by Rob Cottingham | Nov 18, 2005 | Politics, Technology
The title says it all. Gilles Séguin, a retired federal public servant, has compiled an unbelievably vast collection of links on social research in Canada. From education to health care to First Nations to housing… it’s like a Yahoo! of Canadian social... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 18, 2005 | Blogging, Technology
It’s like they’re trying to kill me. WordPress (the software that drives this site) has just released a public beta (testing) version. And tantalizingly, they’ve changed the version number from 1.6 to 2.0. Obviously, you don’t need me to spell... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 18, 2005 | Blogging, Politics, Vancouver
I’ll be voting for Jim Green and the Vision Vancouver team tomorrow, along with several great folks from COPE. (Disclosure: I’ve been working for the Vision campaign — and they’ve made me proud.) After so many years of watching this city... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 17, 2005 | Politics, Technology
Net legend Doc Searls has published a passionate warning: the Internet as a commons is in grave, immediate danger. Do you believe a free and open market should be “Your choice of walled garden” or “Your choice of silo”? That’s what the... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 15, 2005 | Technology
Derek is switching: [T]he company is offering new ADSL customers a free 2 GB iPod nano for signing up to a three-year term at a monthly rate similar to, or a bit less than, what I’m paying now (two- or one-year terms will get you an iPod shuffle, but I already... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 15, 2005 | Blogging, Technology
Waiting isn’t easy… TiVo does a great job of recording and playing video… but when it comes to scheduling the beast, it slows to a crawl. Maybe that’s because it has a processor speed of only 50 MHz, and 32 MB of RAM. Your average gaming...