Recent Episodes
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Spark 172 – February 12 & 15, 2012
10 February 2012 2:55 PM | 6 Comments -
Spark 171 – February 5 & 8, 2012
03 February 2012 12:21 PM | 4 Comments -
Spark 170 – January 29 & February 1, 2012
27 January 2012 5:34 PM | 10 Comments
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Tech Headlines from cbc.ca- CBC digital music service launches today
- Chinese iPhone, iPad factories audited
- FBI seeks social media data mining tool
- Video game's 50th anniversary marked by MIT
- Create-your-own-app product to launch in Moncton
- Pandas being lent to Calgary, Toronto zoos
- Game developer seeks $400K, makes $1M in a day
- Snowy owls flock south
- B.C. killer whale habitat protection ruled a legal duty
- McGill asbestos study review criticized
Followups Archive
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Designed Deteriorization
Posted on May 9, 2011 | 13 CommentsPhotos by Remy Labesque Way back in 2007, Nora interviewed Khoi Vinh about what he calls Designed Deteriorization — the idea that our technological gadgets should be designed to get... -
Ancillary: DIY book scanning
Posted on March 17, 2010 | No CommentsLate last year, Nora interviewed Gabriella Coleman about digital book piracy. One of the reasons Gabriella cited for the increase in book piracy was new software and hardware that makes... -
Ancillary: Text and Tie Strength
Posted on March 1, 2010 | No CommentsOn Spark 104, Nora, danah boyd and Bill Deresiewicz examined online social networking and the concept of friendship (full interview). If you enjoyed that interview, you might be interested in an upcoming... -
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....