2008
We're planning an episode for our January 23rd/26th show all about energy, spurred on by the Spark community's discussion about energy use and all our...
Saturday, January 12, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Greetings Saturday listeners and blog visitors. Today's Radio One broadcast of Spark has been pre-empted for a live broadcast of Oscar Peterson: Simply the...
On Wednesday we'll be interviewing Alex Steffen, the executive editor of Worldchanging.com. Worldchanging is a green blog, online magazine and a bestselling book. It covers...
My feet are two different sizes, and while I buy two shoes that are the same size in the store, they don't always fit quite...
Tom Howell is doing a story for next week's show on how armoires are becoming the latest obsolete technology. It seems that liquidation depots are...
According to research by Global Action Plan, "the worldwide ICT sector is responsible for around 2% of man made CO2 each year - a similar...
Howard Rheingold is the author, most famously, of Smart Mobs. Smart Mobs is a prescient book about how our 'always connected' age is starting to...
Want to get in on the ground floor of an experiment? We recently launched the Spark Wiki. A wiki is a website that anyone can...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
This post added January 18th: Maybe you remember that a while back on Spark, we did an item on QR Codes: next generation bar codes...
On this episode of Spark: Alex Pang on "Googling your stuff" with RFID tags Justin Langois turns RSS feeds into art in With Love, RSS...
There's a whole new suite of "cognitive enhancement" drugs out there. In many cases, they've been designed to address the difficulties of people with conditions...
Sunday, January 20, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Canada Reads, CBC's annual "battle of the books" is coming up the week of February 25th. They've always had a lot of extra content and...
About a week ago we posted a videocast of Alex Steffen speaking at PopTech! Alex is the executive editor of Worldchanging.com, a green blog that...
Bundles. Rogers has them. Bell has them. So do Telus, Cogeco, Shaw, and most other telecommunications providers. The idea is simple: Your telephone or...
January 3, 2008: Via the Spark Wiki, Nora announces her plans to interview Howard RheingoldJanuary 9, 2008: Nora asks for your help with the interview...
Google knows a lot about me. I use their services for my personal email, my calendar, and my documents. However, they don't know about my...
On this episode of Spark: Luke Closs measures his energy use with his Kill-a-watt The Ottawa Public Library lends Kill-a-watt meters Michael Bhardwaj fights vampire...
Is there a faster way to get people's eyes rolling than to propose a long meeting? What makes conventional meetings so bad? Do you have...
On this episode of Spark: Spark listeners want customized clothes Nora builds Virtual Nora with My Virtual Model Ian McCarthy explains mass customization (full interview)...
On the January 30 & February 2 episode of Spark, Nora interviewed Ian McCarthy about mass customization. As promised, the full interview is here. To...
Update: the show is now finished and has aired. Listen here. We're putting the finishing touches on the Collaboration show, but we're still missing one...
Nicholas Carr sent shock waves through the tech sector with his last book, Does IT Matter. He's back with a new book called The Big...
On this episode of Spark: Collaboration The Spark community collaborates on the show's script Kevin Lawver and Saffron write very short stories called Ficlets In a...
If Google already knows about your email, calendar, and documents, what happens when it knows about your prescriptions, diet, and medical history? To find out,...
Update: Tammy and Ben's true diagnoses have been revealed. Thanks to everyone who guessed! We'll announce the winners soon. The comments section of this...
On this episode of Spark: The Big Switch Dan Misener accidentally receives someone else's email David Paccioco explains how the law treats digital evidence...
Original photo by Dmitry Baranovskiy I have a pet peeve. Well, actually, anyone who knows me will tell you I have many pet peeves,...
On this episode of Spark: trends in health WebMD's top searches of 2007 Steve Lohr on Google Health and the consumerization of health information...
Original photo by gruzuk. Update: Nora has interviewed Steven Schkolne. Listen here. Update 2: According to fire protection engineer Arie Friedman, putting ethernet cables...
Thursday, February 21, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Google and the Cleveland Clinic have announced a pilot project that allows patients to store their health records online. There's a post about this on...
Monday, February 25, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Here's a story we're looking at for next week's show. We're hoping you'll tell us what you think.... Last month, a high school student in...
Monday, February 25, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
A few weeks ago, we assigned sets of symptoms to Tammy Hillier and Ben Land. Their job was to diagnose themselves online. Spark and White...
Update: According to fire protection engineer Arie Friedman, putting ethernet cables in a clothes dryer is a potential safety risk. We suggest you find another...
