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In the Lightest Night One Writes

By KyleWith on June 19, 2011 in Journal

Mrs. Robinson softly plays in the background as I settle into my couch at 12:21am. The room is lit by one lamp situated behind me, right next to the entrance to my quaint one bedroom apartment. HDR flickr images rotate on my TV as a screensaver for my beloved Apple TV. The night is perfec… I just killed a moth.

Each Friday afternoon at 5:00pm I think to myself “I am going to get so much writing down this weekend. I’m going to write up some reviews of places in Victoria, events in Yellowknife, and more travel stuff. It is going to be great.” The Friday night passes with nothing but TV watching. Saturday morning arrive, adventures ensue, but not ambition to write appears. I lose hope once again that I am not going to accomplish any writing.

Then by fluke at 12:21am Sunday morning, after coming home from a house warming party ambition strikes. I start typing. About what, well nothing. I start writing about what is happening around me at that very moment. For that split second everything is perfect. Everything is simple and straight forward. My mind is clear.

No I didn’t write any of the things I intended to at the beginning of the weekend, but nevertheless, getting words on paper, regardless of what they are is an exercise in itself. As someone who blogs (writes) to get those words on page (paper) this is important to me.

I’ll sleep well tonight knowing I accomplished something, although smart, still something.

Good night world.

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The Joy of Blogging and some Tips

By KyleWith on June 12, 2011 in Social Media/Internet, Videos

While at Social Media Camp Victoria and this past week I have seen a number of people start writing a blog. In this video I share my glee about seeing these new blogs coming to life. I also share some terminology tips about blogging and how being consistent will guide you to success.

Then I start talking about being public.

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Age Old Debate on Local Reporting

By KyleWith on May 26, 2011 in Journal

Let me set the room for you. It is 11pm, it is dark with one desk lamp on shining down on my keyboard. All that could be heard is the typing of keys and the soothing sound of The Coffee House in the background.

Alright now that I have done that I will get on with what I originally came here to talk about. The age old debate of Local Reporter vs. Local Blogger. I know it is a big topic for a guy like me who doesn’t know much about either, but I figure I’ll give it a shot and see what comes of it. I am hoping to come from a different angle this time around. That angle being passion.

I definitely think that both parties have passion. I don’t think either would do what they do if they did, but I will explain what I think I see. A Local Report has a passion for the job. They take pride in reporting the news, writing a good article and the general process of getting it out to the people. A Local Blogger has a passion for the place. They take pride in where they are, the people that are there and what is going on. They enjoy meeting residents and old timers, hearing the history of a place and how things got to the way they are.

Now each can be positive and negative and I don’t stand for one over the other. A Reporter may not have as much of a deep connection with a place, this could lead them to not care as much, to only be concern about the new and allow them to pick up and go onto other things. On the other hand a Blogger who has been around for a while, knows the community and its people could be bias. It would also be hard for a Blogger to leave their community, much like I did.

I guess you could say there isn’t really a competition between the two, because a Local Blogger is much more like a Columnist than a Reporter. That is why I think we need both. We need reports to deliver the news as it is, with fact checking and hard quote. While the blogger will take the story further and learn about it and the people involved.

What do you think? Am I just rambling or am I making sense?

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Cool New Canadian Site For Bloggers

By KyleWith on May 25, 2011 in Social Media/Internet

Oh yes my blogging friends, this site is for you. Ever want a site where you can go and search for other Canadian blogs, well now you can. TheCanadianBlogDirectory.com launched today at the Mesh Conference in Toronto.

Blogs are broken up into categories and subcategories, with the addition of tags. It is a nice looking site and the functionality seems good. It is built on WordPress (this bloggers favourite) and con incorporate blog with their feeds.

The process for submitting your blog maybe a little slow right now as I think they are doing them by hand and with the launch I’m sure they are backed up.

Nonetheless, go submit your blog or recommend one. Be heard.

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I need to…

By KyleWith on April 1, 2011 in Journal

Is that the right use of “to”? Anyhow, I need to blog more. I hate having the ambition to, the ideas to, but never actually do. I suppose I am out living my life then, but I want to.

11:39pm I lay in bed thinking this. Wonder what people would want to read about.

me on a bus

Saturday (tomorrow or today depending on publish time) I will be attending a Blog Camp here in Yellowknife. More information can be found HERE.

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I admit I’m a little jealous Yellowknife

By KyleWith on March 17, 2011 in Journal

Today I found out today that Alex and Luke are back in Yellowknife for a couple weeks. Alex and Luke are two friends who have traveled round North America on a road trip powered by Social Media. Needless to say it is a dream of mine. So for two reason I’m a little jealous.

The first being obviously that they are living a dream of mine. I would probably drop everything right now to be able to drive around the country and blog about my journey. I would kill for the opportunity to do what they are doing, but there are to many factors I can’t figure out. The biggest one being money. How do you pay/afford a journey like this.

The second being Alex and Luke are now in Yellowknife for the next two weeks. They will be going around to different places, doing different things, things that I would have loved to do when I was writing YkOnline on a regular basis. I’d still like to do these things in the future, especially since I love Yellowknife so much. It is extremely hard being away from Yellowknife and see Alex and Luke there makes it worst.

I do realize that I must work towards something like this, make it a goal and put them in motion. Time will tell, but for now I’ll be jealous.

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