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By Daniel, on March 17, 2013, at 11:57 am I’m pleased to announce my little site was accepted by the good people at Progressive Bloggers as an “affiliate.” This means my posts will show up in their feed and I’m on their blogroll. Aside from possibly driving more eyeballs to my work (which has become increasingly Canadian focused as I’m increasingly worried about the direction of our country in the face of the Harper majority and some worrisome long term trends in a way that I wasn’t as worried about back in the Open Left period) my rationale is also to help in my small way increase the
. . . → Read More: Autonomy For All: Progressive Bloggers and Meta
By Greg Fingas, on March 16, 2013, at 1:57 pm Off to warmer climes until next weekend, with little or no posting in the meantime. Enjoy the week!
By Greg Fingas, on March 12, 2013, at 11:15 am I’ll have plenty more to add in later posts about the opportunities the Saskatchewan NDP holds under Cam Broten’s leadership. But before this weekend’s convention is too far in the rear-view mirror, I’ll take a few minutes to assess my own analysis of the leadership campaign.
And I’d like to think I had my share of successes.
My first-ballot best guess numbers were closer to pegging the candidates’ positioning than any other poll or source, getting within 3% of each of the candidates’ support levels. And my first-ballot analysis was on target in identifying exactly what Cam Broten needed to
. . . → Read More: Accidental Deliberations: #skndpldr – Super Happy Mega Fun Pundit Navel-Gazing Post
By doconnor, on March 7, 2013, at 10:16 pm The Toronto Star website recently underwent another revamping. In the process the mobile version of the articles seems to have been removed, or at least I can’t access them from my smartphone. Using Firefox mobile leads me to a crazy page by page view that I suspect is design for tablets. Using the Android 2.3 Browser sends me to the desktop formatted page.
I mostly use The Star’s rss feeds on Google Reader for reading. What I’ve done is create a small php script that takes The Star’s rss feeds and changes the article links to the printer friendly
. . . → Read More: 264MHz: Mobile friendly rss feeds for The Toronto Star
By laura k, on January 27, 2013, at 5:00 pm The wmtc greatest hits page has been updated with the best posts of 2012, as chosen by my editor and second-biggest* fan. Thanks for reading, and thank you always for your support.
* My mother, who else?!
By laura k, on November 7, 2012, at 1:30 pm My recent post about no longer voting in US elections caused some dismay and upset among some of USian readers. At least one friend interpreted that post as encouraging others not to vote. I was surprised by this – but my friend was surprised that it m… . . . → Read More: wmtc: further thoughts on why i blog: a clarification
By Greg Fingas, on October 27, 2012, at 1:21 pm I’ll be largely away from the blog for the next week and a half. Expect only a few posts in the meantime, but I’ll be back to the usual pace before too long.
By Greg Fingas, on September 30, 2012, at 3:28 pm Since Echo’s comment system is being discontinued, I’ve reverted back to Blogspot’s commenting system for now.
Please let me know if you have any issues in posting new comments. I’ll be working on importing previous comments, and will hopefully have all of them together before too long.
By Greg Fingas, on September 13, 2012, at 11:21 am While the Saskatchewan NDP’s 2013 leadership campaign officially started last week and at least a couple of the candidates have already made strong entrances, I haven’t yet had a chance to comment much on the contest.
But rest assured that there’s plenty coming, especially with more candidate announcements coming over the next couple of days. In particular, I’ll be setting up a reference page (similar to this one from the federal party’s leadership race) to offer stable links to basic information about the campaign, as well as taking closer looks at the candidates as the race develops.
In the
By laura k, on June 27, 2012, at 12:30 pm I am SO happy! My own domain name, wmtc.ca, is once again working with the Blogger platform. URLs for this blog will now show the wmtc.ca address, as they did many years ago, and I (again) have blogspot out of the blog’s URL.
I registered wmtc.ca in 2006, before Blogger really supported custom domain names, and used a cumbersome FTP transfer to get Blogger and wmtc.ca to communicate. It worked, but not well. Page-specific URLs (permalinks) wouldn’t publish with the wmtc.ca domain; every page showed as wmtc.ca. You could get the permalink by right-clicking,
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By laura k, on June 7, 2012, at 8:30 pm Progressive bloggers, check your stats.
The Statcounter for wmtc shows “multiple visits spread out over several days” from an IP address in the House of Commons, and a separate visit from the Office of the Privy Council.
This visitor or visitors spent time at several of my “greatest hits” posts, information about my new career, my bio at The Mark, various essays, and a good deal of time searching for “ndp cooksville east mississauga kaminker” and “kaminker member ndp”, and the like.
The entry post was this: july 1 2012: national stop harper day. I noticed this post was tweeted
. . . → Read More: wmtc: why is someone from the house of commons and office of privy council reading my blog for hours?
By laura k, on May 19, 2012, at 8:00 am Combing through some old files, I found this lovely bit: a comment from “GarySTJ”, a former troll who was obsessed with me for a time. I used to delete his comments, then past them into posts so wmtc readers could have fun kicking him around.
After being banned from wmtc, he started appearing at other blogs where I commented, hijacking the thread with insults directed at me. One blogger noted (a paraphrase), “I don’t know L-girl or GarySTJ, but L-girl has an internet presence, has written a blog for several years, and is commenting on this post. GarySTJ has an
. . . → Read More: wmtc: a trip down memory lane with wmtc
By Greg Fingas, on April 4, 2012, at 10:57 pm I’m off to destinations unknown until next week, with little to no blogging in the interim. Enjoy the long weekend in the meantime!
