As an admirer of Edmonton’s new media scene, I thought there might be room for a weekly roundup of what’s going on out there. This notion coalesced after a meeting with The League of Extraordinary Media. It is inspired by the fine daily aggregation done by the edmontonian and the weekly summary put together by … More Edmonton New Media Roundup 1
sesamestreet: It’s part 2 of Conversations with Bert, featuring Andy Samberg! Tune in for more banter about socks, pigeons, paper clips, and more! (Missed part 1? Check it out!) I’d been thinking a lot about interviewing today. And then I came across this. Outstanding. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
The most important word on the internet is ‘share’.—Hugh MacLeod
Don’t feel guilty if you spend the first 90 minutes of your day drinking coffee and reading blogs ‐‐ it’s your job. Your ratio of reading to writing should be high. Nate Silver’s terrific advice for young journalists in the digital age (via austinkleon) This speech is full of great advice.
The fire that threatened and then destroyed much of Slave Lake took over my Twitter stream on Sunday night. Storify seemed like a good tool to curate the best of the pictures and videos being shared, so I gave it a try. Here’s the link. For more on the story, check out the Edmonton Journal, … More Storify: Slave Lake fire
https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=&visual=true&liking=false&sharing=false&auto_play=false&show_comments=false&continuous_play=false&origin=tumblr This is the speech I gave to the Edmonton Journal newsroom on May 11, 2011, my last day of work after almost 14 years there. It’s a little rough around the edges, but I hope it gives a sense of what the place meant to me. The four people I thanked were Sheila Pratt, … More
This amazing illustration is the expression of my friend Brittney Le Blanc’s delight in a Venn diagram I made describing us. It made her very happy. Thus buoyed, I’m going to get even sillier and share a song I wrote a long, long time ago. I’m certainly at risk of losing some serious news chick cred … More Waiting for a unicorn
Here’s my first attempt at using Storify to compile images of Edmonton’s big storm. These are images shared by users of Twitter, Flickr and YouTube. It’s a pretty easy tool (though I’m still struggling with the search), and seems like a great way to put together what our community is talking about and taking pictures of. … More Edmonton storm images, compiled through Storify
The Onion slays me again: How Will The End Of Print Journalism Affect Old Loons Who Hoard Newspapers? (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
longreads: The web was surprisingly good at emulating a TV, a newspaper, a book, or a radio. Which meant that people expected it to answer the questions of each medium, and with the promise of advertising revenue as incentive, web developers set out to provide those answers. As a result, people in the newspaper industry … More The Web Is a Customer Service Medium
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