Monthly Archives: October 2007

Will Rogers Ripoff Canadians For the iPhone?

I’ve heard from more than one place — including at work, oddly enough — that the Jesus Phone iPhone is coming to Canada via Rogers (one of our few wireless carriers) before Christmas.
Mat Ingram points out that the price might be around $CAD 499 for an 8 gigabyte phone for a 3 year plan.
Personally, I [...]

Tales From The Unit, Part II: On Making Impossible Decisions

At some stage in every medical trainee’s career, at some point you hear about someone describing being in a situation where not one, but *two* medical crises are happening at the same time — and there’s only one of you.
Classic example: you’re in the middle of managing a cardiac arrest, and a *second* cardiac arrest [...]

Netscape’s Traffic Takes A Dive After It Splits Off Social News Into Propeller?

About a month ago, I wrote about how Netscape dumped its social news component into its own site, Propeller.com and wondered rhetorically how it would turn out — with the subtext being, perhaps, how *Netscape* would really fare now that its social news component was on its own.
Well, a month has come and gone, and [...]

Swag Alert: 100 Free Business Cards, Courtesy of Ziki

If you’re the type who likes free swag, then here’s a heads up.
Ziki is a people-search engine (a la spock), which allows you to not only search for other people, but secure your own profile for others to see.  I haven’t used it a great deal, but its premise is kind of interesting in that [...]

… But Is The World Ready For Mobile Lifestreaming? (Or Microblogging? Or Presence Management?)

So it looks like Google bought the ‘other’ ambient broadcasting / lifestreaming / presence management / microblogging tool, Jaiku today. Mind, like Mat Ingram, I haven’t actually tried Jaiku, but from all accounts it has a great many similarities to Twitter, although up until now, a fraction of the buzz (and possibly userbase as [...]

Mixaloo Brings Mixtapes To Social Media (In A Crippled Kind of Way)

Ah, the mixtape. Staple of the 80’s (and 90’s, I suppose as you got into mixCDs, perhaps), where has it gone in the latter half of the 2000’s? Its a question that’s better answered by music-ophiles (i.e. not me), but in this burgeoning bubblicious socially driven landscape, you can bet there’s a few [...]

Tales From The Unit

I’ve taken a short hiatus from DJI as a result of higher-than-usual work loads at hospital. The next month may (or may not) be spotty thanks to the fact that I am working in the intensive care unit, where we see the sickest of the sick. Last night was one of the roughest [...]