Category Archives: Writing

Re-blog: Ottawa collective spurs indie game developers

July 21, 2011 Written by

MediaStyle loves great local stories, good design, and cutting-edge tech, which is why we are re-blogging this abridged version of an article I wrote for OpenFile. The entire story can be found here. Canada is no stranger to independent video games. The movement of art-focused, largely un-financed video game designers has produced some of the…
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Great books make readers think past what’s written on the page

March 14, 2011 Written by

I finished reading one of those “challenging” books this weekend. An extremely well written biography of Samuel Steward called Secret Historian by Justin Spring. Samuel Steward was an author and a renegade – a key source and muse to Dr. Alfred Kinsey, a dear friend of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas and let’s just…
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Journalists who Blog: David Akin

September 30, 2009 Written by

Journalists Who Blog is a series where journalists who report daily in Canada’s mainstream media talk about how the participatory web is changing their craft.  Each of these writers have mastered the art of capturing what happened today and reporting online and for an audience tomorrow. I asked blogging journalists three questions about their craft…
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Guardian goes Open Source

March 10, 2009 Written by

Today, The London Guardian, one of the best newspapers in the world, has released a means for web developers to access, remix, manipulate, and mash up the Guardian’s massive library of daily news, features, and images.  How?  With an API. What’s an API and why should you care? API stands for “application programming interface” (And,…
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