Vision Vancouver

I’ll be voting for Jim Green and the Vision Vancouver team tomorrow, along with several great folks from COPE.

(Disclosure: I’ve been working for the Vision campaign — and they’ve made me proud.)

After so many years of watching this city struggle under a wet, grey flannel NPA administration that understood exactly nothing about what makes Vancouver great, the past three years have been a breath of fresh air.

Our city core is buzzing again, we have an actual night life, we have late-night buses, the Downtown East Side is starting to heal, other cities are looking to Vancouver as a leader in sustainability and social progress… it’s an exciting time in this city, and I’m going to vote to keep a good thing going. I hope you will too.

Two municipal election bits of blogging I want to point out:

UBC J-school prof] Mark Schneider’s right about the Sun and Courier providing reasonable coverage. The trouble for bloggers is that both outlets’ web presence is less useful as blog fuel. Remember that most blogs are pure commentary and much of that commentary is informed by reports from the dreaded MSM. There are only a half-dozen or so stories in section A or B of the Sun that are outside the subscriber wall, with most of the municipal election coverage on the other side.

To which he adds another point: that you don’t get as much traffic from posting about local issues as you do about national or international politics, Macs versus Windows or Paris Hilton. (It isn’t just a question of Google juice. A lot of the joy of blogging comes from being part of a larger conversation. Writing posts that draw no responses isn’t nearly as much fun as writing some that do.)

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