Is the political wife a prop or a problem? I read aninteresting piece [http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/132621/la-times-schwarzenegger-baby-scoop-gives-truth-to-questions-about-split-political-marriages/] on Poynter this morning which argued the US media seems only capable of defining the political wife as one or the other. The column is a response to recent…
A few weeks ago, Matt Jelly [http://www.mattjelly.ca] requested from the City of Hamilton a list of all the heritage properties in Hamilton. The city responded promptly by providing a list of buildings of heritage interest to city staff. Jelly provided the list to me for the Open…
A few weeks ago, Matt Jelly [http://www.mattjelly.ca] requested from the City of Hamilton a list of all the heritage properties in Hamilton. The city responded promptly by providing a list of buildings of heritage interest to city staff. Jelly provided the list to me for the Open…
I’ve received a copy of the demolition permit for 30 King Street East. As noted in a earlier post [http://www.joeycoleman.ca/2011/05/demolition-at-30-king-street-east-hamilton/], and a later Hamilton Spectator [article]( http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/529004--century-old-downtown-building-to-be-torn-down ""Century-old downtown building to be torn down," Hamilton Spectator.…
I’m going to purchase some space on Windows Azure and entering the world of cloud computing. There are a couple of reasons for this. The primary motivation is to work further with large data sets, especially open data, to improve my journalism 3.0 skills. I plan to move…
I’m going to purchase some space on Windows Azure and entering the world of cloud computing. There are a couple of reasons for this. The primary motivation is to work further with large data sets, especially open data, to improve my journalism 3.0 skills. I plan to move…
Monday night, for the federal election, I conducted one of my latest experiments in online journalism. I produced a live poll-by-poll map of the results in Hamilton East-Stoney Creek. As far as I can tell, this is the first time that a Canadian journalist as attempted to break down results…
Fire crews responded to 30 King Street East early Tuesday, May 3, 2011There’s been some chatter online the last couple of days about the building at 30 King…