Category Archives: Featured
Bats, big hats and bin Laden: A lot can happen in a week
So I went away for a week’s holiday and while I was gone the Brits took a day off for a royal wedding that must have been a boon to hat makers; a tornado in the Auckland, New Zealand suburb of Albany killed a man; tornados in the US killed hundreds of people; Osama bin [...]
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How to find out what’s open in Christchurch after the earthquake
Update June 26, 2011 Christchurch buildings have been categorised according to damage level and suitability for repair. To check which zone your property is in and what that means for you, go to: landcheck.org.nz. You can enter your street address to get the details for your property and information on what to do next. The [...]
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Beached whale: Give our bru’s in Christchurch a hand
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How a three-day-old crowdsourcing site is helping Christchurch residents
The Christchurch Recovery Map, eq.org.nz, is a great crowd-sourcing site helping people affected by the earthquake in Christchurch find out what’s open, what’s not, and get help with clean-up and getting businesses back up and running. It’s interesting because it: lets citizens help other citizens is working with other services including Civil Defence, Google’s People [...]
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‘The Internet in 1996 vs 2011′ infographic from Online University