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BC “Apps for Climate Change” contest needs your vote!

Published by Mike Kujawski on August 24, 2010

I love open data initiatives; Especially when they are Canadian (my home turf). I wrote about the premise behind the Apps for Climate Change contest back in April, and now that we have submissions, I want to remind you to vote. The total number of submissions that met all requirements is 16, a huge success in my opinion given the infancy of apps contests in Canada. You can see demos and vote for your favourite apps here.

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My quick two cents on the census fiasco

Published by Mike Kujawski on July 27, 2010

What is the issue?

The Conservative Government decided that it would kill the mandatory long- form census it normally sends out to thousands of Canadians every five years. Instead, a mandatory short form will go out to everyone for next year’s census, with basic questions about how many people live in the household and their ages and genders.

Having just returned from my 100% digitally disconnected cottage vacation, I’ve had quite a bit of catching up to do on this whole situation.

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Data, data, data, and more data…

Published by Mike Kujawski on March 25, 2010

For those of you that missed it, the February 27th-March 5th edition of The Economist featured a special report on the over abundance of data, and where we’re heading with it. This may seem like a boring topic at first, but if you start reading , you’ll quickly realize why I continue to be so interested in social media, especially the broader social-cultural and global implications of  all the content/data that we are feeding into “the cloud“.

Rather than providing you with a summary of the article (which hopefully you will read in full), I am providing some excerpts which I highlighted myself while reading:

  • There are 4.6 billion mobile-phone subscriptions worldwide (though many people have more than one)
  • By 2012 the amount of traffic flowing over the Internet annually will reach 667 exabytes
  • Farecast can advise customers whether to buy an airline ticket now or wait for the price to come down by examining 225 billion flight and price records.
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