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TWiSM – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Another weekly episode of This Week in Social Media on Mountain FM with the awesome, lovely and clearly very smart for having me as a regular guest – Sabrina Pearson. The topic – the good, the bad and the ugly. Here is the audio from the interview (note how much joy I bring to Sabrina’s [...]

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MPP George Leff

Ok George Lepp, I tried to take photos of my junk and post on Twitter too

Ontario Conservative wanna be MPP George Lepp’s genitals were displayed on Twitter for a short time this past weekend…and then here for the world to see ever after. According to Lepp and his people, the two photos were “inadvertently” shot on his Blackberry which was in his pocket. Then in a social media version of [...]

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2011 Federal Election Results by Riding

For whatever reason Elections Canada has decided to make it near impossible to have the 2011 Canadian Federal Election Results by Riding in one simple document. So I downloaded the text file from their site, imported into Excel, took out a bunch of fields, removed the “duplicate” preliminary results vs verified results for the ridings [...]

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So…get any Election 2011 results via Twitter before 7pm PT?

So…did ya? I bet no. Other than the CBC displaying a graphic of Atlantic results for five minutes at 6pm Pacific Time, no other real Federal Election results were transmitted by traditional or social media. I have not seen the graphic so I cannot confirm if the results were for the entire region, were for [...]

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Reporting actual 2011 election results via social media has zero effect

There is a lot of hoopla surrounding Canadian election results reporting in the age of social media. With the Federal election just under a week away I fear this hoopla could turn into a full scale brouhaha. With many media outlets covering this topic I want to be sure I get my piece of air [...]

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More updates on Allan Schoenborn’s review

The Vancouver Province reported today: “Meanwhile, the psychiatric hospital has confirmed there was an incident involving Schoenborn and another inmate late last week. Schoenborn was injured, but has since recovered. CBC News reported the child killer was struck by pool balls in an attack.” That is most regrettable. Yesterday I posted an open letter to [...]

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Allan Schoenborn’s doctor “not aware” of safety concerns

Floored. Absolutely floored. One of the doctors who are suggesting that three time child killer Allan Schoenborn is ok to re-enter society admitted today on CKNW’s Bill Good Show that he was unaware of the public outcry against Schoenborn’s release; would “prefer not to comment on this specific case” and was “not aware of [Schoenborn's] [...]

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Federal Leader’s Debate

Today the televised English Language Debate aired with four of the Leaders going at it. So who won? Twitter. Seriously. More actual debate and analysis took place on Twitter than during the actual debate. You know you want to watch the entire two hours now. 2011 Federal English Debate English Runtime117:53 View count639

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