Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Jan 22, 2012, 6:53 pm
After spending a good portion of my afternoon yesterday finally getting the category pages redesigned and promoting each of the winners in the 2011 Blogger's Choice awards, I came to realize that the blog for the crowned champion of the Political / Commentary section was no longer loading. After con...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Oct 1, 2011, 9:27 am
The end of September has come and with it the end to voting in the 2011 Blogger's Choice Awards. Here comes the fun (and/or scary) part; counting the votes. With upwards of a 1000 votes cast in the past couple weeks, spread over the 10 categories, I have a bit of work on my hands. If only I made it ...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Sep 29, 2011, 10:24 pm
It's tough to believe that it's almost been two weeks since voting began in the Blogger's Choice Awards, but that is the reality; We're now down to just 24 hours left to vote! The voting threads will be closed end of day tomorrow, so time is short to get those final votes in. Head over to the voting...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Sep 25, 2011, 9:54 am
With now less than a week left to vote in the Awards (again, go vote here) it's quickly dawning on me that I have to count all these things. Perhaps I should be encouraging less votes at this point... Nah, I only kid of course. Go on and vote. There's only 6 days left to do so! No need to worry abo...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Understanding Eli - Sep 23, 2011, 5:16 pm
As most of Newfoundland and Labrador knows, the Provincial election is coming up in October. All candidates have already hit their respective campaign trails looking for support, and the local media is on fire with coverage... but I'm personally not feeling it. I'm very much a loca...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Sep 22, 2011, 7:38 pm
We're now nearly a week into the two week awards session, and as the votes keep streaming in (if you haven't voted yet, go to the Blogger's Choice Awards page and do so) I figured it was time to discuss again what exactly the winners of these awards actually get (besides bragging rights that is). Wh...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Sep 21, 2011, 10:31 pm
It's been reported in a couple of places as of late that some are having issues voting in some of the threads, some of the time. One such heads up came from fellow BlogRoll member Viewpoint who not only posted a comment (in this thread) about the issue, but also conducted some research into it as we...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Sep 19, 2011, 5:36 pm
With candidates hitting the campaign trail in Newfoundland and Labrador, one may think this post would be referring to the upcoming election. Well, it's not. Nope, this post is in reference to the ongoing 2011 NL Blogger's Choice Awards of course. :) As day 5 fades into the night we currently have n...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Understanding Eli - Sep 18, 2011, 11:19 pm
I would think that a high percentage of my posts on this blog are ones referencing my 'return to blogging'. It's been no secret since I started doing this whole web log thing back in 2005 that lengthy absences are frequent. To be fair however, I do have a pretty big network of blogs that I update. S...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Sep 17, 2011, 11:00 am
We are now on Day 3 of the 2011 NL Blogger's Choice Awards! So far nearly 300 votes have been cast spread over the 10 voting threads, which to me is impressive. The hot categories at the moment are the Entertainment / Media and Science / Technology ones, both of which have nearly 50 votes. The othe...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Sep 15, 2011, 6:06 am
Voting for the 2011 NL Bloggers Choice Awards has been launched! 10 threads have been posted in the Blogger's Choice Awards section, each listing 3 nominees to vote on. To cast your vote, simple reply to the thread with you choice and that's it. Note that you can do so in all the categories and plea...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Sep 12, 2011, 6:21 pm
Just in case frequent visitors missed this post from a while back (or new visitors are jumping in for the first time), I wanted to remind everyone of some of the criteria I used in selecting nominees for this years awards session. They are listed below in no particular order: Longevity - As this is ...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Sep 10, 2011, 2:34 pm
We're finally ready to launch the 2011 NL Blogger's Choice awards! As noted on this recent post in the Awards section, things will kick off very soon; this coming Thursday, September 15th! Here's a run down of how things will work: NOMINEES: Each category listed to the right has 3 blogs carefully se...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Understanding Eli - Aug 21, 2011, 10:11 pm
Just on the heels of my last post of images from the upcoming Ghost Rider film comes a few more goodies to share. This time it's far more images, and they're moving rapidly in succession to tell pieces of a story. This is otherwise known as a teaser trailer! I've watched this about 6 thousan...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Understanding Eli - Aug 13, 2011, 11:26 pm
While I am indeed making a concerted effort to stay very much out of the loop of any developments concerning the upcoming Ghost Rider reboot, I couldn't help but take notice of an article posted on SuperHeroHype a while ago which displayed some new images. The imagery presented here pretty mu...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Aug 7, 2011, 9:43 pm
Many new blogs have collected during the past couple of months and I figured it was about time I got them added. A lot of these are actual requests to be added, not just ones that I found in my travels around the web. I just wanted to say thank you all for being patient with me in getting you on the...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Aug 7, 2011, 3:50 pm
