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( ...all the way back to 2004)

Jul 08, 2020: Want to launch a local news business? Apply now for the journalism entrepreneurship boot camp
A custom-made program for people who are ready to create a viable business based on delivering reported news or information
May 14, 2020: Journalist entrepreneurs: These are the three skills you need to start developing now
A little preparation can go a long way toward de-risking your business model
Sep 19, 2019: Why you might not want to start a nonprofit newsroom
Jul 02, 2019: Hidden in plain sight: 20+ examples of the future of news and information
The surprising thing about these examples is that they might not look like what you'd expect.
May 02, 2019: What 1000 true fans means for today’s journalism startups
The journey to 1000 true fans is an opportunity to refine your value proposition
Apr 02, 2019: The mysterious “manscaping” trimmer in my feed and what it means for tomorrow's journalism organizations
What if news startups focused on this approach to delivering niche, highly-targeted, low-overhead, just-in-time journalism?
Feb 19, 2019: Push journalism vs. pull journalism
Let's experiment with making news products so relevant that people pull them into their lives
Feb 07, 2019: 10 skills that journalists and entrepreneurs have in common
The case for journalists to consider starting something new instead of leaving the profession
Jan 31, 2019: The food truck, not the tacos, sister: Why a lack of technology is not the biggest crisis that journalism is facing right now
Technology is not a replacement for a viable business model, or journalists who are as passionate about owning their financial future as they are about reporting.
Jan 17, 2019: Hey friend, have you heard of the journalism innovation pipeline problem? Here's how we're missing the opportunity to support early-stage founders.
Oct 31, 2018: Civil's token sale totally failed. Yet their real success has been completely overlooked.
Sep 14, 2018: Announcing the first cohort of the Journalism Entrepreneurship Boot Camp
Taylor Kate Brown, Melanie Eversley, Jacqueline Ronson, and the team of Christina Boomer Vazquez & Ann Keil Dux will be the first participants in a new experimental journalism entrepreneurship program starting in October
Aug 09, 2018: Judgement day for journalism: Will digital news startups be ready to face the challenge?
There are signals that this new media ecosystem will rise to meet the needs of our democracy
Jul 19, 2018: Why journalism entrepreneurship is needed
One of the fundamental information production and distribution systems on the planet is wildly broken. I believe we can fix it.
Jun 04, 2018: Announcing a new journalism entrepreneurship boot camp: Let's reboot the media together
Go from idea to customers in just 10 weeks
May 15, 2018: A journalism innovation and entrepreneurship reading list
How journalism will be impacted by entrepreneurship and business-model innovation in the coming years
Apr 27, 2018: Input requested: A 7-step framework for modern-day reporting organizations
Oct 16, 2017: Do you know a reporter who has thought about starting a media business? Please share.
I'm looking for input on these four areas of investigation
Jul 20, 2017: Dear Internet, can we talk? We have an information pollution problem of epic proportions.
The proliferation of digital disinformation is "the most pressing threat to global democracy," according to experts at a recent industry event at Stanford
Jun 13, 2017: Here’s an opportunity to make progress on misinformation: track the indicators.
Mozilla’s Internet Health indicators give us a scorecard to use in the fight against misinformation
May 12, 2017: Double rainbows: business models for accountability journalism, plus misinformation & trust in news
One week, two fellowships: the adventure continues at Mozilla and JSK Stanford.
Mar 10, 2017: Facebook’s Uphill Battle To Win Back Publishers — The Information
Jan 16, 2017: Raise a glass with the Uncharted Journalism Fund on Jan 17
Help us celebrate a community that’s passionate about the future of storytelling.
Jan 09, 2017: Two steps forward, one step back
How can we stay the course in times of great fear?
Jan 03, 2017: Look into the fuss about fake news and you’ll see a view into journalism’s future
How individual journalists can "go direct" and rebuild trust one story at a time.
Dec 12, 2016: Making accountability journalism financially viable
The next challenge I'll turn my attention to in 2017
Oct 18, 2016: Fire starting a media innovation movement in Canada
Hacks/Hackers Connect landed in Toronto last month, here's what happened...
Aug 07, 2016: The answer you’ve been looking for: How to find-and keep-love
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find-and Keep-Love
Jul 12, 2016: Coming to a Canada near you: BBC, NYTimes & more...
Why do foreign news outlets see opportunity in a land where Canadian publishers seem on the brink of imminent collapse?
May 06, 2016: What is Uncharted Journalism?
Here are 10 examples of bold experiments to discover new frontiers in reporting.
Apr 29, 2016: Announcing the Uncharted Journalism Fund
Collective citizen action to advance adventurous reporting
Apr 04, 2016: 10+ books to free your mind
I asked my friends for recommendations, and this is what they said.
Mar 22, 2016: Installing Net::SSLeay on OS X El Capitan
The correct way to fix it...
Feb 24, 2016: Dear Media Entrepreneurs: It’s time to look north
Why the implosion of “big media” in Canada may be the opportunity we’ve all been waiting for
Feb 03, 2016: The Drunken Walk of a Thousand Media Entrepreneurs
How Hacks/Hackers Connect is using lessons from the Lean Startup movement to learn, improve, and scale
Jan 12, 2016: Accelerated Mobile Pages Hangouts: Starting this Friday
Google News Lab launches weekly "Office Hours" for AMP
Dec 22, 2015: Connect: bringing new business models for media to life
A “lean canvas”-inspired event for news-media entrepreneurs
Dec 14, 2015: The Google CMS
Reinventing the newsroom content-management system: What would Google do?
