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 August, 2009
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Video: Tour of the Digital Bookmobile
Posted on August 31, 2009 | 15 CommentsEarlier this afternoon, I visited the Richview branch of the Toronto Public Library to see the Digital Bookmobile, which was in town to promote the TPL’s Overdrive collection of downloadable... -
A World Without Email
Posted on August 31, 2009 | 7 Comments“Email is where knowledge goes to die” — Bill French Last season on Spark, Nora talked to researcher danah boyd about her idea of an email sabbatical. I believe that... -
Video: Industry Minister at Toronto copyright town hall
Posted on August 28, 2009 | 7 CommentsAfter last night’s copyright town hall in Toronto, the press (Search Engine’s Jesse Brown, the Globe and Mail, and I) had a chance to scrum Industry Minister Tony Clement. (My... -
Lost Dogs (and other things that still work best offline)
Posted on August 27, 2009 | 32 CommentsYesterday, on my walk home, I passed a young girl who was taping “lost dog” posters to trees and lampposts near the park in our neighbourhood. And it got me... -
Andy Kaplan-Myrth of Creative Commons Canada responds to the idea of “Open Textbooks”
Posted on August 26, 2009 | 1 CommentYesterday, I posted Nora’s full interview with Eric Frank from Flat World Knowledge, a company that publishes “open textbooks” — free remixable academic works published under a Creative Commons license....