Note: This is a repeat broad/podcast of Spark. It originally aired January 9, 2008. A brand new episode of Spark will be here next...
I'm not great at keeping track of things, so tools that help me do that are a huge, uh, help. So, I should have...
I confess, I lie online. Not outrageously, but I do lie about my home address. Sometimes a website will ask me to register by entering...
Update: According to fire protection engineer Arie Friedman, putting ethernet cables in a clothes dryer is a potential safety risk. We suggest you find...
OK- let me preface this by saying This Does Not Apply to All Parents. This observation is based on many conversations with my pals in...
How-to videos are all the rage online these days. You can find them at YouTube, and there are also websites such as Howcast that feature...
We've been cornering all of the parents we know and doing a little random survey recently. The question: Does your child have a cell phone?...
On this episode of Spark: keeping track Eszter Hargittai uses her camera to remember the cheese she likes Saul Greenberg on how technology has changed...
When I sit down to write, it always seems like there are more pressing things to do than actually write. If I'm not distracted...
What does it mean to be "famous on the internet" or "an internet rockstar" or a "microcelebrity?" Clive Thompson describes microcelebrity as the phenomenon of...
As we've already blogged about here, we're looking forward to hosting our first Grandma dinner in the coming weeks. But what if you want to...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
The next episode of Spark features a story about "how to" videos and the simplicity market (and an interview with Lee LeFever). So we decided...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Is your Grandma a great cook? I mean, a really FANTASTIC cook? Not just a plate of cookies, but someone who can cook up...
People of many different ages use cell phones, of course, but for teenagers, it occupies a particularly important role. It's a social prosthetic, a form...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
What's a microcelebrity? No, not a teeny tiny version of Tom Cruise or Angelina Jolie. As Clive Thompson describes it, microcelebrity is "the phenomenon...
On this episode of Spark: Spark listeners stare at their parents across the digital divide Nora mentions Spark's How To Make a Radio Show...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Last fall we met software programmer Ivan Bowman and his colleagues at Sybase iAnywhere in Waterloo, Ontario. Actually, we didn't really meet Ivan, but...
Have you had this experience? You want to watch, say, Lost, and you've heard it's all online, free for the viewing on demand. You go...
This past weekend, I sold a modem on Craigslist. I posted a free ad, fielded responses by email, and met the buyer at a local...
Note: This episode is a repeat, and features stories from the September 19 and November 28, 2007 episodes.On this episode of Spark: Spark listeners are...
Monday, March 31, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Original photo by roland. I'm thrilled to tell you that Amber Mac, aka Amber MacArthur, has joined the Spark team as a columnist. Amber...
According to his website, Ian Usher has a great life. I live in a nice house in a beautiful area of a fantastic city, in...
Bill St. Arnaud on how Canada's broadband access compares to the rest of the world: We were number two in broadband rankings around the world...
Monday, April 14, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
How much difference can a "quivering" controller make to your video game experience? Our video columnist Jesse Wente explains in this video, an introduction...
This morning, Nora interviewed Mirko Bibic, Bell Canada's Chief of Regulatory Affairs: You can download the mp3. A shorter version of this interview will air on...
Original photo by Wyscan Websites shut down everyday. It's a fact of life online. Just take a look at the TechCrunch Deadpool. Still, it's...
Photo Credit: Gifted Typist Have you had the experience, intentional or not, of being separated from the perpetual connectivity of email, IM, cell phone...
Original photo by Ben Zvan On this episode of Spark: Access Jenny Sparrow learns that her "unlimited" internet plan actually has some limitations (see...
Thursday, April 17, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Original photo by Stewart Last year, my friends Mike and Catherine's Powerbook died. Along with it, they lost a huge number of digital photos,...
Original photo by desi.italy Do you blog? Twitter? SMS? The April 23 & 26 episode of Spark is all about how digital technology is...
Right now, we're working on an episode of Spark all about being on and off "the grid," and how sometimes being on the grid can...
Update: Thanks for your game guesses! I've posted the answers and names of the winners below. The other day, Nora, Dan and I found ourselves...
Photo credit: aprillynn77 Nora hates Times New Roman. She blogged about it awhile back, and lots of people chimed with in their take on...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Original photo by Martin Kingsley Over at cbc.ca/technology, Scott Valentine has a nice piece called Ctrl-Alt-Reduce: Canada is well behind places such as the...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Original photo by oceanpark Q. What do you get when you "mix up a bunch of super famous internet memes, some brainy academics, a...
