From the category archives:
The Street View is only available on the Highways throughout the West Kootenays, but in larger centres such as Kelowna, Spokane, WA and Cranbrook, (as well as all the big cities), all streets have been photographed and input into the software.
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From 2005 onward, many communities across the western world talked of Municipal Broadband or WIFI and drew up plans, usually with the assistance of a willing communications consultant to provide a technological hub or backbone for the community. As an egalitarian ideal, it sounded great, but the promise lacked substance and in most communities has failed.
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People have suggested that Twitter is a time-waster, and for the majority of us it probably is. But for the people in Iran, this is one of the only means of having their voices heard by the rest of the world as their society crumbles. That is not a waste of time.
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Comments are one of the features of a blog that make or break the user’s experience. Yesterday I upgraded my comments system in Wordpress to utilize a plugin and service called IntenseDebate.
This is a decision to allow greater flexibility in visitors’ ability to comment, track comments, and reply to comments by email rather than having [...]
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People have argued with me as to the severity of the current economic situation. Browsing the business pages of the New York Times today, it is evident that there is a global scare on right now. This by itself does not suggest that things can’t return to “normal”, but when taken in concert with other [...]
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Mike Thomas on Twitter for Municipalities