Philip Alves

“Old Enough” by The Raconteurs should have been a much bigger hit than it was when it was released as a single in 2008. Proof that just about everyone’s musical taste is bad? I’ll be the judge of that. Yes.

I was lucky enough to see old Vaughan Today/Town Crier colleagues again on May 14 at the Ontario Community Newspapers Association awards gala. The night was made sweeter thanks to a couple of awards I got to share with my friends.

I wish I were an Apple ad guy. Then I’d get to sit around and discover über-cool music while “working” on new iPod spots.

This may well be simultaneously the best song and cartoon of all time. No, that’s too wishy-washy. It is both the best song and cartoon in the history of everything.

I was at an all-day workshop yesterday at the Toronto Star put on by Robb Montgomery of Visual Editors out of Chicago. The entire day was about thinking of ways to present info visually to readers of online newspapers or blogs — and probably just as important to smaller outfits with limited resources, how to that for next to nothing.

This post started out as research for a workshop on the basics of blogging — how to set a free one up, really — that I ran last week for journalism students at Centennial College in Toronto. I focused mainly on WordPress because it’s what I’ve worked with most, but I still wanted to give them options.

The combined editorial staff at Vaughan Today/Town Crier had what you might call a good night at the 2008 Ontario Community Newspapers Association Awards.