Interview with San Diego Chargers’ Vaughn Martin

“In this Lion’s Den University exclusive, Former UWP Mustang (and current San Diego Charger) Vaughn Martin chats with Lion’s Den’s senior correspondent, Miss Lauren O’Nizzle.”

MuchMusic Blogpost : SOUNDSPEED – Degrassi Boys Rock Out

Wellity, Wellity, Wellity – looks like our boy Drake isn’t the only Degrassi kid making waves in the ocean of musical awesomeness. Meet Soundspeed – a dope new alternative rock band that just so happens to be comprised of actors from one of your favourite TV shows (said TV show = the greatest thing to come out of Canada since Poutine and Ketchup chips if you didn’t already know…).

1,400 social media junkies swamp Ryerson for Podcamp Toronto 2010 – Toronto Star Blog

What happens when you bring together 1,400 social media junkies and set them loose in a multi-level, wi-fi equipped, state-of-the-art communications centre — smart phones in hand and laptops in … well, lap? One heck of a bumping Twitter hashtag, to start. I’m not kidding. Check out this…

Maker Culture : Team Media Podcast

As part of our Fall 2009 online journalism course, my class produced a series of feature articles, videos and podcasts in conjunction with another class from Ryerson University. The 11-part series, called “Maker Culture” was co-published by Rabble.ca and Thetyee.ca – which described it as “a multi-part investigation of Maker Culture — the do-it-yourself movement fast evolving in North America and beyond.”

AXE Canada’s Ridiculously, Ridiculously Good Summer Gig

In January of 2010, I was announced as one of the top ten finalists in AXE Canada’s Ridiculously, Ridiculously Good Summer Gig Competition. Check out my entry video!

Project London – Arts & Culture Video

My entire j-school program participated in a week long integrated journalism experiment. We were split into “beats” and each group took to the city with video cameras, audio recorders, and notepads to cover London in a multi-platform newsroom style.

Finally, the ‘un’conference – Western News

Exciting, confusing, intriguing, annoying, amazing – there are a
lot of different takes on the rapidly expanding world of new and social media.

Some people embrace the ethos of Web 2.0, joyously texting to the top of Twitter’s trending topics list in 140 characters or less. Others find it hard to keep up…

MuchMusic Blogpost : The Hottest Words of 2009

What up MuchMonstahs?

Did you know that at 10:22 am on June 10th of this fabulous (and soon-to-be-over) year, the number of words in the English language officially crossed the 1 million mark? Yup. One MILLLLION dollars! I mean words. One MILLLLION words!