Category Archives: News

Some of you might already be familiar with The Dirty Rectangles, the team of indie game designers that convene once a month at Avant Garde bar to show off new games and talk shop. Next Wednesday is their last Show and Tell event of the year, and The Dirty Rectangles are letting me present a…
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OpenFile invited me to blog for them as part of their new Saturday coverage and I got to write about some stories MediaStyle readers would love. Here’s a brief rundown of what I got up to: The MorningFile and Saturday Reads were all the news you needed today. Reporter Glen McGregor crowdsourced the research for…
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Last week I posted a teaser for a documentary I’m shooting about modern homes in Ottawa. I was also hard at work producing an OpenFile story about a promising new modern development in Hintonburg. You can find that story right here. For a quick summary of what the building will look like, I produced this…
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I think I can speak for all of us at MediaStyle when I say we’re Apple nerds. While some people might be sad about Steve Jobs’ recent resignation from chief executive at Apple his, I think communicators can learn some important ideas from Steve Jobs. Like thinking of user experience, audience and customers first when…
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Leadnow.ca, a youth-founded online campaigning organization inspired by the success of groups like the American MoveOn.org, kicked off a nationwide campaign today to ramp up for a possible spring election. Next week the process ramps up with (Re)Generation: Voices for Canada, a nationwide event from March 6-12 where Canadians from across the country will participate in face-to-face gatherings to discuss…
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I recently wrote a story for OpenFile about the use of open data in Ottawa and the upcoming International Open Data Hackathon. It combines a few of the things that readers of the MediaStyle blog love: design, technology, and helping people in cool ways. I’ve included an excerpt below, and the full story can be…
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I can’t think of another time in history (in my whole 24 years of being aware of it) when so much transition was happening in human communication. Or when so much of the work was being done by one entity. In this case, it’s Google. Andrew Madden is a former tech journalist and currently the…
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Ian Capstick discusses the recent Potash decision and the fate of Omar Kahdr on CBC’s Power and Politics. Power Panel: CBC’s Power & Politics (Mon. Nov 1) from Ian Capstick on Vimeo.

Craig Silverman is part of a team, headed by Wilf Dinnick, that is creating the transparent, multimedia, open-sourced news website OpenFile. The first part of this interview can be found here. -Travis Boisvenue People talk about how social media, or new media, might replace traditional forms. It seems more that social media acts as a supplementary…
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Craig Silverman is the journalist behind Regret the Error, the co-author of Mafiaboy: How I Cracked The Internet and Why It’s Still Broken, and the managing editor of PBS.org MediaShift. [Full disclosure: MediaStyle principal Ian Capstick is a contributor to the MediaShift blog] He’s also part of the team, headed by Wilf Dinnick, that is creating the…
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