Denise Helms is one of the worst people on the planet. Correction: the worst person in the world. Seriously. After President Obama won re-election on Tuesday, the 22-year-old California woman took to the social media to express her anger and frustrat… . . . → Read More: Canadian ProgressiveCanadian Progressive: Racist Threatens Obama, Doesn’t ‘Understand What She Did Wrong’ [VIDEO]
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Your email newsletter can be one of your most powerful marketing tools. Why a few arts organizations still think newsletters are an exclusive benefit requiring paid access completely stumps me. I get newsletters from many major art galleries, including MOMA, AGO and the Tate. For each, I signed up painlessly through their website, and I get updates on exhibitions, events and gallery news. These newsletters help me plan visits, share stories with friends, and blog about interesting developments. This is nothing mind-blowing, but it is important, as newsletters ultimately lead to ticket sales. I recently noticed that a significant (Read more…) Excellent article that discusses Superstorm Sandy and how events influence images and vice versa. By Paul Mullins n the wake of Hurricane Sandy photographers shared ten images every second on Instagram, documenting the storm, testifying to the power of nature, and underscoring the internet’s power to shape our collective imagination. The most ridiculous images following the storm, though, came from Brazilian model Nana Gouvea, who wandered about the hurricane-strewn landscape posing for clumsily seductive pictures alongside crushed cars, downed trees, and refuse-strewn streets, producing what Huffington Post dubbed genuine “hurricane porn” (she was immediately lampooned with a tumblr . . . → Read More: Walking Turcot Yards: “Hurricane Porn”?: The Aesthetics of Authenticity and Nature’s Wrath by Theodoric Meyer | ProPublica Facebook hit the one-billion user mark last week, a little more than two years after it reached 500 million users. To mark the occasion, we’ve rounded up some of the best reads on Facebook and privacy. Facebook Raises Fears With Ad Tracking, The Financial Times, September 2012 Facebook has been working with a company [...] About two years ago, I wrote a blog post explaining why we cancelled our subscription to The Globe and Mail. At the same time, I sent an email with a link to the post to Globe editor-in-chief John Stackhouse, suggesting that if he wanted to know why he had lost a long-term subscriber, he should read my post. Later that evening, I received a response from Stackhouse which I have never discussed in this blog, simply because I regarded it as private communication. While I am not prepared to reveal the content of the letter, I will tell you his . . . → Read More: Politics and its Discontents: Social Media and Margaret Wente Last week I published I blog post titled Why Banning Anonymous Comments is Bad for Postmedia and Bad for Society in reaction to the fact that PostMedia’s newspapers( including the Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, National Post, etc…) now requires readers to login with a Facebook account to make comments. The piece had a number of thoughtful and additive comments – which is always rewarding for an author to read. Two responses, however, came from those in the newspaper industry. One came from someone claiming to be the editor of a local newspaper. I actually believe that this person is . . . → Read More: eaves.ca: Requiring Facebook for Your News Site (or website) – the Missed Opportunity Tweets from Flo, Progressive Insurance’s Spokesperson Today in PRL 604: Advanced Public Relations Writing for Digital Platforms at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications I’m presenting a case study on the recent Progressive Insurance Lawsuit Scandal, which, somewhat surprisingly, has been better chronicled by KnowYourMeme.com succinctly than any other source I looked at. You can come to my class today, read the NYTimes account of it (which is already outdated), or take a look at this presentation and try to deduce what I and my presentation partner Rulan Qu were saying. Progressive Defends Katie Fisher’s Killer in Court . . . → Read More: Geoff Campbell: Progressive Insurance Lawsuit Scandal Case Study The other day the Vancouver Sun – via Simon Fraser University’s Public Square program – asked me to pen a piece answering the questions: Is the Internet bringing us together or is it tearing us apart? Yesterday, they published the piece. My short answer? Trying to unravel whether the Internet is bringing us together or tearing us apart is impossible. It does both. What really matters is how we build generative communities, online and off. My main point? That community organizing is both growing and democratizing. On MeetUp alone there are 423 coming events in Vancouver. That’s 423 emergent community . . . → Read More: eaves.ca: Is the Internet bringing us together or is it tearing us apart? Google doodle today! But maybe I’m just being a nerd. (7) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario The demonization of genocidal dictators like Syrian President