Ron MacLean just went on the air on CBC and told us that his mother just succumbed to cancer and that he’s rushing home to be with his family. My condolences, Ron

People have been upset since before the Olympics even began that China broke its word about providing journalists with free access to the internet, by leaving the Great Firewall of China largely intact for the games. I hadn’t heard about it since the Games kicked off until today when CBC’s ‘The National’ newscast [...]

We asked you to liveblog the Olympics and you responded with some of the longest liveblogs we have ever seen (e.g. liveblog of Olympic opening ceremony). Fair enough We don’t want to crimp your style and set limits on how long your liveblogs can be, so today we are introducing pagination. [...]

Next in the continuing trend of the new CP24 website being significantly crappier than the old one (that BlogTO has been covering here) this morning they’ve reached a new all-time low. While a major news event is going on in Toronto, they are down with a Javax.servlet.ServletException. FAIL!

6:40 PM Things kick off just before 10pm EST tonight!
6:41 PM Michael Phelps set an Olympic record in the IM qualifier
6:42 PM But he might have some competition from his US teammate, Lochte. Should be an amazing race!
6:43 PM
6:57 PM Here’s the start list for tonight:
Lane Name NOC Date of Birth Qualifying Time1 [...]

At ScribbleLive we’re getting excited about the Beijing Olympics starting this Friday! To get ready, I’ve been coding for couple weeks to add some new features. We now have the tools to make your Olympic liveblogs interactive like never before, and integrate with your site like no one else.

On our Olympics page we [...]

What’s with “onion”? Is that like a hand-fruit now? I do appreciate the “in the fridge” specification so I don’t go looking for bean salad in the dishwasher

9:21 PM Picking this one up, timeshifted a few mins
9:22 PM Starting off with a group performance with the final 6. The song is Bette Midler. Everyone dressed in white. Choreographed by Mandy Moore
9:24 PM Cat Deley looks amazing in a shiney blue dress. Doing some sort of hair commercial-hair-wave-thing
9:25 PM [...]

Tonight is the finale of ‘Last Comic Standing’! I know there’s like no chance that Canadian Sean Cullen is going to win, but it’s still good times I’ll be liveblogging the whole thing on ScribbleLive and crossposting it here (a new feature we just rolled out). Enjoy!

8:16 PM First to perform [...]

Power grab: Technology puts consumer in control of content (source:CBC)

If consumers have their way, movie critics will be taking an early retirement, advertisers and marketers will be trolling Facebook and blogging circles for attention, and history will morph before our eyes like content in a wiki.
All indications are that we’re heading in that direction — [...]