Fifty-seven years and still going…Congratulazioni, bon compleanno, Corriere Canadese – you share your birthday with the (slightly older at 65) Italy’s Republic.  So why not celebrate both throughout the month? The month of June is the province of Ontario’s first-ever Italian Heritage Month.

In previous years, my end-of-year lists have mostly kept to one-stop websites.  This year, I’ve also included some specific articles and mobile apps that are worthy of special mention.  So, what follows are my top 10 online “wows of discovery” for 2010 … in no particular ranking:  1.  “Challenging Change” John Paton has been the CEO of [...]

Last year, I made an earnest effort to create a series of posts, categorized as “Catching Up”, that would spotlight some links of interest.  So, I’m resurrecting that and, without planning to, I seem to have hit on the theme of language: An online database of names, HearNames.com lets you type in a name and [...]

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’ [...]

In what some might consider a geek girl “coming out” moment, last night I participated in a Toronto Girl Geek Dinner panel on the “Future of Media.”  Although I had never attended any of their previous networking events, I was honoured and flattered to have the opportunity to learn and share my views and media [...]