This week in the Blogerati Files, Tricia's Musings

Describe your blog in 10 words or less.
It stumbles through everything trying to find it's path.

Why did you start your blog? Blogiversary?
Tricia's Musings was born on a cold day in January earlier this year. It was January 21st to be exact. I started the blog because I'd been ill off work for a while and knew I'd be off work for a few months more since I wasn't getting any better. I created it to: 1. fill my time, and 2. to write about some of the things I was going through such as the illness itself (Crohns) and the pain. I quickly discovered that I didn't really want to write about any of that stuff at all and it's become a blog that discusses things that make me happy like hobbies, my constantly crazy pestering neighbors, life in Toronto and pretty much anything I feel like talking about.

How long have you lived in Toronto?
I've lived in Toronto a little more than half my life now. I moved here when I was 18, but I was always a Torontonian wanna be. My brother and then my sister lived here first and I fell in love with the city while visiting them when I was younger. I originally come from Ottawa, a much smaller town, but moving to the big city didn't bother me at all. I love it.

This week in the Blogerati Files, Humble Howard Radio

Describe your blog in 10 words or less.
A conduit of peace between men and women and animals.

Why did you start your blog? Blogiversary?
I started it to keep my one or two semi-interested listeners up to date on my existence. Also to make stupid jokes and observations, and to sell my book The Slime That Men Do! My blog's birthday is September.

How long have you lived in Toronto?
17 years.

What's the funniest/strangest thing that has happened to you in Toronto?, Did you blog about it?
Once on the Humble and Fred show we had a contest and we convinced a man to lick a pig's ass and he didn't win! I didn't blog about it because that was before there were computers.

This week in the Blogerati Files, Freddie P.

Describe your blog in 10 words or less.
A place to exercise my writing skills - whether anyone reads it or not.

Why did you start your blog? Blogiversary?
I started my blog in March of 2006 because I missed being on the radio and it was a way to get involved on some level.

How long have you lived in Toronto?
I've lived in Toronto and the GTA all my life.

What's the funniest/strangest thing that has happened to you in Toronto?, Did you blog about it?
Watching a man lick a pigs ass during Humble and Fred's really tough contest, and yes I've mentioned it on my blog. There's a picture in fact.

What are some of the changes in Toronto that you have seen in your lifetime?
I'm 50 years old. I remember Toronto before the CN Tower and the Blue Jays. And I saw the Leafs win a Stanley Cup.

This week in the Blogerati Files, Toronto Mike

Describe your blog in 10 words or less.
Improvisational skills in the forest of whispering speakers.

Why did you start your blog? Blogiversary?
My first proper blog-style entry was on November 30, 2002. My friends and family were sick of receiving blog entries via email so I decided to throw everything in one place for the interested few.

How long have you lived in Toronto?
I was born in Toronto and have had a 416 number my entire life.

What's the funniest/strangest thing that has happened to you in Toronto?, Did you blog about it?
Like many Torontonians my age, I came of age waking up to Humble and Fred on CFNY. Last month I found myself flying above the city in Humble Howard's GSIN plane. Yes, I blogged the crap out of it and took a billion pictures.

This week in the Blogerati Files, BeatnikPad

Describe your blog in 10 words or less.
Warning: contents may have settled during shipping.

Why did you start your blog? Blogiversary?
I originally started blogging because I'm a pompous ass who actually thought (past-tense) that someone somewhere in the world would actually care what I think. Isn't that why everyone starts blogging? That, and the perks are stupendous, like having old ladies yell out my URL at me on the subway and roving stevedores carrying placards with my geek code emblazoned on them.

BeatnikPad was born on May 28, 2001, but I was blogging on Blogger for about half a year before that.

How long have you lived in Toronto?
Off and on for a total of 5 years so far.

What are some of the changes in Toronto that you have seen in your lifetime?
That's a great question. I suppose the death of rent control was a change that directly affected me -- I had moved here just after rent control was changed and it was a real eye opener after living in the west. The condoization and gentrification of the GTA is another notable change, I suppose, though it's arguable that this isn't something notable about Toronto. It's happening everywhere.

This week in the Blogerati Files, A Funkaoshi Production

Describe your blog in 10 words or less.
"An impersonal personal web site." Or perhaps, "A whole lot of orange."

Why did you start your blog? Blogiversary?
My blog's birthday is November 20th, 2003. So it will be 3 years old in a few weeks. (I count from the day I registered my domain. The site is actually a few months older, but it was even more boring then than it is now, so I don't count that chunk of time.)

How long have you lived in Toronto?
I moved here from London (England) when I was 10, so going on 16 years now. Most of those years were spent in Scarborough -- the most awesome suburb ever. I've lived downtown for the past 2 years and change now. It is great also.

What's the funniest/strangest thing that has happened to you in Toronto?
Meeting M.I.A., and the events around her last concert in Toronto, probably is the strangest thing I've been witness too. I usually blog about anything particularly strange or out of the ordinary that happens in my life, assuming it isn't too private or scandalous. (For example, I stole/found an umbrella once. Note: stealing is wrong, even if you steal from people who live in Yorkville.)