5 posts tagged “metroblogging vancouver”
Hurricane force winds, rain and power outages. Is this Vancouver or is it Florida? Vancouver I hope, since I don't think I could handle dealing with the anti-Castro faction all day, everyday. Plus Vancouver is pretty much the best city in the world and Tampa or Orlando is not, plus all the boy bands.
Anyway a good source of coverage of the weather and the aftermath of it is from Metroblogging Vancouver [mbv]. There was a collapsed apartment building, power outages and now the water is undrinkable, a story we were the first to report on managing to get the word out a day before any of the media outlets or even the City of Vancouver itself.
That's some investigative journalism there. Vancouver Province eat your heart out.
Over at Metroblogging Vancouver [mbv], the community city blog site that I post at, I've been trying to get back into a regular swing of posting after running into a busy real life spell. As such I've been able to get up three posts today, and hope to be able to continue that trend over the next little while. Metroblogging Vancouver is of course the premier city specific blog for Vancovuer, and has nearly a dozen bloggers posting all the time.
So what have I posted about today?
To start with I blogged about the recently released game Bully [mbv]. It's from Rockstar the same people who brought Grand Theft Auto into the world to much noise from the content police who think that a game of fighting mobsters and sleeping with hookers isn't suitable for not just children, but anyone and everyone. Well it's the first game from the company's Vancouver studio and it seems like despite not being anywhere near as violent or sex filled as GTA is still bringing the controversy. Check out my post (linked above) for the full sorrid tale.
Then of course there is far more average and everyday concerns to blog about. Things like how I've just recently discovered the great taste of Vancouver's Flying Wedge Pizza chain [mbv], or about the ongoing problem of trolly buses coming unhitched from their over head cables. This causes traffic jams, traffic jams, as the drivers have to get out and re-attach them to their power source.
Sounds like fun doesn't it? There's lots of other things going on at Metroblogging Vancouver, and so whether you live in the world's nicest city, or whether you're just a visitor head over to MBV and check out what's going on in Vancouver Canada.
I thought I wouldn't just give my blog love to my creamy new Vox account but spread it around, so I posted a few new things over at Metroblogging Vancouver. Metroblogging Vancouver is the city blog for Vancouver, and has a really strong collection of local bloggers posting there. I post there as well and have since the site launched.
I wrote a bit about the HSBC Celebration of Lights [mbv] and about the upcoming Science Fiction convention being held in Richmond at the start of August [mbv]. I even recently posted an offer to any Vancouver blogger who wanted an invite to Vox since I have an extra one [mbv]. I have yet to be taken up on the offer.
There's a few new posts in the waiting line so keep heading over to Metroblogging Vancouver for all the latest information on Vancouver life from not only me, but other Vancouver bloggers as well.
I got sent a new Nokia 6682 phone as part of a marketing program that's trying to get the phone in the hands of bloggers in both Toronto [mbt] and Vancouver [mbv]. The hope on the part of the marketing company in charge of the program is that I'll use it and blog about it.
I got it last night and started to charge it. Today I've loaded on Nokia's Lifeblog software [nok] which I guess will help me organize photos and notes on the phone, though it won't sync with my Macbook. I then loaded ShoZu [sz] on it to let it easily load my photos to my Flickr account.
My only complaint, aside from the lack of Mac compatibility, is that it's not got a full keyboard which would make mobile blogging so much easier. Posting from my BlackBerry is simple, even though I can't add photos, with the Nokia 6682 I'll be able to add photos but typing is going to be annoying. Still it'll be a nice portable video camera / camera that will let me take it out on the town. I'll be blogging more about it in the future.
I'm trying out a new blogging service called Vox that's designed by the people who host my regular blog. It's sort of a much more Web 2.0 feature rich enviroment, with a lot more options for interacting with other users. From the looks of it Vox combines a lot of the stuff that makes LiveJournal popular, like having friends' blogs easily linked to yours, and some really nice intergration with Flickr and YouTube.
This is the first post on my new creamy Vox blog [jks], but I'm cross-posting it onto my regular blog at jefferysimpson.com. I'll be playing with the service for a bit, but anything of interest will be cross-posted at both places so if you're just wanting to check one place the place to check will remain the main site.
Over at Metroblogging Vancouver [mbv] I've offered one of the invites that I got with my account up to any Vancouver based blogger whose looking for a new service. I'll offer my other invite up here, anyone of my regular readers who wants to pick up a new blog or switch service drop me a line. I'd try to get Lydia to join since it's got some neat features that would let me keep track of when she blogs, but she was just yesterday talking about how she never blogs anymore, so I figure I'll leave it open to someone else.
Unless you want to switch from Blogger or Blogspot or whatever it is dear.
