Here are the abouts from my twitter friends: i podcast and create junk for a living Indie Music and Fun UX & Web developer from Poutine land. Dopplr CTO. If you follow me, consider starting off with an @mattb message and introduce yourself. I do web stuff for people, design, xhtml/css, blogs, etc. Still having [...]
Evan just launched an open source twitterish thing called identi.ca. He’s got tons of traction in a few short days (that surely have been long for Evan and the rest of the crack team at Controlez-Vous), including lots of interest from luminaries such as Dave Winer, Tm O’Reilly and others. So: first, a big kudos [...]
NYTimes reports: The White House in December refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency’s conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, telling agency officials that an e-mail message containing the document would not be opened, senior E.P.A. officials said last week. The document, which ended up in e-mail limbo, without official status, [...]
I occasionally ask, has Miette read you a bedtime story yet? You should let her; The New Yorker has, and they liked it, even if they mixed up one Irish lass for another (who, I wonder?). Speaking of which, whenever I come across Eveline [txt], I always think about Kurt Vonnegut’s wonderful essay about writing, [...]
Books also give off special smells. According to a recent survey of French students, 43 percent consider smell to be one of the most important qualities of printed books—so important that they resist buying odorless electronic books. CaféScribe, a French on-line publisher, is trying to counteract that reaction by giving its customers a sticker that [...]
I should have mentioned this eariler: LibriVox is a finalist in the Stockholm Challenge, an award & conference put on by the City of Stockholm, which: …features a six category Award for ICT for Development projects. ICT stands for Information and Communication Technologies and the best projects will win the prestigious Stockholm Challenge trophies and [...]
From GRAIN: Farmers across the world produced a record 2.3 billion tons of grain in 2007, up 4% on the previous year. Since 1961 the world’s cereal output has tripled, while the population has doubled. Stocks are at their lowest level in 30 years, it’s true,[4] but the bottom line is that there is enough [...]
Happy May Day. Sylvain has organized a meeting tonight to discuss putting together a podcamp montreal: Jeudi 1er mai / Thursday May 1st 19h (?) Sergent-Recruteur 4801 Saint-Laurent I can’t make it, but here are my thoughts: For a podcasting conference in Montreal, I would like to see this question be the central theme: -what [...]
A symposium on computation + journalism Feb 22-23, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Hosted by GVU Center at Georgia Tech. Panels * Advances in News Gathering * Improving Journalism Workflow: Automation & Productivity * Social Computing and Journalism * Ubiquitous Journalism * Participant Journalism & Journalism Participation: Authoring and Interacting in New Media * [...]