Archive | February 2012
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Pinterest: love it or hate it?
So, what do you guys think of Pinterest? I started a Toronto Star account recently for work, and I have to admit that it’s super fun to pin stuff to the boards. Not to mention coming up with ideas for new boards. I’ve sent in a request for an account for myself. I have a [...]
Degrassi’s Wheels: The lost years of Neil Hope
A weird and sad and fascinating story about Neil “Wheels” Hope’s last weeks before his death. +++ via: Katie Daubs Toronto Star In early November 2007, Neil Hope walked into Cheapies Records & Tapes for the last time. The former star of Degrassi Jr. High was a frequent visitor to the Hamilton music store. Sometimes, [...]
Twitter co-founder says ‘unhealthy’ to spend hours tweeting
For real he said that? Yup. Now what? All the social media editors and tweetaholics will stop using it so much? Doubt that one. As someone said to me today about this, Biz Stone has some serious “stones” to say something like this about his own website. Is he right? Or is he just being [...]
Photo: A bear wakes up from hibernation, and other things that make me smile
I can’t express to you how much I love this photo. SO ADORABLE! Speaking of which, I also learned today there’s a website called the Daily Puppy that posts photos of puppies. Likely worse than any version of Angry Birds for a distraction. Anyway, look! Also, remember that Burlington five-member band whose video of them [...]
Life coach helped Toronto Star writer escape demons and despair
This was a good article to write. I hope it inspires someone to seek help because my life coach really helped me when I needed it. I originally wrote this article for a Toronto Star special section called The New You, which was cancelled. It ran on its own last week. +++ Jenni Dunning Toronto [...]
Photojournalism: Printing 15 pictures a second…
I love this photo blog post by the Toronto Star’s Steve Russell. It’s not often you get to see the printing presses at a newspaper. They’re so giant and work so quickly, it’s pretty neat to see. In his post, he talks about seeing his photo go from his camera, to the printing press, to [...]
A poem for Valentine’s Day
I’m not totally gung-ho on this manufactured holiday, but I love any excuse to spend time with the people I love, and to express my love to them. Unfortunately for me, my husband’s office works every Tuesday evening, so I’m sans date tonight. I’ve decided to bake. Peanut butter chips brownie cups. Yes, you read [...]
Video: Toronto Raptors lookahead… playing with Final Cut Pro X
Today I did a marathon Final Cut Pro X training session. It was about four years since I had done any video shooting or editing, so I was pretty excited to do it again because I really liked it in j-school. I did the training because I’ll be regularly editing a video for the Toronto [...]
Should journalists break news on Twitter first?
This is a hot topic lately. This week, both Sky News and the BBC journalists were officially told by their organizations not to break news via Twitter before writing something for work. The Guardian reports: The new BBC guidelines are intended to ensure that stories are fed into the BBC’s newsgathering machine as quickly as [...]
