Two blogs (one new, one new again)

, January 3, 2012

In addition to trying to rejuvenate this blog, I’ve been working on a couple of others. If you feel like killing some time on the web, I invite you to pay them a visit. First of all, I’ve been working on rebuilding a site called democracy101.ca. I launched the site back in April, but I […]


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Blogging versus writing

, February 10, 2011

Last night’s creative writing class was mainly a workshop for our first assignment, and the general review of mine was basically what I’d expected it would be. It’s a pretty decent story – “really sweet,” some said – but the writing’s fairly plain and the characters are underdeveloped. The one phrase I didn’t want to […]


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How much of a factor is timing when it comes to blogging?

, December 6, 2010

The bulk of the traffic my site gets, or at least that my individual posts get directly, comes from social media sites. In fact, there’s a good chance that you’re reading this post because you clicked a link on Twitter or Facebook. I’m using Twitterfeed to post links to new blog posts in my feed […]


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I think I’ve figured out this whole blogging thing

, November 10, 2010

Last week, a woman named Amanda that I follow on Twitter took a moment to ask all the bloggers out there how to get better at posting frequently. Now, I’m no expert, but I’ve learned a few tricks in my time, and I figured I’d


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