Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

Here’s an interesting idea worth participating in. Jon Swift is (was?) a popular blogger from the United States, who has been missing since the Ides of March (approximately). Prior to his disappearance from the blogosphere (and possibly this earth) he co-ordinated a liberal blogrolling event to counteract Blogroll Amnesty Day started by some hotshots without respect for blogging’s grassroots.

If you’re interested in trying to encourage Swift to confirm his location/safety, please also post a link to Simon’s search and maybe Swift’s blog as well.

UPDATE: Jon is apparently still well, just has suspended blogging without going through the fanfare of an announcement.

Your face as drawn by a blogger. I don’t remember right now what I found this blog through.

WWNPHD? I had to click to find out what it meant. If you’ve seen the first movie, you’ll think this is pretty funny. Find the link on the horse on this page for the Harold and Kumar movie sequel.

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My blog is back up to lucky number seven in the top 25 political blog list in Canada. I had a feeling I had gained in some Page Rank, after I got a few new emails from SEO nuts looking to score links to their spammy sites.

Rural History has a blog in Saskatchewan. There are good photos and quotes of famous people, around the site.

Check out the upcoming Gardiner debate with the KKK re-enactment. It’s taking place in Lemberg later this Summer.

-Regina at sunset

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Meanwhile, it’s getting harder to photograph trains. I don’t think walking down tracks should be encouraged, and probably should be discouraged, yet there are many places where it’s not any more dangerous to cross than at a street. A huge stretch of track in downtown Yorkton isn’t fenced off, because it makes no sense to walk about 3 blocks in either direction to cross the tracks to the residential homes just to the south. If they hand out any tickets there, there will be many fuming people. My hunch is this is at least as much an attempt at cracking down on vandals, and drifters, as it is for safety. CN police had better use discretion when handing out fines, or this will be a PR disaster for the rail company.

National Post affiliated Regina Leader-Post is covering the story of the lawsuits launched against Small Dead Animals, among other blogs.

There was an error in the story claiming that all of Crooke’s lawsuits had been dismissed.

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Hat tip to Buckdog

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And speaking of stupid lawsuits, what’s up with eBay suing Craigslist?

Ouimet of The Teamakers has hung up the blogging keyboard for now.

Last time he quit, I provided a guest blog post that coincidentally prompted the last year or so of posting from him/her/it. I was once told by another blogger frequently seen commenting there that He/She/It loves my blog. Have a good one Ouimet.

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Hat Tip to Megan

Seems Jon Swift has given up on blogging for a very extended time too.

Kate and her ever reliable cadre of tipsters are so in touch with what’s important on the web that they didn’t even notice when the better part of the Internet was sued by Wayne Crookes [Caution: strong and Wingnuttery language]. Small Dead Animals has constructed its own little world, and even on the World Wide Web, they can’t see the forest, nor the trees. All they see are terrorists, and Muslims, and tax breaks, and petro dollars.

Kate’s position:

No - you know what’s amazing? That leftie bloggers would just assume that we read them, and that we follow every twitch in that corner of the sphere. For the record, the first time I heard of the [Mark Francis] case was about 2 days ago.

But, what’s amazing is that his fellow travellers on the left lifted not a hand to help him, expended no effort to get the word out. Even in this post, you neglected to provide his name or a source link.

To that I say (and even take the bother to break my ‘radio silence’ and respond on her site [since she apparently won’t see the truth it if it isn’t handed on a platter to her]):

Ridiculous Kate. As Robert said, you don’t leave your echo chamber? It was on the friggen National even. When THE INTERNET (Yahoo, Google, P2PNet, etc.) get SUED, you don’t notice? And one doesn’t exactly think first thing when they could get sued for just linking to something, that they ought to write left, right, and center about Mr. Crookes’ lawsuits. (Thus the term libel chill. You’d think she’d be familiar with it, since her being sued is a good part of why the SaskBlogs Aggregator is no longer with us.)

Still, congratulations for noticing. Finally.

UPDATE:
“Lastly, I even managed to find reference to this whole issue on your blog, you do read your blog I hope.
Posted by: Zorpheous at April 14, 2008 3:53 PM”

UPDATE 2 - UPDATED: In an odd, but unrelated event, it seems Saskblogs.ca is down due to some server error. It was working fine yesterday. I’ll try to get it back online as soon as possible. The SaskBlogs Aggregator blogroll that Lance created is still online, and you can find it on the sidebar of my blog, and the blogs of many other members.
- It was the theme that broke somehow, so the site is limping along better now, but expect an overhaul in the next month.

UPDATE 3: Let’s all get sued!

Libel Chill for beginners.

As Dion and crew learned, even having a seat in the House isn’t good enough to be protected from bogus lawsuits.

Huffb1 and Saskboy are organizing a short-notice gathering for bloggers on Saturday April 12th in Saskatoon. We meet at 12:00PM at the Park Cafe on 515 20th St. W. near Ave. E S.

Stay tuned for any further details before Saturday…