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Open Data Hack Day

Posted on December 7, 2011 | No Comments
Last Saturday was Open Data Day & I went to the event here in Vancouver where I was lucky enough to get my hands on some pretty interesting data, courtesy...
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Reporters Sans Frontiers, Press Freedom Index 2010

Posted on September 17, 2011 | No Comments
I’d been looking to find a good project to experiment with the Polymaps mapping library for some time before I hit on the annual Press Freedom Index published by Reporters...
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Mahir Yavuz’s Sense of Patterns

Posted on September 12, 2011 | No Comments

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Canadian ISPs & Consumer Complaints

Posted on August 14, 2011 | No Comments
Early last month, Michael Geist, a Canadian law professor, published a list of consumer complaints filed against Canadian ISPs with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CTRC), the regulatory body...
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Voice of the Vulnerable Challenge Winner

Posted on August 10, 2011 | No Comments
This was the winning entry to the the Voice of the Vulnerable Challenge, a project organized by UN Global Pulse in partnership with Visualizing.org that was looking foor unique...
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New Home!!!

Posted on August 9, 2011 | No Comments
Finally got around to moving off of wordpress.com & onto a proper hosted server where I can run whatever scripts I need to. The ICANN post runs in-site now, just...
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ICANN & the Naming of the Internet

Posted on June 30, 2011 | No Comments
ICANN’s recent decision to open up the rules governing Internet domain names garnered it quite a bit of media attention in the last week or so. Since there has...
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WSJ Launches ‘SafeHouse’

Posted on May 7, 2011 | No Comments
The Wall Street Journal yesterday announced the launch of ‘SafeHouse‘ their proprietary, in-house document submission portal, modelled after Wikileaks, it would appear. WSJ offers the following explanation of Safehouse: Documents...
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Gitmo Files

Posted on April 27, 2011 | No Comments
Wikileaks, the whistleblower site that the US gov’t loves to hate, has just released the first in it’s latest batch of classified US documents – the Gitmo Files. Wikileaks released...
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iOS4 Location Tracking

Posted on April 21, 2011 | No Comments
British researchers announced that Apple’s iPhone has been secretly storing information that tracks the location history of the phone. The file is unencrypted and contains extensive GPS and wireless location...
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Twitter
- 'Nightline' looks at Apple/Foxconn's Chinese production lines - Feb. 21 http://t.co/E2uWmWkp 1 day ago
- What They Know - WSJ interactive on how advertisers track you online. http://t.co/8jPlrUsO 4 days ago
- Well, it's official - headed to NYC to join @AP_Interactive. Can't wait to meet the team & get started! 1 week ago

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