A Look Back: Contributors (jeff)
Where would the edmontonian be without our many contributors, collaborators, and commenters? It wouldn’t be the edmontonian.
Sally and I never set out to make the edmontonian our blog. Sure, we had our names all over it editing submissions and authoring a majority of items, but the edmontonian was always supposed to be a community blog. Jeff and Sally could always go get their own damn vlog.
Whether it was a conversation about A Taste of Edmonton and deep-fried foods that spawned its own video, photos that made up many of our quirky looks at the city, writers that posted items here when they certainly had plenty of other good stuff going on, or collaborating with Edmonton’s online content generatOne year of thanksors, it was joining forces and cross-posting that took the edmontonian from a blog belonging to two people to a true community news source.
Some contributors wrote one post, others became synonymous with the site. Some of our same website contributors made appearances on our ShawTV show, but new friends helped on that too. And we always had a steady crew of commenters (and we consider them part of the overall Edmonton conversation).
Together, that group of people is what made the edmontonian such a good time.
(Photos are deep frying and democracy. Two things we take very seriously.)
Tasty
Fitting, that after talking about the Samsonowich, we’re going to choose A Taste of Edmonton for our event selection today.
I already feel full just talking about all of this food.
Yes, A Taste of Edmonton has 40 restaurants ready to serve a pair of their menu offerings. For $10-20 you’ll probably get a nice selection of items from a couple of your favourites, or some new winners.
If you’re not heading down during your work day (or perhaps, even if you are) they’ve also got a nice selection of beer and wine to try.
I haven’t been down this summer, yet, so let me know what I should be eating, and what I shouldn’t waste precious food tickets on.
Sally is likely just going to use all of her tickets on deep-fried Mars bars.
Letter from the Editor – Jeff – July 27/09
It's so, long.
I’ve let you down, Edmonton.
In an ongoing effort to produce all Edmonton all the time, I didn’t keep my eye on the ball.
I think I missed out on telling you about one of the biggest local stories of the year. I just hope one of the real newsrooms in the city brought this this tale to you.
While it’s not an excuse, I will present in my defense the fact I was busy preparing a grocery list of foods to be deep-fried this weekend. It’s not an excuse because it had “bad idea” written all over it.
You have no idea what I do for you, Edmonton.
Edward Monton has crabs
He has crab CAKES! Photo:EdwardMonton
The deep-fried goodness never stops around here.
First, Sally went to A Taste of Edmonton to find something to satisfy her deep-fry tooth. Disappointed there was nothing wild or crazy being dipped in hot oil (besides your mom, HI-O!), she issued a challenge.
It seems you people have no shortage of items you’d like to see deep-fried. I’m not sure how I feel about that.
Anyway, our choice for the weirdest thing to deep-fry was a squeaker – it came down to supersu’s suggestion of olives, or EdwardMonton’s suggestion of Oreos. Though supersu took the title by a hair, she was out of town this weekend for the Calgary Folk Fest – so EdwardMonton wound up with the prize. And we’re very glad he did, because he has since posted on his blog about his adventures at A Taste of Edmonton, and it’s pretty hilarious. Thanks EdwardMonton!
