December 11th, 2007
Help create Spacing Montreal’s blogroll
By Spacing // 17 Comments
Bien que Spacing Montréal propose déjà des liens vers les médias traditionnels sur des questions d'espace publique, nous souhaitons dorénavant inclure plus de liens vers les nombreux blogues montréalais, à propos de Montréal.
Nous vous invitons à nous suggérer des liens dans la section commentaire de cet article, vers des blogues que vous aimez, et via lesquels vous vous renseignez sur des sujets qui touchent à Montréal. Ils peuvent par exemple être des blogues collectifs, ou personels, parlant de thèmes aussi spécifiques (ou vastes) que le transport en ville. Évidemment, ne vous gênez surtout pas pour soumettre votre propre site!
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While Spacing Montreal provides links to mainstream media articles about public space issues, we want to also include more links to the numerous blogs about Montreal.
In the comment section of this post, please provide us with links to the blogs you like and read about Montreal issues (obvious ones like Fagstein, Montreal City Weblog and Walking Turcot Yards are already on our radar). They can be group blogs or personal blogs which focus on specific issues like transit. Feel free to include your own blogs.
photo: Daniel Seguin
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I would like to nominate http://unautrepamplemousse.blogspot.com
for a spot on your blogroll.
He writes funny things, and political things, and he takes excellent pictures. Not always about Montreal, but quite often. He is especially fond of Montreal wildlife. My HTMLing abilities are sadly lacking, so I don't know how to make the address a link. Maybe it will happen magically as soon as I submit this. There is also a link to him on my blog, which is, coincidentally, sometimes about Montreal too.
It's not excatly a blog but I kinda like http://www.madeinmtl.com/
I nominate Controleman (who oh so modestly didn't nominate himself in the above comment). I love his eye on the city.
On a less modest note, I invite you guys to check out Indyish.com, which is a Montreal-based independent artists network. I'm a contributor to the group blog and often focus my posts on the intersection of art and urban space. Other contributors are mostly local indie artists.
Does anything related to living in the suburbs of Montreal qualify?
Definitely! The suburbs are part of Montreal too.
In that case, I am shamelessly nominating our very own (and very recent) blog on real estate in the western bits of Laval and neighborhood information, if only because I hadn't managed to find any other blogs of its kind. :-)
I'd LOVE suggestions on its direction so far. My main objective is to show that living in suburbia doesn't necessarily mean the end of an interesting lifestyle.
I like:
Blork http://www.blork.org/blorkblog/ (random stuff)
ni.vu.ni.connu http://www.martinepage.com/blog/ (by a screenwriter, in French and English)
Coolopolis http://www.coolopolis.blogspot.com/ (Montréal history)
Slushblog http://juliemanenti.blogspot.com/ (by an American though)
Vue d'Ici http://www.mcturgeon.com/blog/ (French and English, art and words, takes an extra minute to load!)
Habs Blog http://www.habsblog.com/ (all about the Canadiens...but if you don't read the comments, you're missing the best part!)
Utopia Moment at
http://mruttan.ca/mruttan.ca/blog/blog.html
This blog has lots of sketches/drawings/photos.
A personal favourite is local artist Jeremy Gordaneer's blog, Painting Small Things, found at http://www.paintingsmallthings.blogspot.com/
Though Jeremy hasn't been able to update his blog since June, I can almost guarantee you that very soon he will be updating. He and his family have been working on renovating their house since the summer and one day soon he will have time to get back in the studio and paint some more very cool small things.
One more thing about Jeremy Gordaneer's blog: though it doesn't explicitly say it, most of those small things he's painted are found objects from the streets of Montreal. Of course, you can always contact him to get more info.
I have an architecture and design blog/news website called Kollectif.net. It basically gathers in one place conferences, vernissage, exhibits, etc. mainly in architecture but also in other design fields.
Thx to Christopher DeWolf and Thomas-Bernard Kenniff, Spacing Montreal is featured this week as an "Image de la semaine".
Cheers!
Oh, now my post goes through, so here is what i tried posting yesterday (and was told i already posted it when i tried the second time :-)
some blogs:
http://w5.montreal.com/mtlweblog/
http://smurfmatic.net/blog/
http://www.citynoise.org/hood/montreal@qc
http://www.autremontreal.com/
http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/
http://homelessnation.org/blog
some tech blogs:
http://mtl3p.ilesansfil.org/blog/
http://rym.waglo.com/wordpress/
http://www.bidon.ca
cheers!
Some more blogs that nobody has yet mentioned:
urban-ism
http://chau84.wordpress.com
Chicagoan in Montreal
http://chicagomontreal.wordpress.com
Cassandra Pages
http://www.cassandrapages.com
Comité des citoyens du Mile End
http://citoyensmileend.blogspot.com
Histoire du Plateau Mont-Royal
http://histoireplateau.canalblog.com
French School Confidential
http://frenchschoolconfidential.blogspot.com
By the way, if your comments aren't showing up here, it's probably because they've been automatically marked as spam. Just post a comment letting us know that there's a problem and we'll restore whatever you posted.
I don't know to what extent street style is a Montreal issue, but since all of my favourite Montreal blogs have already been mentioned: http://mtlst.blogspot.com
Well if I'm so obvious, I'll share some of my own:
Midnight Poutine
Coolopolis
Metroblogging Montreal
Cycle Fun Montreal
Exploring Southwest Montreal
Expo Lounge
Montreal Tech Watch
Montreal LiveJournal
Comment by Fagstein
December 6, 2007 | 6:24 pm