May 2011
11 posts
What I saw this morning: Idiots using gas-powered leaf blowers in the pouring rain. #toomuchmoney-toolittlesense http://yfrog.com/h72rrobj
Ouch! RT @stevebuttry: @mathewi @palafo @digiphile I also sympathize w/ CMS issues. I also know that orgs achieve their tech priorities.
RT @themediaisdying: MURDOCH AND PALS BE YE LISTENING? Samsung’s Foldable Display Will Let You Stuff Giant Tablets in Your Pants http:// …
On gender and photojournalism - friend and photojournalist @sherylnadler sez this piece tells the truth and she’s right-http://bit.ly/kx48Dc
Ah, fame’s fleeting embrace…Goodbye Kramer… # morningwalk http://yfrog.com/h7nc7yrqj
Welcome @meredithmacleod to twitter folks - the only business reporter/musician I know and like
Nice piece of local reporting by Open File: City shuts down Hamilton’s only backpackers hostel | OpenFile http://t.co/8iP8mzq
Hey fellow Canadians - we just made out like bandits! Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5B, Canada Pension Plan was part owner - and we paid $2B
RT @bMunch: and a kitten dies ~ RT @benjaminjackson: Protip: When you use the word “buckets” instead of “categories”, baby Jesus soils h …
RT @stephenhui Alternative vote goes down to defeat in UK referendum http://bbc.in/mbKMua - No surprise here…
RT @elliotte: Instead of yet more soap, give a woman a pair of goats, water, school for her kids in your mom’s name this #mumsday. http: …
April 2011
1 post
An exhaustive, damn useful summary of the amazing array of free blogging tools, via the always smart @paulbradshaw http://bit.ly/gJzwtT
November 2010
26 posts
http://plixi.com/p/59738655. Morning light in the backyard it’s going to be a beautiful day
Hey! Joss Wedon takes a (funny) swipe at TO’s movie makers, reacting 2 news that Warner Bros was re-booting Buffy http://on.io9.com/f7WTA4
How to be a Retronaut - powerful juxtapostion of old (Nazi occupation) and new photos in Amsterdam http://bit.ly/gXBhiS
Twitter riot! Spec ME @jimpoling tweeting pic of @susanclairmont who is tweeting dayinthelife here at the Spec http://plixi.com/p/59097202
Just for the hell of it, somebody ask Sarah Palin about the situation with West Korea and Narnia. RT@BrilliantOrange via @stevebuttry
My Spectator colleague @susanclairmont is tweeting from within the belly of the beast today - tracking the inner workings of our newsroom
RT @dweinberger: Rupert putting a daily paper on the Net. Yes, daily, because the Net comes out once a day http://t.co/5fZI5Fr via @gigaom
Reading a great investigative piece on TO cops and organized crime in @eyeweekly by @derekfinkle http://www.eyeweekly.com/
Taking the Go bus to work on this fine grey day. Nice to have someone else wrestling with the commuter chaos and the sudden rain
RT @rhh: Dear Instagram users: colour photography was invented for a reason.
Net neutrality? Monopoly controls? Who cares? The man who invented the web says you should “Because the Web is yours” http://bit.ly/cJIC9d
RT @mmmcgu: All j-students, especially Twitter skeptics, should read this RT @cjensenott: Why Twitter matters for journalists: http://j …
RT @mccanner: Macy’s co-opted that “Rent” song? Man, 15-year-old me is super pissed at that. But she was pissed at everything. But espec …
Heavy rains and heavier traffic No way I should be tweeting now
RT @timunroe: Tres cool. @blogTO: So cool… #Toronto neighbourhoods mapped via word clouds —> http://bit.ly/bs6ilP
RT @lkmi: Hee Hee. RT @ironicsans, @tommytomlinson Breaking: Microsoft announces the Monkees catalog now available on Zune.
Whoah. I’m in the middle of writing a column about how Goog & FB are competing with newspapers for local and then Google launches Hot Pot
RT @macloo: Student video? Need a handout for iMovie 09 Basics? Here it is - http://bit.ly/dmG4IN
Sitting in the bar drinking too much
And. So it ends. http://plixi.com/p/56537928
Maple leaf gardens is 79 today http://plixi.com/p/56455170 Here’s what it looks like today
If you haven’t seen @open_file ‘s Remembrance Day package http://bit.ly/988wo3 do so. Patrick Cain’s map is simple, powerful
Broken umbrellas, rejected, abandoned - strangely compelling photos. http://bit.ly/9Jq5N0
Netflix - 20% of bandwidth? http://slate.me/bZPAwB Cdn ISPs (who ALL sell much more expensive movies) won’t permit it. I smell war
Worth a read. RT @CharlieBeckett: Journalism is in a complete mess. And that is a Good Thing. http://is.gd/gKMNl via @gmarkham, @mathewi
Slate says in first week, Cdn Netflix had 2x the traffic of YouTube - http://slate.me/bZPAwB and in US account for 20% of net traffic …
July 2010
30 posts
He was also friends with my grandpa: RT @ebertchicago: Robert Flaherty died this day. He lived with Nanook in the North. http://j.mp/crR6hD
Such a loss - Star digger Dale Anne Freed dies suddenly and much too young: http://bit.ly/b8qmRN
Fabulous photos by Ian Martens - jet pilot ejecting seconds before crash at Lethbridge air show http://bit.ly/d0NKUV
1 in 10 or 1 in 20 reporters live for their stories - the Dale Anne Freed I met on the streets of TO was one of those: http://bit.ly/b8qmRN
Technology Review: Talking to Your Phone →
Look at Vlingo and Siri, two app families that integrate voice recognition and A.I. on the mobile phone
God bless the ‘net-posted the new Broken Social Scene video http://bit.ly/96LRLH to FB and the Re-Captcha words were: “Harris, Eventually”
Bloody brilliant: RT @dweinberger: Seinfeld recut as action thriller trailer http://bit.ly/aWEvv0
Nice. Thanks Bill. RT @billdinTO: Sunset over Agincourt http://twitpic.com/275lgf
RT @fodden: This is desperate silliness. RT @TonyClement_MP: long form census [is an] unwarranted intrusion & coercion! (thanks @RHH)
RT @ginatrapani: RT @ftrain: Internet flowchart: Should Journalists learn programming? http://bit.ly/9SzKf7 - funny but oh so true, mostly
Apple’s newest results: Revenue breakdown. 28% from the Mac, 34% from the iPhone, 14% from the iPad, 10% from the iPod: http://bit.ly/d7Yj62
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