Original photo by shanda.w Note: The on-air broadcast of this episode has been preempted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 for Poetry Face-Off. However, the...
Original photo by penmachine Derek K. Miller has been online since the turn of the 1980s. In 1983, his family got their first modem....
Recently in the UK, there's been a lot of talk about a company called Phorm. They've partnered with three of the UK's largest Internet Service...
Saturday, April 26, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
ROFLCon takes place this weekend at MIT in Cambridge. Kate Raynes-Goldie is there, blogging it for Spark. Here's her second post: "The internet is...
Monday, April 28, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
ROFLCon took place this past weekend at MIT in Cambridge. Kate Raynes-Goldie was there, and blogged it for Spark. Here's her final post: ROFLCon...
Monday, April 28, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
If you don't know who Strong Bad is, go watch him answer some emails right now. It's OK, I'll wait. Back? OK, good. Now...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Original photo by BotheredByBees Each week on Spark, Nora mentions that the show is made with Creative Commons music. But we've never really talked...
Saturday, May 3, 2008 | Categories: Episodes |
On this episode of Spark: Your Digital Legacy Derek K. Miller wonders if he needs a digital executor (full interview)Amber Mac explains Creative CommonsCatherine tells...
When you look at your TODO list, what do you see? If you're like me, you see the same darn things that were there last...
I hate voice mail. If I'm not going to speak to someone face-to-face, I'd way rather have a message in text form--say, an email or...
Original photo from Michael Tutton On this episode of Spark: Disney's Virtual Magic Kingdom closes its doors Cassie's LetsSaveVMK videos on YouTube Aengus's TodayInVMK.com...
Original photo by Geekgirly It's these kind of interviews that make us really happy we can post the uncut audio for everyone to hear....
Monday, May 12, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Update: The dinner is sold out! Thanks to all who have signed up and regrets if you've missed out this time. Maybe you heard...
Ah, the Harlequin romance. A quick glance at Harlequin's site revels these fantastic titles: The Italian Playboy's Secret Son, The Greek Tycoon's Unexpected Wife...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
This week's episode of Spark originally aired on February 13, 2008. Usually, when a repeat episode of Spark goes over the radio airwaves, a...
If you spend much time online, you've probably seen your fair share of LOLcats: cute photos of cats with silly captions written in a...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Photo courtesy of Liz Henry Sure it's easy to tackle those to-do tasks that you're really charged up about, but what about those pesky,...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Original photo by JasonRogers. According to the FCC, "On February 17, 2009 all full-power broadcast television stations in the United States will stop broadcasting...
Original photo from slava On this episode of Spark: Clay Shirky talks about our cognitive surplus (full interview) Merlin Mann helps Nora cringe-bust her...
Yesterday at the Mesh 2008 conference, Nora did an onstage interview with Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher with Microsoft and "a designer and a researcher...
Recently, I had the chance to interview Jonathan Zittrain. Jonathan is one of the founders of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Update: The dinner is sold out! Thanks to all who have signed up and regrets if you've missed out this time. Update 2: Updated...
On this episode of Spark: Harlequin's Malle Vallik publishes romance 2.0 (full interview) Amber Mac explains what the US switch to digital broadcasting in...
A little while ago, Nora asked you to submit your best LOLcat-style caption for a photo of her cat Billie. She promised to pick...
Due to the cbc.ca outage today, we've delayed Round 2 of LOLcat Idol voting by one day. Sorry for any inconvenience. Check back on...
The votes have been tallied, and the first LOLcat Idol finalist has been eliminated. Today, we bid a fond farewell to John's submission: "Plz...
The votes have been tallied, and the secondLOLcat Idol finalist has been eliminated: The second to go is "OH NOEZ!!!11 BILLIE IS TEH STUCK."...
We've all been there: you open up your inbox to find an email with a subject like Fwd: Fw: FWD: VIRUS WARNING!!! You open...
And the winner is: "I'M IN UR RADIO JUICE DRINKIN UR INSPIRASHUN" by smd. Congratulations! Thanks to everyone who submitted a caption, and everyone...
This morning, Nora interviewed Steven Johnson, author of The Ghost Map, and co-founder of the hyperlocal community site outside.in. They talked about the state of...
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
If you hear something you like on Spark, in many cases, you can hear more at this site. Whenever possible, we post full, uncut...
On this episode of Spark: [00:47] Eugene Potapov helps deer blog Solomon's blog Project details Eugene's full interview on Google Video [05:21] Steven Johnson...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Many thanks to everyone who came out to our Grandma Dinner last night. Elena DiCesare charmed her guests and filled their tummies with a...
