If you came to the #magnet2010 session @meganmcchesney and I did, thanks! If not, here's the website we made: http://webeditors.org
Complete DVD set of The Wire for $90 on Amazon, one day only. Tempted. http://bit.ly/d1BxZl
@mgpcoe Sweet. It's a nifty project.
Got name-checked by @shinangovani in the Post today: http://bit.ly/aLPvA1 — but no courtesy link-out? Tut tut.
@mondoville BUT today's take: an entertaining talk, Go Esquire Go; but no Canadian mag can afford to replicate 80% of what you're doing.
@mondoville I quoted Granger (mostly) w/out comment
Judging from paltry retweets, I think this DIY Penguin cover advertainment project has been unjustly ignored: http://speakingtothepast.com/
OK, just about to actually start David Granger's keynote at #magnet liveblog: http://bit.ly/bf9TT2
@scribblelive No prob. I don't want to be one of those whiny change-averse uesrs, but, well, here we are. I've become what I hate.
@ACCheng Happy to oblige. Got a free session as a presenter, so I figured I'd pay it forward...
@UnionSt Right, I forgot that. why is it that Toronto emerged as the liveblogging software hub of the universe?
@UnionSt I thought about switching, but caught between Rogers and Demand Media, I'll still buy Canadian (er, use a free Canadian service?)
@scribblelive The old site was dead simple—Open logins, one click (maybe two?) to start events, one url to share. New one caught featuritis!
Related: Great do-one-thing-well liveblogging platform ScribbleLive was bought by Rogers and is now a punishing swamp of pointless features.
For no particular reason, I'm going to try liveblogging David Granger's MagNet talk tonight: http://scrbliv.me/16904
RT @sarahbarmak: Thoughtful defence (sort of) of MIA's aestheticization of politics, in the wake of the Hirschberg thing: http://is.gd/cys5y
"Graffiti Markup Language" is definitely the coolest thing I saw today: http://vimeo.com/8072596 (via @coolhunting)
Yes! RT @joyce_byrne: Wired's iPad app: "sentimental nonsense," tries to impose print conventions on Web: http://bit.ly/cDrfSZ
@spacing Found this at a suburban Chapters: http://twitpic.com/1ro29u — thoughts?
Did Gallup ask gays, muslims, and immigrants whether *they* want to live next door to a bunch of racist WASPs? http://j.mp/9iRh1z
@craille Yeah, I see some Monocle influences, but also GOOD, a little Atlantic Monthly, maybe even some Newsweek.
@briandstdenis Agreed. And I think it really should have been perfect-bound. With their paper weight, 60 stapled pages just don't lay flat.
Flipping through my just-arrived copy of @48hrmag. Content seems fun; @magcloud print quality surprisingly high. http://twitpic.com/1r8yra
@kattancock Careful, when I scored two inbox zeroes in one day, I got hacked the next. The email gods wreak their havoc in mysterious ways!
Factoid! When Hergé redrew "Tintin in the Congo" in 1940, he removed a scene where Tintin blows up an elephant with dynamite.
What hath Guu wrought? Our impending izakaya craze: http://twitpic.com/1pu3u6
@hyfen Spotted by you? Sorry I missed you, I would have said hello.
@TaddleCreek Fine, fine. Your tweets better sparkle, TC.
@boyreporter Absolutely! Send 'em along, I'd be curious to see. gfscott at gmail...
Warning: self-promotion — RT @MagNet2010: Daily Must-reads for web editors and staff http://bit.ly/bGSZ5W
@emmamwoolley Sorry, is that plural? Kittehs? How many?
@ACCheng Here's "TimesCast," the closest I think you can get to an "editors muttering to themselves" podcast: http://nyti.ms/d0IIDW
I own an egg cuber! It's difficult to use. http://bit.ly/8Z1vYu
@chantalbraganza It'll be something. Not sure "classy" is quite the word I would have chosen...
Press Pass is hosting a @natmagawards afterparty at the Imperial: http://bit.ly/bqHMbv
@nickhunebrown @canice ...thus ushering in the terrifying genre of "journalism about the state of journalism about the state of journalism."
Yes. RT @nickhunebrown: So tired of journalism about the state of journalism.
@jordanclaire Have you used it for a site?
@ivortossell I really don't get Europe's Googlephobia. "ZOMG, now people can see the outside of our houses/sniff our Wifi! 1984!"
Experimenting with @typekit — it kind of rules.
Saw the Banksy movie. Theories that Mr. Brainwash is himself a Banksy creation to satirize art world are totally believable.
@vangerwen @kattancock It has capslock buried deep in Settings > General > Keyboard > Enable caps lock. Shift doubleclick turns on/off...
Wanna visit the AGO for free with me? It's "friends and family" weekend, so members can bring up to 4 people along, no charge...
Jury duty? I thought that only happened in sitcoms.
@mikeminer The zinger. She burns. I'm totally unfollowing you once I can do it so you'll actually notice.
