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- Linden Lab at War: Virtual Worlds and Human Technology by Dusan Writer's Metaverse on Nov 7, 2009
You rez a prim in Second Life and you add another prim or two and you have a house, and suddenly your brain starts to believe that there’s a sort of pattern of extrapolation everywhere you look: the smallest thing is part of something larger, o...
- Searching The Vancouver Public Library Catalog using Amazon by eaves.ca on Oct 20, 2009
A few months ago I posted about a number of civic applications I'd love to see. These are computer, iphone, blackberry applications or websites that leverage data and information shared by the government that would help make life in Vancouver a littl...
- Spark Interview on VanTrash – The Open Source Garbage Reminder Service by eaves.ca on Oct 16, 2009
A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed by the CBC's Nora Young for her show Spark: a weekly audio blog of smart and unexpected trendwatching about the way technology affects our lives and world. The interview (which was fun!) dives a little deeper...
- Emergent Systems in Government: Let’s put the horse before the cart by eaves.ca on Oct 2, 2009
Yesterday Paul McDowall, Knowledge Management Advisor at the Government's School of the Public Service and chairperson of the Interdepartmental Knowledge Management Forum, wrote the following comment in response to a blog post from several months ag...
- Misunderstanding and understanding the Open Data Hype by eaves.ca on Sep 25, 2009
On Wednesday Gartner's Andrea Dimaio wrote an interesting blog post entitled Open Data and Application Contests: Government 2.0 at the Peak of Inflated Expectations which Peter Smith nicely linked to the Gartner's Hype Cycle graph from Wikipedia. I w...
- How bloggers can keep the internet healthy by eaves.ca on Sep 24, 2009
I'm continuously trying to brainstorming ways that Mozilla can find the next million mozillians and figure out activities they can do. I think I've stumbled on to a new one but would need some help to make it happen. As some of you may know, as part...
- More ways to make open data sexy: 5 Municipal Apps I’d love to see (what are yours?) by eaves.ca on Sep 21, 2009
One of the big goals of the open data project is to get many citizens interested in different ways the data can be used. Many citizens lack the skills to code up an application or create a website is an intimidating but may have ideas that could impr...
