Ladies and gentleman, we are on the eve of what I might argue is the world’s finest sporting event — The World Cup. I’m happy to report that you have the musings of Gumboot editors John Horn and Kurt Heinrich to look forward to over the next few weeks as they attempt to explore the [...]
Who are you? I’m Steve Tannock. I’m an entrepreneur, programmer, parent, technojunkie & ThinkCity board member. I also help out the Vision Vancouver Park Board caucus when I can, although I spend far, far too little time on that compared to what I wish I could spend. What do you do for fun? Well…..hmm… Any [...]
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 [...]
Online communities are lauded these days. Applications like facebook, twitter, myspace and friendster are seen as the new way to create and maintain one’s personal social community. With these new tools people can expand their community to hundreds of friends, sharing information like never before. Can’t be anything but good, say our online gurus. Maybe [...]
