found, I found my dad, brother and brother in law! How cool is that! My dad is one of those snow bird seniors that now has a laptop and he sends from Florida all kinds of cheezy power point pop and sometimes classical music/musac enhanced image sets and bizarre internet urban myths he thinks are true, and they are all entertaining! What is crazy though, is neither of these three family members use the Internet in any significant way, my borther does not send or read emails, they mostly communicate with long range walky talkies, yet they show up before I do on the name search! Aw shucks!
