“What’s ‘Jian’ about? What’s the name? It’s a French name?”

- Paul McCartney gets familiar with Jian (at 0:20)

“I hope I’ve found the right place to congratulate CBC News, Ottawa, for what I witnessed today on the 6 o’clock TV News: A talented young man presenting a report on the University of Ottawa’s plans for land it had devoted to a community vegetable garden.”

- Patrick McDougall gives Brian Hicks some props

Not sure what the point of this is – who wants to hand around with bloggers at a Public Enemy concert?

“i am also being railroaded in some shitty cbc obsessed thread right now because jian ghomeshi had the audacity to be friends with some of my friends, egad! twerps who aren’t part of any scene whatsoever have no idea how people’s lives in the city actually are. i bet they just go to work and go home and talk to each other on the internet about other people living lives slightly out of the ordinary with a bunch of a fame sprinkled on top.”

Raymi muses on
fame, Burlington, and The Tea Makers

“There was a clear contrast between journalists who were using Twitter and journalists who weren’t. Journalists giving on-the-ground reports were far more accurate than those in newsrooms like (Peter) Mansbridge or Ann Rohmer. They thought they were doing value-added voiceover, but they really weren’t tied in to what was really happening.”

- Jesse Hirsh,
Coverage of the G20 proved Twitter’s news edge

“He’s dedicated to using his photography and his ability to connect with so many people in the most modern of ways to put positive thoughts in motion.”

I’m wondering where she studied journalism? She can hardly stumble through a throwaway blog post that is the totality of her job as a Social Media Reporter.

Krug has been taking photos of the oil spill from a motherfucking helicopter. Basically, you put anyone with a camera into a motherfucking helicopter and according to Theresa Lalonde you’re putting positive thoughts in motion.

What is it with Vancouver, anyway? Don’t they have anything interesting to talk about there?

Theresa wraps this post up with a positive message. I think.

Krug’s been sending these pictures from the Gulf on his Twitter account. They’ve been retweeted many many times. And now I’m seeing local bloggers write about what they’ve seen and take up the call to action in ways they can locally.

Retweeted, you say? Well, they must be good then! The retweet is reserved only for photos of the highest caibre.

Anyway, you wouldn’t happen to have any of those local blog posts handy, would you? Just curious, this being a blog and all. Maybe you could link to them?

“In prep for hosting Dora Awards tonite. There will be outfit changes. I’m finally becoming the brown male Shania Twain of awards shows.”

- Jian Ghomeshi

“so the Johns basically admit that the nature of the media beast is to keep feeding it the same old spicy story. not much respect for their readers/viewers and not much respect for the seriousness of the issues (political/economic/legal).
must be nice to work in ‘spectacle’ while the rest of us hold power accountable and build a real democracy. same old stale response – ‘we’re giving people what they want’ rather than ‘hmm, how can we play a constructive role here and make free speech mean something?’”

- littlefishes on John Cruickshank & John Tory on Q