Who are Canada’s best J-tweeters?
That’s a question I attempt to answer. But I’ll need other people’s help to do a really, really good job.
Sun, November 13 2011 » Main Page, Media » 10 Comments
Occupy Wall Street – My curated timelines
Here’s the first Storify effort I’ve carried out for CTVNews.ca – Occupy Wall Street Timeline.* * Note: Updated to about 8 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 14, 2011 Update I created a second one: Occupy Canada – A timeline and what’s happening The tool is still a bit buggy and there seems to be a lot [...]
Wed, October 12 2011 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Oh, Twitter, you’re so over-rated
The Pew Internet and American Life Project has found that 8 per cent of Americans use Twitter. If I were an American, I would be among the one-in-four Twitter users who check several times per day for updates — not the one-in-five who never checks.
Thu, December 9 2010 » Main Page, Media » 2 Comments
How the social web is changing online reading
New features for Facebook and applications such as TweetDeck for Twitter, not to mention innovations such as Flipboard and Instapaper, are shifting how online news is consumed, writes Richard McManus of ReadWriteWeb.
Tue, December 7 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Mark Zuckerberg speaks
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, subject of the recent movie The Social Network, granted an interview to CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday. I saw it by watching the video posted at TheNextWeb. The occasion of the interview was to mark the launch of Facebook’s redesigned profile page.
Sun, December 5 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Meet an entrepreneurial journalist
Steve Buttry of Washington’s TBD.com profiles Canadian Craig Silverman of Regret The Error fame — but also a man who has cobbled together a living wearing many hats simultaneously.
Sun, December 5 2010 » Main Page, Media » 4 Comments
Digital first. Then the newspaper
John Paton, CEO of the Journal Register Company (JRC), told the International Newsmedia Marketing Association that newspapers must develop digital-first strategies or suffer the consequences.
Thu, December 2 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Rye High j-students get Android-powered cellphones
From PBS MediaShift, by Ryerson School of Journalism instructor Wayne MacPhail, posted Nov. 29:
Thu, December 2 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
The news diamond
Saw David Akin point to this recently on Twitter: A 2007 blog post by British journalism educator Paul Bradshaw entitled A model for the 21st century newsroom: Pt1 – The news diamond.
Wed, December 1 2010 » Main Page, Media » 2 Comments
The tyranny of algorithms – Is news next?
CBC contributor Ira Basen had a major feature published in the Nov. 27 Globe and Mail about the growing power of algorithms in the human decision-making process. I pull out an excerpt that’s journalism-related:
Mon, November 29 2010 » Main Page, Media » 2 Comments