For those who haven’t heard about it on the local blogs, DemoCampMontreal2 is tonight, 6:30pm at SAT. Be there, or be woefully uninformed about local technology entrepreneurs.
Category Archives: Blogosphere
So … many … flashes
Martine Pagé walked the red carpet for her film’s premiere, and, of course, blogs about it.
Mario, glad he brushed his teeth
Giver Donkey has a roundup of post-election newspaper covers. Mario Dumont is on all of them. None mentions Charest losing his seat, thankfully.
Blog night recap
Michel Leblanc has a post on what happened last night at the political blogger get-together. He makes an interesting point that though blogs didn’t impact the election directly all that much, they were read by the journalists who wrote about it in the mainstream media. Adrian also throws a couple of pennies into the pot.
Careful Dominic, you’ll put your eye out
TVA’s Dominic Arpin muses about RadCan’s Charest goof, and his network’s patience in calling the Sherbrooke riding. His conclusion: He rules, RadCan sucks.
Re-alignment
Some interesting numbers from the Antagoniste, showing how the polls underestimated the ADQ and how the results are much more proportional for the three main parties, comparing the popular vote to the number of seats.
The blogger wars escalate
So Paul Wells was like “stupid Gazoo can’t read polls and they have cooties.”
And then Andy Riga was like “oh no you didn’t, biatch! I’ll let the readers decide whose mama has the bigger army boots!”
And then Paul was like “Meh. Dude done bad-mouth to my blog post, but I ain’t gonna respond. I’ll just link to it at the end so my readers know he be stupid.”
Gripping drama here, folks.
Un brilliant journaliste (or so he says)
Dominic Arpin’s blog turns one year old today.
Happy birthday. The only thing is, I’m surprised a seasoned journalist such as M. Arpin doesn’t know that ripping a picture off Getty Images (watermark and all) without paying for it is considered copyright infringement. I know a certain student newspaper does this all the time, but Canoe?
Tivijournal: “Budgets are not funny”
I spent this afternoon observing a taping of some segments of Tivijournal, a French sketch-comedy show produced by former UQAM journalism students.
The juicy bits will have to wait until the article comes out next Saturday, but for now you can mark your calendars for Wednesday, April 4 at 8:30pm, when they’ll be making their next showing (free) at the Pas Sages bar on Rachel. Coincidentally, the next Yulblog meeting will be the same night, at the same time, right across the street at la Quincaillerie. Tivijournal is usually on Tuesdays, so this should be a one-time thing.
Will creativity never cease?
The easy-to-update nature of blogging software has allowed a lot of interesting websites to spring up. Most are the usual personal blogs, photo blogs, webcomics, but some are beyond explanation.
Among those on my bookmark list are Indexed, which features nothing but Venn diagrams on index cards, there’s the made-in-Montreal Regret the Error, which follows newspaper corrections, there’s Worst Than Failure (formerly The Daily WTF), which has snippets of horrible computer code, and Overheard in New York, a collection of weird and funny quotes anonymously overheard which has spawned countless copycat websites around the world.
Now Hippopocampe points us to WTFCNN?, which highlights the more eyebrow-raising headlines on CNN’s website, usually about oddball stories.
As if enough of my day isn’t filled with reading silly things online.
P.S. Now’s about the time to give a shout out to my new favourite web comic: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
Memories…
Adrian takes us back to Canadian television of the 80s, including childhood memories The Edison Twins and You Can’t Do That on Television, the latter of which I just saw homaged in a Robot Chicken sketch. Oh that green slime…
Yes, there is a real George
Midnight Poutine has a short profile on Souvlaki George with photos that make me want to run out right now and eat there. Fortunately they’re only a couple of blocks away.
Simple is effective
Andy Riga has some picks for favourite Quebec election videos, but this one (via 321Blogue) takes the cake by simply choosing some good video and creatively slowing it down to make Jean Charest and Mario Dumont appear completely wasted.
Meanwhile, at least one independent candidate (in Outremont) has a website up that puts some of the major party ones to shame. He’s financing his campaign through his videos (the sites are starting to pay contributors whose videos generate lots of traffic), but at about 150 views so far he has quite a ways to go.
UPDATE: For those worried he was left out, Drunk Boisclair is here.
Xolo
Xolo.tv (yeah, I never heard of them either — I guess I’m not cool — Martin Lessard is though) recently came to Montreal and have a video podcast up. It features video of the Biodome (it goes on for a while, so you’ll find yourself skipping ahead a bit) and an interview with Casey and Rudy from Galacticast, who are fast becominng the go-to people for vlogging in Montreal (all because of me, I think). The Galacticast interview might have been better with less noise in their apartment/studio, but at least there’s footage of Casey McKinnon’s infectuous laugh.
Need more Quebec election stuff?
And we know you do. Ile Sans Fil’s Michael Lenczner has launched a feed aggregator which pulls from the campaign websites as well as YouTube, Flickr and del.icio.us items with “Quebec election” tags.