Archive for the category "blogs"

Best of 604: Voting Begins

December 4th, 2008 @ 12:09am by Rebecca Bollwitt
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As of midnight December 4th, voting is now open for the Best of 604 people’s choice awards for their favourite sites and blogs in the region. Quick Facts: Voting will be open until 12:00pm December 11th. You may vote once in each of the 14 categories. Prizes so far include: A gift pack from Kiss [...]

WordPress Theming Tools for Your Mac

December 2nd, 2008 @ 11:37am by Rebecca Bollwitt
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Over the last few weeks my company, sixty4media, has themed, coded, and tweaked quite a few WordPress sites (and even more over the years before we even had the company). I am often asked what I use to code or theme so here are some of the tools that make my life a whole lot [...]

Canadian Blog Awards 2008 Best Local Blog Finalist

December 1st, 2008 @ 9:05am by Rebecca Bollwitt
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The second round of voting has started in the Canadian Blog Awards and the field has been narrowed to five finalists in each category. Photo credit: Duane Storey on Flickr I’d like to congratulate Kitsilano.ca for making the cut for Best Local Blog and encourage everyone to check them out. They’re as local as you [...]

Tuesday Morning Link Fest: News and Blog Digest

November 25th, 2008 @ 12:20am by Rebecca Bollwitt
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After taking a quick day off yesterday to travel to Seattle I’m back in gear although I feel as though I’m missed a million and one things while away for even such a short time. In order to get myself (and readers) caught up, here’s a good ‘ol patented Miss604 link fest. Photo credit: Numinous [...]

Canadian Blog Awards 2008: Voting Begins

November 24th, 2008 @ 1:00pm by Rebecca Bollwitt
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Although you don’t win anything but bragging rights and a badge for your sidebar, I still like the Canadian Blog Awards as they are people-powered and they always introduce me to some great blog and sites across our nation [Canadian Blog Awards 2007].

Civic Elections 2008, Surrey Council Candidate Paul Hillsdon

November 12th, 2008 @ 10:45am by Rebecca Bollwitt
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Last week I met up with Paul at Central City for some breakfast, a chat, and some good old fashioned Surrey talk. Paul Hillsdon is a blogger that I crossed paths with a few years ago now and he’s taken his passion for transit planning, environmental responsibility and education to the next level by running [...]

Blogging is Dead, or So They Say

October 27th, 2008 @ 11:58am by Rebecca Bollwitt
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Parsing through my Delicious links this morning I came across two articles that John sent me (yes, I become giddy when I notice my husband tagged something for me in Delicious). The title of the first bookmark was “Blogs More Relevant Than Ever” and the next one, right on top of that listing was, “Blogs [...]

The Five Things Meme

October 24th, 2008 @ 8:46am by Rebecca Bollwitt
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Taking a break from the municipal and provincial election coverage to engage in some silly entertainment (see last night’s post about sweet, sweet 80s tunes) I’m going to complete my mission after being “tagged” by Tyler Ingram yesterday. I admit, I have participated and perpetuated many memes before, and for those of you who are [...]