Dec 12, 2015: Bringing it together for tomorrow’s media entrepreneurs with Matter, JSK, Medill & more
Nov 06, 2015: Help us bake tasty GitHub cupcakes at MozFest
Let's put on our chefs' hat & make some prototypes this weekend!
Nov 06, 2015: Get down with GitHub
What we're doing at #MozFest
Oct 22, 2015: The “learn to code” problem: Can #Mozfest help?
Thinking about the upcoming Mozilla Festival, I'm left pondering some big challenges ahead...
Oct 08, 2015: Busy: How to Thrive in a World of Too Much
Our ability to be fully present in the moment is our most rewarding capability
Sep 22, 2015: Connecting the dots of a global movement
The "Why" and the "What" of Hacks/Hackers Connect
Sep 14, 2015: Github Gitdown
Unlocking the potential of the world’s largest co-creation platform
Aug 31, 2015: Remember, remember, the 1st of September
Join the first ever Hacks/Hackers global "open call"
Jun 09, 2015: Blow it all up: How can we make events suck less?
Musings on creative destruction & event design
Jun 03, 2015: What is Hacks/Hackers?
A network, a meme, an open source project?
Apr 29, 2015: The Perfect Home
Apr 25, 2015: Yet another eclectic reading list
Ode to another year that has passed too quickly
Apr 20, 2015: Jim Jennings: Canadians should be “scared shitless”
Rare candidness was on display at last week's panel on media sustainability
Apr 17, 2015: The New Yorker profiles The Tyee
Apr 10, 2015: Pretty Good Privacy in 10 minutes or less
A step-by-step guide to getting started with Keybase
Mar 30, 2015: Uncovering a path toward sustainable journalism in Canada
Over time successful patterns are emerging
Mar 16, 2015: Digital security & encryption resources for journalists
Mar 10, 2015: Saying goodbye to “I’m sorry”
Why I'll never apologize again, and why you shouldn't either
Mar 02, 2015: Re-booting Hacks/Hackers Vancouver for 2015
Tech-interested journos & journalism-interested techies collide
Feb 23, 2015: Successful products solve real-world problems
Building an open-data app for soccer families at #VODday
Feb 20, 2015: Why We Share & Why It Matters
Does social media help us, or hinder us, from understanding the world?
Feb 16, 2015: Open data's uneven field
Can data help BC's soccer moms?
Feb 12, 2015: Canadian Open Data Experience
Government open data road show hits Vancouver
Dec 08, 2014: Putting #MediaInContext & Making Software
Musings on Al Jazeera's first media innovation hackathon
Nov 16, 2014: Every Candidate Unplugged
Unpacking our experimental municipal election candidate tracking platform
Nov 02, 2014: Beautiful Trouble Inc.
More Trouble, More Solutions, More Beautiful
Sep 22, 2014: Introducing Every Candidate
More than just the race for mayor.
Aug 05, 2014: Data is the secret sauce of static news apps
How to give your static app that powerful wasabi kick
Jul 29, 2014: Deploying your static news app like a Samurai
The Way of the Deployment Warrior
Jul 24, 2014: The Tao of static news app development
Eating your own sushi everyday
Jul 23, 2014: Bootstrapping the static news app
Exploring the patterns of the masters
Jul 22, 2014: Recipes for delicious tasting static news apps
Never bake again, go the raw route!
Jun 24, 2014: Weekend reading: Backbone.js
Two book reviews from the road
Jun 16, 2014: Data Boot Camp B.C.
Two-days, ten compelling, B.C.-focused data stories
May 23, 2014: 10 learnings for those obsessed with user engagement
Our May 19th event in New York was just the beginning
May 12, 2014: Understanding Engagement
Do we measure what matters? Find out on May 19th in New York.
Apr 30, 2014: Diversity: we *all* need to step up our game
If women don't recommend women, who will?
Apr 23, 2014: Tips for living & working remotely
This could be a unique time in history for work nomads and digital drifters
Mar 19, 2014: The making of CADIVI Abierta
A look inside a data bootcamp & a PDF data-liberation workflow
Mar 07, 2014: E-mail is alive and well, reports of death exaggerated.
Contrary to what some would like you to believe, e-mail still delivers.
Feb 12, 2014: Turbulent times in Venezuela, but good for #DataJournalism
Mounting economic problems highlight the opportunity for innovative journalism to make an impact.
Jan 29, 2014: The emerging NoCMS movement
Exploring the resurgence of static site generators
Jan 23, 2014: Debunking the lone intern myth
Did an intern really create the New York Times most popular piece of content?
Dec 19, 2013: Four predictions for 2014
The ascendance of users and publishers
Dec 02, 2013: Anatomy of $100,000
How 1,000+ individuals helped to take The Tyee national
Nov 13, 2013: Getting to 1.1.0
$60,000 from 600 supporters and growing
Oct 28, 2013: Getting to 1.0.0
Launching The Tyee's campaign to go national
Oct 11, 2013: When I fly, I try to stay put for a while. It works.
Fly less, enjoy more.
Oct 07, 2013: Forget about cutting your cable
Cut your mobile phone minutes plan instead
Aug 15, 2013: Living on a gigabyte of data
(It's kinda' like moving into a bigger apartment)
Jul 10, 2013: From frustration to emancipation, from anger to acceptance
A journey toward creative problem solving.
