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January 2012

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Brain Album: Edmonton New Media Roundup 26 → brainalbum.tumblr.com

As I reflect on 2011 in Edmonton’s new media space, a figure haunts me: 3,400.

That’s how how many blogs Mack Male counted in this city, for a talk he gave at WordCamp in November.

Man, I thought. Here I figured I was reasonably on top of the Edmonton blogosphere. I had read so many…

The final New Media Roundup of 2011 from Karen Unland

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December 2011

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Dec 26, 2011

“The hard part of professional journalism going forward is writing about what hasn’t been written about, directing attention where it hasn’t been, and saying something new.” —From a “The New Lazy Journalism” by Seth Godin

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“In this very special Christmas episode of the Unknown Studio, Scott and I chat with Jonn and Sam, two of the creators of the Edmonton: A City podcast segment. And wouldn’t you know it, but they have a segment in this very episode! There’s also some other tidbits in here from Scott and myself, as well as a gift exchange between the two hosts.” —T’was an Unknown Christmas | S03E07

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“With hundreds of hours come thousands of characters—literally. So many of them, in fact, that this November, The Old Republic will enter the Guinness Book of World Records for having the biggest voice-over cast in entertainment history, with more than 1,000 actors speaking in three different languages. The game has between 250,000 and 280,000 lines of dialogue—the word-count equivalent of five Infinite Jests. To iron out bugs, some 4.6 million hours of beta testing were logged.” —Fast Company has a great post up on Bioware and Star Wars: The Old Republic

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