A somber park bench memorial in Vancouver’s Grey’s Park, in memory of 15-year-old Deeward Pontes, a young Canadian who died after being stabbed at the park two years ago. (iPhone photo, massaged with the Lo-Mob app.)
The blog has been resurrected after the hacker attack. Things are still a bit of a mess around here — category menus don’t work, for instance — but the content has almost all been restored. That’s only because I use a WP plug-in that backs up my database once a week and emails me the [...]
I’m on the verge of recommending that our journalism program get out of the newspaper business. (This is not an anti-print rant, nor does it mean I’m one of those who sees no future for print. What drives this isn’t a matter of platform, it’s thinking about how best to teach skills.) Our print issue [...]
The next semester starts in a couple of days, and with it the first class of what is essentially a course that introduces first year students to multimedia journalism tools and skills. To prepare, I’ve been drafting a list of principles to guide the course (and students). So far, I have this: 1. The ability [...]
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The frenzy is growing over Apple’s likely late-January announcement of a tablet and I’ve lost track of the number of writers who see in the tablet — along with the success e-readers are starting to enjoy — the latest “saviour” for print. (Click any of the links in this Google search I did and you’ll [...]
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