Hey @harthanson — that profile of you I wrote for @uoftmagazine is online, with "tap dance and fart" in the lede! http://j.mp/cEiTO6
@ivortossell No comment?
@lisanjutras I think the problem is people *want* NB to be good; it *is* good on paper; but the reality kinda stinks. Not same as "hating."
The Globe's relaunch strategy increasingly appears to be "not much to read, but it's in colour."
Studying web trends in most newsrooms is "like visiting a glue factory to learn about race horses." —@wmacphail http://j.mp/aHwiWg
Been listening a lot to Laurie Anderson's new "Homeland" http://j.mp/b71NTq — apocalyptic melancholy; perfectly autumnal.
@zoecormier Yes! you introduced me to it. I still haven't been scrupulous enough, though, about following Charlie Brooker's every move.
@zoecormier I saw that late last night, and thought of you. We could come up with another dozen standard news story formulas, I'm sure...
@philled2thebrim I did too, but change is the only constant. I like your bento cat...
@journo_dale Thanks! It's less...beige than the old one.
@tinyalligator Every day of my life.
@jaimewoo One out of two ain't bad, then!
New profile photo for #newtwitter. It is A) a silly iPhone hipster fauxlaroid; B) kind of smug-looking. Oh well.
@meganmcchesney @kattancock Sure, later's fine. Any particular place?
@joyce_byrne @maxfawcett Perhaps the decision not to correct "refudiate" was a heroic anonymous copy editor's small act of resistance.
@meganmcchesney @kattancock My calendar says I'm having drinks with you two tomorrow. Is that still true?
The Coen Bros. remake of True Grit (heresy! outrage!) actually looks kinda acceptable: http://youtu.be/uco41pOKeJg
@DougSaunders Nice to meet you last night! Thanks again for the This mag shout-out. Will start bugging you about 45th in new year, prob...
@canice @Repo_Mandy Truths. I guess I feel that despite the hype and unevenness of the event itself, it's still important that it happens.
2) Is Toronto's Nuit Blanche at risk because of our impending crappy mayor? Do we, as spectators, need to treat this as a valedictory event?
1) remember when Nuit Blanche was "A free all-night contemporary art thing" and not "event"? I preferred that: http://twitpic.com/2sjuss
@griffithgreene Where did you even *get* such a card at 8 y/o? Was it just lying around the house? Bought from a card store? Questions.
The three musketeers of #WOTS: @nerdygirly, @MissStaceyMay, @boyreporter — http://twitpic.com/2sbdyn
@CraigSaunders Touché!
"Canadaa" misspelled on the cover of the October @wired: http://twitpic.com/2rw8yn
@emmamwoolley ...like: "The cocktail contained gin, root beer [interroamperbang] instant coffee."
@emmamwoolley Interrobang? Pssht. Ask @typeter about the interroamperbang; precedes last item in a list, denotes unbelievability. Like...
@jordanginsberg Actually, not yours, funnily enough. That call is yet to happen. Different sex, drugs, and corruption. Theme issue!
@meganmcchesney I think I'd better just tease until the story's complete. But: drugs, sex, corruption — this story has it all.
@sniderm Most of my painfully awkward fact-checking conversations are vicarious these days. I miss the front lines sometimes, though...
I am eavesdropping on the most amazing fact-checking call right now.
@scrawledinwax Someone must be using Color Identifier to make found poetry by now, right? "Silver Chalice. Shady Lady."
@theophani I think you just invented LOLteutonics. Hybrid German/lolcat.
More @niemanlab goodness, on CPM arms race: “It’s sort of a tragedy of the commons, where the tragedy is our attention.” http://j.mp/csKzdW
@MicahToub You should definitely do a live broadcast, Geraldo-style: http://j.mp/bwjnJc
"I think Nick Denton is going to win the Internet." http://j.mp/9BtJ6k
Kermit the Frog + @lcdsoundsystem = http://youtu.be/-eohHwsplvY (though I think Sesame Street characters would be even more verité.)
@lisanjutras ¿Que?
Ha: @pomeranian99 points out Epic Win, an iPhone to-do list built like a video game. http://j.mp/aWKNHx (new to me, anyway)
@typeter I don't believe so. Though that would have been extra nightmarish.
Was jolted awake at 5 am by a nightmare that Harmony Korine made an unflattering documentary about me. #what? #narcissism
@jaimewoo Yeah, Murdoch is a scary/fascinating character. I resist the journo sky-is-falling narrative, but he makes optimism...difficult.
@jaimewoo I agree. But the other side of the coin is "We Report, You Decide," and I'm not sure that's a paradigm I'm 100% digging...
@kattancock Hunh. I'd never actually looked at Vogue's website, it's got some very cool features. But that static bar! Claustrophobia!
@jaimewoo That "age of the columnist" statement has the ring of truth. (Though I have mixed feelings about it!)
Speaking of unlaundered views, have you looked at http://beta.gawker.com? Spiffy new design concepts being tested there.
Interesting. NYT nat'l economic reporter decamps for HuffPo, tired of "laundering" his views: http://j.mp/amvnzb (via @bborzyko)
@meganmcchesney You must have seen this at some point? http://j.mp/1Ejtds
@griffithgreene Boffo! Where and what?
@10000Words "MA in entrepreneurial journalism" seems antithetical. Like planning to be spontaneous.
Rocco Rossi's new ads make it seem like a mobbed-up Lex Luthor is running for mayor : http://j.mp/9TSbFW (ht @mondoville)
@emmamwoolley Watched all of Buffy last year. Lives up to its billing. Even the lame stuff is more awesome than most things on TV lately.
