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Sarah Evans

by Ron Foreman June 1, 2006 Amazing People

My friend Sarah Evans, founder of Sarah Evans Writes I’m helping Sarah build her e-zine called Living Beyond: “Living your best with a Diagnosis.” Slide Show

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It’s hard not to sympathize with this idea!

by Ron Foreman March 30, 2006 Amazing People

Venezuela Promotes Microsoft Alternative – By JORGE RUEDA, Associated Press Writer Wednesday, March 29, 2006 (03-29) 16:11 PST CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – President Hugo Chavez, long critical of big transnational companies, is promoting free open-source software as an alternative to market-dominating Microsoft Corp. Venezuela’s science and technology ministry recently held the Latin American Free Software [...]

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Business Speaker Curt Skene speaks to the Toronto Web Centric Meetup

by Ron Foreman March 8, 2006 Friends

My friend and business speaker Curt Skene speaks to the Toronto Web Centric Meetup – Slideshow

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Wikipedia Workshop

by Ron Foreman February 24, 2006 Internet

Wikipedia Beginners’ Workshop St. Christopher House Friday, February 24, 2006, 5-6pm Presented by Ron Foreman Outline: What’s a Wiki? Where to find Wikipedia? Some Wikipedia statistics How it works? Quality Standards Some criticism Wikipedia tightens rules after Kennedy flap About the Founder The Wikipedia Mission: Imagine a world in which every single person is given [...]

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St. Christopher House Wikipedia Presentation

by Ron Foreman February 24, 2006 Internet

Presentation on Wikipedia at St. Christopher House Slideshow

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Google Earth

by Ron Foreman February 3, 2006 Internet

Google Earth is a free virtual globe formerly known as Earth Viewer.

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Wikipedia

by Ron Foreman February 3, 2006 Internet

Wikipedia (pronounced /ËŒwikiËˆpiËdi.É™/ or /ËŒwÉªki-/) is a multilingual Web-based free-content encyclopedia wiki service.

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Googlebombing

by Ron Foreman January 27, 2006 Internet

Go to www.google.ca Type in “french military victories” Hit “I’m feeling Lucky” Go to www.google.ca Type in “miserable failure” Hit “I’m feeling Lucky” Go to www.google.ca Type in “asshole” Hit “I’m feeling Lucky”

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The People Own Ideas!

by Ron Foreman June 21, 2005 Internet

By Lawrence Lessig, June 2005, Technology Review We entered the youth camp that morning by passing down a long, white gravel road and under a wooden gate. Spread to one side, and for as far as you could see, were rows and rows of tents. In front were scores of showers, with hundreds of kids [...]

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Grandparents learn to surf and they like it

by Ron Foreman June 19, 2005 Internet

By ANN GIBBON, Wednesday, June 15, 2005 Updated at 9:34 PM EDT From Thursday’s Globe and Mail Grandma’s on the Net again, the kitchen’s not her home. She used to make us cherry pies, and call us on the phone. We miss her homemade biscuits, and I’ll make this little bet, If you want to [...]

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A Sunday Afternoon House Call

by Ron Foreman June 16, 2005 Internet

By Brian Krebs, Washington Post, June 12, 2005. I just spent nearly seven hours doing emergency surgery on a Windows PC that belongs to a dear, longtime friend. The experience was so harrowing that I decided to blog it. So it’s 2 p.m. Sunday and after a cursory examination of my buddy’s two-year old Windows [...]

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When encyclopedias changed forever. Twice

by Ron Foreman May 16, 2005 Internet

May 02, 2005 – 03:01 When encyclopedias changed forever. Twice By Jim Harris, Backbone Magazine FOR MORE THAN 200 YEARS ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA DEFINED WHAT AN ENCYCLOPEDIA WAS: IT CAME IN 32 VOLUMES, EXCEEDED 30,000 PAGES, WAS UPDATED EVERY FIVE YEARS, WAS SOLD DOOR TO DOOR FOR US$1,599 A SET, AND WEIGHED 128 POUNDS.

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