(* noting the whole "is it a real Banksy?" question, but also asserting that arguments about "authenticity" are, in general, ultra-tiresome)
Went and found one of the new Banksy* rats near the office: http://twitpic.com/1mqcid
@typeter Hanging lamp over the table. Replaced old paper globe with this: http://bit.ly/bZduWA
I do all my own electrical.
Remember being 10 years old and filling pages and pages, practicing your signature? Came in handy today for these 800 fundraising letters.
Gould Street building falls down, I don't really care. But Salad King still being closed? I'm taking that pretty personally.
@walrusmagazine Grunge never went away, man.
@chantalbraganza Blasphemy! @lisanjutras — are you going to let her badmouth licorice allsorts like that?
@julespenner ...although the site appears not to be working right now.
@julespenner Try http://kickyoutube.com. Just add "kick" to url (so youtube.com becomes kickyoutube.com). Then download any format.
@aaronleaf Yeah, I think that one would probably be misconstrued...
@aaronleaf Believe me, it's made my day fly by as well... What should my hashtag be?
@clevack Yeah, sorry about that. Gmail's fixed now, Facebook should be fixed soon...
Insult to injury: can't send any more emails today because the hijacker hit the Gmail sent mail limit! Headslap.
@canice Ah yes, just noticed, contacts are gone. I can live with that, but it means Nigerian scammers have all those addresses now, right?
@janelangille Should be sorted now; it was still coming from Gmail. Yahoo mail is dormant, I checked—only have it for TFEW membership anyway
Sorting through trash folder. The number of you who strung this guy along, apparently for the pure sport of it, is hilariously high.
OK, control of my Gmail account has been wrestled back from the forces of evil. Surprisingly fast and easy — thanks, @google.
@tinyalligator Oh yes. Waiting to hear back.
To a very special interwebs hax0r: http://twitpic.com/1j4l18
@PaulTee I know, it's crazy. A twitter contact said the hijacker responded to an email a short while ago. I feel like Kieffer Sutherland!
@jlin Wow. OK, if that email exchange produced any useful information, can you forward it to my work account?
@joyce_byrne Oh, now THAT's a good scam.
@helenspitzer It's really heartwarming, isn't it? I feel we've been brought so much closer by this ordeal.
@CraigSaunders That would be novel.
@canice All good points. Will do.
@sniderm No, but some needy spammers out there appear to...
Anyway, I am not in England, "mugged at gunpoint," "with tears in my eyes," asking for $2,450. Lay it on a little thick, huh?
@sniderm No idea. Went to log in to Google Reader about 10 minutes ago and password had been changed.
@canice Yep. Arg. How long did it take to get yours resolved?
My personal Gmail account has been hijacked. Delete any emails you get for the next bit. Sorry.
I signed up. Sounds fun. RT @kimpittaway Help us make a magazine in 2 days. RT @48HRMag: Hello, world! http://48hrmag.com/
@nonstopnicktv Can't respond to your DM — TweetDeck says you're not following me. Say it ain't so!
@nonstopnicktv It's quite the stack of paper he's clutching....
Did you know the entire run of I.F. Stone's Weekly is archived as free PDFs online? Here: http://bit.ly/9HJoti
.@canice — Invu with Mad Men's Vincent Kartheiser (http://bit.ly/d046a3) is bananas! No possessions, fake wedding ring, crying once a day...
@benjaminwrites Truer words, friend.
Inbox zero: achieved! BOTH inboxes, personal and work. If you were expecting an email from me and didn't get one, um, email me?
@jordanginsberg Zing!
@MissStaceyMay Sure, I'm just saying the more I learn about cover stuff, the less I feel I know.
@kimpittaway Those quizzes drive home for me just how much there is to learn about cover sells. Dark magicks there.
@emmamwoolley I RSS small sites but still visit big ones. RSS=serial, website=parallel. NYT too big to digest linearly in gReader.
@emmamwoolley True, it's dense. But it's the New York Times—there's a lot to say. Not a fan of the TimesCast video getting top billing, tho.
@emmamwoolley Is it more crammed than it was before, though? I don't see it.
@emmamwoolley What's new about it? NYTimes.com was always crammed...
Headline writers: The "FAT" puns for Toronto's alt-fashion week get less cute with every use.
@MissStaceyMay Join the club.
@MissStaceyMay AVClub on Esq. cover: "like she's about to do the walk of shame after a late night filming the new Whitesnake video." Shame.
@ACCheng Feel like swapping a blog post about ethics talk for some photoshoppery? Didn't make it to the talks, but interested to hear more.
@meganmcchesney "The Room": Pretty amazing. But the attraction is definitely the audience, not the movie itself. Had a great time.
At the Royal to experience this thing they call The Room. People wearing headbands, carrying plastic spoons. I'm a downy innocent here.
@ACCheng I can Photoshop! Cheap, too.
RT @MatthewHalliday: CTV on Yonge Street wall collapse: "a tiny bit like 9/11." http://bit.ly/9saWlx
@scrawledinwax We need to make you some sort of "Yeah, I got dugg" t-shirt
@lastplaceman I dunno, I could see Lower-48ers mistaking Alaskan drawl for Canadian speech. Problem is her words' function, not form. Yikes