While I attempt to dedicate as much free time as possible into launching the Bloggers Choice Awards, I should note that the Blog of the Week initiative will now be on a temporary vacation (well, extending it's vacation; haven't had time to select one in a while as it is) until after the awards are...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Understanding Eli - Jul 28, 2011, 10:15 pm
Need I really say more? Watch! Visit my blog directly: http://eliharris.blogspot.com
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Jul 20, 2011, 10:15 pm
Mike Connors of NTV fame contacted me a couple weeks ago to have a sit down for a piece he was working on. He was interested in hearing my thoughts on the affect of social media in the coming provincial election and of course I jumped at the opportunity to have a gab. I just wanted to take a seco...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Jul 20, 2011, 4:46 pm
In my world (like most others I would assume), when offline life becomes busy, the online world tends to suffer. This is exactly the case for my absence as of late. I shocked myself into posting this update this evening when I realized that I haven't posted anything in nearly a month now, not even t...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Jun 26, 2011, 12:11 pm
The Blog of the Week for June 26th to July 2nd, 2011 is 'Hypergraffiti' and in fact, I'm going to do something I haven't done before and give shout outs to two blogs this time around. I'll get to the second blog in a second but this first one is a personal one from Trudy Morgan-Cole and is one which...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Jun 19, 2011, 11:05 am
The Blog of the Week for June 19th to the 25th, 2011 is 'Flatout Buddy'. I figured with summer approaching (though you couldn't tell by the bad weather) it was a good idea to select a recreational related site to feature this week, and this blog from Jim out of St. John's fits the bill perfectly. Ji...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Jun 18, 2011, 12:28 pm
A couple of weeks ago I sat down with the awesome Colin MacLean of The Telegram to discuss our wonderful community here and I'm ecstatic to announce that today his article was printed in the weekend version of our provincial paper. How incredible is that?! What's even more exciting than the fantas...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Understanding Eli - Jun 16, 2011, 11:36 pm
In the summer of 2010 I spent a considerable amount of time stating two words over and over again: King Kovi. Both my friends and perhaps the folks on LetsGoKings all eventually hated me because of it, but I truly believed it was about to happen and didn't back down from that position. That is until...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Jun 16, 2011, 5:59 pm
I've been teasing everyone with this development for quite a while now and it's about time I can finally announce the newest addition to our beloved hub here: Category Pages! That's right, the addition of categories this year didn't stop with the inclusion of those mini rolls found on this page, but...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Jun 12, 2011, 10:16 am
The Blog of the Week for June 12th to the 18th, 2011 is 'lowercase studio'; another delightful photography focused blog out of St. John's from the mind of a man who I could not describe better than he does himself:By day i am a mild mannered designer and art director at a small marketing house. By n...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Jun 5, 2011, 9:57 am
The Blog of the Week for June 6th to the 11th, 2011 is 'Conversations'. This space is from the mind of Jon Reid out of Corner Brook, which focuses mainly on Tech, Literature and Business but is essentially a true example of a 'Mixed Bag' blog. While Jon does indeed post quite a bit on the 3 main top...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Jun 1, 2011, 8:45 pm
Twitter has been invaluable to our community as of late and I'm not only talking about the wealth of new blogs I've discovered either. The ability to spread the word about our beloved blogroll to a whole new group of socially connected people has been very worthwhile. Not only have I met a tonne of ...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - May 29, 2011, 10:08 am
The Blog of the Week for the week of May 29th to June 4th, 2011 is 'Librarian Mom'; a personal blog from the mind of Lisa who writes mostly about being a new mom. I've always been impressed with personal bloggers who are freely able to share themselves to the world. It takes a certain something in a...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - May 26, 2011, 8:48 pm
In preparation for the 2011 Newfoundland Labrador Blogger's Choice Awards, I am attempting to achieve many things, and with time winding down before my intended (unannounced) start date for the awards quickly approaching, the pressure to keep working is intensifying. Of course, it's more excitemen...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Understanding Eli - May 26, 2011, 6:22 pm
It was devastating for me to read that Pearl Jam were doing another tour this year in Canada and not visiting the Atlantic portion of it. It's perhaps a little drastic to be devastated by such news but, since they visited our tiny province back in 2005, I've been dying to see them again. After be...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - May 22, 2011, 2:00 pm
The Blog of the Week for the week of May 22nd to the 28th, 2011 is 'Colin Peddle Photography'. If there's one thing we have an abundance of here within our community, it's Photography blogs and each one is filled with a wealth of delighful images to paruse. Colin's space is no different. With his se...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - May 19, 2011, 9:03 pm
In just a few short weeks, 30 carefully selected blogs from our beloved Newfoundland Labrador BlogRoll (of nearly 300 blogs) will be unveiled and for two weeks following, the people (visitors to this site) will vote on their favorites. Voting will be simple. Each of the 10 categories will have a pos...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - May 15, 2011, 11:01 am
The Blog of the Week for the week of May 15th to the 21st, 2011 is 'Desktop Gourmet'; a foodie blog from Karen who professes that she isn't a chef but instead 'just a girl who loves to eat and experiment with ingredients'. I don't know if it was because I was hungry this morning when checking for bl...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - May 14, 2011, 2:45 pm
