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- '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
Data Archive
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Open Data Hack Day
Posted on December 7, 2011 | No CommentsLast 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... -
BBC: World at 7 Billion
Posted on November 1, 2011 | No CommentsThe World at 7 Billion is an interesting multiformat news package from the BBC covering global population demographics. It contains a long-form article, an interactive and several videos all... -
Canadian ISPs & Consumer Complaints
Posted on August 14, 2011 | No CommentsEarly 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... -
Voice of the Vulnerable Challenge Winner
Posted on August 10, 2011 | No CommentsThis 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... -
ICANN & the Naming of the Internet
Posted on June 30, 2011 | No CommentsICANN’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... -
WSJ Launches ‘SafeHouse’
Posted on May 7, 2011 | No CommentsThe 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... -
Gitmo Files
Posted on April 27, 2011 | No CommentsWikileaks, 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... -
iOS4 Location Tracking
Posted on April 21, 2011 | No CommentsBritish 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... -
Mobile Privacy: Betrayed by Our Data
Posted on April 2, 2011 | No CommentsMassively interesting project at Zeit Online exploring privacy (or lack thereof) and our cell phones. German politician Malte Spitz took six months worth of his phone data from German telecoms giant Deutsche... -
Visualizing Hong Kong’s Budget Announcement
Posted on February 28, 2011 | No CommentsI’ve spent a bit of time working on some visualization & analysis of the speech given by Hong Kong’s Financial Secretary for last weeks release of 2011-12 Budget. John Tsang...