Got a Chapters gift card for Christmas and used it to pick up Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five years in New York that changed music forever, by Will Hermes.
Think about it: Punk, salsa, hip hop, new wave, new minimalist classical music from Philip Glass … all were born in New York in the early to mid-1970s. Man, what self-respecting music fan wouldn’t want to know more about the roots of those scenes?
Red Pepper Spectacle Arts organizes this annual shindig. Donate to them, if you get the chance. This is a very grassroots event and deserves some support.
The tool is still a bit buggy and there seems to be a lot of problems accessing Twitter’s API — something Storify blames on Twitter.
Personally, I want the ability to embed my own images, not just filch from Flickr, and to be able to search by restricted date range and to call up a tweet or other social media element by its URL.
When that happens, Storify will truly rock.
In the meantime, I would appreciate any feedback you can offer on my Storify efforts. Thanks in advance.
My prediction? Ontario Liberals will win the right to continue governing. I think they will get a seat total somewhere in the mid-50s to very low 60s (out of 107).
The Progressive Conservatives will finish second, but I’m interested in seeing how well the NDP do. They had been polling about 26 per cent support. Will that hold?
The shorter version is that what happened on May 2 seems to be influencing the campaign stops of all three leaders. NDP Leader Andrea Horwath seems to be particularly interested in trying to pry away people who voted for Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty’s party in the past two elections.
Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak is pushing his tax-fatigue message in areas where his federal cousins enjoyed success.
If you do peruse them, let me know what you think.
