Stephen Michalowicz

Since its official launch in August 2008, Google Suggest has been fuelling a new auto-complete meme that has taken off on social sites like Digg and Reddit and even encouraged news sites like Slate to take a pseudo-sociolinguistic look at Google's most popular searches. What we search can tell... continue reading on Torontoist

The Santa Claus Parade was started by the now-defunct Eaton’s department store in 1905 with just one attraction: Santa. This year, on Sunday, November 15, the parade will feature twenty-six floats, twenty-one bands, and more than a million pieces of candy. To get a sneak peak at this year's edition... continue reading on Torontoist

Last week, Live Green Toronto, the City of Toronto’s website for eco-friendly living, launched a new transit shelter advertising campaign with a unique twist: passersby can flip a giant switch that turns the ad on or off. The ad’s text encourages readers to "switch this poster off," and to... continue reading on Torontoist

City Hall this past March. Photo by christian jackson from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. On Monday, Torontoist spent the day at the Toronto Innovation Showcase at City Hall, learning about data sets, queues, and civic engagement. At the top of the agenda was the unveiling of toronto.ca/open, Toronto’s new... continue reading on Torontoist

The neighbourhoods of Alderwood and Long Branch have been almost entirely omitted from Google Street View. The blue lines represent the areas covered by Google Street View. Contrary to what Google Street View indicates, Browns Line doesn’t have a huge gap in it. Although Google has mapped most of... continue reading on Torontoist