inCommunicado - eric eggertson

The podcasts announced today by CBC Radio are a step in the right direction, but they don’t approach the extensive podcasting already undertaken by the BBC in Britain and NPR in the U.S.
CBC Radio One Podcasts
Since getting an MP3 player for Christmas, my religious listening of CBC shows has fallen off significantly. I’ve forsaken  […]

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Darren Barefoot raises an interesting question. The Vancouver technology PR consultant mentions a technology conference that allowed journalists to not disclose their contact information to the companies paying to exhibit at the site.
Barefoot calls the 80% of journalists who blocked their information "sorry ass journalists," and suggests they’re not doing their jobs.
Says Barefoot:

"This is reflective […]

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A ferry sank off the British Columbia coast early this Wednesday morning. All passengers are accounted for, except a couple who apparently didn’t make it off the vessel after it struck rocks and sank.
Thanks to Google Adsense’s power of contextual advertising, the story in the Globe and Mail online edition this morning was accompanied by […]

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Bill Doskoch tells the story of his last days at the Regina Leader-Post after Conrad Black became owner. Doskoch was one of 89 employees fired 10 years ago. His description of the inevitable downsizing that Black brought to his latest acquisition confirms all the horror stories I heard about the Leader-Post firings.
Writes Doskoch:

"Walking towards the […]

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The Iranians are renaming Danish Pastries "Roses of the Prophet Muhammad," to protest the Danish editorial cartoons.
This sort of thing can escalate.  Next thing you know, Canada will rename Brazil Nuts: "Rain Forest Nuts" in condemnation of Brazil’s stewardship of the Amazon  basin.
Then Chinese Food will instead be referred to as Oppressed People’s Food […]

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“Hello, This is the Ebay Collection Agency”
- Jeremy Wright notes how difficult it must be for eBay to inform its customers of the status of their accounts, with the huge amount of spam and phishing being done in eBay’s name.
The flattening of the press world - Robert Scoble on the end of the scoop. When […]

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A Quebec academic reports that about half of journalists interviewed said they think public relations people help them do their jobs. Just over 11% think PR types don’t help, and 17% think PR people complicated their access to information.
Marc Snyder only has a bit of information in English about the survey, conducted in French by […]

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Writing for broadcast requires remarkable discipline. No matter how many fancy words you know, you need to boil the sentences and phrases down to simple concepts, communicated simply.
But simplicity isn’t good enough. You also have to be clear.
A news item on the radio today was about a adult video store robbery, in which the thieves […]

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Cautious, controlled writing is valued by risk-averse large corporations.
But since beginning to write online, Jane Genova has learned to leave some of her reserve in the Recycle Bin.
The writing style that gets her the most hits when writing about a high-profile trial is "a combo platter of Sherlock Holmes attention to detail, ability to
discern what […]

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Michael Tippett: Digg.com is an example of how the audience is influencing the news - readers vote on which stories should have most prominence. Their traffic is now bigger than NBC or CNN.
Nancy White:  The online world calls for new competencies. We operate in an electronic world, where our body language and our ability […]

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  Pirillo & Hamilton - Northern Voice 2006    Originally uploaded by Mutually Inclusive.
The information landscape has become more fragmented, complex and difficult to manage.
Mark Hamilton didn’t pretend to have answers for a room full of bloggers, but he did have some questions. Like how is he supposed to cope with […]

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