Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'torontoist'
June 23, 2008
This, right here, is a headless post—a short blurb for something that doesn't necessitate a full-length post. It appears on the front page as a separate article (and is linkable as such), and you can comment on it like any other article, but it doesn't draw as much attention to itself as a regular article does, and it doesn't have an image associated with it. There will probably be more of them, soon, and if......
Continue Reading "Talking Heads"May 29, 2008
One of the most serious and most harmful blanket complaints levelled against blogs is that they are inaccurate—or, worse, that they are unconcerned with accuracy. We make no pretensions that we at Torontoist are now or can ever be flawless: while we have a copy editor, an editor, and an assistant editor, we have no full-time fact checkers, and no money in our budget for one in the foreseeable future. (It's one of the ways......
Continue Reading "On Errors"May 24, 2008
Oh, hi there! While we're always hiring (tell us you know that by now, right? and you're going to apply soon?), right now we're looking for two kinds of people in particular: 1) News writers. You need not be snarky (why do people always think we're nothing but snarky? We have A. Puppy now), but you must be fast, you must be good, you must have a personality, you must be a huge media......
Continue Reading "Good News For People Who Like Writing Good News"April 7, 2008
We're always hiring. We know you know—it's there in our top menu, and we've told you, in almost the exact same terms as what follows, before—but we're again actively looking for a few new good men and women right now to join our team, and we figured we might as well remind you of that fact. And hey, it's spring, and summer's coming soon, which is as good of an excuse as any to......
Continue Reading "Spring Solipsist"April 1, 2008
When you publish up to a dozen articles a day, it's sometimes easy to lose sight of the big picture, what really matters. But over the past few months, we at Torontoist have taken a long, hard look at ourselves, and we don't like what we see. We've come to the realization—a realization echoed by commenters both here and elsewhere—that we are negative far too often. While we have certainly had our lesser moments,......
Continue Reading "A New Day"February 23, 2008
Minor changes alert! We've got a few new cool things to quickly show ya. Posting Schedule You can now see a weekly schedule of our posts that displays which day of the week and at what time your favourite features run. Dig Wild Toronto? The schedule's a super-easy way both to get quick access to all the feature's past posts and to see when the next one's on deck (that'd be this Thursday at......
Continue Reading "Posting Schedule, Top Users, Torontoist.ca, and Facebook Fandom!"January 22, 2008
On Sunday night, Team Bloggers kicked some cab driver and celebrity impersonator ass on CBC's Test the Nation: Trivia. The evening ended with the cleanest sweep in quiz show history: bloggers had the best team score with an average of 50; team captain Samantha Bee had the highest score of all the Canadian celebs; teammate Rick Spence had the top in-studio score of 57. Of course, we never doubted that the bloggers would emerge......
Continue Reading "Victory For The Indoor Kids!"January 21, 2008
Last Friday, Torontoist published an article about Posterchild's latest project––fake subway fliers. On Sunday, the Sun published an article about the same topic, with a paragraph that was identical to a portion of Torontoist's article. The Sun today (Monday) issued this correction and apology: "A story in the Sunday Sun about a local guerilla artist known as Posterchild contained a paragraph which was not attributed to torontoist.com. The Sun apologizes for the error." That apology......
Continue Reading "The Sun Apologizes to Torontoist"January 20, 2008
Hey! Torontoist just got ripped off by The Sun. From our article on Posterchild's subway pamphlets, published online here on Friday, January 18:Posterchild––street artist extraordinaire and our new curator for Vandalist––has taken it on himself to fill the empty hooks of the TTC's subways, streetcars, and buses with new and improved information flyers. For the past week, he's posted details of one flyer a day to his blog: Monday was a subway and streetcar......
Continue Reading "The Sun Plagiarizes Torontoist"January 17, 2008
Do you like Torontoist? And advertising? While the two occasionally make somewhat strange bedfellows, Torontoist survives and thrives based on our advertising revenue––it's how we were, for instance, able to buy ourselves that all-diamond skyhouse we've always wanted last month––and we're looking for someone to help us out and take charge of ad sales. If you're interested in more information about the job (it's a paying one, obviously), please send an e-mail to Gothamist......
Continue Reading "Ad Nauseum"January 9, 2008
When New York City billionaire Leona Helmsley died in 2007, who inherited her $12-million trust fund? If you said a white Maltese terrier named Trouble, you may want to tune in to CBC television at 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 20th for Test the Nation: Trivia. The quiz show, now in its third edition, pits in-audience teams against each other while viewers at home can play along via the interweb. Later, the national quiz......
Continue Reading "Torontoist On CBC's Test The Nation"January 7, 2008
We're always hiring. We know you know–-a reminder is right there in the sidebar–-but we're actually actively looking for a few good new men and women right now to join our team. And hey, it's the new year, and presumably Torontoist was written into your resolutions in some capacity, right? Right now, we're particularly hunting for people who can write intelligent, interesting, fast, and relevant news articles––but, really, whatever you're good at, we want......
Continue Reading "Solipsist"December 20, 2007
Oh yes. There Will Be Blood is the latest film from P.T. Anderson (he of Magnolia and Boogie Nights). Set across turn-of-the-century America, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as a miner-turned-oil tycoon, and scored by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, the film is making pretty much everyone who loves movies lose their mind: Gaze upon its 95% on Rotten Tomatoes! Its 9.3 on IMDb! Its 382 Google results for "'there will be blood' 'best film ever'"! And it's......
Continue Reading "There Will Be Free Tickets"November 22, 2007
Facebook is the shit. Torontoist has a group on it (778 members, what), but everyone's favourite social networking/time-wasting site just unveiled a new feature that allows organizations––be they bands, companies, websites, or whatever else you can think of––to have their own page. If you like what that organization is doing, you can add yourself as a fan, and then you automagically get a neat little box on your profile that says "I am a fan......
Continue Reading "Confirm Your Facebook Fandom"December 18, 2006
You know your style must be tasty when everyone keeps trying to bite it. This new advertisement for Johnnie Walker whisky which has recently festooned Union station is clearly attempting to ally its product with our fair city by blatantly ripping off the Torontoist logo. Oh, sure. The buildings are in a different order and they use the Skydome instead of a streetcar and they throw in the outline of what I assume is meant......
Continue Reading "Sincerest Form of Flattery, Part Two"October 12, 2006
Weird. We caught Tuesday's CityTV news segment comparing Tim Horton's new breakfast sandwich to McDonald's established one, and the whole thing felt eerily familiar. As muted fury coloured our cheeks a brighter red than Consumer Specialist Jee-Yun Lee's coat, we recalled that five of our contributors already got together just a week ago to do the same thing. Could there be cross-medium war over mundanity? A few things that we noticed: Our sample size......
Continue Reading "Torontoist Scoops CityTV; World Stops."October 10, 2006
We realize that we're not the only ones with our ears to the ground on our city's streets. So we thought we'd remind everyone that Streeter - our column for bits and pieces of hilarious, weird, or brilliant overheard conversations in or about Toronto - is wide open for reader submissions. Readers were always allowed to send in stuff, but the last time we made that option explicit was almost two years ago. We've even......
Continue Reading "Lend Us Your Ears: Streeter Reopens for Reader Submissions"