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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

• 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

make money online

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

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contributed by jenny jenny on Dec 24 1:08am