{"id":1421,"date":"2007-02-18T21:54:54","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T01:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2007-10-06T10:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T13:18:00","slug":"the-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1421","title":{"rendered":"The S"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/span>he third week of February is just around the corner, and guess what? It’s almost Spring! Idle hope maybe, since we’re still skimming the low -10s. For now, on average, Winter seems to have been cold but not as cold as the previous years: just last week we missed out on the snow fun that came from the US.\n<\/p>\n

I’m not sure if I mentioned this before: Local businesses have been slowly moving online. Quite a change compared to 6-7 years ago, when only a handful understood dynamic content. Two of the locals (recently) announcing their online presence are The Daily News<\/a> and the commercial radiostation ‘The Mix-100.9’<\/s> nee, ‘Big Dog’<\/a>. The News needs an ‘Extreme Makeover’ for sure: the site looks unattractive, unprofessional and chaotic. For local news, even CBC-NS does a better job. It’s a start, though.<\/p>\n

I have mixed feelings about the site for the local radiostation: I don’t like the use of (some) external plugins and I’m not sure what the point is of live streaming their content. Would you listen to a local radiostation when you are abroad? Once again, Big Dog’s net presence is a start. I see that their site provides even more actual local news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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