I tend to think that comms advice for scientists is also comms advice for everyone. Here's an interest look at some social graphs and reach by scientists on Twitter. Communication has always been an integral part of the scientific endeavour.…
"Queer it." @bayleewoodley posing with an @ambitgender postcard. Happy Pride friends.
Our living room is full of display experiments of all the beatiful merch that @makingculture has been creating! Maybe we'll see you tomorrow at The Q! Market at the Juan de Fuca library (noon to four). #makerculture
A draw bridge has an interesting user experience. Both while on it, and waiting for it.
Thanks @oliveridley for the free range, chocolate covered Saskatoons! They are... berry good. #saskatoons
Some folks and I have decided that Interrobang is a great name for a group blog. So, this might mean that I'll be posting less here...
I was contacted recently by a student of journalism at Wilfrid Laurier University. She asked me the following questions...
I'm happy to report that the state of hyperlinking in news in Canada appears to be improving. It's a tentative claim...
The thing about economics is that it's a real scientific discipline. Like many sciences, there's some more theoretical branches and also some more applied branches. And the application of economic modeling to real life society ...
It's two thousand years since the birth of Christ; the zero year. I think it's time to free ourselves from the Christian calendar...
Rex Murphy wasn't the first pundit to misunderstand rights, and human rights. But he is paradigmatic. He has a thing for human rights and mentions them often.
Some time ago Nikiforuk published an article at Foreign Policy declaring Canada a petrostate. It caused a big splash and became a talking point in the culture wars that make up Canadian politics. Stephen Saideman called it hyperbole. And Andrew Leech called it short on evidence...
I like this handbook on ethics by NPR. I like the way it looks and the way it functions. I like the spirit of integrity that it...
I've been interested in hearing more about a case of a Prince Edward Island writer and journalist who was ejected from the Press Gallery for being an advocate. Wow. I have lots of thoughts about this. Most saliently I believe that journalists are advocates...
I am fascinated by what constitutes the limits of "respectable" public discourse. This phenomenon is related, in part, to the Overton window, which is the set of concepts that are considered politically acceptable by the dominant culture. But I am equally fascinated by the social limits ...
It's no small chore trying to understand climate change. We live in a society that is lacking in scientific literacy. Even those of us that have some, have little time to read and understand so many complex issues of our day, including climate change...
Journalists claim that it's their duty to give context to important events. The floods in Alberta are important. The context is climate change, but the press is strangely absent...
A further reflection on the absence of hyperlinks in certain mainstream forms of journalism, and what this says about modern editors and journalists ...
In which I reflect on the behaviour of major news organizations in Canada who stubbornly refuse to link out to relevant websites, data and reports...
I never had a bottle rocket growing up. At least, not that I remember. And a couple of weeks ago, a few friends and I put Mentos in a bottle of diet coke and that was really exciting and it got me...
I was surprised to learn recently that an important paper that forms the basis of the intellectual underpinnings of the austerity movement is wrong. But more importantly, I discovered that Google needs to do a better job indexing webpages...
This is my third exploration of racism in the writings of Andrew Coyne, while writing for Postmedia News. Today's argument will focus on the discourse of denial...
This is my second exploration of racism in the writings of Andrew Coyne with Postmedia News. This argument will refer to three articles written by Coyne in January...
This is my first argument toward the conclusion that journalist Andrew Coyne made claims that were racist. The remarks by Coyne that I will focus on for today's argument were...