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On Sunday, Prime Minister Harper will pay a visit to the Governor-General to ask her to dissolve Parliament and call for an election. From that moment on, the election campaign will be in full swing. You all know what this means: blogging will go through the roof. So far, we have all posted our personal thoughts and observations on the various parties and leaders – sometimes in a professional tone, at other times in less-than-professional language. Before I say what I am about to say, let me get just one thing out of the way (because afterwards I won't...

For the record, I am not sitting in a basement while I type this. My friend Michelle invited me to be a guest lecturer for her “Intro to Journalism” course at SFU this week. She is accomplished in print and radio (all over the world) and her other guest that night was a science journalist. Kudos to her for inviting me, a representative of a form of online journalism we call blogging, to speak in front of her class, even though I was super nervous. When I was done my presentation, which included mentioning a ton of sites (from those that blog about kitties to NowPublic), she asked me if I knew of a blogger who has entered into mainstream media as a journalist. I was at a loss, and if someone out there can drop a name in the comments that would be great, but I could only think...

I can't think of a nicer shrieking head that this could have happened to: [Via Michelle Malkin is An Idiot, by way of...