I love Creative Commons and the open culture movement. It’s why I use an open culture for almost all of my work. From 2007 to 2012, I took some photographs professionally, and posted them to Flickr under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Two of my most popular collections are…
Last year, when I was in Toronto, I tweeted a picture of me eating pie in Kensington Village. It was one of my first tweets after a few weeks offline, and the tweet was unpopular. “I follow you for news, not pie, and I tolerate your ice cream tweets”, said…
I’m Joey Coleman, a Hamiltonian who works as an independent journalist, is engaged with open data, involved in my neighbourhood association, pinball player, I tweet about ice cream, and blamed by City Hall for increasing civic engagement with my work over at www.thepublicrecord.ca. This is my personal…
I rarely note celebrity deaths, I’ll make an exception for the death of George Michael to share how I associate him with the Persian Gulf. When I flew to the Persian Gulf twice on assignment in 2008, each of my four flights on Persian Gulf airliners included his full…
I owe two City officials an apology, and I’ve already issued it by email. Yesterday, Monday, the HSR’s new Twitter manager reached out to me by email to suggest we meet. He suggested Wednesday at the Mountain Transit Centre. I responded back requesting – because I have no other…
A screencapture of Radio.GardenThe internet is great because of the ability to experience other parts of the world. Check out [Radio.Garden](http://radio.garden) to find audio broadcast stations using the globe as your search engine.H/T FlowingData…
Today is an unnoteworthy day. No meetings at City Hall, which was a very nice change. Worked in my office for most of the day, went to ChangeCampX at McMaster’s Jackson Square campus this evening, and quickly checked out the ATU 107 rally. A good discussion at ChangeCampX on…
It’s been a great day. The Public Record Radio Show [https://now.thepublicrecord.ca/2016/11/23/the-public-record-radio-show-for-november-23-2016/] went off without a major hitch this morning, finished IT consulting work before noon, lunch with a friend, a good afternoon of writing, launched my ThePublicRecord.ca microblog [https://now.thepublicrecord.…