August 29, 2009
June 12, 2009
Notice to Contributors: We’re not renewing our web space at National Capital Freenet (NCF) this summer
Earthpages, circa 2006
After much consideration we’ve decided not to renew our web space at National Capital Freenet (NCF) in summer 2009.
This means that content currently posted at NCF might be deleted sometime during the summer or afterward.
This notice refers to material containing (and some material linked from pages containing) these characters in the URL:
http://web.ncf.ca/dy656. or http://www.ncf.ca/~dy656
Why are we doing this?
Well, in case you haven’t noticed, we’ve been migrating to WordPress and making other changes too.
Most text-based contributions to Earthpages will be moved to our WordPress account (if they haven’t been already). But some pictures and images might not make the transition.
As we explain in our About page:
Over the years Earthpages has gone through many changes. Most notably, we’ve transitioned to blog format and adopted the dual-stream approach of earthpages.org and earthpages.ca. And we’re now placing less emphasis on world photos with the growth of great sites like flickr.com and photobucket.com.
For those whose material might be affected, we thank you so very much for journeying with us through the first phase of Earthpages’ development. You gave us hope. And we will always appreciate that.
Sincerely,
Michael Clark, Ph.D.
May 24, 2009
Learning the fine art of the Tweet
It may seem like we’ve been on vacation for the past few days. In a sense we have been. I’m out of the city, in a beautiful rural town which happens to have a great wireless connection.
While it’s not exactly the place to watch and review DVDs or update old articles (activities I’ve been doing here as of late), it is perfect for going through thousands of RSS feeds and finding the best of the best (or the oddest of the odd) for a quick tweet at Twitter.
So check us out. There’s nothing tardy about the headlines here:
July 31, 2008
June 25, 2008
New at Earthpages.org – Flashforward
Seen a video on youtube that you think should be here? Just send us the URL and we’ll consider posting it.
Publicize yourself if you like. As long as your video meets a certain standard and fits with our mission statement, chances are we’ll post it.
Even better, we use WordPress tags to maximize exposure in the blogosphere!
No guarantees, though… see our Policy and Dislaimer for details. 
December 5, 2007
Earthpages’ first annual Halo and Polaris Awards is calling GRAPHIC ARTISTS…
…to design our new awards! These awards will be presented entirely online. Recipients will simply right-click-and-save or possibly watch a special video. The awards should include room for the name of the recipient and the year.
If we do happen to use your original artwork, be sure that we’ll put a visible link back to your website.
Submit/ask questions now as everything’s got to be settled by New Year’s Eve!
–Michael Clark
November 28, 2007
Well, it took the Christian Church several hundred years…
…to get their basic formulae down, so I’m not terribly surprised that it’s taking us a while to figure out how to do our Awards. Last night we proclaimed that they’d be called the Halo Awards. Today we’re thinking that we’ll also include Polaris Awards (we really like the idea of Polaris), and possibly Omega Awards.
So here’s what we’re thinking today.
The Halo Awards will for the most part be awarded posthumously. That opens the door to a wide variety of great people whom we’d like to honor. In very rare occasions we might present a Halo to a living person. But as a matter of course living persons will be awarded a Polaris Award.
As for the tentative Omega Award, we’ll have to think about that one.
We’ll keep you posted. And as we say, it took the Catholic Church several centuries to sort everything out, so do bear with us!
–Michael Clark