Jun 25, 2013: Responsive vs. Adaptive Web Design
Mobile Strategies of Top Canadian News Sites
May 24, 2013: Sublet my desk at the original "maker space," Studio Huddle (King & Bathurst), from June 1
May 21, 2013: Beyond the click: getting to actual engagement. Send me your questions!
Apr 27, 2013: Honesty and acceptance
Reflections on turning 40
Apr 25, 2013: Relationships and belonging
Reflections on turning 40
Apr 23, 2013: Friends and family, brothers and sisters, and tribes.
Reflections on turning 40
Apr 21, 2013: Exercise, the body *and* the mind.
Reflections on turning 40
Apr 20, 2013: Meditate & destroy, Everyday.
Reflections on turning 40
Apr 19, 2013: Getting there is easy, just avoid dying and don't drink too much
Reflections on turning 40
Mar 22, 2013: The need for speed: Why top news sites are so slow, and how you can get in the fast lane.
Feb 22, 2013: Consistency and simplicity are keys to better databases (and spreadsheets) for journalists
Feb 07, 2013: Investigating the Technology Underlying Top News Organizations
Jan 24, 2013: Mexico: The case of the missing lock box
Jan 08, 2013: Why I support independent media, and why you should too.
Jan 02, 2013: The Reinvention of Nearly Everything
Dec 06, 2012: Beautiful Trouble descends on Oaxaca (again)
Nov 30, 2012: Slacker lesson No. 2: Work with truly fscking great designers
Nov 27, 2012: Slacker lesson No. 1: Hire a truly fscking great hosting company
Nov 21, 2012: Design adventures with Style Tiles at The Tyee
Nov 19, 2012: A simple workflow for developing maintainable Wordpress sites
Nov 13, 2012: Commentary: Do we really need state-funded news entities any more?
Nov 12, 2012: Beautiful Trouble update: 3000 troublemakers, Oaxaca launch, @mattsmucker to lead education & training, visualizing trouble, and more.
Nov 06, 2012: Oaxaca says, "Bienvenido, amigo mio"
Oct 29, 2012: Post-fact democracy: political engagement in an era of "truthiness"
Oct 18, 2012: More tools for reporting at @TheTyee: Introducing the muckrackers to Muck Rack
Oct 12, 2012: If I ever write another post about iPhone apps that you should be using, please shoot me.
Oct 09, 2012: Small steps, big potential: Introducing new tools for reporting at @TheTyee
Oct 02, 2012: Vancouver, Vancouver, Vancouver: food, politics, and geek-friendly events in October
Sep 24, 2012: Digital nomadism: What's the strangest thing in your carry-on luggage?
Sep 13, 2012: TimesOpen: Sockets & Streams
Sep 10, 2012: The upgrade hamster wheel: hoping for a future of recyled personal computing
Aug 31, 2012: Kickstarting your consulting practice, Part II: Saying "No."
Aug 22, 2012: Seven tips to help kickstart your own consulting practice
Aug 15, 2012: Sublet my *amazing* office/studio: available from September until next spring.
Aug 13, 2012: The perfect five days in Montreal, as curated by my tribe.
Jul 23, 2012: Note to self: Working with WordPress, how I roll these days.
Jul 18, 2012: Is the inside of your fridge a metaphor for your life?
Jul 03, 2012: Dear Publishers: Please learn how to experiment and recognize when it's time to innovate.
Jun 28, 2012: Young journalists don't seem to care about the Web: Why not? #hackshackers #hhto
Jun 26, 2012: What open government and digital publishing have in common #opengov #magnet12
Jun 12, 2012: Quick report back from @TheTyee's "Telling stories with data" Master Class workshop
May 17, 2012: Beautiful Trouble: Powered by Wordpress, Advanced Custom Fields, and Bootstrap
May 15, 2012: Note to self: It pays to ask
May 14, 2012: Pay yourself first, in life.
May 10, 2012: Beautiful Trouble launch events in Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco and Edmonton. May 15, 16, 17 & 23.
May 09, 2012: Mexico: Month four, Te veré pronto, Oaxaca.
May 08, 2012: Does "living open" increase positive personal motivation?
May 03, 2012: Working toward a more "open" news organization at @TheTyee
May 02, 2012: Beautiful Trouble online toolkit update: Rebooting for the June 1st launch.
Apr 30, 2012: Reflecting on the transformational power of "Open."
Apr 18, 2012: When in doubt, try something new.
Apr 10, 2012: Mozilla Planet: Bootstrapping technology news for the people.
Apr 03, 2012: Mexico: Adventures in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas.
Mar 15, 2012: An information-delivery system for Mozillians, made by Mozillians, about Mozillians
Mar 15, 2012: Mexico: Week eight. All your base are belong to us.
Mar 13, 2012: Is it time to throw out the Planet with the Universe?
Mar 08, 2012: Installing DBD::mysql on Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion"
Feb 21, 2012: Beautiful Trouble: Quick update on building a Google Docs-powered toolkit for revolution
Feb 15, 2012: A Tyee Master Class: Telling Stories with Data. June 2-3, 2012, Vancouver, B.C.
Feb 13, 2012: Mexico: Week four, living vs. traveling
Jan 30, 2012: Hey, I need your input on a "Crunching Public Data" course at Code Lesson
Jan 28, 2012: Mexico: Week two, flying solo in Oaxaca
Jan 23, 2012: Mexico: Week one, a slow start in Oaxaca.
