Arriving for an early start at the Online News Association’s conference here in Toronto, and I have, so far, have run into colleagues I’ve worked with, might have worked with, and could be working with. Apparently the rare, and heavy Toronto fog has closed the airport, preventing some from arriving, but still it is quite packed.

The plan was to live blog this session, but in my rush to get a coffee, I forgot my power cord and my “typewriter” ribbon is running low. That, and I’m using Toronto Hydro’s wifi network — I did manage to connect, but its slow…

Keynote by Yahoo’s Hilary Schneider is interesting, if not quite enlightening overview of the Web 2.0 tools and how theoretically it could be applied to journalism. (Best line: “rapid failure” is good.) Elections, methinks, is going to be a big trend (the U.S. is due for one in a year, and Canada…well who knows), she just mentioned it in the keynote, and there’s a whole session on it later today.

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