Nelson Aggregate hearing begins next year

The Nelson Aggregate quarry expansion will begin after local and provincial government departments release their multiyear study, the Environmental Review Tribunal (ERT) ruled December 8th. The Joint Action...

Living at the Barricades: Digging Deep (Dec 15/08)

Lake Ontario Waterkeeper Presents: Living at the BarricadesDigging Deep: the Nelson Quarry expansion and the Niagara EscarpmentNelson Aggregate wants to expand its rock quarry on the Niagara Escarpment near...

eBay Responds to Privacy Busting Payment Legislation

"The global online auction giant eBay has responded to a frightening piece of legislation that will force retailers to report every transaction to the federal government, warning that it will "negatively impact individual Internet users, the growth...

Watch Out Brian Williams: YouTube's New Amateur Reporter Channel

Yesterday I met with Olivia Ma who is running Youtube's new CJ operation.  She gets it.  This should be interesting and in my opinion good for participatory news and NowPublic members (stay tuned)."Want...

Tracking cell phone use could help curb epidemics -- study

Tracking demographic movement through cell phone usage can potentially curtail spread of communicable diseases, researchers found." Scientists searching for patterns in seemingly random human movements have found that people, in the aggregate, go about their daily lives with...

US mortgage crisis may cost $945 billion worldwide: IMF

It looks like Nouriel Roubindi was right about 1 billion being the new size 6."WASHINGTON (AFP) - The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday the worldwide losses stemming from the US subprime mortgage crisis...

Google News Goes Local

Respected tech bloggers like Jeff Jarvis and others have been speaking about the importance of the  'hyperlocal' and 'hyperpersonal' for quite a while. For the most part their attention has been focused on the untapped billions of potential advertising revenue buried in...

Concrete from wood? Yes, thanks to pine beetle

The pine beetle has become the foremost threat to North American  forests, and particularly within the Lodgepole lumber-dependent BC forest industry. Millions of dollars in research money has been set aside...

Platelet Aggregration Cancer Metastasis Mechanism

New details from researchers at the University of Yamanashi, Japan being announced about how cancer cells spread through encircling themselves with platelets.

Behavior-Tuned Intranet Search Engine Delivers Sales :: Symblogogy

"Online retailer Overstock.com, wanting to try a new way of helping customers find products they might be searching for, came to Aggregate Knowledge for some help. ---- What makes the Discovery Window™ unique is...

Startup offers 'neutral' web video outlet

Positioning itself as an independent third party, ClipSyndicate is distributing short-form video clips for Clear Channel and Sinclair stations. Other broadcasters may follow.By Wayne KarrfaltThe National Broadband Co. (NBBC), a joint venture of NBC and its affiliates, is a...

User-Generated Video Gets Its Own TV Channel

"YORK, Pa. (AdAge.com) -- Ready for a TV channel made up entirely of consumer-generated videos? That's right, for  a little less than $3 -- video makers can upload their work with the guarantee that it will run on Fame TV on the BskyB satellite network in the U.K. and...

Planet Earth - just a dot in space

"... Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions,...

Carnival Of Socialism #4

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