Liberal Party is foolishly retreating from social media and blogging
I was disappointed to learn several weeks ago that the Liberal Party of Canada is retreating from its position as one of the early leaders in Canada in recognizing the…
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The blogging life
This confession comes from the brilliant Mark Thoma who writes Economist’s View: A recent email prompts me to explain something. I post lots of excerpts from articles about economics, but…
Dog rescue rejects Zoom and GC because of blog post
Yesterday’s blog post, Should we adopt this puppy? has had some completely unexpected and bizarre repercussions. Someone forwarded the post to Kim Knapp, founder of Friendly Giants Dog Rescue, and…
What the Mayor Said
Story Here.
What’s the point?
Blogging. Really? You write a blog. Haha. Alright... That was what I figured most people were secretly thinking when I told them I was starting to write a blog for…
Five for Friday Round-UP
To round out the week, here are five curious posts on different subjects to send you off into the weekend. And don’t forget this Saturday* is Guy Fawkes Day. Via…
Tips for Highly Effective Blogging
Via copyblogger, two posts – written a year apart – on the habits of highly effective bloggers. The 16 tips are pretty simple and pretty straightforward but they are as…
Blogger dies of exposure
LONDON, ON (The Skwib) — Yesterday the writer of the popular blog, Prawned! was found draped across his keyboard, unconscious. Patrick Jones, aka Dedred S., was pronounced dead at the…
Link away as much as you want, sez SCC
The Supreme Court of Canada has handed the blog world a big victory. Writing for a unanimous Court in Crookes v. Newton, Justice Rosalie Abella wrote that merely providing a…
I am a blogger. I am not a journalist.
I am a left-of-centre progressive. I do not pretend to be neutral. I am a blogger. I am not a journalist. I do not take money under the table from…
Voting is Open Now… for NL Blogger’s Choice Awards!
If you are looking for a catalogue of local blogs there is only one place to go; the Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll. It’s the well-tended baby of Stephen Eli…
Would You Blog If You Couldn’t Be Anonymous?
I ask that question because Dr Dawg thinks anonymity should be busted.And he's in good company. So does Facebook.I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away… People behave…
My Summer Journey and JJ’s Return
(click to enlarge)I must admit that I'm finding it hard to blog these days. I'm not sure where I want to go. I don't know where this country is going.There…
"I invested in a company called News Corp .." "Dad, that’s Fox!" "Argh! Undo, undo!"
Funny line from the 1999 Simpsons episode "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" but it got terribly serious today with one of the whistle blowers being found dead and PM David Cameron…
Après Hiatus
Apologies to readers for being MIA from the blog for the past month or so, and especially to anyone that had their comments hung up in the dreaded spam filter…
The Often Occasional Blogger
I know I haven’t been blogging much lately,… but I really have a good excuse for it,… actually it is more of a series of excuses caused by one event…
Does not get much sillier than this…
… aka, the xkcd wikipedia meme All right, it has been a while since last time I did this kind of stuff. I saw it at VWXYNOT? (where else, eh…
No Photoshop Required
Caption Contest Anyone?
Blogging and the Planet of the Apes
A few weeks ago I ran this video by Bruno Mars, The Lazy Song. I can't remember why, except that it had something to do with comparing Stephen Harper's Thousand…
HuffPo takes on the Great White North
What a pleasant surprise when I saw the other day that Arianna Huffington launched a Canadian version of the Huffington Post. I was annoyed, as were other users, that for…