Richard Akerman
About: Technology planner at CISTI, Canada's National Science Library and Publisher.
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City of Toronto Web 2.0 Summit Nov. 26-27, 2008
--Looks like you can go to City Hall Council Chamber (?) or attend the webcast.They have a gigantic speakers list, including Ken Cochrane, Chief Info...
meta: 4 year blogiversary in charts
--A series of charts from various stats services, as today is this blog's 4 year anniversary ("blogiversary").(This is not my first blog, my oldest b...
SPARC 2008 on the web
--SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008 - November 17-18, 2008 A few channels for you to follow the meeting: Twitter hashtag #sparc08 I made a Frie...
SPARC 2008 liveblog experiment
--Just an experiment with CoverItLive - may fail totally, we'll see.
in which I meet Lincoln Stein
--Arrived at Baltimore Airport for SPARC Digital Repositories.Stood at under two large green signs reading "Taxi Stand".Waited. Waited.Looked way dow...
City of Ottawa connects to citizens using Web 2.0
--I had never really thought about it, but it does make sense for our local government to draw upon the highly talented tech workforce in the area. A...
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globeandmail.com: Girding for a meteoric rise in popularity
pullquote: "MARSDEN, SASK. — Marsden, a tiny Saskatchewan farming community that hugs the Alberta boundary, is preparing itself for a stampede of people hunting for prized cosmic treasure after several meteorites were recovered nearby. “Yee-haw, they finally found something,” Glenda Hankins, co-owner of the Marsden Hotel, said Friday after it was revealed that two University of Calgary researchers were the first to locate valuable space rocks on top of a frozen pond late Thursday. U of C planetary scientist Alan Hildebrand, who was involved in the successful search, estimates thousands more could be strewn over a debris field north of Marsden that is estimated to be as large as 20 square kilometres."
Recent meteor strike debris found - UPI.com
pullquote: "Canadian researchers reported Friday they had found some debris from a 10-ton meteorite in Saskatchewan that lit up western skies last week. In a statement, University of Calgary planetary scientist Dr. Alan Hildebrand and graduate student Ellen Milley said they had "located several fragments of meteorite Thursday afternoon and are conducting a search of the area to collect some of the estimated thousands of meteorite fragments densely strewn over an estimated (13-square mile) area near the Battle River.""
Microsoft is hugely profitable - just not where Google rules - Nov. 26, 2008
Some interesting audience share charts.
AFP: Twitter, blogs provide riveting accounts of Mumbai attacks
pullquote: "As heavily armed militants rampaged through Mumbai, bloggers, citizen journalists and users of Twitter, the short-messaging service, provided riveting, if sometimes erroneous, accounts of the bloodshed in India's largest city."
15 Hot New Technologies That Will Change Everything - PC World
pullquote: "Memristor circuits lead to ultrasmall PCs. Intel and AMD unleash massively multicore CPUs. Samsung TVs respond to your every gesture. These and other developing technologies will fundamentally change the way you think about--and use--technology."
globecampus.ca ~ Nerd Girl
I can't really decide whether I think this is good or not. I guess it meets its goal of demystifying science work.
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