Dump Dion, hell Dump Tory!

Leadership matters! Well, as Tories gloat over the state of Dionistas they are also voicing questions about their own provincial leader, see influencial blogger Greg Staples for one glum take on Tory's future.

Facebook Libs, post Outremont

So, what better way to advertise internal strife than a Facebook group entitled "A United Party, A Unity Canada - Stephane Dion", so far it has 60 members, that's 12 more than the "Stéphane Dion looks like a turtle" group (if anyone is counting). :-)

Blogging Tories in search of Loonies

A number of Blogging Tories have banded together to form an ad co-op, ooops, business. Rates look a bit out of wack considering that Google ads run between $30-$100/month.

Dry run for Federal election

Much that we have seen from the Liberals online in this provincial election is surely a dry run for the next federal election, remember their war room is being run by Dion backer Warren Kinsella. And if there is any more proof needed about the need for parties to rethink their campaigns with the net in mind, one need only look at what is happening elsewhere around the world: Australia, a case in point.

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The basics....

Everyone, well almost everyone, seems to be doing it. Internet campaigning that is. Here is a decent outline of the benefits, for those who remain critical. So, folks the bottom line is this....if you're just going to run a campaign with a website (and leave the social networking, youtubing, facebooking, etc. to less organized types), then at least think about paying the $30 to Google (OK they hardly need it), to increase traffic to your stand-alone, network phobic website.

Education fairness: who buys this stuff?

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out where www.educationairness.ca comes from.

Nasty brutish and short: Greg's "live" debate blogging

McGuinty looks like a bored highschooler. He is getting spanked. Hampton started slowly and lacked specifics, but has come on as the debate goes on. Tory looks very composed. I'd be very surprised if polls don't reflect his good performance.

Queen's Park Press Gallery tires of Youtube surveillance

The president of the Queen's Park press gallery issued a terse statement today calling into question the legality of partisan Youtubers capturing conversations between candidates and some journalists. Some members of the media have also recently grumbled about being poorly treated by the Premier's lead Communications guy, former broadcast journalist Ben Chin. Torytubers might be testing the patience of the press gallery.

CBC-RC also just came over to get my thoughts on the Tories 3 new TV ads. In short, a shocker (on violence and sentencing, which will be controversial), a dud (broken tax promise), and an absolute gem (broken promise on coal plants).

McGuinty getting trashed....on Craigslist!

Ok, much has been written about how nasty youtube has become during the Ont. election. But a quick scan of the politics discussion group on craigslist will leave no doubt where the trash talking is taking place. Besides the foul language and nasty personal attacks (I'm not going to repeat any here), I found it odd that McGuinty is the target of many of the attacks (while Tory seems to be getting hammered on youtube and in the blogosphere).

by-election hijinks

Tory humour. I'm impressed.

This video takes the nut!

Thanks to fifth column for this bizarre video from the Toronto Star. I thought I'd seen it all, but I absolutely must know more about this. We've seen journalists blog before, but is Torstar now asking Q.P. bureau folks to cut iMovies during campaign stops on the road? Or is this what my undergrad students are doing for internships now?

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Liberal Bloggers out in the cold

Liberal bloggers are starting to mumble about the sad campaign put on in Outremont, While in London, Ont. a former Liberal blogger left the campaign there after his previous online comments were made public. The Ontario Liberal party also seems to be largely ignoring the power of their partisan blogosphere focusing instead on a closely scripted and centralized campaign supported with a nasty backroom internet war room.

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media concentration -- hearing begin in Ottawa

the CBC weighs in on the state of broadcasting in Canada.

Film/TV conference

While the infoscapers will plough through today's net shenanigans, I'll be taking a breather from the media to host the "Locating Migrating Media" Conference at Ryerson. We'll have a new code politics weekly report out later this weekend.

Meow

A good article from Lydia Perovic on 2.0 Campaigning. A bunch of other good stories and links too.

Tomorrow, I'm on CHCH Hamilton, which I hear is now referred to as E-Hamilton...which kinda sounds sexy in that new media meets old industry town kinda way.

Britney and Torytube crash Youtube

OK, got your attention. My bet is on the former. Didn't Google buy Youtube? Then why does their search engine, well...suck?
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Youtube crashes?

Jason Cherniak just pointed out that Youtube is not showing any new videos from the leaders for th epast 5 days, which seems to be at odds with some videos I found earlier today from Torytube that were clearly tagged "John Tory". This might throw a wrench in the works.
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