inCommunicado - eric eggertson

Imagine the surprise of two pilots who, in July 1983, without fuel, successfully brought a Boeing 767 to an emergency landing on an abandoned air force air strip. They found, not an empty runway, but a car race taking place in what was now a raceway.
Imagine the surprise of the pit crews and crowd […]

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Prescience from the pundits:

Shel Israel - Blogging Predictions, including "After a few major metropolitan newspapers die, dailies will begin to
understand that blogs are part of their solution, and will start
incorporating neighborhood bloggers into their system." Not Too Geeky responds.
Seth Godin - Internet marketing in 2006 - 1) Inventory of adsense begins to catch up with […]

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Most people would agree that it would be great if information people plug into their weblogs was easily searched, retrieved and categorized for the kind of information it is. For example, getting a search bot to go out and find all the conferences on a certain topic scheduled for your region for the coming fiscal […]

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One of Canada’s major cell phone services is owned by the Rogers conglomerate. Now there’s a front page story in The Globe and Mail, describing Rogers’ refusal to eat the cost of fraudulent use of customers’ cell phone costs by possible terrorist groups and others.
The kicker: the company’s security person lets slip that several top […]

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  Elizabeth Albrycht    Originally uploaded by PROBLOG.
I’ve long thought there should be a way to link web-based and text messaging tools to all the information that’s gathered about the ethical behaviour of corporations. Why can’t I take a web-enabled PDA to the mall, to help me choose between brands, based […]

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  Arianna    Originally uploaded by WillPate.
In addition to organizing the upcoming Northern Voice 2006 conference and the Dogs n Blogs Banff workshop, Vancouver bloggers also hold meet-ups, present seminars, etc. to share what they know, give newbies a step up, and generally get together.
Will Pate posts photos of a recent […]

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Futurist, blogger and podcaster Tod Maffin has been at the forefront of many geek trends, but I never realized what a pioneer he truly was. Close examination of a photo on Maffin’s I Love Radio blog proves that he was with radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi on the historic day of the first transatlantic radio transmission.
See […]

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Now here’s something I’d like to see for Canadian companies. Steve Rubel and Shel Holtz mentioned a web site that gives people tips on how to opt out of an IVR phone system and talk to a real person.
A lot of people have gotten into the habit of dialing 0 when they want to bypass […]

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Today’s launch day for X-Box 360, and the best advice I’ve read so far is to avoid the plain vanilla version ("core"). As Scott Colbourne of the Globe and Mail noted, you save $100 (Canadian), but you end up with a version of the console that has no hard drive and is a pale shadow […]

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You could see this one coming a mile off.
CNet News’ Dawn Kawamoto is reporting a security company warning of a flaw in Apple iTunes security. (In an update, she notes it affects only iTunes 6 for Windows.)
Says privacy rights advocate Cory Doctorow:
I’m not surprised. An objective of good security is to protect users
from attackers […]

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Tech blogger Mark Russinovich declares victory over Sony BMG, now that the mega-entertainment company has agreed to undo the damage done by its intrusive copyright protection software.
As noted by Information Week, a bad situation was made much worse by Sony’s refusal to acknowledge the problems it was causing customers, and put in place an effective […]

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