Globe and Mail

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 1:13pm on Monday, November 9th, 2009

Mathew Ingram is a blogger and communities editor at The Globe and Mail newspaper in Toronto. Writing at his blog on October 18, 2009 ("In defence of newspapers and serendipity"), he quotes a very confused Clay Shirky and disagrees with Shirky's lame contention that a newspaper is a collection of unrelated things:

"One of the things that Clay Shirky mentioned in the panel with Andrew Keen that I moderated at Ryerson University recently (my post with video here, tweet-stream here and live-blog here) was an idea that he has also written about before on his blog: namely, that one of the principal functions of a newspaper was to aggregate completely unrelated things, primarily because the newspaper company (and its advertisers) had to appeal to the widest possible group of potential readers, and couldn’t possibly know in advance which parts of the paper they were likely to be most interested in."

The full post:
http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2009/10/18/in-defence-of-newspapers-and-serendipity/

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 1:44am on Monday, September 7th, 2009

A dog saved a toddler lost in the Yukon bush, Mark Hume of The Globe and Mail reported on September 7, 2009:

"When a young British Columbia family stopped to make camp in the Yukon wilderness they were surprised to see a scruffy dog that looked a bit like a coyote come out of the bush.

They saw the mongrel had porcupine quills sticking out of its face and tried to help, not knowing that simple act of kindness would be repaid in the most remarkable way – with the deliverance of their son from a life-threatening ordeal."

The full story:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/dog-saves-toddler-lost-in-yukon-bush/article1278172/