Jan 19, 2012: For immediate release: Beautiful Trouble: A "how-to-think" manual for 21st century activism
Jan 15, 2012: Mexico: Day Four, a journey to Oaxaca de Juarez
Jan 12, 2012: Mexico: Day Three, Mexico City. Pedestrian Sunday, Flash Mob, and The Zocalo.
Jan 10, 2012: Mexico: Day Two, Mexico City. San Angel, Coyoacan, and La Condessa.
Jan 09, 2012: Mexico: Day One, Mexico City
Dec 14, 2011: Rethinking Planet Mozilla: The challenge of too much signal
Dec 12, 2011: Rethinking Planet Mozilla: Hacking the core of Mozilla's story
Nov 30, 2011: #ShowYourWork -- Quite possibly the most straightforward way to build a better Web
Nov 28, 2011: Living on the "learning edge"
Nov 22, 2011: Note to self: A simple way to accomplish mobile site redirection using mod_rewrite
Nov 10, 2011: Much to my own surprise, I believe the "native app" for mobile is here to stay.
Nov 08, 2011: An expletive-filled summary of @DanSinker's "Journalism in the open" series
Oct 24, 2011: Just mark-up the damn content: Swimming in a sea of CSS "frameworks," no land in sight.
Oct 19, 2011: Thank you for Kickstarting Beautiful Trouble: more than $16,000 raised for creative activism.
Oct 11, 2011: On 38 hours left: You can put creative tools & tactics in the hands of the next generation of changemakers
Oct 03, 2011: Hacking with @HacksHackers at @ONAConf, open source in newsrooms, #Hacktoberfest updates & more.
Sep 20, 2011: 24 hours to register for @ONAConf hack day. Judges: @bethdavidz @mcoatney @mirandamulligan @kathryn_hurley & @tysone
Sep 12, 2011: Coffee-fueled session picks for @ONAConf: I'll show you mine... #ona11
Sep 08, 2011: Going to @ONAConf this month? Live near Boston? Come to the #HacksHackers hack day on Sept 22!
Sep 06, 2011: Video from last #HacksHackers Toronto event: Demos by @Thoora @CoveritLive @Filemobile @PolarMobile & @PlasticMobile #hhto
Aug 18, 2011: Gone fishing...
Aug 16, 2011: #Catalyst on @dot_cloud Adding a #PostgreSQL data service. (#Perl in the cloud, Part IIII)
Aug 16, 2011: Even more software ideas aimed at news engagement, reporting or journalistic challenges by #MozNewsLab
Aug 15, 2011: Twenty more software ideas aimed at news engagement, reporting or journalistic challenges by #MozNewsLab
Aug 12, 2011: Twenty software ideas aimed at news engagement, reporting or journalistic challenges by #MozNewsLab
Aug 10, 2011: #MozNewsLab explores the future of publishing & reporting: talks by @evanatwired and @jeffjarvis now online
Aug 08, 2011: @dotCloud loves Catalyst apps: Up-and-running in 10-minutes (#Perl in the cloud, Part III)
Aug 04, 2011: Dear @ActiveState I hope that your new product, Stackato, is not as broken as your beta process. #fail
Aug 02, 2011: #MozNewsLab lectures by @Shazna from @AP_Interactive, @Mohamed from @AJEnglish & @iA from, well, @iA now online
Jul 28, 2011: The post-post-CMS CMS: Loosely coupled monoliths & read-only APIs
Jul 26, 2011: What is the more imminent threat: Apple's App Store or @Dropbox ?
Jul 25, 2011: #MozNewsLab week two lectures by @codepo8 @jresig & @jjg now online
Jul 21, 2011: @Processingjs: open-source #datavis coming to a newsroom near you
Jul 20, 2011: #MozNewsLab week one lectures by @azaaza @burtherman & @amandacox now online
Jul 15, 2011: Hey Newsrooms! Get your voices heard: Send a 'message-in-a-bottle' to the #MozNewsLab.
Jul 14, 2011: Dear Publishers: Why ponder 'digital editions' when you could be building digital experiences?
Jul 12, 2011: Stop Yammering and Start Hammering: How to Build a 'Maker Space' for News
Jul 11, 2011: Learning lab day one: Meet the #MozNewsLab participants
Jul 07, 2011: Learning lab schedule: week-by-week. Plus: new lecture by @iA CEO Oliver Reichenstein
Jul 06, 2011: Meet the learning lab shepherds: @k88hudso @lingshahu and @PippinLee
Jul 04, 2011: @KnightMozilla learning lab update: Seven days until liftoff
Jul 01, 2011: Tao of consulting: Why working weekends doesn't work
Jun 29, 2011: Learning lab update: 1st round of invitations out, plus preliminary schedule & format
Jun 27, 2011: Learning lab update: invitations to go out tomorrow. @jjg & @mohamed confirmed to lecture.
Jun 22, 2011: Say hello to @asamur, the newest addition to the @KnightMozilla learning lab team
Jun 20, 2011: Knight-Mozilla learning lab heats up: lectures by @azaaza @burtherman @codepo8 @jeresig @jeffjarvis @evanatwired & many more.
Jun 17, 2011: The myth of the five-day work week: why ass-in-chair does not deliver productivity
Jun 16, 2011: Code Meet Print TO: Where texts meet technology and context comes first
Jun 14, 2011: Bringing out the big guns: @emilybell @richgor @reporterslab to advise on @KnightMozilla learning lab curriculum.