+2 to Oct. @Toronto_Life — Gerald Hannon profiles Rob Ford; @jasonmcbride68 on perilous Globe redesign. Devoured both!
The brooklyn tornado — or "Bronado" — video is suspiciously similar to the Double Rainbow video: http://youtu.be/lCE_qiy-sOQ
@WaxEBuildup As soon as you add a third finger to your typing, you're considered a 1337 #4x0R!!!!11!!one!!
RT @FishSauce: Flabbergasted by the number of folks who make their living using a computer but don't bother to learn a thing about them.
"...even Mel Lastman considered [Rob] Ford an enemy." Late to this party, but +1 to @thekeenanwire for this: http://j.mp/bLYmAU
Clumsily mimicking page-flipping in a browser window just seems like a dumb idea Wired would have championed in 2003 and since regretted.
Demoed @thekit — new "online magazine" (pace, @xoxSNP!). Above-average execution, but still find fakey page-flipping interface goofy.
@sarahbarmak I like how the Time piece also throws in a random link to a piece about Osama Bin Laden.
So I guess today's lesson is "Nobody fucks with @MargaretAtwood."
@zoecormier Though I stand by the "suck it up, princess," bit, I clarified in the comments...
Deep breaths, everyone. If they were closing the National Post, they wouldn't offer buyouts.
Can we summarize Rocco Rossi's transit plan as "Toronto: A Series of Tubes"?
That link via @meganmcchesney, btw. A perfect articulation of the Boomer Aesthetic, characterized by: body, not technology; "spontaneity"...
Camille Paglia wants you to know that she doesn't get Lady Gaga, nor, apparently, all of 21st century culture? http://j.mp/9anjq3
@lisanjutras My compliments on working both "/b/tards" and "next-level shizzle" into your column with no explanatory overhead.
@scrawledinwax The big dirty secret of TIFF is that there are no films; only lines. Those who claim to have seen a film are co-conspirators.
@scrawledinwax My impression is that you go and find a line to stand in for two hours, at the end of which it sells out and you start over.
Herzog's new movie is really called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams"? This is self-parody, right?
@chantalbraganza Congratulations, that's great news. What will you be doing?
@meganmcchesney Yeah, sometimes I feel more like a Patriot Of The Internet. Nation-states are, like, SO 20th century, you know?
@meganmcchesney Yeah, seems odd that Canada's not an early recipient of the Instant mojo. But I use the .com version anyway...
@mgpcoe I know — waiting 24 hours for analytics? It's like we're blogging in the 18th century here. I'm sure real-time is coming, tho'.
@meganmcchesney a) Google research says search speed matters (http://j.mp/cAcYUw), b) I'm just impressed by how fast it indexed the page!
Google Instant, indeed. Hit publish on a post, Googled the author's name ~15 seconds later. Story was indexed at #3 spot already! #thefuture
@UnionSt I'm sure there are people out there who wish you *were* a post-partisan hipster urbanist. Luckily that's not the case!
RT @jordanclaire: This @artfagcity essay is fantastic: http://j.mp/dit6Gn
Can someone summarize for me any way, exactly, that "Freedom"
Is different from "The Corrections"? @clevack? Bueller?
It seems fitting that this unsolicited "International Association of Business Communicators" newsletter has no unsubscribe link.
Apparently, all men's pant sizes are total lies: http://j.mp/aaZxLm
Love noir patter. Chorus girl to Veronica Lake: "You look like you'd been on a hay ride with Dracula." (This Gun For Hire, 1942)
At Whac-a-Mole, @ivortossell and @shawnmicallef, contemplating odds and probabilities: http://twitpic.com/2lpijr
At the CNE. Childhood memories are all rides & animals; grownup impressions are credit card applications, teeth-whitening, off-brand makeup.
Whole-wheat bread topped white bread sales in the U.S. for the first time ever in August: http://j.mp/9AOBgz
@jennhardy There's a good living wall in the new(ish) city hall in Cambridge, ON (hometown represent!)
@chantalbraganza In which case, what would the copy editor's choice be? The common usage, or the legal name?
(side note: It's now "Walmart," apparently; Used to be Wal-Mart, with hyphen and cap M. My "Wal Mart" usage was simply 100% wrong.)
This online campaign is, essentially, planned obsolescence torture-porn. Brought to you by Wal Mart, naturally: http://j.mp/bwwuYy
Ha. @Gawker launches http://www.wikileakileaks.org/, so people can leak secrets about WikiLeaks. Meta! Also: Legitimately necessary.
Arcade Fire + Google Streetview + HTML5 + your childhood home = weaponized nostalgia: http://j.mp/bzhT8X
@ACCheng I wondered if you would call me on that. Nope, just a plain old wedding. No humanitarian sideline that I'm aware of.
Why yes, I AM in a white SUV limo on my way to a wedding in Markham. Wait, what? http://twitpic.com/2j2wjv
I haven't been able to get enough of The Books' strange and wonderful new album this week: http://j.mp/b6KjKJ
@chantalbraganza Financial District & surroundings. Nota Bene is in the early lead (at @nboccia's recommendation)
Say a lawyer friend with an expense account was taking you for lunch. Which stupidly pricey downtown restaurant would you choose?
Forgot my glasses at home this morning, Set phasers on "squint."
.@nytimes video of female tennis stars dressed in couture, hitting balls in ultra slow-mo. Pretty? Kinda fucked up? Both: http://j.mp/c4nJT2
@BenjaminCormier I'm going. Skipped real prom to go to the track. True story.
China's epic traffic jam (http://j.mp/dlt1TH) seems like a lost footnote from a David Foster Wallace short story. Too bizarre