Journalism

Ideas are called for. Lots of them. So I'm pumping them out of my brain.

I’m a self-employed mom of a home learning kid – so being mobile is very important to me. I often work in my car on my Mac laptop, which is where I took the picture for this post, using PhotoBooth. I use my iPhone to tether my lap top, and I should probably take...

Someone has been sleeping on this old futon in the bushes beside a path near my house. Vancouver’s Frances Bula reported in the Globe and Mail today that 400 people were sleeping outside in Vancouver, with another 1,400 in homeless shelters. This is the lowest number of people sleeping on the streets since 2002...

Kudos to Guacira Naves for live blogging a chaotic panel discussion hosted by the Vancouver Social Media Club in partnership with Vancouver Bloggers Meetup last night at BOB Coworking Space in Vancouver. The point of the discussion was to “review expectations vs outcomes in the context of social and traditional media coverage of a...

Thanks to Vincent and his fellow vendors, people are getting an opportunity to learn about life in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside from folks who actually live there. All too often, especially during the Olympics, we hear stories from media outsiders who visit the neighbourhood for a short tour and then report all the bad things...

“Thats’s so random!” I never know what I’ll see on my iPhone camera after my son’s been using it. Yesterday I found this super-cool drawing on it after our trip to JJ Bean. He’s also taken some interesting shots of the painting on the south wall of Continental Cafe (which is worth a look-see...

“We need a lot of voices in Vancouver,” said publisher Linda Solomon at the Vancouver Observer’s re-launch celebration at Ceili’s Irish Pub & Restaurant on Tuesday, Oct. 6. “Get behind us. Send us your blogs. Sign up for our newsletter. Tell your friends. Let’s make the media strong in Vancouver – and let’s just...