It appears that Technorati, a marvelous free tool I’ve been using to follow links to this blog has moved to a 10 day update.
I’m not going to complain because it was free and worked incredibly well.
But now I have no way of tracking links to BDBO when I want to.
I’d use MT trackback, but from [...]

Canadian icon Pierre Berton died this afternoon in Toronto.
Burton was 84.
He received 3 Governer-General awards for his writing and was a Companion of the Order of Canada. He started out working as a newspaper reporter, moved to the CBC and is best known for about 50 books he wrote. His history books are well known.
And [...]

Live Journal is a popular and the best known blog platform for teens.
There are hundreds of thousands online, chonicling the intensity of adolescence and forming communities for teens.
One teen blogger in Alaska appeared in court facing charges of having her mother killed. She wrote about her computer being confiscated just before her arrest.
Rachelle Waterman had [...]

Michael Sack, president of a research and marketing firm, claims that today’s young people see almost 1000% more images than 60 year olds witnessed in their youth. The impact of this on our ability to communicate the Gospel is important for us to note. Those over 60 find it a lot easier to derive meaning [...]

Owen is a Canadian blogger who has quite the artistic side.
I like his new project and you can take part if you’d like.
If Owen draws you, he’ll send you an email copy of his art.
He’s doing ordinary people, like most of us blogging types.
If you are interested, you can check out his blog and submit [...]

The other day I asked US readers if they knew what Mr. and Mrs. Bush, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell would be doing in Canada the next few days.
I got a few jokes.
a) US citizens don’t know
b) US citizens don’t care
If I asked Canadian readers what is on the table, I think they could chime [...]

I just discovered the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, out of the University of Washington. It’s a good thing to see.
I’m really tired of the profession and the public putting the media on some kind of pedestal. It’s the nature of the beast, of human nature, and this disconnect is mostly the fault [...]

A Hamilton Spectator reporter will appear in court this afternoon on contempt of court charges.
He could be fined or jailed.
No reporter in Canadian history has ever been jailed for refusing to reveal their sources. Ken Peters is understandably scared, but refuses to budge.
“It’s not something where I’d like to make history,” Peters told CP. “I’m [...]