Coffee in the afternoon at Spiral
Reality testing: measuring the long term impact of journalism
When Margaret Wente was getting busted repeatedly for plagiarizing, her publisher, The Globe and Mail, more…
Journalism is the business of influence
Good journalists do what they do because they care. They have interests. The organizations that employ…
View from a ferry
Spaceship on the membrane between two, not so blue, oceans. #bcferriesjuxtapose
Scientists on Twitter: Preaching to the choir or singing from the rooftops?
I tend to think that comms advice for scientists is also comms advice for everyone. Here’s…
The look, and the social nature of knowledge
When I was growing up I was bad with context. Super bad. My young logic-oriented self…
Happy Halloween
Halloween in Vicwest is quiet but nice. Some great costumes on the street last night and…
Reality testing, Dylan Marron and Every Single Word
If you ask white folks about the over-representation of white folks on screen, they will often…
The stickiness of so-called “reverse racism”
When an idea is “intuitive” but also steeped in a culture war we have a heightened…