Our half a paragraph of fame: The Globe and Mail write about city blogs and finds that it’s all about the Toronto
Thanks to both Metroblogging head honcho Sean Bonner [sb] and the good people at Urban Vancouver [uv] for pointing me to a recent article on the Globe and Mail’s website [gm] about city blogs, that includes a bit about us here at Metroblogging Vancouver.
About us, and Urban Vancouver, they write:
Vancouver is also home to a couple of successful group blogs, which offer a more relaxed approach to city writing. Metroblogging Vancouver (vancouver.metblogs.com) pools the local observations of 12 writers; Urban Vancouver (http://www.urbanvancouver.com), meanwhile, takes content from a number of local blogs and blends it with news and events listings to make a community portal.
We’re more relaxed than the hyper-kinetics over at Beyond Robson [br] apparently, and there’s nary a mention of the Vancouverite [van] though being a one man posting show it doesn’t quite fit into the story as easily as we do I suppose.
The article of course begins with a look at Toronto blogs, and ends with Toronto blogs thus adding to the myth that in Canada there’s Toronto and then Vancouver but it’s really only the T-Dot that matters.
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What does “hyper-kinetic” mean? I know kinetic is related to motion (actually, I had to look it up in my dictionary) so would that mean we have lots of posts? Or that our posts are always in the future tense? Or that we post so fast we never spellcheck? Please share!
I don’t know, the G&M just said that we were more relaxed. Write them and asked what gives Metroblogging our laid back feel and why you don’t have it.
Maybe it’s our lack of ambition, or the fact that I ran out of viagra this week.