Volume 50, Issue 33
March 18, 2010
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Previous Issues
News
• Multi-faith forums encouraged
• Homelessness in the media
• Living library lets readers talk with 'books'
• Ticketmaster replaced by Prime Box Office
• Campus improvement fund proposals approved
• Controversy over Facebook comments continues (1 reply)
Entertainment
• Spun: Hawksley Workman
• Spun: Joanna Newsom (1 reply)
• Spun: Tindersticks
• U of C student roars in budding group
• Student dancers take to the Mainstage
Opinions
• The face-off over cultural (in)tolerance (1 reply)
• When it comes to love-making, some like it rough
• The tangled tale of Rights and Democracy
• Greyhound's big speed bump
• The validity of demonstrations (1 reply)
Sports
• Dinos in fight for CIS title in Ottawa
• Dinos national champions
Academic Probation
• Protestors disappointed by lack of march on Parliament (1 reply)
Features
• Home, home on the range
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Social Bowl 2010: Facebook versus Google Buzz
2010-02-11 -
Ændrew Rininsland
Production Editor
Good afternoon, sports fans! Today we watch as longstanding champion Facebook faces off against relative newcomer Google for social networking supremacy, each competing for a greater share of both your time and energy. Both have just come out of intensive training and have debuted their latest for the social media hungry Internet population-- Facebook with their recent redesign and Google with their new Buzz entrant.
Both Facebook and Google have been working with social media for a while. While Facebook has been the industry leader for the last several years, Google has been experimenting with a wide variety of social networking technology since 2004 (albeit with varying results). Notably, Google debuted Orkut with mixed results; everyone seemed to already be on Facebook and Orkut didn't offer anything worthwhile in exchange for the effort required to create an account. Google's since experimented with a "social search" function to better integrate social media content with its flagship search engine site, bought YouTube to become the Internet's premiere video sharing service and implemented a network-wide account system to better position itself alongside competitors like Yahoo!. Google unveiled its new Buzz feature earlier this week, which combines elements of Facebook and Twitter to be a very fast content sharing platform built directly into Gmail. Buzz can be set up to auto-share content from a wide variety of websites, ranging from Google standbys Picasa and YouTube to third-party sites such as Flickr and Twitter. Connectivity with Google Reader provides an incredibly efficient way to read and now share news on a daily basis.
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More than you ever wanted to know about the worst part of the Internet
2010-01-21 -
Brad Halasz
AP Editor and
Ændrew Rininsland
Production Editor
Super Combined Web/AP! - With very few exceptions, the anonymous imageboards known collectively as The Chans are quite possibly the worst part of the Internet. The idea is fairly simple: users can anonymously post to a variety of boards focused on different topics and are given the option to add an image. Each board has a different number of pages, with the most current posts being bumped to the front page and receiving the most visibility. Other, more current topics eventually get bumped to the front page and older topics fall back to high numbered pages, with posts on the last page eventually falling off the board and lost to history. The level of anonymity inherent on these boards and the speed at which they move result in an incredibly variable level of content, ranging from downright interesting to damn-near-horrifying. However, as stomach-churning as a jaunt through 4chan's /b/- or "random"- board can be, The Chans are also the place where a large portion of Internet culture originates. If you've been exposed to lolcats or linked to Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up," you've been touched by The Chans in some minor way.
This week, Gauntlet Web and AP are combining forces to offer an illustrated look into three of the more popular Chans. Be advised these sites are generally very unsafe to surf while working and especially in public locations. Also, understand that these sites are designed to be bewildering to casual observers- a good portion of what's posted is done so entirely with the intention of offending people. In short, if something on a Chan disgusts you, you've already let them win.4chan: i can has fail?More...
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|  Google: charting a course to the future
Internet giant poised to dominate GPS navigation market with new free app
2009-11-05 -
Jordyn Marcellus
Entertainment Editor
With Google's announcement of a free navigation service for its Android phone platform on Wed., Oct. 28, the friendly search giant is proving it is unwilling to play nice with other major technology industries. Google has also announced it would love to unleash this application on the iPhone, so long as Apple approves.
