inCommunicado - eric eggertson

  Pretend Passengers    Originally uploaded by hyku.
Josh Hallett blogged about his experience on the public transportation system in his part of Florida.
The fact that taking a few buses for a day merits a detailed examination of the experience says something about our dependence on the car (or SUV, or minivan, […]

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The Internet, digital rights management and other techno-economic factors are influenced by private companies, nations, cultures, key people and communities that rely on them. The fact that some of those influences at times seem irresistible and inevitable should not lead you to believe they will necessarily prevail.
But damn, it’s hard to push against the flow […]

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  Hello, Mom? We’re Busking!    Originally uploaded by Mutually Inclusive.
Every year the Cathedral area in Regina dusts off its dancing shoes and has an arts festival. Today the threat of rain wasn’t enough to keep people away from 13th Avenue.
The buskers were out in force, and there were definitely deals […]

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Greg Brooks on the rules of social networks
- they haven’t changed much, despite the advent of several new sites
this year.  His observation: behaving yourself goes a long way when
you’re trying to make business connections online:
If you are polite and know how to gently work a room, you can make some spectacularly useful contacts.

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Stowe Boyd reports that he has reduced the number of social networking sites he belongs to. It’s more difficult than it sounds to shut down your membership on social networking sites, particularly if your e-mail address has changed and you don’t have your password handy.
I am keeping involved in Last.fm, Flickr, and Plazes. And I […]

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Some interesting comments on Seize the Daylight,  a book about Daylight Saving Time, recounting the significant opposition it faced before it was introduced in many countries..
We in Saskatchewan haven’t adopted DST, but it’s a source of seemingly unending and sometimes bitter debate.
Not changing the clocks makes life simpler two nights of the year, but for […]

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Finally, some functionality for PDAs that takes advantage of the knowledge and opinions of a community of people.
Earthcomber allows the user to download a map of an area, with comments about points on the map. The possible applications? Well, a neighbourhood with multiple retail outlets would be a good candidate. The locals could provide their […]

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I always suspected there were courses like this available somewhere in the world, and now I see North Vancouver’s Capilano College is offering a program in Global Stewardship.This program is targeted at people who want to work in the international non-profit sector.
How often do you find a field of study that asks for these […]

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After the first blush of excitement at playing around on 43 Things and sharing aspirations with other people, concern about sharing intimate details with the site’s investor Amazon is spreading. Is this all part of a conspiracy to mine people’s dreams for the evil purposes of selling them Amazon merchandise?
Well, selling merchandise has been the […]

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Here’s a blog that was started today and has one entry in it, but it’s an interesting entry.
Social Informatics is described as "A Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog … for monitoring social informatics resources and sites on
the World Wide Web and available over the Internet."
It lists several sites I hadn’t heard of before, but misses one […]

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  FlickrGraph Eric’s Contacts    Originally uploaded by Mutually Inclusive.
There’s a new tool making the rounds at www.flickr.com that creates a visual representation of you, your photos and the people within Flickr who are your contacts.
The social and visual experiment continues at this interesting web site/community/service.
To take a look at the […]

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