Category Archives: Social media

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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Over the past few weeks I’ve been asked to contribute my opinion on how our local candidates in the Ottawa election are handling the digital shift in campaign communications: During this election Ottawa’s municipal political candidates are getting to know the digital world a little better — with mixed results. If you aren’t certain that what…
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I saw two talks on social media today. They were both steeped in some pretty obtuse theory (to me, anyway), but I managed to take away from them a small lesson about online presence. The first talk was Mark A. McCutcheon’s (@sonicfiction) on the copyfight, science fiction, and social media. It dealt with science fiction…
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I’m attending Congress 2010 at Concordia this week. I’ll be providing brief blog updates about the cool things MediaStyle readers might be interested in. The first is a novel installation on campus created by Max and Julian Stein. They’re two students at Concordia that have created the Montreal Sound Map, an online Google map that…
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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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Rob Cottingham and Alexandra Samuel are early movers in the social media world. Their combined online presence leaves a big impact. Alex’s articles appear online for the Harvard Business Review and Oprah.com and Rob’s cartooning is a mainstay of several well read blogs. Most interesting to me is their commitment to the ideals of their…
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There was a bit of a lull in campaign news as parties were gearing up for the first televised election debates. We’ve got all of the links you need to prepare for the debates which you can watch at the BBC, ITV, or Sky News at 1:30 am (8:30 pm BST). As Ian mentioned yesterday,…
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Open Parliament launches Much talk online in the past few days about the launch of OpenParliament.ca by Michael Mulley. The sites creator suggests that “…too often, information that’s technically available is difficult to find and use. This site aims to make some of that information more easily accessible, and to encourage transparency in government.” He…
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The first week of the election across the pond is over and the stakes are really heating up. Labour and Conservatives are locked in a horse race. And, with the Liberal-Democrats  included in the first ever national debates–anything is possible on May 6th. Canadian political watchers love UK elections. There’s more humour, more gossip, and…
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