Recent Episodes
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Spark 172 – February 12 & 15, 2012
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Spark 171 – February 5 & 8, 2012
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Spark 170 – January 29 & February 1, 2012
27 January 2012 5:34 PM | 10 Comments
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Tech Headlines from cbc.ca- Environment group testifies on charities' tax status
- Online surveillance bill targets child porn: Toews
- U.S. weighs steep nuclear arms cuts
- Groups to take Ottawa to court over vanishing sage grouse
- Nortel hit by suspected Chinese cyberattacks for a decade
- New iPad anticipated in March
- Higgs boson hunt aided by energy boost
- Google's $12.5B Motorola bid cleared by U.S. and EU
- Canada dropping the ozone ball, scientists warn
- CBC digital music service launched
Archive for May, 2009
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Full Interview: Andrea Reimer on open cities
Posted on May 27, 2009 | 10 CommentsLast week, Vancouver City Council passed a motion (PDF) to endorse the principles of “making its data open and accessible to everyone where possible, adopting open standards for that data... -
Episode 79 – May 27 & 30, 2009
Posted on May 26, 2009 | 14 CommentsDigital preservation, Exclamation Marks (!!!) and SPIN Farming. Click to listen: [audio:http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/spark_20090527_16154.mp3|width=160] -
Trend: Open, accessible government data
Posted on May 25, 2009 | 28 CommentsOpen, accessible government data really seems to be hotting up. Last week, the White House launched Data.gov, a website that promises to “make a broad array of U.S. Government data... -
Full Interview: Ethan Zuckerman on translation and the multilingual web
Posted on May 25, 2009 | 15 CommentsEarlier this month, the TED Conference announced its Open Translation Project, which aims to translate, subtitle, and add transcriptions to its popular series of TED Talks: Every talk on TED.com... -
Video: Nora Young visits CBC Radio Archives
Posted on May 22, 2009 | 6 CommentsOn the May 27th episode of Spark, we’re doing a radio story about digital preservation. With that in mind, Nora took a trip to the CBC Radio Archives, where archivist...