For those unfamiliar, FORA.tv has been collecting and uploading big ideas on video from various conferences and think tanks from all around the world for about the last 5 years.  Recently, an interesting Picnic 2009 presentation was posted entitled “The Arab Social Web”, with participation from Creative Commons, Al Jazeera and Lebanese NGO Social Media [...]

As some of you many know, on Tuesday, January 19, DMS President/CEO Lori Abittan will be participating in an upcoming Canadian Journalism Foundation panel, “The Rise of “Ethnic Media”.
One of the other interesting aspects of this panel, is its moderator:  the Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) of Ontario’s Public Service (OPS):  Noëlle Richardson.  Some of you [...]

With 2009 coming to a close, end-of-year lists seem to be on everybody’s mind. So, like last year, below are some of the online “wows” I discovered over the last 12 months.  Limiting this list to nine was daunting, but here’s what I came up with … in no particular ranking:
1. Journalistics Blog – is [...]

I was a little torn on what to post today … it was between two very different ideas.  In the end, “the risotto” (below) won out, albeit a little NSFW. (I’ll leave the other for Twitter.)
My Dad loved Big Night … in fact, in more ways than one, Stanley Tucci (“Secondo”) reminds me of him in [...]

A few months back on a beautiful summer evening in Toronto, I attended a CD launch party for Twitter-friend and internationally renowned pianist Grace Nikae.  Hosted by Toronto fashion designer Rosemarie Umetsu at her Avenue Road studio, Grace gave us a sneak peak of her latest CD, Chopin | Schumann: Sonatas.
The event itself combined both [...]