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Via the New York Times
By BRIAN STELTER
Published: December 7, 2008
CNN says it wants newspaper feedback as it creates a news wire service to compete with The Associated Press and other services. At a meeting last week, one newspaper staff member offered his advice — and shared the framework of CNN’s plans — in real time [...]

Via The New York Times
In a down economy, that might be an affordable luxury to a teenager or twentysomething hanging out in a virtual world like Gaia Online, which this week will start selling a range of digital accessories depicting the rock legend’s style, including blue suede shoes, a white-rhinestone jumpsuit ($4) and a pompadour [...]

Here are a few links to articles put up by Canadian public servant bloggers who are interested in public servant and departmental blogging:
General guide for public bloggers, based largely on US laws since little is written here in Canada:
EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers
http://w2.eff.org/bloggers/lg/
On what we can reproduce and who owns what is written:
Intellectual Property
http://w2.eff.org/bloggers/lg/faq-ip.php
US guide [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JKgIa0MZiM]Author: Tyler Knowlton
With the announcement of closed captioning for youtube videos, the number of barriers to Federal Government use of the video sharing service are declining.
I’m going to try and get as close to compliance as possible today.
1. Official Languages Act - We live in a bilingual country and that’s the law. Uploading a [...]

Author: Tyler Knowlton
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? is a Latin phrase from the Roman poet Juvenal, variously translated as “Who will guard the guards?”, “Who watches the watchmen?”, “Who shall watch the watchers themselves?” (Thanks wikipedia)

In Montebello Quebec it was the bloggers watching the Quebec Provincial Police

I went to Art school before starting my Public [...]

In every large organization internal communications is a challenge. Day to day tasks like file sharing, document creation, looking up some one’s email or finding the HR department can be a challenge. An approach that many organizations have approached these challenges is through an internal Web site or Intranet.

Author - Tyler Knowlton
Current Online Activities
“Most people have googled themselves, but what about googling your organization?”
What can be found in 1 hour on July 2, 2008
Google
A quick Google search shows that the Government of Canada has a strong search engine presence. The top five items that appear when the terms “Government of Canada” [...]

What do you say when a member of senior management asks you if you think they should have a Facebook profile? You’re young, you’re hip and you like Facebook - You’re also aware of 1 million four hundred and thirty six things that you need to to think of first. Here’s the first 8 [...]