Joey's Reading List for January 11, 2017
Selection of articles I’ve read that I’m sharing with you. My blog is now powered using Ghost, and I’m a quick writer in the Markdown language used by Ghost on it’s backend. Hopefully, this means I’ll be able to get back into the habit of sharing a list…
The Levees of The Mayor and West Hamilton MPP & MP
Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale MPP Ted McMeekin hosted his annual New Years Levee on Sunday at the Dundas Museum. It was an enjoyable event. I see Levee’s as being about the office, not the office-holder, they are good non-partisan opportunity for everyone to engage in a civil casual dialogue, and to…
Hamilton Library and Free Civic Museum Passes – A Musing
It’s not a new program, just one I’ve actually really taken note of this morning. My musing here isn’t to the newsworthiness of The Public Record. I noted the Hamilton Library catalogue’s option to check out a free family pass for Hamilton’s civic museums for a two week…
Local Music and The Radio Show
I’ll be expanding The Public Record Radio Show in the coming few months, initially, I’ll be expanding to a full hour on Wednesday, and then hope to expand to Monday and Friday as well. With the hour long format, I’ll need to add “filler content” between segments, interviews,…
My Creative Commons Photos In Use on Canadian Dimension
I love Creative Commons and the open culture movement. It’s why I use an open culture for almost all of my work. From 2007 to 2012, I took some photographs professionally, and posted them to Flickr under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Two of my most popular collections…
Ice Cream Tweeting Versus Pie Tweeting
Last year, when I was in Toronto, I tweeted a picture of me eating pie in Kensington Village. It was one of my first tweets after a few weeks offline, and the tweet was unpopular. “I follow you for news, not pie, and I tolerate your ice cream…
Welcome!
I’m Joey Coleman, a Hamiltonian who works as an independent journalist, is engaged with open data, involved in my neighbourhood association, pinball player, I tweet about ice cream, and blamed by City Hall for increasing civic engagement with my work over at www.thepublicrecord.ca. This is my personal website,…
George Michael and My Travels to The Persian Gulf
I rarely note celebrity deaths, I’ll make an exception for the death of George Michael to share how I associate him with the Persian Gulf. When I flew to the Persian Gulf twice on assignment in 2008, each of my four flights on Persian Gulf airliners included his full…
The Screw-Up: Wednesday vs. Tomorrow on a Monday
I owe two City officials an apology, and I’ve already issued it by email. Yesterday, Monday, the HSR’s new Twitter manager reached out to me by email to suggest we meet. He suggested Wednesday at the Mountain Transit Centre. I responded back requesting – because I have no…
Radio.Garden – A Global Globe of Audio Stations
A screencapture of Radio.Garden The internet is great because of the ability to experience other parts of the world. Check out [Radio.Garden](http://radio.garden) to find audio broadcast stations using the globe as your search engine. H/T FlowingData…