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Toronto Life online has an article by Robert Fulford about blogs. Once he gets through the seemingly mandatory intro phase (blog is short for Weblog) including quotation marks around words like “blogosphere” and (heh) “posts”, he gets into some interesting detail on bloggers with extra-internet writing cred.
[Terry] Teachout writes books, magazine articles and drama reviews for The Wall Street Journal, but he also adores his blog; it provides “immediacy, informality and independence that you can’t find in the print media.” Although he’s paid for his theatre criticism, he tells us for free about every concert or dance performance he attends, apparently every record he hears and even what deadlines he’s in danger of missing.They also have a side feature here of local bloggers (including yours truly) picking their favourite other local bloggers.
These full-time professionals have turned themselves into part-time amateurs, in the root definition of “amateur”: someone who acts out of love. Because it’s so economically independent, blogging encourages freewheeling individualism, which has affected mainstream journalism. In Foreign Policy, an influential American journal, two scholars recently noted that “What began as a hobby is evolving into a new medium that is changing the landscape for journalists and policy-makers alike.”
This is the passport that the Governor General carries. (no, really!)
I'm enough of a nerd to have watched the swearing in ceremony on Monday. The GG holds this symbolic role as Head of State so that we can freely show our contempt for our elected officials (as they deserve). This sentiment is truly non-partisan, as they are all sleazy, stupid and self-serving. (It just usually goes without saying.)
I could have done that GG job. (Shit.) I'm good at making chit-chat with the military. (And was I the only one who noticed that Batiste, the billy goat mascot for the Vandoos (Royal 22nd Regiment), was heavily sedated?)
"L'histoire veut qu'en 1884, un couple des ancêtres de Batisse fut donné en cadeau à la Reine Victoria par le Shah de Perse. Ces bêtes étaient originaires du Tibet et leur présence faisait l'orgueil des habitants du pays. La Reine Victoria accepta ce cadeau et ordonna que le bouc devienne la mascotte de son Régiment. De ce jour, fut créé le troupeau royal qui prit logis au jardin zoologique de Londres. Le troupeau y est encore et on dit que ces boucs et ces chèvres sont les derniers survivants de cette race. Nos boucs régimentaires sont les descendants directs de ce troupeau."