Social media week findings – the Twitter edition
On Feb. 15, the Poynter Institute’s Jeff Sonderman offered a six-pack of tips from Social Media Week. I’ll highlight one about my favourite SM platform — Twitter:
Fri, February 17 2012 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Migrating print infographics to the Web
I’ve always thought The Globe and Mail created some fine infographics, but I couldn’t find them on the Web. Not a problem any more.
Sun, February 12 2012 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Toronto transit mapped to population density
Google Maps-meister Patrick Cain of Global News came up with a(nother) good idea, executed with his colleague Leslie Young.
Sun, February 12 2012 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Mapping the working poor in Toronto
The Globe and Mail had a good print edition story on the working poor in Toronto and bolstered it online with an interactive map.
Sat, February 11 2012 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Breaking news in 2012 the BBC way
From the BBC’s The Editors’ blog: … When they have some breaking news, an exclusive or any kind of urgent update on a story, they must get written copy into our newsroom system as quickly as possible, so that it can be seen and shared by everyone – both the news desks which deploy our [...]
Wed, February 8 2012 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
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.