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From Blog to Book Deal: How 6 Authors Did It
5 hours ago
by Brenna Ehrlich
What do Julia & Julia, PostSecret and Stuff White People Like have in common? If you answered, “They’re blogs,” you are correct (collect your fabulous prize — our undying respect and love). If you answered, “They’re books,” you are also correct (please share your prize with the previous group — ther ...
Mashable! - mashable.com · Rank: 5 · 28830 references
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Obama’s Poll Slippage is Showing
11 hours ago
by Faye Anderson
As President Barack Obama leaves for Copenhagen this evening to attend the final day of the UN global warming conference, polls show approval of his job performance has cooled. The latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found Obama’s job approval has fallen to 47 percent. NBC News reports: Underlining ...
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Organised citizen journalism is here
16 hours ago
by Paulina Wojnar
Rachel Sterne is CEO of GroundReport, a global citizen news platform that empowers anyone to publish and earn money from original, intelligent reporting. She founded the platform in 2006 with the mission to democratize the media and help the world share its stories. You can find a brilliant, if long ...
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AHA MEDIA from Vancouver Downtown Eastside is very proud to be featured on ...
18 hours ago
by ahamedia
AHA MEDIA is very proud to be featured on Blog site of the Mayor of London – Boris Johnson! http://www.boris-johnson.com/2009/12/16/the-challenge-of-housing-and-homelessness/ Many thanks to our great mentor @ Raincoaster for featuring us and what we do in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside! http://www. ...
WWW.AHAMEDIA.CA - ahamedia.ca · Rank: 85,247 · 31 references
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What skills will make the best journalists? Tech ninjas to rule the roost?
1 day ago
by Tris Hussey
Journalists seem to always be taking it on the chin. If it isn’t that their craft is dying (which I don’t think is true) or their publications are failing (okay that one is true), now it’s that in order to be agile journalists, keep employed, and be relevant they need to be programers too? Wow, hars ...
A View from the Isle - trishussey.com · Rank: 13,945 · 198 references
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AHA MEDIA is pleased to attend Pigeon Park’s Grand Re-Opening in Vancouver ...
1 day ago
by ahamedia
AHA MEDIA is pleased to attend Pigeon Park’s Grand Re-Opening in Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES ) on Tuesday Dec 15, 2009 Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation www.vancouverparks.ca “The fences are coming down” The Pigeon Park renewal project is substantially completed, The removal of the fenc ...
WWW.AHAMEDIA.CA - ahamedia.ca · Rank: 85,247 · 31 references
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Tis the season for Top 10 lists…
1 day ago
by Dave Gehring
About now, the media and blogosphere start publishing lists of the most important things that happened during the course of the year. I’ll be referencing here some of the Top 10 lists I find and think are most interesting. Top 10 Biggest Social Media Stories of 2009 This post in Vator.tv by Ronny Ke ...
Finding the gear - findingthegear.com
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The Gift of Citizen Journalism: Fact-Checking
1 day ago
by Rachel Sklar
Regret The Error’s Craig Silverman has outdone himself this year on his annual greatest-hits list of the year in corrections, including a round up in the Year in Plagiarism, a list no one ever wants to be on. Yikes. But he also notes an interesting trend in the 2.0 world of citizen journalism: Fact- ...
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‘Shovel Ready’ and Shoved Aside
1 day ago
by Faye Anderson
Later today, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on the “Jobs for Main Street Act of 2010,” which includes $50 billion in spending for highways, mass transit, affordable housing and school renovation. The bill provides that “priority shall be given to projects that are projected for com ...
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On fire
1 day ago
by antonwithagen
Sources: NOS and RTL-news, Amsterdam TV5 local news. The fire took place in the backyard of my daughters' home in Amsterdam where she also captured pictures themselves with the mobile phone. Report the News Ever captured a natural disaster or a crime on your cell-phone camera? Filmed a political ral ...
C'est le Toon - cestletoon.blogspot.com · 1 reference
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