What’s new – week of May 8, 2013

Convergence of new and traditional media was an idea that got a lot of play around the turn of the century (I love saying turn of the century and referring to 1999). The biggest example of course, is the ill-fated Time-Warner/AOL merger. In its day, it was considered...

What’s new – week of May 1, 2013

So a big TV programming exec jumps ship and moves to Twitter… Seems like that says a lot about where new and mainstream media could be heading. Here’s this week’s recap: The news in Canada is not only that Twitter’s setting up shop, it’s...

What’s new – week of April 24, 2013

In the last week, we saw a fair bit of activity on the mobile front by some of the bigger social networks – and especially Twitter. Here’s a recap of what’s new: Twitter Yesterday the AP Twitter account was hacked and sent out a false tweet about the...