In the four months since my last post — yes, I'm a terrible blogger — I've moved to Vancouver and started teaching at the University of British Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. Among other things, I'm coordinating the school's Integrated Journalism course, required of all first-year students, and advising some ...

The problem with writing for several outlets is that your stuff lacks a home on the Internet. But it's nothing that a little aggregation can't fix. In case you missed it, here's some of what I've been writing in the last few months: Today at De Nieuwe Reporter, the Dutch online ...

It's officially official: I'm headed to Vancouver in January to spend a semester as the Canwest Global Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. I will be teaching online journalism as part of the school's integrated journalism course. I'm looking forward to helping students think critically ...

I did this online journalism-related write-up last week for Spiegel International. It didn't run there, so I'm posting it here (with permission, of course): When a 71-year-old pensioner killed three people and wounded a fourth in a shooting spree last month in North Rhine-Westphalia, the police response unfolded in real time ...

I know it's been around for a year or more now, but I still can't stop playing with Google Insights for Search, that small window into the universe of data that Google collects on user behavior. It's a trend-spotter's dream, and — particularly with its geographical filters — a potential ...