Jun 13, 2011: A beautiful book sprint for Beautiful Trouble: Tips on collaboratively writing a book.
Jun 09, 2011: Help identify great thinking, talented people: Voting is now open for Knight-Mozilla innovation challenge
Jun 08, 2011: Unlocking Video, Beyond Comments & People-powered news: Let's review.
Jun 01, 2011: #HacksHackers Toronto (#hhto): May event video now online
May 31, 2011: Going beyond comment threads with @cshirky, @amichel, @ro_gupta & #HacksHackers in New York
May 30, 2011: Six @KnightMozilla lightning pitches from Chicago-area #HacksHackers
May 25, 2011: A peek inside the @TribApps Team at the Chicago Tribune.
May 24, 2011: Defining journalism on the open Web: Six ideas.
May 20, 2011: Secure alternatives to @Dropbox: Where I'll be investing my $99 refund.
May 19, 2011: Meet the new CMS/Same as the old CMS
May 18, 2011: You must be the conversation you want to see in the world
May 17, 2011: Dear @Dropbox, you sound like a broken record on #security & #privacy
May 16, 2011: Dear @Dropbox, it's time to take #security & #privacy seriously.
May 13, 2011: Comments are dead. Long live comments!
May 09, 2011: Hands on at the Toronto Mini Maker Faire (@MakerFaire_TO)
May 06, 2011: From Perl slacker, to Perl hacker: Perl in the cloud, Part II
May 05, 2011: How to create an 'explosion of awesome' in your home town
May 04, 2011: Globe's Live Election Results Dashboard powered by the Open Web
May 02, 2011: Link love from BarCamp News Innovation Philly #BCNIPhilly
Apr 28, 2011: Are legacy media organizations the place where news innovations go to die?
Apr 26, 2011: 10+ reasons to enter the Knight-Mozilla news innovation challenge
Apr 25, 2011: Good things come in eights
Apr 21, 2011: A template for successful 'Hack Days.' What are your tips?
Apr 20, 2011: Catalyzing news innovation: How would you do it?
Apr 19, 2011: Nine brave individuals: Introducing the Knight-Mozilla review panel for 2011
Apr 18, 2011: Open data is wide open, says Bill Dunphy (@typist)
Apr 13, 2011: What schools offer innovative academic programs that mix journalism and technology?
Apr 12, 2011: Salmon Protocol talk at Hacks/Hackers Toronto
Apr 11, 2011: Open innovation challenges: do they work?
Apr 07, 2011: Security in the cloud: Openswan vs. SSH tunnel?
Apr 05, 2011: Looking for on-demand cloud-based security and anonymity
Apr 04, 2011: Daylite adventures: Migrating from MobileMe to Spanning Sync
Mar 29, 2011: Writing Perl Modules for CPAN
Mar 23, 2011: Ten million dollars to DotCloud, but still no Perl support
Mar 22, 2011: MoJo asks: How can the open Web help to fund & sustain news?
Mar 21, 2011: Knight-Mozilla wants to know: How can newsrooms become better listeners and enablers?
Mar 18, 2011: Searching & curating the "river of news." Help define the challenge.
Mar 17, 2011: Help define the Knight-Mozilla innovation challenges: Let's talk about delivering news.
Mar 16, 2011: MoJo is on the march: Help rethink how news is presented on the open Web
Mar 15, 2011: Help define the Knight-Mozilla News Technology innovation challenges: Let's start with reporting.
Mar 11, 2011: Help wanted: Canadian media organization to lead on open data.
Mar 08, 2011: MoJo goes to NewsCamp, Part II: How newsroom developers are reinventing the Web
Mar 03, 2011: What would you ask Emily Bell?
Mar 01, 2011: MoJo goes to NewsCamp: A report back from #NICAR11
Feb 23, 2011: Six questions about semantic data and news innovation
Feb 22, 2011: Personal Un-branding
Feb 15, 2011: The Web is changing, and we are changing with it
Feb 11, 2011: Hacks/Hackers Toronto: some goals for 2011
Feb 09, 2011: Creating a space for journalism-technology experimentation
Feb 07, 2011: Journalism's Peanut Butter Cup Moment
Feb 03, 2011: Comments: The Trojan Horse
Feb 01, 2011: Making open-source software development financially sustainable
Jan 28, 2011: Awesome Foundation Toronto: We're a hit!
Jan 26, 2011: Because Android is where the innovation is
Jan 24, 2011: Okay, okay: Sometimes, Toronto is actually pretty awesome
Aug 25, 2010: Urban gardening takes root in Seattle: Produce stands, chickens, and more, oh my!
Aug 18, 2010: Workspace available at Tyee office in Vancouver
Aug 16, 2010: Git-backed wikis, Gollum, and simple installation experiences
Aug 14, 2010: Do you have any video & audio podcasting platform recommendations?
Aug 12, 2010: The ultimate data backup triple-play for under $500
Continuous, offsite, and encrypted -- just do it.
Aug 11, 2010: Aggregating mailing lists: To Plagger or not to Plagger?
Aug 03, 2010: What should a Hacks/Hackers glossary aimed at programmers contain?
Aug 02, 2010: Wolfram|Alpha Widgets are here, and they're pretty darn neat.
Jul 12, 2010: Genius or Spam? Campaign for Liberty's interesting "win back" e-mail campaign
Jul 05, 2010: Bricolage CMS hacking made easy!
