by Rob Cottingham | Nov 24, 2005 | Blogging, Media Mix, Politics
Elsewhere in a discussion on the dearth of municipal blogging, some of us toss around the fact that bloggers usually don’t do the kind of investigative legwork that reporters do, and can’t break stories. Meet a vital exception: Paul Willcocks and his blog,... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 24, 2005 | Media Mix, Politics
Scott Piatkowski passes along this gem from AlterNet: Fox News is refusing to air an anti-Alito ad “citing its lawyers’ contention that the spot is factually incorrect.” Is it shooting fish in a barrel to say: “gee, I wish Fox News would apply... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 20, 2005 | Politics
If it was fiction, you’d edit out the metaphor as way too obvious: After answering six questions and eager to sit down to dinner in the Great Hall of the People, Bush turned down a reporter who asked permission for a follow-up question. He then strode from the... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 18, 2005 | Politics, Technology
The title says it all. Gilles Séguin, a retired federal public servant, has compiled an unbelievably vast collection of links on social research in Canada. From education to health care to First Nations to housing… it’s like a Yahoo! of Canadian social... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 18, 2005 | Blogging, Politics, Vancouver
I’ll be voting for Jim Green and the Vision Vancouver team tomorrow, along with several great folks from COPE. (Disclosure: I’ve been working for the Vision campaign — and they’ve made me proud.) After so many years of watching this city... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 17, 2005 | Politics
Ah, nostalgia: it seems like such a short time ago that anyone who believed in fighting climate change — and meeting our commitments under the Kyoto Protocol — was an anti-business extremist who lived in some kind of socialist dream world. Time to add a...