CBC has a story online about a Twitter exchange that supposedly took place between Premier Kathy Dunderdale and opposition leader Yvonne Jones. One small problem: is it really Kathy Dunderdale and Yvonne Jones? Sure the Dunderdale tweets h…
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eaves.ca: Weaving Foreign Ministries into the Digital Era: Three ideas
Last week I was in Ottawa giving a talk at the Department of Foreign Affairs talking about how technology, new media and open innovation will impact the department’s it work internally, across Ottawa and around the world. While there is lots to share, here are three ideas I’ve been stewing on: Keep more citizens safe […]
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Social Media, Part II: The Value of Social Media
Like it or hate it, social media is now a potent force in society that is legitimately changing the way people interact with information, with news and politics, with each other, and ultimately with the world. In part one of this series, I considered …
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: IBM Launches 3rd Annual Smarter Cities Challenge
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At a time when corporations’ misdeeds are under a bright spotlight (and rightfully so,) we needn’t overlook the few companies that are working to bring innovation a…
Continue readingcmkl: Social media: lessons from Chapstick
I am late to the party on this one, but I thought I’d flag it. The Globe writing on Facebook. Not usually where I go for info on social media but I’ll make an exception.
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Social Media, Part I: Information Flows
It is truly an empowering experience to live at at time with our neary effortless access to unprecedented amounts of information. More than just this, however, we are able to be multilaterally engaged with the information we receive as we can also infl…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: New technology and medicine
Via kevinmd.com, an article by medical student Alex Chamessian on how he uses his iPad as part of his education: I’ve tried to incorporate iPad into patient care and education as much as possible. One salient example is from my recent pediatri…
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Video: Legal Ethics in an Age of Technology
Legal Ethics in an Age of Technology…
That sounds a wee bit lofty, no?
Some of you are probably thinking, “Ethics? We’re talking about Facebook and Twitter, here, right?” Well as you will see in this video, the more involved a legal prof…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Twitter Conundrum #nlpoli #nlvotes
Kathy Dunderdale sends messages using Twitter. Herself. Using her own two hands. Someone who has spent about 60 years in this province - give or take – and who has been a prominent municipal and provincial politician before being yanked out …
Continue readingThe Wandering Joe: If a Tree falls on twitter, does it make a sound?
I wanted to wait on this particular post for a little while to let peoples’ emotions die down a bit, but I would like to write about the death of Jack Layton. I’m not going to write about the man himself mind you, but rather the remarkable response to his
Continue readingWise Law Blog: LSUC Webinar: Ethical Considerations in an Age of Technology – October 7, 2011
I’d like to invite our readers to participate in “Ethical Considerations in an Age of Technology,” a free, accredited Law Society of Upper Canada webinar I’ll be chairing on October 7, 2011 at 1:00 p.m.
We will be looking at the Ontario Rul…
Continue readingRob Maguire: 3 tips the Jazz Festival taught me about Twitter
Having returned from vacation, I’m spending more time digging through data from this year’s Saskatchewan Jazz Festival, and reflecting upon what lessons I can glean from my marketing campaign. Besides the introduction of our iPhone and Android app, one of the most interesting changes this year was the amount of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions
I did not know that their was a ordered hierarchy of things to distract me, this sort of thing makes me wary of social media and being ‘connected’.
Filed under: Internet, Technology and Computers Tagged: digital age, distractions, social m…
Continue readingbastard.logic: Why I’m Not Jumping On Board The Google+ Bandwagon
by matttbastard Jillian C. York on why the current corporate backlash against online pseudonymity is misguided: There are myriad reasons why an individual may feel safer identifying under a name other than their birth name. Teenagers who identify as members … Continue reading →
Continue readingGeoff at Mount Allison: Thanks Again, or, How Interest in Social Media Feeds on Itself
As I finished wrapping up my last week full-time at the Communications Office at Mount Allison University and switch to part-time duties, I’ve been thinking about how thankful I am to have found something I really enjoy and how I moved from being ent…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Twitter Psychology Insight
Via the always insightful Neville Hobson, came a link to a wonder little diagram that summarises the results o a recent survey of Twitter users. You can find Neville’s post at the bizarrely named nevillehobson.com. And you can find the original at …
Continue readingGeoff at Mount Allison: Mount Allison University Video Project Featured in Academica’s Top Ten
This morning the video project I’ve been working on this summer was featured on Academica’s Top Ten list. If you’re not familiar with the list here’s a little snippet from the website:
Our team of researchers scours thousands of news sources every…
Continue readingThings Are Good: Iceland Turns to the People for Constitutional Reform
Iceland is a fantastic place that the rest of the world can learn from. They get 99% of their energy from geothermal power and have perhaps the most open government the world has ever seen. Recently they turned to the power of social media to rewrite their constitution!
In many ways then, the new Iceland constitution […]
Geoff at Mount Allison: The Argosy, Mount Allison University’s Independent Student Newspaper releases archived issues (PDFs) from 2009-2010
In addition to looking forward with the new website, we also had to look back to ensure we weren’t losing anything in the transfer. Unfortunately, due to some incredibly frustrating technical issues stemming from the fact that the Wordpress installation and the new OpenPublish installation are incompatible there is no technical way in which to transfer all of last year’s individual articles from Wordpress and appear correctly on the new site.
However, after a somewhat laborious process of finding and splicing together dozens of documents I’ve done one better: we now have the original pdfs of two years (2009-2011) of the Argosy available online. As until this upcoming year, the vast majority of students consumed the Argosy only in its paper format so the PDFs are the most familiar way for people to navigate all of the stories.
Below are the 2009-2010 issues on Scribd. They’re also now on the Argosy website as well. If you visit the Argosy site you’ll notice it has a much cleaner appearance and it’s much easier to find what you’re looking for. Starting this year the Argosy will also be actively engaging with all members of the Mount Allison community via social media to showcase important stories and solicit input for the Online Only section of the website which will feature your written, photographic, and video submissions. I’ll be providing more details in the weeks to come. For now, enjoy some archived issues of the Argosy:
Giorgio Mammoliti– A Great Shirriff Roscooooo P Coltrane To Mayor Boss Hogg
Yes, ol’ Giorgio Mammoliti has been really becoming unhinged as of late. McCarthyism is indeed alive and well over at City Hall. A Facebook group that won’t allow ‘commies’, although, one seems to have slipped through, but the comment has been scrubbed. Damn! shoulda taken a screen shot.
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