Bashar Hafez al-Assad is standard practice in the western media’s coverage of developing-world crises. In the photo-shopped imaged below, The Krone (Die Kronen Zeitung), Austria’s biggest newspaper, shows how to manipulate the Syrian uprising for a gullible western public. In its July 28 edition, the paper pasted the picture of an Arab family to a war-ravaged background, a bombed-out apartment block in Allepo, the epicenter of the 19-month uprising against the Assad regime. The change is spectacular. A family walking through an ordinary Arab urban landscape becomes a family fleeing a war-torn Syrian city. And, in . . . → Read More: Canadian Progressive: Faking Syrian War Images To Manipulate The Western Public Yesterday, I wrote about how the PC candidate in Kitchener-Waterloo, Tracey Weiler, has been running away from the PC leader Tim Hudak. In the riding of Vaughan, the ONDP and their leader Andrea Horwath, the opposite has been the case. Paul Donofrio, the ONDP candidate, has been completely ignored by his party. When he was nominated on August 10th the ONDP did a short, boilerplate press release. Since then, there has been hardly a peep about Mr. Donofrio out of the ONDP. Paul Donofrio is a classic perennial candidate. He ran for City Council, and lost. He ran for . . . → Read More: The Equivocator: Paul Donofrio: NDP Candidate. Rob Ford Supporter. Social Media Cautionary Tale. … how utterly pathetic CPC trolls can be, and you’re on Twitter, check out the Tweets spewed out by @RobertRoss4. Wow. The dude clearly hasn’t a life. Probably paid by the CPC to sit at his computer all day and think of anti-progressive vitriol. They, um, should re-evaluate the quality of this investment. Once again [...] … these days. And on both sides of the political spectrum. Decorum, it seems, has taken a vacation. The worst Tweets I have seen have lately been attacking and mocking the late Jack Layton: RT @JohnnyJesus: Do you think #dearjack called the girls Olivia when he was getting Shiatsu’ed ? #ndpquestions#ndp#dearjackmeoff#CdnPoli I know the Left [...] Below is a screen shot from the Opendatabc google group from about two months ago. I meant to blog about this earlier but life has been in the way. For me, this is a prefect example of how many people in the data/developer/policy world probably would like to interact with their local, regional or national government. A few notes on this interaction: I occasionally hear people try to claim the governments are not responsive to requests for data sets. Some aren’t. Some are. To be fair, this was not a request for the most controversial data set in the province. . . . → Read More: eaves.ca: How Government should interact with Developers, Data Geeks and Analysts Absolutely! You can’t take over a planet without a few friends. I like the way that Facebook allows me to be connected the minutia of my friends’ lives. This is why I’m so fond of the “status update,” which allows … Continue reading → Disgraced ex-Durham MP, Bev Oda, begins her private life today, after a scandalous public life defined by profligacy, scandal, inefficiency and controversy. Canadians offer their final word on the former minister of International Co-operation and MP for Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party of Canada. [View the story "Canadians: Farewell, Bev Oda!" on Storify] 
 Activism, Bev Oda, Blog, Canada, Canada Politics, Canadian International Development Agency, Canadian Politics, Canadian Taxpayers, Canadians, CBC News, CIDA, Co-operation, Conservatives, development, Farewell, Harper government, International, Pension, Politics News, Power, social media, stephen harper By now, most of you are aware that a second athlete from Europe has been ejected from the London Olympics for racism. Swill soccer player Michel Morganella got the boot yesterday for posting a racist message on Twitter insulting South Koreans after his team lost 2-1 to South Korea. But most of the mainstream media isn’t telling us what Morganella actually said. Only the New York Post seems to have the courage to report the exact words he wrote on the micro-blogging site: “I am going to batter the Koreans, burn them all… bunch of ‘trisos’.” Last week, Greece expelled triple . . . → Read More: Canadian Progressive World: London Olympics 2012: What the racist Swiss soccer player said
Africans, bigotry, Blog, censorship, Down's Syndrome, Extremism, Golden Dawn, greece, immigrants, internet, London Olympics 2012, media, Michel Morganella, opinion., Racism, RaHoWa, Rob Ford, soccer, social media, South Korea, sports, Swiss, Trisos, Twitter, Voula Papachristou, West Nile, World, World News A couple weeks ago, our PRL 600 class had the chance to talk to KetchumPR’s Global Creative Initiatives Manager Brian Keenean. He talked about Mindfire, the crowd-sourcing PR idea website that pays student for their thoughts. Then he invited anybody interested to join the site and see the confidential requests for information from Ketchum clients. It says a lot about Newhouse (and our professor specifically, whom Keenan said he trusts enough to only teach smart students) that there’s an automatic acknowledgement of at least a