Original photo from HML On this episode of Spark: the shape of things to come Valérie Lamontagne tells the story of Peau d'Âne, and...
Thursday, June 12, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Original photo from kiwanja.net Africa has almost 300 million mobile phone subscribers, with a penetration rate fast approaching 30%. That has led to what...
This morning, Nora interviewed Ken Banks of kiwanja.net. They talked about the "The Grassroots Mobile Revolution" in Africa -- design and innovation, informal businesses built...
Original photo from photooftheday.hughcrawford.com On this episode of Spark: Chris Higgins discovers Hugh Crawford and Betsy Reid's digital version of Jamie Livingston's 'Polaroid a...
Saturday, June 21, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Photo Credit: RonAlmog We rolled out the last episode of the first season of Spark on June 18th and 21st. Thanks to everyone who...
Sunday, June 22, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Photo Credit: Visualdensity We're really happy about, and thankful for, all of you who took the time to read the blog, listen to extended...
Monday, August 18, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Original photo by Carolyn Coles Hurrah! Today is the official first day back for the Spark team. Thanks to everyone who contributed ideas to...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Original photo by tracitodd Two high school teachers in Colorado have come up with a great new approach to teaching chemistry. Instead of lecturing...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Hi Sparkers, My name is Chris Kelly. I'm new. For the next month I will be producing here at Spark while Dan Misener works...
We're going to try a little something new on the blog. Every Wednesday, we'll post our story chase list. It's a run down of...
Thursday, August 21, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
The above video is an animatronic version of Montreal-band The Arcade Fire's song "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)". This is one of a series of popular...
Monday, August 25, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
As producer Liz Bowie posted last Monday, we're back! But before coming back we had a meeting about what Spark's second season would be...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
If it's Wednesday, it must be chase list time. Here are some of the stories we're working on. We'd love it if you'd give...
Thursday, August 28, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Photo Credit, Joao Pedro, uai! If you're interested in a bit of a look behind the scenes at Spark, you might want to check...
LAST WEEK'S WINNER: Calvin!! It's Friday so that means another contest and luckily it ties into a show we're chasing at the moment so...
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
We had our story meeting today and made a list of ideas we're chasing for the near future. Here's what is in the hopper....
Fine art photographer Ed Burtynsky dropped by the other day and had a great chat with Nora about preserving our photographs for the future. Ed...
You could call Brewster Kahle the Internet's librarian. He's the founder of Internet Archive, a huge digital archive that's home to video, music, audio...
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 | Categories: Episodes |
You heard it here first! Get Spark one day in advance by listening online or by subscribing to the podcast. On this episode of...
photo credit Max Kiesler Recently, I came across this amusing graph called The CGI Effect Uncanny Valley (via New Scientist). The term "uncanny valley"...
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Original photo by soylentgreen23 Right now we're putting together a little series called "Canada's Digital Wish List." We're asking people who work in tech...
Original photo from Mykl Roventine Matt Richtel has coined a new word: Twiller. A Twiller is a thriller written on Twitter, the micro-blogging platform...
Photo Credit: totalAldo Mitch Kapor knows a lot about success in innovative technology. He was the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, which helped make personal...
Monday, September 15, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Photo Credit Lady Vervaine Here are some of the stories that won't be making it onto the show, but that we thought made for...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Leading up to the Canadian federal election, Spark presents Canada's Digital Wish List. We're asking people who work in technology and innovation to tell us...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Over the coming weeks, Spark is running a special series about building an online presence you can be proud of. Merlin Mann of 43Folders.com...
Original Photo from: House of Sims The Numerati is author Stephen Baker's term for the "new math intelligentsia": experts who create mathematical models designed...
Thursday, September 18, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Original photo by bobjudge. Translation of the post title? Pabst Blue Ribbon, the three letter acronym for the urban hipster elite! If you...
Original photo by touterse. On this episode of Spark: Matt Richtel writes a Twiller - a thriller novel on Twitter (full interview) Nora mentions...
Monday, September 22, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Original Photo by Lady Vervaine Elizabeth Graduate students give away 100 robots to at-risk kids. The fun really starts when they put the robots...
Original photo by Gina's Bike On this episode of Spark: Stephen Baker introduces Nora to The Numerati and explains why they want your data...
Photo by PinkMoose I have four copies of the yellow pages at my house. They just keep piling up, but I almost never use...
