Archive
April 2011’s Posts.
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Newspapers fight for ad dollars
Printed newspapers are allowing more innovative, and intrusive, front-page advertising
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Tweet the election results
An explainer on the Canadian election results blackout and the effort to #tweettheresults
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Tracking how news spreads
The New York Times is developing a tool, Project Cascade, to reveal how news is shared online
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Canadians, news, and social media
Though valued as a news source, social media is not fully trusted...yet
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Astrotweeting the Canadian election
How Twitter's being used to try and manipulate public perception of the issues
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CSS tidy
Online tool to format one's CSS exactly as desired
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Teehan+Lax Labs
Creating an innovation lab within a creative company is a growing, and smart, trend
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Mag-apps, revisited
A year after the iPad debut, how are magazines producing their iPad editions?
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The original Toronto Standard
Unlike the version currently online, the 19th century paper was steadfastly conservative
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Muzzling the election
What Elections Canada ban on reporting the results means for news organizations and social media
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News.me launching?
Bit.ly's personal newspaper iPad app looks to be coming soon, and priced like the Daily
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Where you've been
A small app to reveal on a map wherever you've been with an iPhone
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First digital-only Pulitzer won
ProPublica wins its second Pulitzer Prize, and the first for a group of non-print stories
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Sports story written by robot
And reads better and an general (human) reporter's own version
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Canadian election history
All the federal election results since Confederation in one iPhone app
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308 places in Canada
The Globe and Mail is enlisting Twitter to help cover the federal election on a local basis
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Twitter's real history
In-depth investigative report on how Twitter was really started
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Did Bloomberg Businesswek find the right price
Based on reviews for the iPad app, the $2.99/week cost is just fine
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IE10 preview released
Microsoft is on a Google-like pace when it's coming to new browser updates
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2011 Mesh Prize
Apply now for the $40,000 prize rewarding a project that improves Canada's digital industry
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News org Webby nominations
The New York Times, NPR, CNN, CBC, and Guardian all nominated in the annual Web awards
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Enemies of indie Net TV
A sobering list of what makes independent online video a significant business challenge
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Mobile stock info
Globe Investor improved its mobile site, updating its stock and chart pages
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Future of Media 2011 recap
For those who couldn't attend , this is a good summary of a great discussion
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Toronto Standard
Slick new Toronto news site launches with some big names and a nice backstory
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Canada's magazine awards exposed
Some of the potential finalists were revealed to the public and causes confusion
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2011 U.S. National Magazine Awards finalists
As collected by longform.org for reading later. Smart.
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33 Bloomberg Businessweek covers
And counting. Posted on Flickr. Crisis in Japan is brilliant.
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Social media game-cum-poll
GeoPollster partners with National Post and uses Foursquare to poll party loyalty in Canada
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Future of Media 2011
Some smart people discuss ideas on the future of media, prior to a sold out event in Toronto
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Paywalls or memberships
Interesting look at how The New York Times could look to NPR for money-earning ideas
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Hastags for #elxn41
A evolving glossary of Twitter hastags for Canada's 2011 federal election
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