mastermaq: Vintage Edmonton found some treasures at the Wild Rose Antique Show. Take a look at more matchbook covers like these. Here are some recent blog posts from Edmontonians that you should check out! Chris LaBossiere calls for more focus and big ambition on Alberta’s innovation agenda. Donloree Hoffman sings the praises of getting up … More
Exciting things are happening in the realm of making it easy to discover new media in Edmonton. So exciting that I feel compelled to blow the dust off my blog and see what I can do to bring these efforts to your attention. ShareEdmonton blogs Mack Male has made a number of improvements to his … More Edmonton New Media Roundup 30
Watermelon + strawberries + blueberries + feta + vinegar + oil = yum (Taken with instagram)
One year ago, I left the Edmonton Journal. The overlap between what I was spending my time on and what I wanted to be spending my time on was not big enough, and it was making me crazy. So I quit. I spent a few weeks thinking, talking, imagining what I could do now that … More An offer I couldn’t refuse
It’s about time I got around to writing about MediaCamp, which brought more than 80 people to the World Trade Centre on Feb. 4 to explore the intersection of journalism and technology. I’m still thinking about that intersection, and the other roads that feed into it.For a recap of what we did and learned, check … More Edmonton New Media Roundup 28
It seems an awful lot of people are interested in learning how to do new things this year, and a lot of them are journalists and/or bloggers, judging from my Twitter stream. For example, tens of thousands of people — including me! — have signed up for Code Year 2012, which is Code Academy’s super-enticing … More Edmonton New Media Roundup 27
As I reflect on 2011 in Edmonton’s new media space, a figure haunts me: 3,400. That’s how how many blogs Mack Male counted in this city, for a talk he gave at WordCamp in November. Man, I thought. Here I figured I was reasonably on top of the Edmonton blogosphere. I had read so many posts in 2011, … More Edmonton New Media Roundup 26
I’ve been doing this, that and the other thing, so this time around I’m heading straight into cool stuff I’ve come across in the past little while:— It was nice to see the edmontonian’s YouTube channel come to life again with A Close Shave, a trailer for Marty Chan’s latest children’s book. I have it … More Edmonton New Media Roundup 25
I was fortunate to be asked to speak at WordCamp Edmonton, which meant I got to soak up a whole bunch of great stuff from this terrific conference on all things WordPress. As I admitted in my presentation (which won’t make a lot of sense out of context, but the links are worth looking at), … More Edmonton New Media Roundup 24
The past little while has been heavily IRL for me – I spent a lot of time at events, talking to people in real life, as opposed to reading or listening to their stuff online. But every one of those opportunities had its seeds in connections made on Twitter, so there’s the new media angle … More Edmonton New Media Roundup 23
Seen and Heard in Edmonton 