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Vision supporting blog goes quiet while anti-Vision tweeting is turbo-fuelled

February 7th, 2011 · 17 Comments

I feel obliged to note for the record that the blog Civicscene seems to be in a coma. No posts, no tweets since Jan. 6. The blog, written by ommunications guy, sometime Liberal campaign organizer Jonathan Ross, made a few headlines last fall with news reports that he seemed to be getting paid for the blog by the same communications firm working for the mayor’s office.

I have no idea what has happened. Perhaps Jonathan can elaborate.

On the other hand, the anti-Vision Citycaucus blog, run by two people who worked closely with former mayor Sam Sullivan, seems to be going wild for tweeting. More tweets than most journalists I know who work full-time at this stuff.

A quick count in the last four days shows 23 tweets in the previous 24 hours, 18 tweets on Sunday (I know that seems like an overlap, but that’s how Twitter labels them), 28 on Saturday, 27 on Friday, and a startling 75 on the previous Thursday. (There was a going-away thingie for Gordon Campbell, plus news tidbits emerging out of John Furlong’s new book accounting for a large chunk of that.)

Sounds like someone is going to be ready for the civic election.

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