Today, The Canadian Internet Project published its report on how Canadians use the Internet, traditional media and emerging technologies. One of the most surprising...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Leading up to the 2008 Canadian federal election, Spark presents Canada's Digital Wish List. We're asking people who work in technology and innovation to...
On this week's show, Nora chats with Nathan Eagle about designing mobile phone applications in Africa. Nathan is an MIT research scientist and postdoctoral...
Original photo by whiteafrican On this episode of Spark: Bill Perry's tale of two laptops Nathan Eagle empowers people in the Dominican Republic and...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Original photo by Gaetan Lee Last week, Charlie Sorrel over at Wired's Gadget Lab ran an experiment to see if it was possible for...
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Leading up to the Canadian federal election, Spark presents Canada's Digital Wish List. We're asking people who work in technology and innovation to tell us...
I finally got a new computer at home, after experiencing some Bill Perry-esque social shame about my unattractive older computer. I love the new one,...
Nora linked to a story about a Florida tech company that's letting some of its employees choose the type of computers they use at work....
Monday, October 6, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Original Photo by Lady Vervaine ElizabethAre you more likely to lie via email or on paper? Lifehacker weighs in. The New York Times says...
Jane McGonigal's new online game is set to launch tonight. It's called Superstruct and Jane has created the game for the Institute for the...
Original photo by smemnon87. On this episode of Spark: Dan talks to Ilona Dougherty, Richard Akerman, and Grace Lake about voting online Would you...
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Leading up to the Canadian federal election, Spark presents Canada's Digital Wish List. We're asking people who work in technology and innovation to tell us...
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Over the coming weeks, Spark is running a special series about building an online presence you can be proud of. Merlin Mann of 43Folders.com...
photo from A._www.viajar24h.com I always enjoy reading Laurent Haug's blog and recently I saw this post and wanted to get your two cents. Laurent...
Friday, October 10, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Original photo by semihundido. Starting today, Japanese company Cyberdyne will mass-produce its HAL ("Hybrid Assistive Limb") exoskeleton: The 22-pound battery-operated computer system is belted...
Last week, we asked if you would vote over the internet in a federal election. You voted online (sometimes, more than once), and as...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Over the coming weeks, Spark is running a special series about building an online presence you can be proud of. Merlin Mann of 43Folders.com will...
Original photo by oskay. On this episode of Spark: Jean Snow looks back at the 2008 Tokyo Game Show Peter Nowak visits the Brookhaven...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Over the coming weeks, Spark is running a special series about building an online presence you can be proud of. Merlin Mann of 43Folders.com...
Original image from footage. Note: The items on this episode of Spark aired on previous episodes. We hope you enjoy this remix. Why isn't...
It's starting to get cold. Unlike last winter, touchscreen devices are all the rage. Just look at the iPhone, iPod Touch, Samsung Instinct, HTC...
Update: Got all the voices I need to mix the show. Thanks so much! Spark has a new toll-free telephone number, and we're keen...
I've heard of blind dating and speed dating and even lunch dating, where you're supposed to go on a date in the middle of...
Original Photo by Kalandrakas "Honest Signals" is the term for the non-verbal cues we send to other people when we're in conversation. Even if...
Original image from Dan Misener. On this episode of Spark: Twanna A. Hines explains the group dating trend (full interview) Merlin Mann talks about...
Imagine never having to remember another username and password again. That's the promise of OpenID, which aims to eliminate "the need for multiple usernames across...
Monday, November 3, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Over the coming weeks, Spark is running a special series about building an online presence you can be proud of. Merlin Mann of 43Folders.com will...
On this episode of Spark: Bill Gauley tests toilets for efficiency Bill's toilet report, video and photos of the toilet lab Raphael Grignani designs...
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
A word of warning: This is not what it looks like! What's in the toilet is SOYBEAN PASTE! But, you still may not want to...
Original photo by jsc The other day, my colleague, Liz, told me about an experience she had in an electronics store. The products were...
Original image by stshank Allow me, just for a moment, to geek out about the Spark podcast. Each 27-minute podcast episode of Spark is...
Monday, November 10, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Original photo by edans Last week, I wrote about low-bandwidth podcasts -- separate feeds of lower-bitrate MP3 files for the bandwidth-conscious. Today, we're pleased...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 | Categories: Blog, Contest |
photo by Jackie Sharkey Update 2: Here are the answers: :: Bananas--$3.45 :: Dog food--$11.99 :: Cranberry juice--$10.49 :: Potato chips--$5.75 :: Toilet paper--$12.79...
