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Allergic to Your Mobile?
Never mind getting tendonitis in your wrist and thumbs from hacking away on your blackberry, or by having your insides fried by radiation from cell phone towers, cell phone rash is the new mobile disease to strike the planet.
Doctors in the UK started seeing unexplained rashes on patients’ ears and cheeks, and have determined it’s [...]
National Digital Media Day: The Big Kiss
This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on September 25, 2008.
Today at noon people are being encouraged to randomly kiss for 2 minutes in a busy downtown intersection. This will also be happening in cities across the country in a simultaneous flash mob being organized by Jennifer Ouano of Elastic Entertainment to celebrate National [...]
Barack Obama for Prime Minister
This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on September 17, 2008.
This is one of those ideas you wished you’d come up with.
A few weeks ago Sean Kane received an invitation from some UVic professors to go to an election party. But the party’s not on October 14, when Canadians go to the polls, it’s [...]
Canadian Election Campaigns Join Web 2.0
This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on September 10, 2008.
Canada goes to the polls on October 14, and while this will be a campaign once again fought with lawn signs and rhetoric, this time around Canadian politicians have discovered the internet’s social media toolbox.
The NDP, Liberals and Conservatives all have sections on their official [...]
New iPhone 3G Pricing Plans from Rogers
When Rogers bowed to public pressure and offered the $30/6Gb data option for the launch of the iPhone 3G, it came with fine print saying the offer would expire August 31. Well, that’s this weekend, and Rogers is extending their little bonus for an extra month.
The Globe and Mail is reporting the proposed new [...]
24hrs Blogosphere Buzz: 2008.08.20
This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on Augsut 20, 2008.
You may have heard of Brendan Baker, a local guy who was using the web to try and crowdsource $90 000 to fulfill his dream of attending Oxford for an MBA in social entrepreneurship. Instead of using a DreamBank to reach out to family [...]
Urban Vancouver Stole My Blog
I got into a very heated discussion today with some editors and manager types over at Urban Vancouver.
The site is an aggregator of blogs from across Vancouver and the web. They access the RSS feeds distributed by the blog and repost the entire blog entry on their site. I call it scraping, [...]
Olympic Coverage From the Streets of Beijing
This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on August 13, 2008.
Citizen journalism; it’s you and me with a web camera, or a cell phone and an internet connection immediately posting what we see online. When you bring citizen journalism to a place like Beijing and the Summer Olympics, things can get interesting.
NBC and the [...]
24hrs Blogosphere Buzz: 2008.07.30
The Amp Your Game Tour won’t just be a pro gaming search, there will be over 80 consoles set up across all gaming platforms loaded with the latest games. The gaming search starts tomorrow with the four finalists announced Sunday afternoon.
If gaming’s not your thing, maybe you can be the next great texting star. [...]
Rogers Responds to iPhone FAIL
There are problems across the country this morning as fan boys who lined up to buy the new iPhone 3G are being turned away.
They came for breakfast and iPhones, and all they got was granola bars.
Hundreds of people lined up at the Rogers store at Yonge and Dundas in Toronto, starting in the early hours [...]
