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Shows and stories we're working on

April 23, 2008: The Word Show

• How is the the written word changing as a result of blogs, text messages?

• Jeff MacIntyre on Zenware (full interview)

• Font documentary EB

• NY's essay on Dane's word/image association test

• Digital writing with Penguin

• Promo eBook/audiobook piracy item

• Competitive text messaging

• Unlike written text, you can't simply cross out text. Once it's deleted there is no record of it ever existing.

April 30, 2008 - Digital Legacy

• Derek K. Miller on Life, death, and the blog

• Digital breadcrumbs -- Deep Packet Inspection, ISPs, and Advertisers

• Merlin Mann's Disaster Preparedness Kit for your digital life

May 7, 2008 - On and off the Grid

• Small towns want off the GPS grid

• Armin Vit on landmark websites: where are they?

• Blind internet

• Disney shuts down Virtual Magic Kingdom. What do online communities owe their members?

Your workplace in 1018

• Calgary researcher on working alone

• future of non-profits in digital age

• forget work life balance, it's about to become work-life integration. tricks employers are using, eg 4 day work week. Guardian author as house guest?

Disability and technology

• a day in the life of descriptive audio

• pdas used for cognitive impairment

• Documentary: What is the internet like for the visually impaired?

Not scheduled

• Stolen hotel trinkets turning up on ebay. Also, pair with wi-fi in historic hotels story.
• Students picking up "forgotten" textbooks in the cafeteria and selling them on EBay instead of turning them into Lost and Found. If a textbook is out of print, some schools are then buying them back on EBay.
• Community email lists: when they work (Nicola's neighbours who share items, organize events), when they don't (condo associations where the complaining never stops)

• Follow on the future of television

• Follow on RepRap and 3-d printers

• Contemporary Pranksterism

• Birthday Parties go green, and online.

• Mini bar sensors

• CD-ROM follow

• Best IT person in Canada contest

• Inside tech support

• Music/Life is getting louder]and [The Music Show

• Cochlear implant follow-up: I'd love to hear Michael's take on the upgrade dilemma. -Andy Ball

Stories and guests we're considering

• Biodiesel in Canada

• Ageing and technolgy ideas

• Nonsense web names. Bebo, Joost, Yelp.nbsp

• the need to be innovative!

• Zack Lynch on Neurotechnology

• Shai Agassi on free cars

• The Future of Work interview with Jon Husband, a Vancouver blogger on wirearchy

• Libraries and technology

• Broadband broadcasting

• LifeCasting : It is possible to broadcast a live show over the Net, with Ustream, Blog.TV, Stickam, and Justin. TV. Is this the future of Television?

• Reversing Engineering Ourselves: Flirting Robots, Bad Santa, and Turing Tests

• How about something on noise-cancelling headphones? I'm curious to know if they really work and, if so, are they so effective that I would risk being mowed down by an ambulance or police car if I'm walking down the street with them on

• Monkey Noises

Stories we've recorded, but are holding for a future show.

• Small towns want off the GPS map

• Put your cell phone in the microwave

• Landmark websites.Where are they?

• Hot or not websites

• Transit camps and the bar camp trend.

Stories possibly Outside the realm of Spark

• LHC

Questions or comments? Go to Story Idea Discussion and click "Comment".

So how does this work? I mean where are the future stories/episodes that spark will do? Cuz the latest one I see is May 7, 2008

contributed by Danyl Sobolev on Nov 11 9:00am