Just got off the phone from a lengthy and tense conversation with an editor at the Shoreline Beacon, and a stern, stern no if's cease and desist order condemning this site for copyright infringment bootlegging "complete stories" from their publication. Complete stories? Say it's not true. I know people have quoted them, but full posting plagerism? Can she give me an example?

"$5 parking at the hospitals"

... say what? We have no such story. Nothing in my log of posts ... What's going on here? So I ask Google and sure enough there be the culprit!

What was it she was so huffed in legal arms about? Google and Yahool Search Result RSS feeds! ...

So what is it really like to spend summer at Sauble as a tourist? New blog-search service IceRocket can take you on a whirlwind tour through the mind and vision of nearly 700 recent holiday memories posted into web journals and photo sites, all at once, by time slices of days or weeks, or even as a trendline ...

"wow my trip to sauble beach with almost all of my friends was soo amazing. It was so much fun and we had toooo many good times if that is even possible, who can have to many good times??.."
[ via IceRocket: "sauble beach" ]

Curious how your own biz fared for the season? Just plunk in your keywords and take a gander at the ice lines -- You can't buy marketing research like this.

Oh yeah, who da man? -- before I get any farther, a big hearty hi and howareya c'mon in upper Bruce County welcome to all fans of the bands headed over t'other side of the Sound for Great Lakes Jam ... and to give you all what you've come for, the link you really want is over there in the sidebar

but that's not the story. the story is how you ended up here, way out here in wild limestone and dune lands of the South Bruce Peninsulars.

I expect most of the fest crowd will end up here, in need of a burst of civilization from the mud and muddle of what's shaping up to be a massive pop fest, you'll need camping gear, so you have to make the pilgrimage to Hepworth's Suntrails, and you'll need a double latte at least that will lure you out Sauble way to Amici or Mama's and the cheesecake at the Driftwood is to die for.

Did I mention we had a beach?

But that's not the story here. The story here is how our lowly and completely unfunded and 100% volunteer community self-authored storyboard site is the number two ranking Yahoo! hit for the Great Lakes Jam.
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Thought I'd post an online congrats to our very own Gary for his apperance on the Wired Magazine site in an article about RSS readers! You can find the article right here.
It made me chuckle when I read the quote

"Once all the covered wagons show up and an RSS reader is folded into Microsoft's Internet Explorer or Outlook, we're doomed," Murphy said. "

Way to go Gary!
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Time sure flies when you're having fun: One year ago today The South Bruce Peninsular burst on to the web scene, a humble little website portal proclaiming itself a bold new experiment in collaborative community journalism ...

"It’s the voice of all of us, the second superpower, the voice of people online and involved in their community. It’s the voice of a free press that publishes itself, just as it is."

And thanks to all of you, it seems to be working ...

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A big welcome to those who have subscribed to this online community the past week. We can't wait to read about your SBP experience.

For those of you who are frequent visitors, becoming members is easy and free. Membership does not come with any obligation to contribute, but it gives you the privilege of posting comments.

If you have attempted to post comments recently and was unsucessful, you would probably be glad to know that the problem has been fixed. The chat box is also repaired. I am usually there between 8:30 and 9:30pm EST.

Our tech. team only consists of Gary Murphy, who is also the founder of this site and advocate of using internet to bring people together. Sometimes, problems won't be discovered until our members send in bug reports. Please feel free to let us know when something on this site is not working.

An accidental find today of a little known service out of the Wiarton Echo and it's family of community newspapers: CyberSaver appears to be a very simple archive for bitmap scans of the box ads currently appearing in the paper. You can't cut-and-paste the copy, but the collection is categorized by advertiser type and each scan is tagged and searchable by the name and contact information for the sponsor company.

And it's full of interesting tidbits, notices on Bruce County roads-hearings, business listings, WDHS fundraisers, church events ...

[ Source: CyberSaver ]

Down at Groundhog Central today the talk was on the weather, and whether or not the city-folk media will be Canadian enough to brave the forecasts to make the trek up to Wiarton this Monday. According to the Toronto Star, the senior climatologist for Environment Canada also has his doubts about any early spring prospects and has already booked a two-week Florida vacation. Dave Phillips adds that Wiarton Willie will be the most anticipated groundhog in years ...

"He's going to bump everybody off the front pages, whether it's the PM or the Pope ... People will be grasping for any little utterance that he has. If he sees his shadow, 'Oh, my, God,' there will be six more weeks of winter. People will be praying for him not to see his shadow."

[ Source: TheStar.com - Northern blast pushes people south ]