By laura k, on March 31, 2012, at 7:30 am A reader – or at least someone who stumbled on my blog at some point – emailed me with a request. When I replied, I received this auto-reply: Your message to xxxxx was not delivered because this mailbox does not accept mail from the Gmail system. Gmail not only invades the privacy of its users, but of their correspondents. Please re-send using another service, or call or write.
This is an interesting approach to Google privacy issues. It assumes that other email systems don’t glean information from users the way Google does. I’m not sure we know that to be
. . . → Read More: wmtc: how to have a one-sided conversation, or, how not to ask for a favour
By laura k, on March 26, 2012, at 8:45 am A few years ago, I used Blogger with my own domain, wmtc.ca. There was an issue with individual posts not publishing correctly. The main page, wmtc.ca, was fine. But if you clicked on a post, you still got wmtc.ca, not wmtc.ca/todayspost.html. You could get a unique URL for a post if you right-clicked, but people didn’t do that, so when readers posted a link somewhere, they were using the URL from the main page.
Eventually this got too annoying, and I changed to URL forwarding. I still own wmtc.ca, but it forwards to wmtc.
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By laura k, on March 19, 2012, at 4:00 pm I’ve just found out that word verification for comments has been on, even though I’ve turned it off. I already use comment moderation, so there’s no need for verification, too.
I’ve turned off verification repeatedly, but it keeps defaulting back to “on”. If you’re also having this problem with a Blogger blog, please use the “send feedback” feature on your dashboard to report it. Thanks.
By laura k, on March 17, 2012, at 7:19 pm The poll in an earlier wmtc post wreaked havoc on my blog, so I’m trying again. If I might beg another moment of your time, please go here to take a two-question survey about your use of social bookmarking websites. By this I mean sites like Delicious, Reddit, CiteULike, BuzzFeed, Digg, Fark, and the like. This is research for a paper I am writing about tagging.
Thank you very much!
By laura k, on March 17, 2012, at 8:00 am As you can see, strange things have been happening to this blog’s template, and I’ve been unable to find the source and fix it.
The header background is appearing in a strange (ugly!) colour. I can’t find the code that is making this happen. If you click on any of the tabs (“contact”, “comment policy”, wmtc’s greatest hits”, etc.), you will see how the background header is supposed to look. If you click on an individual post, same thing. The colour code for the header background (#111111) is in there. But something is overriding it on the main
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By laura k, on March 16, 2012, at 6:00 pm What, you thought I wanted a blog header the colour of dog puke? No, I did not. The colours of my blog template have changed. On their own. And they won’t change back.
Blogger accepted a few changes, so at least I have my lower-case back on the sidebar! But the colours are all off, and no matter what I do, they don’t budge.
The header, post titles, post footers, and tags should all be black.
Grrrrr…
By laura k, on March 4, 2012, at 9:30 am During the school term, I am frequently frustrated by not being able to blog. I have ideas for posts that never get written – unusual for me, and unpleasant. If this annual tradition of collecting my best posts from the past year serves no other purpose, it reminds me that I actually am still writing.
This the long list for best-of wmtc in 2011.
resistance is not futile: resistance is everything
how to save the public library
“all we know is we are going to get our freedom”(Report on forum on revolution in Egypt.)
my police complaint saga
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By Greg Fingas, on February 26, 2012, at 11:08 am Plenty of others have already discussed the factors they’ll be taking into account in evaluating the NDP’s leadership candidates as the campaign progresses. But as we approach the point where members will be casting ballots which will ultimately determine the outcome of the race, I’ll set out my three basic questions in approaching each candidate (which I’ll then use to evaluate each contender before making an endorsement).
1. What direction will he/she set for the NDP?
This question encompasses a variety of considerations including underlying values, specific policies and organizational strategies. The leader of the opposition (and hopefully Prime Minister
. . . → Read More: Accidental Deliberations: Three questions
By laura k, on February 17, 2012, at 10:30 am Further to the saga of dumping Rogers, this morning I ordered internet service through TekSavvy. (I had already called for information on how to switch and called Rogers to cancel my service.)
The customer service rep was friendly, knowledgeable, and helpful. I wasn’t 100% certain of my disconnect date with Rogers, so after I hung up with TekSavvy, I called Rogers, just to double-check. Ever since cancelling Rogers, we’ve been inundated with calls, paper mail, and email offering us deep discounts to return. I expected more of the same, but I didn’t expect this.
LK: I recently cancelled
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By ADHR, on February 13, 2012, at 1:53 pm
By Greg Fingas, on February 8, 2012, at 1:36 pm I’ll post a quick reminder that the deadline to register for an NDP membership in order to be eligible to vote to elect a new leader is February 18 – ten days from today. And particularly for voters who supported the NDP in 2011 for the first time as the best alternative to Stephen Harper’s Conservatives (as well as for younger Canadians who would have voted if they’d been able), the leadership election will represent a unique opportunity to set the direction of a strong and growing Official Opposition in the absence of decades-old factions and entrenched interests.
So I’ll
By laura k, on January 30, 2012, at 4:30 pm No go on the threaded comments.
First of all, it only indents once. That’s a good space-saver, but kind of defeats the purpose of using the threaded format.
Second, as Allan points out, threading makes it more difficult to scan through a comment thread to read only the newest comments.
And finally, the new comment style added justified text and a narrow line height, which look bad. Hopefully reverting back to the original style of commenting will change that, too.
On we go.
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