What are your favourite political blogs?
With the federal election under way, political blogs are heating up (and springing up) like never before. Every politician has an official blog (to say nothing about Facebook pages, Twitter accounts...
View ArticleLe Devoir enters the blogosphere
Le Devoir, the black sheep of Quebec media online (the only major paper in Canada that still locks articles to subscribers) has joined the blogosphere with an election blog. It’s hardly a big splash...
View ArticleIn other news…
Now that the U.S. election is over, Montreal bloggers are moving on to discuss more important things, like lollipop design, crusty old perverts at bus stops, squirrel videos and self-muppetization....
View ArticleNews sites moving to full-text RSS
I just noticed something going through my blog reader: The Gazette’s upgraded blogging engine is now putting out full-text feeds. It’s a trend (unfortunately too slow) of media outlets desperate for...
View ArticleThe Score unites really crappy sports blogs
The Score, that sports channel nobody gets because it doesn’t show anything, has launched what it calls the “thescore.com Sports Federation”, a network of independent sports blogs for the various...
View ArticlePolice racism? That’s so last year
I guess determining that the whole Fredy Villanueva thing and police not getting along well with young brown people has all been settled now, L’Actualité has ended its Montreal North blog. (Well,...
View ArticleYULblog relaunches tonight
Local bloggers (and their groupies) might recognize YULblog … yulblog … Yulblog … however you capitalize it … as a monthly meeting of local bloggers (and their groupies) for drinks, discussions and...
View ArticleNothing like a blogger popularity contest
This morning on Christiane Charette’s show on Radio-Canada, three stars of the Quebec web were invited to compile a list of the most influential Quebec web celebrities. Like most ideas, this one was...
View ArticleMaxime Bernier has new technologies
There’s no way I can make this better than it already is. (via @mediabeat) It occured to me I’ve never actually heard Maxime Bernier speak in English before (my attention must have been focused...
View ArticleFour Habs Fans … plus one
I have, in the past, been critical of amateur bloggers following pro sports teams. Particularly in the wake of the success of my employer’s Habs Inside/Out website, I just couldn’t fathom how people...
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