City Council today approved the W2 Social Enterprise Café on the ground level of the Woodwards redevelopment. This is a historic victory for W2 Community Media Arts Society who has been in a four year RFP...
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Part One: Suddenly a Statistic So it's 2009 and you've just spent the past 15 years or so either working, going to school (partying), or pursuing your chosen profession. You were one of the most experienced guys in...
opinion by george_teneyck | 17 wks ago | updated 15 wks ago 448 views | 20 recommendations | 5 comments
The atmosphere between Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan and Greek PM, Kostas Karamanlis was described as tense, somewhat "icy" according to Greek national daily, Vima. On the other hand, the Ethnos newspaper...
Vancouver is preparing itself for another invigorating week of Business to Business speed dating, an influx of game developers, Obama’s social media guru, and the gathering of digital media industry’s finest at this year’s Vancouver Digital Week 2009. Taking place...
Funny that it is new media saving journalists rather than the mainstream, all things considered. "NEW YORK — The Huffington Post said Sunday that it will bankroll a group of investigative journalists,...
created by fromama | 32 wks ago | updated 32 wks ago 160 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
OMMA, oh my! A YouTube clip of Jason Calacanis "incendiary" keynote address "Advertising, Riots, Twitter, Facebook and the Depression" at the OMMA Hollywood 2009 conference was posted Thursday in which the...
The 2009 Media Guardian Innovation Awards have awarded Demotix (www.demotix.com) a citizen-journalist newswire and photo agency the prize for best Independent Media at the ceremony which took place last night...
opinion by EdHad | 32 wks ago | updated 32 wks ago 293 views | 23 recommendations | 3 comments
While their Denver counterparts at the now defunct Rocky Mountain News try to drum up pledge support for an online version of their newspaper, staffers at the soon-to-be-extinct Seattle Post-Intelligencer are...
How do you get your ideas, stories, products or services to spread like wildfire over the web by millions of people? Are the huge success stories you hear about the viral power of the web just flukes - or can anyone do it? Interview and book review of a “WORLD WIDE...
opinion by skbigm | 34 wks ago 101 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Rich Sanchez talks about his exerience with Twitter: ""I can't see how anyone who's forward thinking wouldn't look at our model...and say 'wow this is very likely the way things will move in the future,'" said...
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Residents of Dunbar are trying to help out a longstanding local hardware store. A recent neighbourhood mailing list had the following plea: ""The little hardware store on Dunbar Street is in trouble."Grant has put his entire stock on sale this month of February....
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" As old media races to catch up with the Web and figure out how to successfully monetize print content online, one publication is taking a drastically different approach: web to print. The Printed Blog, a startup founded and funded by former business productivity software...
As violence continues to be waged in Gaza, the public relations and media battle between Israel and Hamas continues to be waged online. In an apparent "internet first", last Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces (by...
January 20th, Inauguration Day 2009, will be a huge event across the United States and President-elect Barack Obama wants to make sure that all Americans have the opportunity to join in the celebrations. With that...
Background: After the largest media house in Nepal split, most of the top journalists moved out to form a new media house. They are coming up with two new newspaper Daineeki (Nepali) and Republica (English language) and some have other plans. They claim they hope to redefine...
opinion by salik | 47 wks ago | updated 47 wks ago 636 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments