The future is the past? Journalism and Twitter
Is this the Twitter of the 1940s? Sure looks like it. The Boston Globe in the 1940s provided breaking news before the story was in the paper. I’m assuming people still purchased the paper.(The people standing outside are likely the sub-species of Homo sapiens known as news junkies)…
Finding time for my website
One of the great regrets I have about my website is that I can never find time to work on the design and scripting of it. This domain was once cutting edge – a century ago on the Internet back in 2007 before my recruitment by Maclean’s. It’s…
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…