If you could read my mind...you'd know that I wasn't dead. Oopsie by Canwest. (Great screen grab by ChrisD.ca)
What a day on the Interweb tubes!
First, there was the big Laura Secord story this morning. It’s back in Canadian hands, but we (people on Twitter) discovered that this chocolate has left town.
Thank goodness we have the awesome chocolate of Kerstin and Sweet Lollapalooza to fill our bellies. If it gets cold again I think some drinking chocolate from Kerstin’s is in order… (We’ve also been chatting up Edmonton chocolate spots at our Facebook page.)
Then, this afternoon, Gordon Lightfoot died. For about 25 minutes. Online only.
I love how people are blaming Twitter, an inanimate social media platform, for the rumours. Unless the machines are about to take over I don’t think “Twitter” was spreading rumours. I think people were. And they were using Twitter as they would their voice, e-mail or a pen and paper. Oh, and once you mix in some major news outlets, you get why this can spread. (Check the screen capture, from Winnipeg blog Chris D.ca, above.)
Where’s TMZ when you need them? Can Shaw buy that too?
But…onto what I actually wanted to ask you: How’d you get here?
I’ve recently aquired a sweet new BlackBerry, and my venture into the realm of smartphones has been great. I just got an RSS feed reader and I’ve never been more on top of my blog reading!
I also noticed, in our own visit stats (now Edmonton’s 93rd favourite blog), that more people are coming to our website and our stories via our RSS feed rather than just plunking theedmontonian.com into a browser. That blew me away! Until I got my feed reader.
So, I’m just curious, are you coming to the website directly, following links off Twitter, catching up with us on Facebook or waiting for your RSS reader to alert you?
There are no wrong answers. Heck, you could even be doing some combination of all of that.
But I want answers, Edmonton!
I RSS you every day. Sometimes multiple times.
I also visit you through telepathy and my magic 8 ball.
Found y’all on Twitter in the first place and keep coming back from there too.
And I’ll add that the incredibly lazy part of me really appreciates the daily headlines.
Get out of my head, Magic 8 ball man!
Thanks, Marilyn.
you followed me after I made a posting on twitter. i had been listening to Adler when they announced the Lightfoot “thing” -when I clicked onto your twitter account I saw a related story, clicked that link and, well, here i am! :)
Mostly Google Reader…but sometimes I follow links on Twitter.
Wow, Greg, that is a quick turnaround!
Mack, I was going to just post this comment, but it’s better that you’re here. Today and the Olympics are totally going to skew our Twitter stats for February!
I stumbled in via Twitter. I’m not even from Edmonton. Where the Hell am I?
I use Google Reader, sometimes Twitter. I only visit the homepage if I want to comment, like now…
Found you on Twitter, possibly through Cournoyer or Trish Audette. Added you to my Google Reader and you survived the info-overload blog feed purge I did about six months ago. Like the news headline links, enjoy the coverage of local events – keep it up.
I use Google Reader.
RSS. Thunderbird, if you are interested. :)