I’ve never expected journalistic excellence from the company’s newspapers or TV news casts. I mainly watch Global Television to catch a few U.S. shows.
I feel bad for those who are going to lose their jobs, but this fall has been a long time coming.
February 20, 2009
Can CanWest Avoid A Fall?
July 21, 2008
June 25, 2008
May 29, 2008
But where the heck is it?
There’s so much talk about the challenges traditional media faces from social networking and Web 2.0 technologies, but I don’t think any of them are excuses for not remember the 5Ws.
May 14, 2008
Blogger code of conduct favored by near-majority of internet users
Nearly half (46%) of internet users favor the creation of a voluntary code of conduct for bloggers and online commentators, shows a survey by legal firm DLA Piper.
Technorati Tags: Web 2.0, media, journalism, blogs
May 1, 2008
Is your glass half full or half empty?
“Ontario is doing absolutely fine. The West is doing absolutely great. Perhaps we should do a little more celebration of the latter, rather than bemoaning the former.”
Such is the conclusion of Ken Boessenkool,senior vice-president of Hill & Knowlton Canada, and research fellow at the Canada West Foundation in today’s Globe and Mail.
It’s a refreshing perspective amongst all of the predictions of doom and gloom for Ontario.
Technorati Tags: media, economics, economy, Ontario
April 28, 2008
How Newspapers Can Embrace Video
The Editors Weblog has a great article on how the Washington Post is training reporters to take video to accompany their stories online.
Yes, newspapers are hurting now, but don’t count them out.
Technorati Tags: media, online video, washington post
April 11, 2008
Twitter can break news, but it can’t provide context
B.L. Ochman has a short post about how services such as Twitter can make everyone a reporter.
While I agree that Twitter can break news, it can’t provide context and deep analysis.
It also raises a very important question: What’s to stop someone from twittering an outright lie that leads to some serious damage such as panic in the streets?
Feel free to call me a cynic.
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Technorati Tags: twitter, Web 2.0, news, media, journalism, B.L. Ochman
April 8, 2008
Does RSS take the fun out of Web surfing?
It took me a while to fully take advantage of RSS feeds. For a while I was never completely satisfied with any of the readers available, be it on the Web or desktop, and I often found many sites did not necessarily have their feeds properly configured.
I finally settled on using My Yahoo! as my RSS launch point. I could categorize feeds into different pages and access it on any computer. However I recently found the site to be a little buggy and in some cases the feeds would not properly update, even though I knew the site was putting up new content by the hour.
I found myself going back to my bookmarks or simply typing in the URL to see of my favourite sites / blogs had been updated – not the most efficient method. This led me to once again look for a desktop client or Web service that I liked. I finally settled on Google Reader, having not tried it out in a while.
Now I’m zooming through nearly 200 RSS feeds spanning categories such as national news, Web 2.0 bloggers, auto racing and photography. It’s very efficient and I can easily bookmark, share or star content to read later.
But is it too efficient?
RSS feeds through Google Reader allows to me monitor a lot of information very quickly, but no longer am I am exploring the Web sites I used to so frequently. I am getting my information in simple fonts with the occasional image – no sidebars or peripheral content to take me off in a new tangent.
In my quest to streamline my information gathering, am I taking the fun out of my daily Web experience, and more importantly, am I missing out on new ideas?
Technorati Tags: Google, Google Reader, media, news, RSS, Web 2.0, Web surfing, Yahoo
