Citizen's helping citizens: citizen-sourcing the news
Citizen-self-sourcing is taking hold among Hamilton’s twitter community. Increasingly, citizens are connecting each other to information such as details about power outages, traffic incidents, and police-related activity. [blackbirdpie url=”http://twitter.com/Gumshoe/statuses/199469337436884992″] This is great for civic society, and while not apparent, it is good for journalism Citizen-self-sourcing vs. crowd-sourcing The…
Citizen's helping citizens: citizen-sourcing the news
Citizen-self-sourcing is taking hold among Hamilton’s twitter community. Increasingly, citizens are connecting each other to information such as details about power outages, traffic incidents, and police-related activity. [blackbirdpie url=”http://twitter.com/Gumshoe/statuses/199469337436884992″] This is great for civic society, and while not apparent, it is good for journalism Citizen-self-sourcing vs. crowd-sourcing The…
No daily link roundups this week
Apologies, I’m swamped with things to do this week. I will be at Council Wednesday. – Joey…
Responsive gets response
This Friday round-up is important because it shows a trend that is not going away. *WaPo’s *digital revenue is down. Do they have anything special that people want to buy? NYTimes is laid off some more non-newsroom staff. The Boston Globe‘s online products are finding success with paid…
Demolition Permit for Hamilton's Board of Education building
The City of Hamilton released a copy of the building permit allowing demolition of the iconic downtown Education Centre that will be replaced by a McMaster University medical education building. The City declined to release the demolition plans as submitted to receive the permit. The City states it…
Demolition Permit for Hamilton's Board of Education building
The City of Hamilton released a copy of the building permit allowing demolition of the iconic downtown Education Centre that will be replaced by a McMaster University medical education building. The City declined to release the demolition plans as submitted to receive the permit. The City states it…
Leaked: "Accountability and Transparency Sub-Committee" agenda
Hamilton’s “accountability and transparency sub-committee” meets Tuesday and, thanks for to a source, a copy of the sub-committee’s agenda was leaked. The sub-committee’s to-do list includes consideration of legal advice on the proposed bylaw gagging citizens who file complaints with the integrity commissioner. Despite being told repeatedly by…
Leaked: "Accountability and Transparency Sub-Committee" agenda
Hamilton’s “accountability and transparency sub-committee” meets Tuesday and, thanks for to a source, a copy of the sub-committee’s agenda was leaked. The sub-committee’s to-do list includes consideration of legal advice on the proposed bylaw gagging citizens who file complaints with the integrity commissioner. Despite being told repeatedly by…
CBC using DocumentCloud – awesome
CBC’s story about a Hamilton man who found 1920s-era German bonds in an abandoned safe is the first time I’ve seen CBC using DocumentCloud. DocumentCloud is a powerful document presentation online software package that allows – among many features – for easy annotation of source documents. What this could…
Colbert flogs book on Today
Stephen Colbert is back on the talk show circuit to flog his new book I Am A Pole (And So Can You!). He visited the Today show where David Gregory was dragged out of bed to conduct the interview:…