Hamilton Council improving due to transparency of live streaming video
Andrew Dreschel of The Hamilton Spectator wrote that Hamilton’s City Council “appears to be getting along more harmoniously than it has in years.” Dreschel attributes this to Mayor Bob Bratina’s leadership style. I attribute this to live-streaming of all meetings. Let’s face it, transparency is more effective than…
The political wife – prop or problem?
Is the political wife a prop or a problem? I read an interesting piece on Poynter this morning which argued the US media seems only capable of defining the political wife as one or the other. The column is a response to recent US media coverage of political wives…
Mapped: Hamilton's heritage interest properties (All 7490)
A few weeks ago, Matt Jelly requested from the City of Hamilton a list of all the heritage properties in Hamilton. The city responded promptly by providing a list of buildings of heritage interest to city staff. Jelly provided the list to me for the Open Hamilton initiative. The listing…
Mapped: Hamilton's heritage interest properties (All 7490)
A few weeks ago, Matt Jelly requested from the City of Hamilton a list of all the heritage properties in Hamilton. The city responded promptly by providing a list of buildings of heritage interest to city staff. Jelly provided the list to me for the Open Hamilton initiative. The listing…
The demolition permit for 30 King Street East, Hamilton, Ontario
I’ve received a copy of the demolition permit for 30 King Street East. As noted in a earlier post, and a later Hamilton Spectator [article](http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/529004–century-old-downtown-building-to-be-torn-down ""Century-old downtown building to be torn down," Hamilton Spectator. May 9, 2011"), the demolition of the building is underway. The building was subject to attention…
Why I'm buying into the cloud
I’m going to purchase some space on Windows Azure and entering the world of cloud computing. There are a couple of reasons for this. The primary motivation is to work further with large data sets, especially open data, to improve my journalism 3.0 skills. I plan to move…
Why I'm buying into the cloud
I’m going to purchase some space on Windows Azure and entering the world of cloud computing. There are a couple of reasons for this. The primary motivation is to work further with large data sets, especially open data, to improve my journalism 3.0 skills. I plan to move…
Poll-by-poll live election result mapping
Monday night, for the federal election, I conducted one of my latest experiments in online journalism. I produced a live poll-by-poll map of the results in Hamilton East-Stoney Creek. As far as I can tell, this is the first time that a Canadian journalist as attempted to break…
Demolition work and fire at 30 King East Hamilton
Fire crews responded to 30 King Street East early Tuesday, May 3, 2011 There’s been some chatter online the last couple of days about the building at 30 King Street East in Hamilton which once housed Caesars…
Live map of HESC election results
I’ve been hard at work the past couple of weeks preparing for election night. As part of my comprehensive coverage of the Hamilton East Stoney Creek riding, I’ll be providing the only live poll-by-poll election result map of any journalist in Hamilton. Below is a live map of…