Category Archives: Interview

Re-blog: How to crunch 93,000 numbers

This is an abridged version of an interview first published on the OpenFile Ottawa blog. Glen McGregor (@glen_mcgregor) is a tech-savvy journalist who, more than most Ottawa reporters, has embraced open data as a reporting platform. This week, the Ottawa Citizen published McGregor’s analysis of a full year of OC Transpo’s GPS data (for more info on…
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Interview: OpenFile Ottawa’s Nick Taylor-Vaisey

Nick Taylor-Vaisey (@nonstopnicktv) is a prolific Ottawa freelancer and the editor of OpenFile Ottawa (@OpenFileOtt), the recent extension of the OpenFile news service. If you’re not already familiar with how OpenFile works, it’s a collaborative news site that allows citizens to open files and suggest stories for freelancers to cover. Files stay open after the…
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Improving life through online apps

A slightly longer version of this post appears on my game design blog, thehappymedium.ca. –Travis Boisvenue Buster Benson (or Buster McLeod, or Erik Benson, depending on how long you’ve known him, I suppose) works independently under his company Enjoymentland, creating apps that help improve lives. 750 Words provides a comfortable platform to write daily. 8:36pm…
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