Jul 02, 2010: Not for the faint of heart: Installing Bricolage 2 on Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard"
Jun 21, 2010: GNU Privacy Guard and GPGMail on OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.4
May 19, 2010: Why Digg when you can FAIL (big media)? Free Press launches MediaFAIL
May 13, 2010: Online subscriptions made simple: Endevver delivers e-commerce for Movable Type
May 11, 2010: How customer service should be done: A real-life example
May 10, 2010: Open Data Hackfest Ottawa event video
May 10, 2010: Job: Yes! Magazine is seeks Web Managing Editor
Apr 27, 2010: Apathy is Boring says "Parliament is sitting" for youth.
Apr 27, 2010: Data Portability: Assessing the openess of Facebook
Apr 26, 2010: Job: Live in the UK? Greenpeace UK seeks web producer
Apr 22, 2010: Canadians: Where does your tax money go? GovernmentExpenses.ca responds.
Apr 20, 2010: Busy week for Open Data & Open Web geeks in Canada
Apr 14, 2010: Job: Executive Director for social change through journalism and media access org (NYC/DC).
Apr 13, 2010: Community Bandwidth is back in Toronto. April 2010 update.
Apr 12, 2010: Better Ballots announces Town Hall meetings across Toronto
Apr 12, 2010: Open, transparent, government in Canada? Check out: openparliament.ca
Apr 09, 2010: Update on: Canadians can't let this happen to the CRTC.
Apr 08, 2010: Canadians can't let this happen to the CRTC
Apr 07, 2010: Vandana Shiva speaks about the human path and error correction
Apr 06, 2010: Job: Green For All seeks Online Organizer in Oakland, CA.
Mar 31, 2010: Job: Front-end Developer for Vancouver Based, Web 2.0 Sustainability Start-Up
Mar 30, 2010: Job Posting: Radical Designs Seeks Multi-Talented Web Person, San Francisco
Mar 29, 2010: Is "citizen journalism" being kicked out of the Capitol?
Mar 29, 2010: Yes! Magazine takes on race, religion, and politics.
Mar 29, 2010: The U.S. Social Forum is just three months away.
Mar 23, 2010: Hot Off The Presses: Story-based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements and Change the World
Mar 22, 2010: The Anti-Creativity Checklist: How to stifle imagination, innovation, and creativity
Mar 20, 2010: Do you think about linking? The BBC News linking policy...
Mar 19, 2010: Is Open better than Idealistic? Mozilla, Video, and Mobile Computing
Mar 19, 2010: The New Media Metric: How Shareable is Your Content?
Mar 17, 2010: Technology is not the issue. Here come the web thinkers.
Mar 17, 2010: Watching the Media Watchdogs: The Nation's Media Fix launches in April.
Mar 16, 2010: Support Canvassing and GOTV (Get Out The Vote) functionality in CiviCRM
Mar 11, 2010: Event: Open Data Hackfest in Ottawa. April 24, 2010.
Mar 10, 2010: Job: Population Action International seeks communications specialist (DC)
Mar 10, 2010: Job: Online Outreach & Comms Manager, Democracy Now (NYC)
Mar 06, 2010: Tomorrow: Open City Workshop. In Edmonton, and online.
Mar 05, 2010: Gig with purpose: Brave New Films needs a Web Developer
Mar 05, 2010: Job with purpose: Awesomely Rad Web Developer. Washington, DC.
Mar 05, 2010: Canadian Democracy Geeks: Free MP Postal Code Lookup service now available
Mar 04, 2010: Weekend reading: How publishers are charging for online content
Mar 02, 2010: March 6: Free video workshop for Toronto social change orgs.
Mar 01, 2010: Canada: 10 years of policy neglect reflected in digital rankings
Feb 27, 2010: Weekend reading: Illustrated Guide to Nonprofit GIS and Online Mapping.
Feb 26, 2010: Vancouver event: Digital Innovation: New Tools for Engagement. March 5.
Feb 26, 2010: Two great tastes that taste great together: Bricolage and Drupal
Feb 26, 2010: Request for proposal: Democracy Now! seeks CiviCRM expert.
Feb 16, 2010: Weekend reading: Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice.
Feb 16, 2010: Super Seattle job: Now Hiring - Groundwire Labs Manager
Feb 15, 2010: Tomorrow in DC: The Future of News w/ Free Press, The Nation, UNITY and Firedoglake
Feb 15, 2010: NYC event for advocacy orgs: Ten Tactics film and toolkit. Wed, Feb 17th.
Feb 13, 2010: Using CiviCRM? Save the date and book your tickets: CiviCon April 22, 2010
Feb 13, 2010: What recession? Adbusters seeks Senior Editor & Assistant Production Manager.
Feb 12, 2010: Weekend reading: NTEN's 2009 Data Ecosystem Survey.
Feb 12, 2010: Google Apps announces end-of-life for IE6 support. Now what?
Feb 11, 2010: Online campaign tools for Canadian campaigns: An open-source option. Feb 27th.
Feb 10, 2010: Introducing GTmetrix: Free site speed tool from Canada's best hosting company.
Feb 10, 2010: Great job opportunity: Editor/Drafter, Briarpatch Magazine
Feb 08, 2010: Jobs: Oxfam seeks e-Communications Officer; Greenpeace seeks New Media Fundraiser
Feb 03, 2010: Free Range Studios is seeking a Project Manager in DC or CA
Feb 02, 2010: Beyond The Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media
Feb 02, 2010: What do Paraguay, Canada and yogurt have in common?
