In brief, since I’m typing on a Via Rail train headed home (back tomorrow AM for 2nd round voting): -Wynne’s team is very media-savvy; five different volunteers spotted my “media/blogger badge” and handed me her media guide (I have 5 of them, + a button). – Kennedy was next most
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Scott's DiaTribes: In Toronto at the #olpldr (Ontario Liberal Party) Convention
So I’m in Toronto at Maple Leafs Gardens, (or at Mickey Flynn’s eating lunch at the moment using the free wi-fi)vwith Jim Calder of The Progressive Right. Seen a few friends and acquaintances here, and the Bloggers Table Vantage Point is pretty sweet. We’ve seen a Kathleen Wynne press conference
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Last Day to Apply for Ontario Liberal Party Convention Accreditation
A reminder to those who blog (of any political persuasion): today is the last day for you to send in your application to the Ontario Liberal Party to be accredited to cover their Leadership Convention next week. I understand they’ll be letting folks know that they’ve been accepted by Wed
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Monday Morning Musings
A couple of items that have caught my attention: – There has been a rising chorus of folks that have been allied with Chief Teresa Spence publicly saying that they feel she should end her hunger strike; Those now include Grand Chief Matthew Coon Come (he of the Cree in
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Another update re: accreditation process for blogging at the OLP Leadership Convention
I spoke with Christine McMillan by phone today, and I have some more information from her regarding the accreditation process: – The blogger accreditation form will be up at the main website of the OLP soon (as soon as things settle down there re the weekend events). They will announce
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Good news/more details from the OLP re: blogger accreditation
I received an email this evening from Christine McMillan. She is the Secretary General of the upcoming OLP Leadership and the VP of Communications for OLP. She has sent me more details about blogger accreditation to the OLP, and its all very good. I wanted to repost her email word
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: ‘For those asking, #olpldr Convention will include access for accredited bloggers. #olp #onpoli’
This was just tweeted on the Ontario Liberal Party Twitter account; Great news obviously. Also obviously, we will need more details on the process involved in applying for accreditation, what accreditation gives us, who our contact person will be for this, and at the OLP Convention, etc. but I am
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: A disquieting rumor on the Ontario Liberal Convention blogging front
I’m still away on Christmas/New Years vacation, hence my absence from here… so Happy New Year to everyone. Secondly, just a little update on the Ontario Liberal Leadership convention and whether or not they will be accrediting bloggers to cover the convention as social/new media. Nothing official has come yet
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Merry Christmas to all..
A Very Merry Christmas from me to all of you, my readers. May it bring happiness to you, or make things a little less sad. And.. if you’re down from this holiday season because of the commercialism and such.. just go watch “How The Grinch Stole Christmas” and look for
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Ontario Liberal Party Convention: blogging opportunities?
BigCityLib asked about this last month. I’ve put forth an inquiry to someone I know up in Toronto Liberal HQ about whether the access that the NDP provided us bloggers (of all political stripes) will be replicated at the Ontario Liberal Party Con…
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Some media moaning about ‘anonymous bloggers’
I don’t tend to do “media bashing” on here a lot, particularly of Canadian media. I’ve met quite a few of them, from all sides of the media spectrum, either at blogging events or at leadership conventions (from the Sun, from the National Post, from the Globe and Mail, from
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Court ruling: Linking and quoting from online articles is legal.
Michael Geist writes today at his site about a recent court ruling that is important for all of us bloggers, no matter what political ideology or point of view we write from. Basically, the Federal Court of Canada dismissed copyright infringement claims claims against the website Free Dominion from the
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: The influence or lack thereof of Canadian political blogs.
I’ve read an interesting column tonight by Simon Houpt of the Globe and Mail, who laments the Canadian political blogosphere and the apparent lack of influence it has on Canadian politics: ..our blogosphere is tame and ignorable. For it is the very rare Canadian politics or news blog that manages
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: A plug to the new Liblogs
Briefly this morning: I’d like to give some props to the newly redesigned Liblogs , which is an aggregator for Liberal blogs and/or Liberally-inclined blogs. You have 2 new administrators over there – Steve V of Far and Wide and Nancy from Impolitical, along with David Graham, a former Liblogs
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Looking forward to covering the NDP Leadership Convention
The NDP is holding their leadership convention on March 23-24 in Toronto, and they put out the word a month or so back that they would be accrediting bloggers to cover their convention. After some consultations, instead of applying as representing my individual blog, I decided to apply to represent
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Blog geek stuff – external voting button for Prog Blog
One of the features we’ve been trying to resurrect since “new” Progressive Bloggers went up is the ability for external votes to work on people’s blogs.. so they can have readers vote for them there, rather then having them go to the main Progressive Blogger site. You’ll note that in
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