The app- which functions like a super-GPS unit usually found mounted in cars- is in almost every way superior to units created by companies like TomTom and Garmin. It offers the typical turn-by-turn navigation found in most of these products, but also uses the powerful Google search engine to offer a more potent user experience.
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| this week on the internet 2.0:YouTube WTF Round-Up
2009-09-17 -
Ændrew Rininsland
Production Editor
YouTube is a haven for some of the nuttiest videos on the planet, which makes for some entertaining viewing after a long day of classes or if you want to prove a social theory about how truly broken the Internet is. This Week On The Internet, I've solicited the Gauntlet office for their trippy online video picks and selected the best ones. Enjoy!Let's Paint TV!John Kilduff is a Los Angeles-area artist and television host who, unlike Bob Ross, is likely exhausted after painting all of his happy little trees. His first release to the Internet population, "Let's Paint and Exercise TV," is an episode of his public-access show, wherein he paints a model while running on a treadmill and answering seemingly-unscreened viewer phone calls. The results are mixed, to say the least. He's since gone on to produce such masterpieces as "Let's Paint and Play Baseball TV," "Let's Make a Tofu Drink, Exercise and Paint TV" and "Let's Cut Our Hair, Paint a Self-Portrait and Exercise TV." Yet less curious is the content of the shows and more how deadly seriously Kilduff takes his subject matter- you've never seen somebody eat watermelon, make sundaes and exercise while painting with so much gusto.
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| Freedom Through Ad Hoc Networks
2009-09-10 -
Ændrew Rininsland
Production Editor
Column - The University of Calgary's wireless networks are generally pretty fast, but there are often times when they are at peak capacity and everything's really very slow. If you're trying to transfer a large number of large files between computers or play networked videogames on the LAN, chances are you're not only giving yourself headaches, but your neighbours as well.
Another scenario occurs when you want to do something that lies outside the narrow confines of the university's definition of acceptable technology usage. Frankly, the university's network should be used for academic things- not transferring that 30 gb archive of sybian porn to a friend in your residence building. Even playing games using shared computing resources (like the network) could get you in trouble with IT. Why bother with all this hassle when the service often isn't even that great in the first place?
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| This Week On The Internet: Google Street View Scavenger Hunt
2009-04-16 -
Ændrew Rininsland
Interim Production Editor
Column - Ladies and gents: Google Street View is straight-up the most badass thing Google has come up with so far.
For those unfamiliar- imagine if you could use Google Maps to explore your favourite cities from the ground level in a full, 360º field of view. You now can for most major world cities, from Tokyo to Washington D.C. to Amsterdam (my personal favourite), though they're taking their sweet time getting around to giving Canada coverage. Ignoring the obvious privacy implications of this, for those of us who are content to just aimlessly walk around new locations when vacationing, Google Street View is simultaneously the raddest invention ever and the worst possible thing to discover during the last week of school. See: maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/ for more information or merely do a Google Maps search and click and drag the little yellow dude at the top of the zoom bar to
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| Joomla! part 2: 'Excellent extensions
2009-02-05 -
Ændrew Rininsland
This Week On The Internet
Column - Last Week On The Internet, I talked about an exciting new Content Management System that allows users to easily create very functional communities using freely-available open source software. By itself, a Joomla! installation is often lacking in some of the functionality expected of a modern website. This is made up through a gamut of free, community-driven extensions that provide an enormous wealth of functionality and are installable with a few clicks.
The Joomla! Extension Directory (extensions.joomla.org) contains over 4,000 extensions and of these, most are for the older version of Joomla! and likely not compatible with your installation. Of the more modern extensions running on the new Joomla! 1.5 framework, many are proprietary (Read, you have to pay money for them) and even more are poorly coded. Some are just at a very early stage in development and need some dedicated community members to smooth out the wrinkles. Generally, however, at least one person has released a high-quality open source extension to cover any kind of functionality imaginable, but often it can take some effort to find the best piece of code. Below, I will go through some of the more interesting and useful modules I've come across in my development with Joomla!. Note that most require you to create an account on the publisher's website; if you can't find the download link, try registering.
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