A key skill for journalists in an Internet age is knowing how to evaluate online news sources. This was part of the focus of this week’s class in multiplatform journalism at the UBC School of Journalism. There are five criteria to consider: Aut...

...experienced this at that point in time. My consciousness was there and experienced what I described. There was experience and knowing that arose in the event just like when you directly witness a sunrise, rather than read about it.Generally, the untraine...

I want to install a copy of Ubuntu on my laptop. However, when Vista was installed on it, a single partition was made of the hard drive so if I try to install Ubuntu now, it will overwrite the Vista partition (I assume, anyone knowing better, feel free to...

Last week I had a chance to try American wines from an area I must admit knowing very little about. My bias to Left Coast domestic wines was fundamentally challenged by the offerings from a winery located just outside of...

John W. McKenna at the Leadership Epidemic posited a question — Does Most Leadership Suck — and challenged a group of bloggers to comment. I wasn’t tagged, but I’ve been spying on the other bloggers and I have a few thoughts of my...

One of the main reasons that I created this blog is that I want to empower you: I want to give to give you the information that you need to care for yourself and the people around you.One of the...