Posted by: aardvarkcola on: June 23, 2009
Blog readers are slobbering fools.
You must all be trailer trash or illiterate.
I put in links to blogs, tweets, video and news about democracy awakening in Iran- not a single hit days later on searches as far as I can see.
Not one hit from searches.
Not a single one.
But I’m still getting people looking for Jasmine [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: June 21, 2009
Skynews keeps track of Iranian tweets on what’s happening in that country.
Here is a link to The Truth Laid Bear and its list of Iranian bloggers. Some of the blogs have been taken down, but there are links within some blogs to take you to other helpful sites to find out what is going on.
From [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: June 18, 2009
Now everywhere is a meet market.
Mathew Honan from Wired.
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: June 18, 2009
Here is a well-written blog so current even its archives are worth a spin.
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: June 17, 2009
Years from now there will be more news museums like this one in Washington.
City newspapers and community newspapers are dying, but their legacy is journalistic integrity, worth far more than the yellowing paper on the shelves of newspaper morgues and museum shelves.
The legacy is an honourable, but thin one. New news consumers don’t [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: June 15, 2009
American television broadcaster and political commentator Bill Maher, an unabashed Obama supporter, takes a swing at the new president, saying (gasp) he wishes he was more like Bush. Here’s the link to Huffpo to view that.
I’d recently written on the president as movie star syndrome wondering if Obama had found the Oval Office yet.
If I [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: June 15, 2009
Good writing is soothing. Some of the writing within this blog I’ve just discovered, Shoreacres, is so soothing you’ll feel like you’ve slipped into a hot tub with a good drink.
I’ll link to one story on the blog, The Day Godot Arrived.
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: June 15, 2009
The plug will not be pulled on the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Yet.
Maybe.
Opposition Leader Michael Ignatieff said Monday he was holding off on bringing down the Tory minority government, but wanted some answers from Harper on employment insurance issues, why the majority of recently approved infrastructure spending has not appeared to be spent [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: June 12, 2009
An old post on a Canadian company that will hunt for a better cell phone plan for you and save you money. No foolin’. Here’s the link to that post.
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: June 12, 2009
The mayor of Toronto wants landed immigrants to have the right to vote.
Years ago, for the first time I fell into discussion with an landed immigrant on Canada. It was during a break in a hot garage. We both worked for a trucking company in Edmonton.
I’d never heard of a landed immigrant before. I learned [...]
