Some of us are working alone in the Sports department late at night, hoping beyond anything else that an announcement doesn’t come out of the blue to screw everything up.
You probably already know the story, so I’ll just provide you some colour commentary, courtesy of the Habs Inside/Out chat room immediately following the game:
usversusthem:OMGOMGOMGGOMG
Barts:ya baby
FawtMan:CMONN HET
usversusthem:OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG
FawtMan:HUET
Leo G.:woooooohohhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Elbacky:ahhhhhhhhhh
dicktracy:………………………………..
Mattee.:WE WIN!
FawtMan:?
Leo G.:omg
FawtMan:OMG
Mattee.:I LOVE EVERYONE!
FawtMan:WE WIN
Sulemaan:NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
FawtMan:HOLY SHIT / I LOVE YOU GUSY
Mattee.:HOLY MOFO!
FawtMan:MARK MY WORDS
usversusthem:wowwwwwww
FawtMan:?
usversusthem:omg thank you god
Mattee.:AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sadave:Huettttttttt!
Elbacky:Price gets the win……technicallities
dicktracy:$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
yehaken:first time in habs franchise history winning when down by 5 goals
usversusthem:wowwww
FawtMan:OMGG
koivu11price31@hotmail.com:omg
Sulemaan:of all the !$#@#!@ gams not to watch (but at least I got to listen to it via radio and read it here)
FawtMan:WE WON? / HOLY BUTTSECKS
Barts:THIS CHAT ROOM IS GOLD
Mattee.:5-0 EAT THAT!
dicktracy:OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
dusty baker:teach, me too, are you also in the states?
dicktracy:MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Elbacky:alright lets see what happens in ottawa now
dicktracy:YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Barts:Mio you’re the best
dicktracy:GGGGGGGGGGGGod
The Teacher:ohhh.it’s huet in the shootout
Mattee.:I JUST THREW MY LAPTOP I”M SO HAPPY!
The Teacher:lol
usversusthem:i just want to say… i love you all so much
Elbacky:hhaha mattee
Mattee.:HAAAAAAAAAAAA!
You might think that my coming back to work there would be the biggest news at The Gazette this week, and it is, but there are a few other things happening too as the paper changes, shifts its focus from print to online, and manages with the impact of losing over a dozen staff to buyouts.
Among changes that directly affect readers:
The Friday event listings pages have been cut from two to one, by concentrating on larger venues and more important events. Expanded listings are provided online. It’s another step in the slow decline of agate pages (you’ll recall something similar happened to the Saturday stock pages in September), which require a lot of work, take up a lot of space, and quickly become outdated.
Between Friends: “Hasn’t lived up to the original promise” Readers think differently, with more than 100 writing in asking editors to restore the strip. It’s brought back after a week, replacing Lio, which “received little acclaim from readers.”
An updated list of departing and status-changing columnists appears below. The latest edition is Gaetan Charlebois, whose final Chaud Show column was last weekend.
The Gazette’s Habs Inside/Out blog (which is liveblogging the game going on right now) has undergone an overhaul, switching from Movable Type to Drupal. Among the sweet stuff coming in as a result are user registration, comment threading, comment rating, avatars, comment preview, and those annoying social bookmarking links on each post.
The design still needs some ironing out, so expect the look to change slightly (hopefully including getting rid of that awful sea-green). I also noted that “associate blogger” Kevin Mio has been promoted to having his picture on the homepage again.
The backend of the site, administered by techies John MacFarlane and Dru Oja Jay, is separate from the CanWest online canada.com nightmare, and that’s a good part of why it’s so successful.
October 27, 2007 – 2:40 am |Posted in Montreal, Video
Concordia Reports, the TV news show created by Concordia journalism students, has started its third season since the shows started being uploaded to YouTube.
Though it’s a low-budget show, its journalists are untrained and nobody involved is going to win any awards for smooth acting, the show provides a chance to watch some interesting stories about Concordia and Montreal.
The second episode of the season includes a story on CJLO, the Concordia student radio station that’s still, after a gabillion years, trying to get its transmitter setup to broadcast on AM. It also features a lengthy interview with Mike Boone (starting about the 12-minute mark) about HabsInsideOut.com.
So far they have 32 shows uploaded, between 15 and 25 minutes in length.
