A lot of Edmonton blog posts struck me this week. Here’s a few: How can you not want to read Lisa A. Zieminek’s Button Soup guest post on vermicomposting after seeing this? Seriously, do it. Poet laureate Mary Pinkoski’s Genius Loci, shared on the Edmonton Arts Council blog, rings with truth and beauty. On … More Edmonton blog roundup: June 9, 2014
Here are some Edmonton blog posts that caught my attention this week: Sharon Yeo recaps the first What the Truck?! of the season. (Photo by Mack Male.) I love the old-school data visualization at the top of the June 1, 1928 Vintage Edmonton. Allan Suddaby notes on Button Soup that rhubarb is a great local source … More Edmonton blog roundup: June 2, 2014
Here are some recent Edmonton blog posts that I was glad I read: Sarah Chan posted a lovely and thorough summary of Poppy Barley’s recent design event on Girls and Bicycles. (Photo by Sarah Chan.) Glenn Kubish eloquently calls for a completely different way of thinking about transportation, in light of the death of another cyclist. Tanis … More Edmonton blog roundup: May 25, 2014
Vikki Wiercinski (aka Veekee Weekee) storified the aftermath of the Royal Bison Fair, including this shot from Fridget Factory. Here are some recent blog posts from Edmontonians that you should check out: On #YEGFILM, Adam Bentley offers the lessons learned running a successful but challenging crowdfounding campaign. Lowetide urges Oilers owner Daryl Katz to step … More Edmonton blog roundup: May 19, 2014
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
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
Seen and Heard in Edmonton 