Feb 02, 2010: Bricolage: Localhostin' it and other news
Jan 26, 2010: 2010 Conferences You Should Check Out: A Roundup by Groundwire
Jan 26, 2010: Reading list: Revitalizing a Media Reform Movement in Canada
Jan 25, 2010: Don't Let Twitter, Facebook, Google Be The Only Game In Town
Jan 21, 2010: Death and Life of American Journalism: Conversation, Wednesday, February 3, NYC
Jan 19, 2010: Reading list: Death and life of journalism, news literacy, and more...
Jan 18, 2010: "See you lata'" is the new "beta." Exploring an epidemic of opting out.
Jan 13, 2010: UNICEF Canada seeks Director of Digital Strategy
Jan 13, 2010: Calling all community organizers: RootsCampDC, February 20-21, 2010
Jan 11, 2010: New Internationalist is looking for a hardcore web geek who can talk to mere mortals. Could it be you?
Jan 08, 2010: Act Now: Canadian CRTC opens opportunity for more community media funding
Jan 08, 2010: What would Google do? Start an energy company. True story.
Jan 08, 2010: Looking back at the Pacific News Service: an early "newsroom as cafe" experiment?
Jan 07, 2010: Fishing for the real story about news innovation
Jan 06, 2010: When the "power of conscious capitalism" succumbs to the power of unfettered capitalism
Jan 05, 2010: Tuesday inspiration: Taking creativity seriously every day (for a year)
Jan 04, 2010: When you just can't take [insert social network name] anymore
Jan 04, 2010: One more reason to think twice about hosted services
Jan 04, 2010: An OPML for the Top 100 Web and technology blogs
Jan 04, 2010: Community engagement strategy No. 1: Attract and retain idiots.
Dec 31, 2009: The shifting sand of "free" hosted Web services
Dec 29, 2009: Ask the Energy Expert: Why Is Solar Taking So Long?
Nov 26, 2009: Perl: Love it, or hate it, but don't ignore it.
Nov 16, 2009: "We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die" an interview with Umberto Eco
Nov 14, 2009: Apples & wine
Nov 06, 2009: Happy to be proven wrong
Oct 23, 2009: Re-thinking resistance in the age of the cloud
Oct 23, 2009: Promoting projects that are written in Perl
Oct 19, 2009: Five reasons why e-mail still rules the roost
Oct 14, 2009: The 40 online metrics that you should be tracking
Oct 13, 2009: Perl in your city
Oct 07, 2009: A Perl-based editor for Perl, on a Mac.
Oct 05, 2009: Top five resources for folks making the transition from print to online
Sep 28, 2009: Free software Fridays. Let's promote participation.
Sep 19, 2009: Ignore the social media gurus. Just follow the Walrus magazine on Twitter.
Sep 09, 2009: The Perl ecosystem toolbar: Now it's your turn.
Sep 01, 2009: Demo: The Perl ecosystem toolbar
Aug 21, 2009: The big "Explore Perl" button, where is it?
Aug 17, 2009: LittleSis and Huffington Post: New era of data-driven investigative journalism
Aug 17, 2009: Getting to the root of Perl's perception problems
Aug 12, 2009: Uncovering the true "face" of Perl
Aug 02, 2009: Prettier Perl Web sites: Three arguments and three ideas
Jul 29, 2009: Mark Surman on "Where Next for Openness" at OSCON
Jul 29, 2009: A new Twitter activism tool
Jul 28, 2009: Perceptions of Perl
Jul 26, 2009: Is the Perl community schizophrenic?
Jul 15, 2009: I believe in Open. Can you help me promote it?
Jul 15, 2009: Ten things to love (or hate) about Bricolage. Part II.
Jul 06, 2009: Ten things to love (or hate) about Bricolage
Jun 15, 2009: Internet freedom: For Iran, and for all.
May 28, 2009: Is "crowdsourcing" the new "design by committee"?
May 25, 2009: Help stop greedy capitalism cold.
May 19, 2009: Simplicity, dominos, and free software
May 07, 2009: All Our Mothers Deserve a Little Peace and Justice
May 07, 2009: Exploring Perl Web frameworks
May 04, 2009: Help fund the WiserEarth API
Apr 27, 2009: Mastering Web Skills for Social Change
Apr 23, 2009: Managing large e-mail lists: One list to rule them all
Apr 09, 2009: Semantically speaking: Why CSS frameworks make sense
Apr 08, 2009: Taddle Creek magazine Web site review
Mar 31, 2009: Five reasons you should NOT friend your parents on Facebook
Mar 30, 2009: Avoiding e-mail list data corruption
Mar 29, 2009: Mark Surman asks "What does Internet messaging look like"
Feb 25, 2009: Twitter done right by @walrusmagazine
Feb 23, 2009: When should you put your print content online?
Feb 23, 2009: Twestival Buenos Aires: Social meets social conscience.
Feb 19, 2009: What technology services are lacking for social service organizations?
Feb 17, 2009: Progressive Movement Crash Course
Feb 11, 2009: Time to save online innovation and free speech
Feb 04, 2009: Working from South America
Feb 04, 2009: How to move to Argentina and influence people
Dec 22, 2008: No one says it better than Cory Doctorow
Nov 15, 2008: Creating a "commons" for your product or service
Nov 13, 2008: Looking for F/OSS software to manage voter lists, and GOTV efforts
Nov 05, 2008: The Day After: What's Next?
Apr 10, 2008: No weekend plans? Cycling Advocacy Workshop!
