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Cyber Monday shoppers search the web for deals
After the rush in the US on Black Friday, shoppers are now gearing up to do the same thing online. Cyber Monday is the digital counterpart of Black Friday. The term was coined in 2005 for the Monday following...
created by Alfred Hermida | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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352 views | 64 recommendations | 5 comments
Canadian judge rules linking is not defamation
In what is being seen as a landmark ruling, a judge in Canada has decided that a website is not liable for the sites it links to."The case has been greeted by some as a landmark ruling. It centred on a defamation lawsuit launched by a former Green Party official Wayne Crookes...
created by Alfred Hermida | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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100 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
NDP candidate Byers speaks out on tar sands
The candidates competing to represent downtown Vancouver faced questions rom journalism students at the UBC School of Journalism.The debate ranged from the controversial safe injection site, Insite, in the...
created by Alfred Hermida | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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198 views | 20 recommendations | 2 comments
Online journalists should look beyond the US
Just about anyone who is anyone in online journalism will be in Washington DC for the annual conference of the Online News Association. Or at least, anyone in the US. "The ONA is ostensibly an international... 294 views | 21 recommendations | 6 comments
Canadians prefer user-generated videos to TV shows on the web
The broadcast watchdog, the CRTC, has released a comprehensive report into the state of the communications industry in Canada. It is the first report of its kind from the regulator, covering both the broadcast and telecommunications industries, because in the words of...
created by Alfred Hermida | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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215 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
Millions of Canadians creating and sharing content online
It may be time to use the phrase, the people formerly known as the audience, in Canada. Figures from Stats Canada on internet use show that millions of Canadians are creating and sharing their own content online, which is good news for sites like NowPublic. 20% of people...Veteran BBC correspondent Charles Wheeler dies
The BBC's longest-serving foreign correspondent, Charles Wheeler, has died from lung cancer at the age of 85. Wheeler was considered something of a legend at the BBC. As a reporter, presenter and producer, he had covered stories such as the assassination of Martin Luther King... Citizen journalists do make the news
"Hold the front page - citizen journalists can produce original news!This came out of research by Zvi Reich of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel presented at the ICA annual conference in Montreal on... CTV tries to bolster news coverage with citizen journalism
"TV network CTV is the latest to jump on the citizen journalism bandwagon with the launch of a site dedicated to user-generated content at MyNews.ctv.ca.A breathless news release from CTV headlined “Attention all Citizen Journalists!” told Canadians that:"Now, anyone with...Canadian watchdog reviews role of new media
"Canada’s broadcast watchdog, the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), wants to hear from Canadians about what it how it should deal with the Internet.At issue is whether the CRTC should extend its mandate to the Internet, a medium that is free...Vancouver gives rise to new citizen journalism project
"The citizen journalism beat has a new kid on the block in the shape of VancouverIAM.As you might have guessed from the name, it is a citmedia site about Vancouver, based in Vancouver. The site describes itself...
created by Alfred Hermida | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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422 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
Jpod fans organise on Facebook to revive the show
"Fans of the cancelled CBC show, Jpod, are planning to emulate the antics of fans across the border to save their beloved programme.A Facebook group has been set up to coordinate a mail-in blitz to CBC in...
created by Alfred Hermida | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Canwest wraps up newspaper rights to 2010 Olympics
"The largest owner of Canadian newspapers, Canwest, has bought up the rights to the 2010 Vancouver/Whistler Olympic Games to become the “Official Newspaper Chain of the 2010″.The deal includes all...
created by Alfred Hermida | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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350 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
Apple reports record results, sells more than 2m Macs
"Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 second quarter ended March 29, 2008. The Company posted revenue of $7.51 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.05 billion, or $1.16 per diluted...
created by Alfred Hermida | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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BBC closes £1.3m experiment in grassroots online democracy
In a few days’ time, on April 30, the BBC will close down its experiment in grassroots democracy, the Action Network.The project started life five years ago as BBC iCan. According to the people involved at the time, iCan was a significant change for public service...
created by Alfred Hermida | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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