edmontonblogs – MasterMaq's Blog

In my last post I was sort of wondering who Edmonton bloggers are and what they are talking about, but perhaps just as interesting is what bloggers are saying about Edmonton. If you do a quick search for Edmonton at any of the many blog search engines, you’ll find a large number of results. Here are some interesting ones I picked out:

Scribe posted some images of Edmonton landmarks – I like the last one.
Here’s a video tour of our city, from Muchmor Magazine. It’s actually quite good if you ask me.
Justice wonders why Edmonton has the #1 homicide rate in Canada. I don’t know, but it sucks to have that distinction!
midlee says s/he loves Rabbit Hill, a ski resort just outside Edmonton.
The SaveOurClimate blog mentions that Edmonton will be one of six cities across Canada to hold a Canadians for Kyoto rally on March 11th.
April thinks Edmonton is beautiful, despite the impressive list of places she has visited recently, including Greece, Switzerland, and France.

And of course there’s a ton of discussion about the Smyth trade.

So I guess the answer is yes! Bloggers are talking about Edmonton.

This is something I have been thinking about for a while. I got an email this week from Pete Quily, asking if Edmonton had anything like the kind of directory he is looking for in Vancouver. Here’s what he wants:

With the large number of techies/bloggers/web workers/geeks/wired folk/internet businesses/pick your preferred word in the Vancouver area, why isn’t there a comprehensive directory of such people and organizations/nonprofits/businesses?

I want that for Edmonton too!

So just like I have been doing with edmontontech, I have started tagging blogs at del.icio.us with the tag edmontonblogs. This is really more of an “in the meantime” kind of activity, because as Pete points out, an actual directory website would be much more useful. Maybe I’ll build it one of these days.

I actually have an excellent domain name for it – blogosphere.ca. As you can see, we haven’t touched it since 2004. It probably wouldn’t be too hard to throw together some kind of directory with OPML and feeds broken down by city. BlogsCanada had potential, but it seems to have died. Another similar site is the Canadian Tech Mob, but it’s tech only, and nearly impossible to navigate (seriously didn’t webrings die in 1999?).

Okay I better go before I start writing code. I’m off to Calgary in the morning for a meeting!

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