technology

Weighing in

Over the last month we’ve been hard at work on the back end of our website. Among other things, we have switched to a new web host that provides a better service than we were previously getting. The Manitoban’s web traffic has grown by an order of magnitude in the last few years and we’ve become too big for the space we had at the old host.


Changing the game

As television broadcasts increase in quality and man-caves and she-sheds get more comfortable, it’s becoming easier to find an excuse not to go to sporting…


Beyond Google

Just about every academic has used Google for research and it should come as no surprise that Google has a dedicated search engine designed with…


Data mining

We are making data all the time. Unbeknownst to most individuals, data is stored every time we use our credit cards, post on social media,…


UMSU domain dispute with CFS continues

The University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) is planning to break away from the Canadian Federation of Students’ (CFS) web and other services even after…


Leave the tweets out of it

Shortly after Christopher Bélanger confirmed his candidacy for the position of vice-president internal of the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU), a set of screenshots…



Swipe right for “love”

Technology no doubt has its benefits – the invention of the printing press enabled mass media and brought about the accessibility of popular art; the…


Swipe right for love

We are living in the information age, a period in human history brought to fruition by the digital revolution. As time proceeds, more and more…