Answer 1: Life’s tough, and more to the point, finite. So, animals die, even the charismatic ones that humans like. That’s Nature.
Answer 2: Some thing, or things, are happening in the ocean, and these are signs of that.
I don’t know what the answer is, but there have been a lot of stories lately about marine [...]
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Why are marine mammals washing up dead?
How (Should) Journalists Use Social Media
This weekend at the Northern Voice conference, Kirk LaPointe from The Vancouver Sun and I spoke on a panel called “How (Should) Journalists Use Social Media.”
The visuals I used, created using a new-to-me online tool called Prezi, are posted online here.
I won’t recount the whole thing, but here’s a couple of key ideas I talked [...]
Shrinking my city with social media
I’m going to be speaking at the Northern Voice conference this weekend, joining Kirk LaPointe from the Vancouver Sun on a panel called “How (Should) Journalists Use Social Media”.
One of the tricky things in trying to prepare my presentation is that the subject matter is my job, but this is supposed a “Personal Blogging and [...]
Squid surveillance, in several ways
I find squid pretty inherently interesting. They’re believed to be smart, and I’d call them beautiful, but they’re also so alien to our terrestrial, vertebrate selves.
Even more interesting, or perhaps alarming, is what’s happening with the Humboldt squid in B.C. waters.
First, why are they here? They’re native to northern Mexico, but in the past [...]
Are humpbacks still endangered?
When I worked on B.C.’s Central Coast in the summer of 2000, seeing a humpback whale was a rare treat. They’re huge, but far more acrobatic than their grey whale cousins we were studying.
The good news is: seeing a humpback whale in the North Pacific isn’t as rare anymore.
They’re considered threatened in Canada, and for [...]
The dirt on clean: avoiding antibacterials
With all the talk about swine flu and handwashing, I decided to take questions from parents to an expert in public health, Dr. Bonnie Henry with the B.C. Centre for Disease Control. (CBC story here).
Dr. Henry just published a book on preventing disease spread, called Soap and Water & Common Sense, and has been [...]
Art galleries and “old” media
I’ve been wrestling with my point of view in the ongoing discussions about new/social vs. old/legacy/traditional media.
On one hand, you could call me a new media keener. At least, among my colleagues in the newsroom and my cohort of friends, I’ve been an early adopter of tools like Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter.
On the [...]