I think of myself as a C-list blogger. Sometimes I wander into B-list territory, but I’m largely unseen by the masses. If I make it into the double digits on a post, it’s pretty exciting. I have two posts that made it into triple digits here – largely, I think,
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Toronto Lawyer | Omar Ha-Redeye, J.D. » Politics: Ontario Divisional Court Ruling in Magder v. Ford
The Divisional Court of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has overturned Justice Hackland’s ruling in Magder v. Ford. For a summary of the case see Slaw. Magder v. Ford, 2013 by
Continue readingExponential Book: 2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 25,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 6 Film Festivals Click here to see
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Eight Years of Sketchy Thoughts
It has been eight years since i started this blog, basically as a way of trying to figure out how to develop and explore some political ideas and perhaps also deal with a period of political and personal isolation i was going through. It “worked”, and provided a space not
Continue readingeaves.ca: Teach to Do – Lessons from Louise Glück
Somewhere along the lines I remember learning the line “those who cannot do, teach.” I’m sure there are many instances where this is true, it’s just not what I remember when I think of the great teachers I have had, or my own experience. Part of this crystallized for me a couple
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: If you’re serious about ideas… #nlpoli
then get serious about blogging. From the Harvard Business Review: Writing is still the clearest and most definitive medium for demonstrating expertise on the web. But as thought leaders like Gary Vaynerchuk have shown with video blogging and fellow HBR blogger Mitch Joel with podcasting (i.e., audio blogging), as long
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: A Tragedy Should Make Us Want To Be Better
The world suffered a tragedy when a gun man went and killed 20 students and 6 adults. The world was made worse when out of this horror people called others whackos and nuts for merely having a different opinion. A tragedy should make us try to be better not worse.
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Getting Back to the Blog?
As some of you may have noticed – those kind few of you who may still check in here – Sketchy Thoughts has been somewhat comatose for the past months (!), and not for the first time. A while back, Nate, over at the What In the Hell blog, enumerated som…
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 readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: 10 Things for First Time Blog Writers #nlpoli
So you are thinking about starting a blog. Great! Before you go any further, go vote for SRBP as the Best Political Blog in Canada. There are a couple of days left in the final voting. Go back again tomorrow and the day after. Lives could depe…
Continue readingknitnut.net: Ask me anything
I would blog today if I could think of something to blog about, and I would have blogged yesterday too if I could have thought of something to blog about. It seems I have reached the bottom of the blogging barrel. I assume it’s just temporary, but time will tell.
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Interview at Progress Planet: Why I blog, and more
I was interviewed by the folks at Progress Planet which you can read here. Topics include why I blog, what my goals are, and how to achieve world peace! The interview compliments an overview I wrote at the start of the year about this blog and its goals: My blog: Reviewing 2011, Previewing
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Ask General Kang: What is the right amount of blogging?
Frankly, none. But never bite the hand that feeds you I say, particularly when it feeds you ripe fruit and vegemite sandwiches. This rule applies doubly for evil galactic overlords between gigs. (And yes, the first continent to be occupied … Continue reading →
Continue readingTrashy's World: Just to clarify…
… I’m NOT at work today so if you see more than the usual number of posts popping up on this site today and tomorrow, it is NOT because I am blogging on work time. Rather, I am at work resting a very sore body that I somehow made very
Continue readingConfessions of a Liberal Mind: Explaining COALM and blogging hiatuses
So, I haven’t posted in a few months, almost 6 to be exact. I don’t believe that this is the end of my blogging adventure. I take hiatuses for various reasons, personal, content, even then I have 10 different unfinished posts in the past 12 months that…
Continue readingConfessions of a Liberal Mind: Explaining COALM and blogging hiatuses
So, I haven’t posted in a few months, almost 6 to be exact. I don’t believe that this is the end of my blogging adventure. I take hiatuses for various reasons, personal, content, even then I have 10 different unfinished posts in the past 12 months that I feel are
Continue readingConfessions of a Liberal Mind: Explaining COALM and blogging hiatuses
So, I haven’t posted in a few months, almost 6 to be exact. I don’t believe that this is the end of my blogging adventure. I take hiatuses for various reasons, personal, content, even then I have 10 different unfinished posts in the past 12 months that I feel are
Continue readingImpolitical: Financial disclosure for bloggers and others
Noted in the Globe, this headline is, shall we say, a little misleading in the Canadian context: “Why don’t political bloggers want us to know who’s funding them?”The vast majority of Canadian political bloggers receive bupkus for blogging. It is simply not the case that there are bloggers actively denying
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: Best Laid Plans of Mice and Bloggers
Here I was planning to post on multitude of topics, including some stuff on breastfeeding, restraints, the duty to care, more twists and turns in the Amanda Trujillo case, the usual CVSaturday poem and Friday night short film, and I even had a wicked April Fools’ joke to launch on
Continue readingThe Wingnuterer: I was out, finished! and I took an arrow to the knee
I had given up on blogging and then I dabbled with it for a bit, off an on. The reasons for leaving are complicated,… various events in the blogosphere sour my taste for it,… certain events in my life just made me loose interest in the task,… And then, when
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