Finally my year in the New Media program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology is over and I am preparing for Industry Night at the BCIT downtown campus this Wednesday.
Please drop by if you are in the neighbourhood and check out some of our projects and say hi and goodbye to me. I am moving to Yellowknife, NWT in about three weeks (depending on when enough ice melts in the Mackenzie River for the Merv Hardie ferry to begin operations).
Here is an iCal file for those of you on Mac.
New Media class April 2009 graduation
If you have time, please check out my portfolio website, I am still making changes to it and would appreciate your comments/feedback.
This will be a short post as I have much packing and organizing to do, as well I am taking Avid video-editing classes on the weekends so almost too busy to tweet.
To all Vancouver peeps, it’s been a slice and will see you when we are back on vacation. To all Yellowknife peeps, save a spot for us at scotch night at the Elks third or fourth Tuesday of May 
So much upheaval in the newspaper business this days, 600 recently laid off at Sun Media chain, there is even a website, Paper Cuts, that keeps a running tally of layoffs and buyouts at U.S. newspapers. Christmas parties cancelled all over.
Big media sites have redesigned their websites to accept user content and now use of social media tools. A TechCrunch post cites a Pew Survey that most Americans are getting their news from the Internet rather than newspapers. Although it states that TV still beats both the Internet and newspapers as a news source, it goes on to say, “give it a couple more years and the Internet should overtake that as well.”
But online advertising won’t always pay the kind of cash that a full page ad can. No wonder the newspapers have been turning their photographers into videographers … a 15 second commercial at the beginning of a clip can be a money spinner.
There is some good news on the horizon for media geeks though … MediaShift states that, “As newspapers and broadcasters slice their senior-level workforce, they are also quietly building their digital and online teams.” And a Fast Company story points to the impending retirement of aging baby boomers and a new tech boom.
Plus for us West Coast Canadians … the 2010 Olympics is rumoured to be creating a job or two …
