June 2006 – Petroglyphs

Rock, yo

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The CBC’s new WordPress-powered official weblog. Neat. There are several articles cross-posted (actually, copied… annoying if you read both via their feeds, because the articles don’t share an ID and thus appear twice in aggregators) from honcho Tod Maffin’s iloveradio.org weblog so far, but a good selection of original stuff too.

There’s also a status blog. The blog is operating just fine now, though the editor is a bit under-caffeinated. Cute… but not that cute. The system is down, yo. 🙂

~~Update, 23:21: Ooh, first real disappointment: the RSS feed is summary-only. Is that a deliberate choice, Tod, or just an oversight in the WP config?~~

Update, 01:40: Gotta love the web. I added the previous update to this post less than two hours ago and Tod’s already found it and responded. That’s Phil Ringnalda-esque speed. 🙂

Canada Day 2006 update: I posted this as a comment on Inside the CBC, but I think it’s worth repeating here:

More than just blog content for individual shows, it’d be great to see more bloggers from within CBC as a whole. My Planet CBC aggregator site has picked up the personal “outside” blogs written by and associated with CBC folk, many of which are linked in Tod’s sidebar, but I’d love to see something like the Google Blog (and its spawn) or, ideally, a wide-ranging, open set of employee blogs like blogs.sun.com, which is “accessible to any Sun employee to write about anything.” (Heck, Sun even has their own Planet site, which links to internal and external employee feeds.)

Folk, yo

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Sympatico again

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Total connect time: 544.9 minutes
Total sessions: 15
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Thank you Sympatico

Gee, I just love my Sympatico service these days:

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Trust me

Despite my own love-hate relationship with television, I secretly harbor a mild distrust of people who don’t watch TV.

The ROC

Looking at the new programs in CBC English Television’s 2006-2007 program lineup, I see:

two dramas set in Vancouver
a comedy set in Toronto
a miniseries set primarily in Montreal
an imported reality series and a localized version of another

Where are the shows about Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador? Kingston, Ontario? Regina, Edmonton or Calgary? Iqaluit? Yellowknife? For a national broadcaster—one that, an executive recently stated, wants to find the next Corner Gas—the Ceeb continues to look awfully focused on the three major urban centres in this country.

For your consideration

When you ask someone to do a favour for you, it’s generally considered bad form not to let them know when you decide it’s no longer necessary.

Black Hand at Wilberforce

I’d like to thank Stephanie and her partner Alexis, as well as Stephanie’s parents (who own the posh Wilberforce Inn and Restaurant where we ate), for the nice dinner last night. It’s the first time I’d met Alexis, the other principal member of the theatre company; now all that remains is to catch up with Rob Nelson, their exclusive photographer.

I’m also happy to say that I’ve got a new project with Miss Demas, on behalf of her parents. I hope the redesigned Wilberforce site will be just as successful as Black Hand Theatre‘s; I have reason to think there’s a good chance of that, given that Stephanie and I have gone through three attractive-yet-completely-different iterations of the Black Hand site in the last year. 🙂

New is not always better

Emm Gryner’s webmaster recently recreated her site. It looks fine, I suppose, but he’s dropped the news and tour updates feeds. Worse, because the site is now Flash-based, it’s impossible to link to any of those pages directly.

At least the journal remains outside of Flash space, although it would have been nice to put a redirect in place for the feed instead of requiring people to a) notice, b) find the new site, and c) resubscribe.

Emm has done very well as an independent artist because she’s got a clue about dealing with her fans; it’s too bad that Dirgework Productions doesn’t.