Joseph Hong came to mind today. (I made reference to him in a previous blog post.) Hong was a 23-year old World War II Flying Officer in the Canadian Armed Forces who gave his life for our country, and remembered in Eric McGeer’s Words of Valediction and Remembrance: Canadian Epitaphs of the Second World War.) Prompting [...]

Last Monday, the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) officially announced the recipient of its 2010 Vox Libera Award:  Citizen Lab, a research network at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. At its core, Citizen Lab believes that the Internet should be a safe and public domain; as such, they [...]

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 [...]

Barely a week into the New Year, the future of newspapers discussion is still upon us. In fact, as I was writing this, a link to a Wall Street Journal Online’s listing of 200 “Best and Worst Jobs of 2010” – was being sent around Twitter via the accompanying tweet (courtesy of Slate): ‘Newspaper reporter’ [...]

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 – [...]