kdmurray.blog

The crossroads of life and tech

Tag Archives: Community

Run for the Cure – October 1st

Those of you in the Vancouver area can participate in the fight against breast cancer by donating to and/or participating in the 2006 Run for the Cure.  Rebecca over at Miss604 is collecting donations for the run which she and her husband are participating in this Sunday.

On a related note TELUS‘ national Day of Service is tomorrow, September 30th.  The company hopes to get over 5000 of its team members and retirees nationally participating in charity events in their community.  One of the major events for 2006 has been their Tour for the Cure (currently on their media page).  This campaign wraps up with the Run for the Cure tomorrow.  I’ll be at the TELUS headquarters in Burnaby packing and stocking boxes of food and clothing.

‘Tis the season to help!

EPIC 2014 – The reign of Googlezon

This presentation was put together by a couple of university students at Georgia Tech. It tells an orwellian tale about the demise of what we would call “modern media”. The clip is narrated and runs 8 minutes. It packs a lot of thinking into those 8 short minutes.

This project has caused me to do a lot of thinking since I saw it. It is based partly in reality, and partly in conjecture. The presentation shows us a world that could be, some say it is the world that will be.

The first link below contains a written version with some added details that aren’t in the flash movie. The second link is the flash movie itself. This was originally published several months ago, so it may be old news for some of you, but this is something that really made me think, and its worth another look.

http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2004/11/29/summary_of_the_world_googlezon.htm

http://oak.psych.gatech.edu/~epic/

“In feeble protest to Googlezon’s hegemony, the Times has become a print-only newsletter for the elderly…” go figure…