baseline of merit just for being here. Given, Mindfire doesn’t pay unless the community and . . . → Read More: Geoff Campbell: I’ve never met you, but here’s some private information Chattel. That’s all you are, women. The personal property of men. If you dare to turn your attention to something as trivial as…a newborn baby? YOU ARE LETTING YOUR KEEPER DOWN. Your breasts are ALL his. All. Stick some plastic in that kid’s cry-hole, STAT! Then get back to doing what you do best: being a walking pair of tits, for titillation. Men, if she dares to try to use her breasts for functional purposes, stop her. RECLAIM her. Those are your jugs. You shouldn’t have to share your property with a screaming, red, angry sausage. *Ahem* If you . . . → Read More: Politics, Re-Spun: Gentleman! Step Up and Reclaim Your Wife! Pesky Newborns Be Damned! This is Canadian political dissent like never seen before. For two reasons. First and especially, the dissent is taking place on Canada’s Independence Day. Second, it’s directed against a prime minister supposedly elected with a majority just over a year ago, on May 2. Once again, Canadians are using the social media, especially Twitter, to voice their democratic grudge against Stephen Harper, the “Harper Government” and government dictatorship-style policies. The most popular hashtag at the moment is #DenounceHarper, followed closely by #HappyCanadaDay. Across the Great White North, activists, led by the Occupy movement, are engaged in “Stop Harper Day” vigils. . . . → Read More: CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: On Canada’s Independence Day, #DenounceHarper & #HappyCanadaDay
#DenounceHarper, #HappyCanadaDay, Activism, Bill C-10, Bill C-38, boycott, Canada, canada day, Canada Day 2012, Canada Politics, Civil Disobedience, Denounce Harper, HARPER V. CANADA, human rights, Independence Day Canada, Moral Authority, policies, Political Dissent, Politics News, social media, stephen harper, Stop Harper Day, Twitter No comment yet from Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who appointed Brazeau to the Senate in 2008. On Wednesday, I blogged about the Conservative Senator, who called Canadian Press reporter Jennifer Ditchburn a “bitch” on Twitter. Senator Brazeau was mad that the reporter had highlighted his poor performance record in Canada’s appointed upper house of Parliament. Now Brazeau’s Twitter account, @TheBrazman, has disappeared from the Twitterverse. But that was before two other Twitter fight with… a journalist. On Thursday, the Senator quarreled with APTN News reporter, Jorge Barrera, after he’d filed a story highlighting allegations of bullying and sexual harassment . . . → Read More: CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Canada’s Worst Senator Patrick Brazeau Disappears From Twitter So it was that MP Charlie Angus, the NDP’s self-appointed guardian of civility, has declared that Twitter has “turned us all into 14-year-olds in a cafeteria” where “[e]verybody gets to be a Grade 9 girl.” Yesterday’s context, of course, was Patrick Brazeau’s calling reporter Jen Ditchburn a “bitch” because she wrote an article that mentioned Brazeau’s poor attendance record, and for sure, the senator’s remarks were immature, though I’d argue more in keeping with the mindset of a hormonal male bully than a grade-nine girl. But here’s more context: as Dale Smith rightly points out, Angus “makes (Read more…) I had a few committee meetings to choose from while I was in Ottawa last week, and attending the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics meeting on Tuesday made sense. And not just because it was hearing witnesses on a study of the privacy issues around social media. I was hoping to see Conservative ethics committee member Dean Del Mastro, who has been keeping a low profile and allowing Pierre Poilievre to speak for him. Alas, Dean was a no-show. Disapointing to those hoping for a show, but perhaps a blessing for those looking for some substantive . . . → Read More: A BCer in Toronto: Ethics committee talks social media without Del Mastro I kinda ragged on the venerable Crown Corp a yesterday. And 99 times out of 100, said ragging doesn’t lead to a response from the target of the rag… no matter who they are. Forget about an actual action aimed at whatever it was that squirmed its way under my skin. Well, Thursday, June 21, [...] |
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Alberta Diary: Anonymous comments? Dean Del Mastro’s right: there oughtta be a law!
A young member of the Tory Online Rage Machine (TORM) composes a mean Tweet using talking points from Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office. TORM operatives may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: The unfortunate Dean Del Mastro.
It’s hard not to feel a pang of sympathy for Dean Del Mastro, the Conservative MP for the Ontario riding of Peterborough, who informed us the other day that there oughtta be a law about anonymous comments on the Internet.
Who among us hasn’t felt the sting of the Anonymous Brigade on Twitter, Facebook and in the comments sections of myriad blogs and
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