Original image by ralphbijker On this episode of Spark: Jackie Sharkey explains internet use in Nunavut Spark listeners do their best dial-up impressions Contest:...
A new Ipsos-Reid poll released today by Microsoft points to a mobile device gender gap. Among the findings: Men are more likely than women to...
Original photo by Robert Scoble "Exposure to these new technologies may be pushing the Net Generation brain past conventional limitations." - Don Tapscott In...
Original photo by roland Earlier this month, Peter Nowak of cbc.ca/technology wrote about how Bell, Rogers, and Telus were dropping cell phone system access...
Friday, November 14, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Over the coming weeks, Spark is running a special series about building an online presence you can be proud of. Merlin Mann of 43Folders.com...
This morning, Nora interviewed Don Tapscott. He's the author of several books, most recently Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is changing your world....
Original photo by trialsanderrors OK, I admit it; we've kind of backed ourselves into a corner. For our December 31st/Jan 3rd show, we wanted...
Original image by Pink Sherbet Photography On this episode of Spark: Gavin O'Carroll sends postcards to his relatives using Send With Peggy Don Tapscott...
Nora, Liz and I sit on the east side of the Canadian Broadcasting Centre, near a window that looks out onto a construction site....
Original image by lorentey When I arrive at work in the morning, the first thing I do is turn on my computer. Then I...
(OK, this is clearly not Vincent, but some cute Lam fans I found on Flickr.) Recently, I went to a very cool conference in...
photo by Brian Solis, www.briansolis.com, bub.blicio.us. A couple of weeks ago, Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos.com, laid off eight per cent of his...
Original image by foundphotoslj On this episode of Spark: Work 2.0 Tony Hsieh blogs about the layoffs at his company, Zappos.com (full interview) Don...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Over the coming weeks, Spark is running a special series about building an online presence you can be proud of. Merlin Mann of 43Folders.com...
Sunday, November 30, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
I've stumbled across a couple of well done documentaries lately that I thought you might be interested in. They touch on a lot of the...
Original Photo by Papertygre This morning, I interviewed Gregory Berns, who is Distinguished Chair of Neuroeconomics at Emory University, about his new book, Iconoclast:...
Original image by 416style On this episode of Spark: Boot-up Times and Iconoclasts Nora reads responses to What do you do while your computer...
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
In response to Nora's interview with Gregory Berns on Spark 56, Amy Matthews twittered: @sparkcbc Great show today! The 'iconoclast' discussion was interesting; it reminded...
Thursday, December 4, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
photo by visualpanic A couple of months ago, we got a nifty new technology called a "toll-free number." Every week, we see a lot...
Friday, December 5, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Original image by apdk Chris Jensen teaches Religious Studies 110 at the University of Saskatchewan. And this year, the class project was to make...
As transparency and two-way communication become the norm in business, media, and journalism, why has so much of what's happened in Ottawa recently taken...
Original Photo by Dreamer 7112 This morning I spoke to Tom Steinberg, director of MySociety, a not-for-profit that creates websites designed to connect citizens...
Original photo by RebeccaPollard Last month, Nicholas at CrunchGear linked to a talk by Tom Armitage called If Gamers Ran The World, about the...
Original image by jpctalbot On this episode of Spark: Government transparency, blogs, and vlogs Rahaf Harfoush explains what Obama's campaign and change.gov can teach...
Original Photo by Eric I.E. This morning, I interviewed Angela Troyer, who is a neuropsychologist researching at the Baycrest Centre in Toronto. She specializes...
Thursday, December 11, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Over the past few weeks, Spark has been running a special series about building an online presence you can be proud of. Merlin Mann of...
Original photo credit: Jeremy Harris Over the past several weeks, Merlin Mann of 43Folders.com has appeared on Spark to present a special series all...
Original image by machaon-dance On this episode of Spark: Memory, Wikipedia,and Sewing 2.0 Angela Troyer explains why ballroom dancing can help improve your memory...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 | Categories: Blog |
Last year, Nora interviewed Jay Baydala about ChristmasFuture, a charity that wants to redirect holiday spending toward the eradication of extreme poverty. Starting today and...
Original Image by Marcin Wichary Recently, I interviewed Gary Small, a neuroscientist, and co-author of iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind....
Original photo by whiteafrican "The Internet Age should be a golden age for bridge figures and for xenophiles." That's what Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow...
Original image by Joi This week on Spark, a feature interview with Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without...
Original image by Duy's Photo Shoots For our New Year's show, we tried something a little different. Producer Jane Farrow put together a special...
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