In case you missed my column on The Vancouver Observer… [From Phishing: How to Avoid Getting Hooked | The Vancouver Observer – Vancouver Olympics News Blogs Events Reviews] Which not only covers how to avoid getting hooked by phishing scams, but also announcing the winners of last week’s contest!
What skills will make the best journalists? Tech ninjas to rule the roost?
Journalists seem to always be taking it on the chin. If it isn’t that their craft is dying (which I don’t think is true) or their publications are failing (okay that one is true), now it’s that in order to be agile journalists, keep employed, and be relevant they need to be programers too? Wow, […]
That’s One Way To Get People To Stop Reading Your Papers: Microsoft To Help News Corp Get Off Google
I’m not sure if Rupert Murdoch is a brilliant business mind, just doesn’t get the Internet, or just plain nuts. Maybe buying MySpace was a good idea when News Corp bought it, but it certainly isn’t holding much value now. Now with his massive newspaper holdings also having trouble, if his papers are following all […]
Again The Globe & Mail Leads Newspapers Into Uncharted Waters: Mathew Ingram Tapped As Communities Editor
Image by cfarivar via Flickr As conservative as Canadian business have been jumping onto the Web 2.0-Social Media bandwagon, the Globe & Mail newspaper has been ahead of the curve. Yes, they kept a walled garden up for a while, but Mathew Ingram has been blogging there for years now and maintaining his own personal […]