asking questions and discovering how little I know
Expressions are so confusing. Currently, when stories break in places like Haiti, Chile, Afghanistan and others, reporters that go to cover the stories tell us what is happening. When they get to the locations and begin filing their reports, I always hear, “Our reporter is on the ground …” Do they have options? Could they, [...]
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I don’t mind saying I’m confused when CBC headlines a story ‘NB Power deal cancelled.’ They say in their opening paragraph, “The proposed deal to sell NB Power’s generation assets to Hydro-Québec fell apart over Quebec’s concerns about unanticipated costs, according to the two provincial premiers.” What is confusing is that the Globe and Mail [...]
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I'm Bill Wren, a writer-editor, social media enthusiast in Fredericton, New Brunswick. And that would be my dog, Molly Bloom, as a logo in the header.
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Listen to the silence and pay attention
by Bill Wren on July 12, 2010
Noise is a common complaint about social media. We often say there is too much worthless chatter. When we say this, we’re complaining about content. It’s of no value to us; it’s all noise. For people like myself who work in social media, we’re usually referring to the tsunami of tweets and posts and updates [...]
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