Letter to Council: Let's be innovative with transit next bus signs
I wrote the following letter to Hamilton City Council today. I did not make the Council agenda deadline (I’ve been battling illness and exhaustion)…
Citizens 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…
Leaked: "Accountability and Transparency Sub-Committee" agenda
Hamilton’s “accountability and transparency sub-committee” meets Tuesday and, thanks 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 the…
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:…
City approves demolition of iconic downtown Board of Education building
[](http://blog.joeycoleman.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2432712144_b2cb49561f_z.jpg)A picture of the headquarters of the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board taken by Flickr user juggybiv during the H Magazine/HIStory + HERitage walk in March 2008. (Licensed under CC) Say your goodbyes to Hamilton’s iconic Board of Education building before it’s gone. As expected,…
No daily updates this week
Apologies, I’m severely behind on a few projects and suffered a major setback this weekend when I encountered computer problems. I’ll be focusing my “spare” time for the next few weeks on the final push for open data at Hamilton City Hall. The open data motion is going…