By Etan Vlessing for StrategyOnline.ca History Television’s Ice Pilots NWT reality series is sending viewers on an online scavenger hunt to beef up its third-season website. The digital extension comes courtesy of design studio Switch United, social games producer Pug Pharm Productions and FanTrust. Using Pug Pharm’s proprietary technology, Vancouver-based Switch United turned the Ice Pilots NWT website into the homepage [...]

Catherine Warren blogs for The Huffington Post, where her article first appeared. What can the mass media 1 percent learn from the digital 99 percent? While big media and other critics slam Occupy Wall Street for lacking a cohesive message, the movement continues to just get on with things, including its own media, innovating in the [...]

By Danielle Ng See Quan for Playback.ca The Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund has announced funding for the Oct. 1, 2011 round of applications. Overall, $3.35 million was awarded to 27 applicants in production, low-budget production, development and professional development project categories, out of 50 applications. Funded projects and productions include: Eat St., Mr. [...]