From the vapid and vacuous to the profound and tragic, the social web proved its mettle this week in the face of the disastrous Haitian earthquake. The catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake decimated the impoverished Caribbean island, snuffing out tens of thousands of lives while toppling infrastructure. Miraculously, what seemed to stay up were pockets of [...]
Canadians, barely out of our own tryptophan-induced comas, waxed envious for American Thanksgiving on the social web this week. In the words of @onlylucy: “Seriously craving turkey. Damn Americans.” If you believe Wikipedia, soporific stupor due to turkey tryptophan is a myth: “Postprandial Thanksgiving sedation may have more to do with what else is consumed [...]
A colleague was asking me whom to follow on Twitter in their field. Providing an answer took more Googling than it should have. It occurred to me, why is there no comprehensive list of Canadian journalists on Twitter? At least, none that I could find. Oh sure there was this one http://mediaontwitter.pbworks.com/Canada+-+Media+On+Twitter, and this one [...]
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