I’ve been watching news reports with shock and sadness over the last week but have also been amazed by the extent to which social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have not only enabled family and friends to contact each other but have also been conduits for millions of dollars donated to a devastated Haiti.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to an ongoing segment here at The Daily Gumboot. It’s called “Get to Know Your Community” and, basically, it goes like this: each and every Sunday we will profile someone from a community somewhere. Each person is asked the same five questions (see below as well as in [...]
recently the adeptly-named ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) proposed the creation of a .eco domain name. the concept would be to reward organizations that meet certain environmentally-aware criteria with a .eco site. potential visitors to such sites would be guaranteed to be supporting climate-friendly organizations. interestingly, the two front runners to administer [...]
That’s right – 250 million. That’s according to company founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s blog post. That’s up 100 million from January. Funny the snowball effect of it all. Just recently, a German friend of many years past befriended me on facebook. Obviously its starting to cut across the Atlantic. I think a big part [...]
When I was a youngin, I used to be deeply involved in the online gaming community. I played religiously, placing myself in front of the computer for 3-4 hours on end each night. Throughout high school, homework got done, but it was secondary. While other kids experimented with weed, drinks, and the opposite (or same) [...]
Do you twit-blog the interscape? Do you or your organization distribute information through the comprehensive and amazing medium of an “online blog website”? Do you have an account on the new social networking tool Bookface? Perhaps you employ these mediums as a means of connecting with friends, or maybe you’re a “pyjama job hunter” (someone [...]
Hi there readers!* It’s my pleasure to introduce you to a couple of new contributors to The Weekly Gumboot. The first, really, needs no introduction. Her name is Ms. Theodora Lamb (or ‘Theo’, if she likes you). Holding the editorial staff to task (again, my most sincere and profound apologies for not mentioning the positive [...]
“John Horn and Vancouver Team: telling it like it is, and calling it as they see it since December 1, 2008 (the soft launch). These kids are world-changers. And you heard it here first.“ – Confucius, 442 BC Merville, British Columbia is the undisputed* Gumboot Capital of Canada. As your host at this stop on [...]
