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Ok, so I know I haven’t posted a real blog post in a very long time.  And I’m not going to promise that I’ll do it more regularly, because I seem to go in spurts, but today, I have something I need to get off my chest, and 140 characters just won’t do. There has [...]

Tonight another storm ripped through central Alberta. 2 weeks to the day after tragedy struck the city of Edmonton, a community just south of Edmonton was struck. This weekend is the 17th annual Big Valley Jamboree. it is a massive outdoor event showcasing country music. When the storm hit, the winds, in excess of 100km/h [...]

Last saturday an absolutely wicked storm blew through the Edmonton area. It was truly one of the most damaging storms I have ever seen. It was matched only by the massive storm that caused flooding few years ago. And while there was little to no rotation in the clouds, to many, the storm reminded them [...]

So the city, faced with a 35 million dollar shortfall needs to try to come closer to breaking even.  The City Administration came up with a plan.  One that horrifies me.  The highlights are: Retire the trolley bus fleet immediately, instead of April 2010 Charging people to park at LRT stations charging more for parking [...]

A couple of days ago, the public was made aware that the City of Edmonton was planning on having a unisex, or communal, change room at the new Queen Elizabeth outdoor pool.  This was something I had heard about almost a year ago.  The city believes that this is the way of the future, and [...]

Wired.com has an article about Last.fm making the site a pay site outside of the US, U.K. and Germany.  According to the article, last.fm is saying they do not gain enough advertising revenue from these countries to justify the cost of the service.  From now on, users outside of those 3 countries will have to [...]

Yesterday Lynda Steele of Global TV Edmonton posted to Twitter asking for suggestions on how the media can effectively use Twitter, and asked for anyone to email her with suggestions to take to a newsroom meeting today.  This, along with the recent rush of Edmonton media flocking to Twitter really got me thinking about Twitter, [...]