Those who’ve been reading my blog for a long time may remember one of my more popular posts comparing the Firefox 3 Pledge Map (locations of downloads of Firefox 3 back in June 2008) versus Thomas Barnett’s Map (published in The Pentagon’s New Map – his blog here). A little while back a friend shared [...]
Entries tagged as “International Affairs”
Some More Core-Periphary Maps
Canada’s Arctic Strategy – playing to the strengths of others
Last week I the good fortune of participating in an intimate workshop on Canadian foreign policy hosted by CIGI and convened in preparation for an upcoming issue of the International Journal in which the papers will be published. One of the participants, Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon, gave an excellent paper on The United Nations and the Regime [...]
When good companies go bad – How Nokia Siemens helped Iran monitor its citizens
Last week my friend Diederik wrote a blog titled “Twittering to End Dictatorship: Ensuring the Future of Web-based Social Movements” in which he expressed his concern that (Western) corporations might facilitate oppressive regimes in wiretapping and spying on their citizens. Now it appears that his concerns have turned out to be true. As he points [...]
The New World Order: Flat, Spiky or Divided?
Just started Who’s Your City by Richard Florida out of personal interest but also to better figure out why it is the Vancouver sometimes works, and sometimes really doesn’t work. Figuring out that puzzle, and doing something is part of the reason I joined Vision (and yes, I’m still recovering from the victory celebrations). I’m [...]
The Firefox download map: Remixed
So with the help of my very cool friend Jeremy V. we’ve remixed the Firefox download map. The official download map shows us the absolute number of downloads per country. From a marketing perspective this was a great idea. However, since writing the post in which I mashed up the Pentagon’s New Map with the [...]
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