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Spark

This is your life. This is your digital life.

Url:	http://www.cbc.ca/spark
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Language:	English
Tags:	Technology, Trends, Culture
Description:	Spark is a blog, radio show, podcast and an ongoing conversation about technology and culture.
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Popularity:	1 Followers

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Full Interview: James Cridland on the future of radio

James Cridland is a radio futurologist. He blogs about “what happens when radio and new platforms collide.” Yesterday, Nora talked to James about how the experience of radio may change in the comin...more

2009-12-09

Full Interview: Finn Brunton on the unintended consequences of spam

Me: Why do you find spam so interesting?Finn Brunton: Spam is like a barium injection you get in the hospital. You take it, and it lets you see the outline and the contours of the internet.Finn Bru...more

2009-12-08

Spark 94 – December 6 & 8, 2009

On this episode of Spark: Magic technology, glove hackers, and the age of metrics. Click to listen (runs 54:00):Download audio file (spark_20091206_24063.mp3)Gus Savoie remembers the first email he...more

2009-12-04

How am I supposed to use this phone with my mittens on? REDUX

A little more than a year ago, we did a short radio story about why capacitive touchscreens (like the one found on the iPhone) don’t work when you’re wearing mittens or gloves. It aired...more

2009-12-02

The future of radio? Crowdsourcing questions for James Cridland, radio futurist

The other day, I was thinking about the experience of using radio. Regular old over-the-air radio. My main radio has very few controls: on/off, volume, band selector (AM/FM), and a nice big tuning ...more

2009-12-01

Spark 93 – November 29 & December 1, 2009

On this episode of Spark: Too much information, digital pack rats, and Wikipedia’s digital blind spots. Click to listen (runs 54:00):Download audio file (spark_20091129_23715.mp3)Gabriella Co...more

2009-11-27

Full Interview: Clay Shirky

Have you ever played around with a gadget or application, only to discover it’s absolutely perfect for something different from its original design? This kind of inventiveness, or playfulness...more

2009-11-26

Full Interview: Gabriella Coleman on digital book piracy

Over the past decade or so, digital piracy has been a major headache for the music business, the movie business, and the television business. Less so for the book publishing industry. But that may ...more

2009-11-26

Holiday remote access toolkit

Today, it’s exactly one month from Christmas.In a few weeks’ time, I’ll be sitting at my in-laws’ house, and I’ll wish I had access to my home computer. Sure, my in-la...more

2009-11-25

Full interview: Mark Graham on Wikipedia’s geographic blind spots

The map above shows the geographic distribution of Wikipedia articles. Darker blues mean more geotagged articles per country. According to researcher Mark Graham, who created the map, Wikipedia has...more

2009-11-24

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