Not since the initial stages of this Blogroll 5 years ago, have I added so many blogs in one update. It was rather exciting for me to come to the realization today that I had collected so many. Most of these newbies are coming from my recent hardcore dive into Twitter, and it wasn't until I started ...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Understanding Eli - May 10, 2011, 11:03 pm
It's been just under two weeks now since a fellow blogger suggested a brand new social media platform to me and it's been equally long since I've been hooked to one. Empire Avenue is what I'm referring to and if you haven't checked it out yet and are a social media nut, I highly suggest you do. Th...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Understanding Eli - May 10, 2011, 12:04 am
It's been a week since the tragic election outcome that fell upon the land and I think I'm only now waking from my coma, induced by the massive amount of disbelief that I was under as a result. It's been tough to think about what happened on May 2nd, and to be handle it, I just chose to not think a...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - May 8, 2011, 10:21 am
The Blog of the Week for the week of May 8th to the 14th, 2011 is 'Readily A Parent'. This personal space from the mind of Dara Squires provides a delightful insight into being a mother, a parent (and really just a person), from her point of view. It's perhaps no coincidence that I chose this bl...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Understanding Eli - May 2, 2011, 5:31 pm
Ahem, that's ELection, with an L. Those who came here thinking this post was something else should turn around now... though, I gotta say, this election has been quite exciting, just not that kind of exciting. I say 'has' as if it's all over, but in reality it's still very much on the go. As I post ...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - May 1, 2011, 11:23 am
The Blog of the Week for the week of May 1st to the 7th, 2011 is 'Rock Solid Politics'. In keeping with the political motif as of late (as my way of reminding everyone to go vote tomorrow) this blog from Brad Cabana fits the bill nicely. Brad is a Political Scientist (and a retired captain I'd like...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Apr 30, 2011, 2:26 pm
My recent nosedive into other social networking sites such as Twitter and the fairly new highly addictive Empire Avenue have weilded strong results so far when it comes to finding new blogs to list. Due to the lack of time available to search for blogs in the past, the adding of newbies mostly have...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Understanding Eli - Apr 29, 2011, 5:20 pm
Seriously, do I really have to say this right now? I shouldn't... but I do feel the need to remind everyone who happens to cross paths with this little ol' blog of mine that there is a Canadian Federal Election happening on May 2nd. You may have been distracted by a Royal Wedding or something, I don...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Apr 28, 2011, 10:57 pm
As the summer rapidly approaches, I'm becoming increasingly more aware of the fact that my intended launch date for the 2011 NL Bloggers Choice Awards is coming soon. To stop teasing with the start date, I can let you know that early June is what I've been targeting, but that's all I'll elaborate ...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Apr 27, 2011, 10:43 pm
In effort to further connect the bloggers of Newfoundland and Labrador, I've put a lot of time expanding our online social network as of late. Until now, it has always been in my mind to refrain from diving too deep into the other platforms in effort to help preserve this 'old fashioned' strait up w...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Apr 25, 2011, 5:49 pm
Frequent visitors to this blog may have noticed something missing this week; that being the Blog of the Week selection not posted yesterday. Unfortunately, because of the holiday this weekend and me being out of town, I didn't get a chance to make said selection this time around. It's unfortunateÂ...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Apr 22, 2011, 12:39 pm
I'm slightly behind the curve on this one perhaps but, as of late things have gone all Twitter-pated around these parts. Though having an account on the (highly addictive) social network for quite some time, it's only as of late that I've really used it... and obsessively used it I have. The good th...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Apr 17, 2011, 12:22 pm
The Blog of the Week for the week of April 17th to the 23rd, 2011 is 'Uncommon Truths'. In keeping with the political topic due to the ongoing election campaign, I've decide to select another one of the many blogs found within this category. To provide some balance to last weeks political selection,...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Apr 14, 2011, 8:18 pm
It was only a couple of weeks ago that I added a bunch of new blogs to our community here, but I'm happy to report that we haven't found all the Newfoundland and Labrador blogs yet! Here's proof with 11 brand new ones, added just today. Be sure to go say hello now won't you! Newfoundland Political J...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Apr 10, 2011, 12:20 pm
The Blog of the Week for the week of April 10th to the 16th, 2011 is 'The Fighting Newfoundlander'; a politically inclined blog from the mind of Shannon Reardon, who is a self professed 'passoinate Newfoundlander'.  With the federal election campaign in full swing, I thought it pertinent to foc...
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Stephen H. posted an article on Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll - Apr 7, 2011, 9:03 pm
In further preparation for the coming NL Bloggers Choice Awards, I've decided to simplify things a little more within the categories. As they say, 'less is more' and with that thought in mind I've gone ahead and cut the number of categories from 14 down to 10, combining some logical choices. Each mi...
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