Apr 02, 2008: Bricolage permissions 101
Mar 19, 2008: From the "where was that protocol when I needed it" file
Mar 19, 2008: Two more great events (one past, one future)
Mar 12, 2008: Big events for June: Social Tech Training and MagNet
Mar 12, 2008: If we are unwilling to identify the thieves, we can never end the theft.
Feb 15, 2008: Vancouver magazines: Only 7 days left to register for Web Weekend!
Feb 14, 2008: Guerrillagirls strike again (and I love it)
Feb 07, 2008: How to get Mail.app to support multiple "personalities"
Jan 15, 2008: The dark side of mission-based technology work
Dec 11, 2007: Software pyramid for a healthy non-profit
Nov 19, 2007: What is the opposite of a portal?
Nov 07, 2007: Only 3 days left to register for Web Weekend
Nov 06, 2007: Ending the tyranny of voice mail
Oct 30, 2007: Magazine Publishers: Only 10 days left to register for Web Weekend
Oct 17, 2007: The Future of the Future of News
Oct 04, 2007: Only 2 weeks left to enter $5 million Knight News Challenge
Sep 27, 2007: Ten projects to remember from 2007
Sep 07, 2007: Working the west-coast way
Aug 29, 2007: Changing technology funding practices (again)
Aug 21, 2007: Is this the end of digital editions?
Aug 13, 2007: What can innovators really learn from Web 2.0?
Aug 08, 2007: Spin Cycles: How PR sells us Silk and Honey
Aug 07, 2007: Social tech meets the Social Innovation Generation
Jul 24, 2007: Longing for the days of snail mail: a guide to slow e-mail
Jul 18, 2007: Letter to the CRTC: Diversity of Voices Proceeding
Jul 17, 2007: Civic Data Wants to be Free!
Jul 05, 2007: NGO-in-a-Box
Jun 26, 2007: Ending Web form abuse and spam
May 30, 2007: Helping The Tyee fight Big Media Barons
May 28, 2007: The unstoppable Stop the Clash
May 28, 2007: Open-source software for non-profits, and dealing with SPAM.
May 27, 2007: Preparing for Web of Change 2007
May 08, 2007: The revolution is calling: will you answer?
Apr 24, 2007: Donordigital merges with Fenton Communications
Apr 14, 2007: Social Source Commons & Drupal Camp Toronto II
Apr 12, 2007: Matt Thompson on Montreal and Saving the Internet
Apr 10, 2007: Multi-media storytelling made easy
Mar 31, 2007: Me, Avi Lewis, and the SPP
Mar 27, 2007: From entitlement to enterprise
Mar 19, 2007: Free lunch-and-learn event: April 27th
Mar 19, 2007: rabble's new home in Second Life
Mar 16, 2007: A new approach to lapsed subscriber campaigns
Mar 14, 2007: Wiki roundup: Great examples of user-generated content
Mar 12, 2007: Pneumonia is good for something
Mar 12, 2007: NEED Magazine
Feb 23, 2007: I'm a Craigslist addict
Feb 19, 2007: Social Tech Brewing goes Down Under
Feb 12, 2007: The 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit
Feb 12, 2007: CivicAccess ramps up a new campaign
Feb 10, 2007: Free wireless is good for small businesses
Feb 08, 2007: Viva Media Resistance
Jan 29, 2007: CivicSpace Public Launch of Groundswell Professional
Jan 25, 2007: Net neutrality is also grassroots media issue
Jan 23, 2007: Grist goes deep with Salesforce
Jan 23, 2007: Grist goes deep with Salesforce
Jan 21, 2007: Progressive Unconferences revisited: GreenCamp
Jan 18, 2007: Global Warming: A Call to Action
Jan 18, 2007: Lunch-and-learn technology presentations for non-profit leaders
Dec 10, 2006: Big resources for small magazines
Dec 08, 2006: A Watershed moment (or company)
Dec 04, 2006: Creative campaigning: NDP goes online.
Nov 28, 2006: The state of Canadian media
Nov 28, 2006: Logging in, dropping out.
Nov 22, 2006: Fighting comment spam with Drupal
Nov 20, 2006: Global Warming a Myth?
Nov 17, 2006: QOTW: Should I use XYZ company for Web hosting?
Nov 17, 2006: Steven Clift inducted as Ashoka Fellow
Nov 13, 2006: Try CivicSpace On Demand!
Nov 07, 2006: Can direct mail change the world?
Nov 07, 2006: Setting a course for 2007
Oct 15, 2006: So you want to podcast, eh?
Oct 03, 2006: Non-profit collaboration tools
Aug 09, 2006: If you were the Mayor, what would your blog strategy be?
Jul 15, 2006: Free content vs. sustainable publishing
Jul 03, 2006: Business models for change
Jun 20, 2006: Putting people first
Jun 12, 2006: Build it (online) and they will come
May 30, 2006: A progressive media alliance
May 29, 2006: Where have all the hours gone?
May 19, 2006: The Fate of the Ocean: remixed.
May 17, 2006: Mashing the vote at Mesh
May 13, 2006: DrupalCampToronto: lessons
May 11, 2006: Progressive unconferences
May 02, 2006: Project management vs. time management
May 02, 2006: 2006: Year of the syndicated Web
May 02, 2006: A Canadian technology assistance Manifesto
May 02, 2006: Getting smaller? How so? To what end?
Dec 02, 2004: What not-for-profit organizations need to know about free software

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